Leading UK-based distributor DCD Rights has acquired the Grammy-nominated feature documentary Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix Live In Maui. The 1 x 90’ unscripted documentary is produced under the Experience Hendrix label, which is owned and operated by the Hendrix family, and features previously unseen colour footage of an exceptional performance mixed in surround sound, as well as new interviews with key players. Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix Live … [Read more...] about DCD Rights acquires Grammy-nominated Jimi Hendrix feature documentary
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Documentary ‘Shut Up Sona’ lands on ZEE5 Global this July
Singer Sona Mohapatra celebrates World Music Day today with the news of her intimate and unapologetic documentary Shut Up Sona hitting the global screens on Friday, 1st July on ZEE5 Global, the world's largest streaming platform for South-Asian content. The Indian award-winning documentary directed by Deepti Gupta and produced by Sona Mohapatra follows the story of the singer as she takes on blatant misogyny on social media, tirelessly fights for equal representation of … [Read more...] about Documentary ‘Shut Up Sona’ lands on ZEE5 Global this July
Espresso Media International to globally distribute call-to-action documentary ‘Finite: The Climate of Change’
Espresso Media International has acquired worldwide distribution rights for the urgent call-to-action documentary FINITE: The Climate of Change (1 x 99’ / 1 x 52’). A directorial debut from filmmaker and activist Rich Felgate, FINITE is a cinematic and timely insider’s view of the world of direct action and climate activism; a raw, shocking, intimate and emotional insight into the David and Goliath battle between ordinary people and fossil fuel corporations. The … [Read more...] about Espresso Media International to globally distribute call-to-action documentary ‘Finite: The Climate of Change’
Woodcut International announces deals for documentary special ‘Fukushima: Nature in the Danger Zone’
Distributor Woodcut International has inked sales in the US, SEA, UK Ireland and Australia for the factual doc special Fukushima: Nature in the Danger Zone. Produced by Paul Wooding (Woodcut West), Fukushima: Nature in the Danger Zone (1 x 60’) was sold to Discovery US, Discovery SEA, TG4 (Ireland) UKTV and SBS. On 11 March 2011, a 15-metre tsunami caused the second biggest nuclear accident to affect our planet. All three cores of … [Read more...] about Woodcut International announces deals for documentary special ‘Fukushima: Nature in the Danger Zone’
Channel 4 Acquires ‘Married to a Psychopath’ from Big Little Fish
Big Little Fish Television announced the acquisition by Channel 4 of a new documentary mini-series that revisits an unprecedented police investigation into the wicked crimes of a would-be serial killer. Led by former Detective Inspector Charles Henry who ran the operation, Married to a Psychopath (2 x 60’) documents every twist and turn of an extraordinary manhunt that spanned several continents and which would later involve twenty detectives gathering more than one thousand witness … [Read more...] about Channel 4 Acquires ‘Married to a Psychopath’ from Big Little Fish
Abacus Media Rights secures World War II documentary and announces first sales
Abacus Media Rights (AMR), an Amcomri Entertainment company, has acquired Adrian Munsey’s Odyssey Television documentary Could Hitler Have Been Stopped? The Politics of Appeasement and has sold the 2 x 60’ series to SBS Australia and ViacomCBS-owned broadcaster Channel 5 in the UK (who will air the first part of this special tonight at 9:00 p.m. on 5Select). This strikingly topical two-part documentary on the Second World War features several of the world’s leading historians and … [Read more...] about Abacus Media Rights secures World War II documentary and announces first sales