Special: of Canada Serial Maven Studio A distribution department has been started ahead of MIPCOM.
With serial maven CEO Solange Atwood in charge, the unit debuts with 300 hours of factual content.
Twelve titles will comprise the slate, with programs commissioned by the likes of BBC, Netflix, Smithsonian, E! Entertainment, PBS, CBC, NHK and Discovery. It includes a one-off Secrets of Egypt’s Valley of the Whales (A ten-part series from Argonne’s Windfall Films and Resolution Pictures in association with Handel Productions. Search and Rescue: North Shore from Peg Leg Films), Cosmic Mysteries From Deep Field Productions and Gareth Malone’s Easter Passion From Somersault Studios.
Another Netflix nature documentary Tiger 24 From W Films, A wild Irish year And The Wild Gardener From line crossing, ten-parter Locals are welcome And All it takes From artifactual media, So Surreal: Behind the Mask resolution pictures and Trading skills From Riverbank Pictures.
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“With a diverse range of premium content and twelve new titles, our distribution division is built on quality, speed and a solutions-based approach to our platform partners,” said Atwood.
Executors of Blue Ant Media Atwood and Asha Denyer Serial launched Maven earlier this year With a model he calls “a next-generation studio whose primary focus is intellectual property.” The company develops, finances, produces, acquires and distributes content. The third was a Blue Ant exec, Julie Chang Drafted as COO In May.
The launch of the distribution arm will come ahead of MIPCOM next month, the first since the final edition of MIPTV in April. With buyers and sellers watching closely how the market shapes up, some major distributors have weighed in on whether to make the trip to Cannes in recent weeks.
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