Warner Bros Discovery Lands Gisele Pelicot Doc
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has struck a significant settlement for ITN Productions’ quick turnaround doc The Pelicot Rape Case: A City on Trial. In a aggressive state of affairs, WBD landed rights to the 90-minute movie, which was for the 5 community within the UK, for 90 international locations throughout Europe and Africa in a take care of distributor Orange Smarty. The doc contains an on-camera interview with one of many alleged rapists of Gisele Pelicot, the French girl whose husband, Dominique Pelicot, was jailed for a number of counts of drugging and raping her over a nine-year interval. Quite a few males from Avignon, the place the Pelicots lived, had been convicted of intercourse crimes dedicated whereas Gisele Pelicot was drugged and unconscious. The doc was a part of Orange Smarty’s London TV Screenings slate final month, together with South Shore Productions’ two-part documentary Eat Sensible: Secrets and techniques of the Glucose Goddess, which has bought to SBS in Australia, RTL within the Netherlands, TV2 in Denmark and TV2 in Norway. Elsewhere, long-running property search format A Place within the Solar will make its debut in Canada after Corus Leisure acquired 120 hours of the Channel 4 present, together with BBC Two sequence Andi Oliver’s Fabulous Feasts for its Flavour Community.
Sunny Facet Of The Doc Names Advisory Board
French documentary market Sunny Facet of the Doc has named its first advisory board since Aurélie Reman’s appointment as Managing Director final 12 months. It includes Caroline Behar, Head of Worldwide Coproductions and Acquisitions at France Télévisions; Laurent Duret, founding father of French prodco Bachibouzouk; Paul Heaney, CEO of UK-based distributor Bossanova; guide Elvira Lind; Wangeci Mūrage, CEO of Kenya’s Media Execs Africa; Emmanuel Prosnier, Enterprise Growth Supervisor, Broadcast Division at Getty Photos in France; Ellen Windemuth, Chair of the U.S.-based WaterBear Community; and Myriam Weil, Head of Documentaries at Federation Studios. “This advisory board marks a pivotal step in my imaginative and prescient to strengthen Sunny Facet of the Doc as Europe’s central hub for audiovisual documentaries, supported by a worldwide community of companions,” mentioned Reman. The thirty sixth Sunny Facet might be held June 23-26 in La Rochelle, France.
‘Safehaven‘ Lands At Sphere Abacus
Lengthy-gestating supernatural thriller sequence Safehaven is heading abroad. UK-based distributor Sphere Abacus has acquired worldwide gross sales rights (excluding the U.S.) for the sequence, which is from James Searle and based mostly on his graphic novel from Michael Bay’s 451 Media Group. The ten-part sequence, which doesn’t but have a U.S. dwelling, filmed in Canada, directed by Kaare Andrews and Seale. Billed as a thriller “within the custom of Black Swan and Jacob’s Ladder,” the present stars Georgie Murphy (Gen V, Small Achievable Targets), Bob Frazer (Supergirl, Motherland) and Gino Anania (Skymed, The Porter). It follows a rebellious teen, Jenna Frost (Murphy), whose love of artwork is an outlet to channel her darkness and exorcise her inside demons. After a automotive accident leaves her in a coma, she finds herself trapped in her newest creation, comedian guide ‘Safehaven’, which is a few dystopian highschool world. In the true world, cognitive therapist John Rayburn, who’s a mysterious college counselor in Jenna’s unconscious world, works to faucet into her unconscious thoughts to deliver her again to the dwelling world. Manufacturing on the present was first greenlit in June 2022 at Crackle proprietor Rooster Soup for the Soul Leisure, which collapsed final 12 months and went into liquidation.
