Abot Hameiri, the popular Tel Aviv-based production unit responsible for the Israeli productions of Got Talent, Survivor and The X Factor, has been fully purchased by Fremantle Productions.
London-based Fremantle has .
Sabaya
On the first day of Digital MIPTV, London-headquartered sales agent Dogwoof confirmed a string of sales for
Seeds of Deceit and
Sabaya, both of which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Seeds of Deceit (pictured) sold to RTL (Germany), VRT (Belgium), VGTV (Norway), SVT (Sweden), DR (Denmark), Mediawan (France), Channel 8 (Israel), Yesdocu (Israel), Sky (New Zealand) and Movistar (Spain).
Sabaya, meanwhile, sold to Studio Hamburg (Germany), SND (France), Dalton (Benelux), FrontRow (MENA), Sky (New Zealand) and Vertigo (Hungary).
The Dutch three-part series
Seeds of Deceit, directed by Miriam Guttman, is an investigation into how a respected fertility doctor, Dr. Karrbaat, clandestinely inseminated over 65 of his patients with his own semen.
History slates four 9/11 documentaries ahead of 20th anniversary On the 10th anniversary of the raid that found and captured Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted terrorist, A+E Networks’ History is debuting a new documentary about the ordeal.
Co-produced . April 12, 2021
On the 10th anniversary of the raid that found and captured Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted terrorist, A+E Networks’ History is debuting a new documentary about the ordeal.
Co-produced by the 9/11 Memorial & Museum,
Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden is set to premiere early next month – May 2 at 8 p.m. ET/PT – to mark a decade since the killing of bin Laden by U.S. forces during a raid on an al-Qaeda compound. Bin Laden was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center that killed almost 3,000 people and inju
Citizen Penn this May.
The film (pictured) chronicles the moment actor Sean Penn and a team of volunteers landed in Haiti just days after the devastating 7.0 earthquake struck the country in 2010, and the 10 years since.
Penn later went on to create an organization called J/P HRO (now Core), which has expanded its efforts across the U.S. for the past few years, most recently organizing free COVID-19 testing sites.
Originally set to premiere at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, the film won the audience choice award at the Heartland Film Festival and played AFI Fest, Raindance and the Vancouver International Film Festival.
Trailblazer launches podcast initiative, plans for TV adaptations Raleigh-based Trailblazer Studios has announced plans for a series of new podcasts. The initiative will kick off with American Sport (launching April 21 on Apple, Spotify and others), with other . April 1, 2021
Raleigh-based Trailblazer Studios has announced plans for a series of new podcasts. The initiative will kick off with
American Sport (launching April 21 on Apple, Spotify and others), with other podcasts to follow in the sports, social justice and true crime genres. The company says it has plans to adapt all its new podcasts into television formats.
American Sport explores how sports has become an indelible part of the American experience. It’s hosted by sports history professor Matt Andrews, and will recount the landmark events that have defined ou