APT Worldwide Highlights New Offerings at MIPTV

BOSTON, March 21: APT
Worldwide’s lineup at this year’s MIPTV will include several new music-themed
documentaries, including Dissonance and Harmony: Arabic Music Goes West, as
well as a raft of other factual titles covering technology, current affairs,
history and science.

In the music performance
genre, APT Worldwide will present the one-hour HD documentary David Broza at
Masada, showcasing David Broza,
Shawn Colvin and Jackson Browne in a sunrise concert at the top of the ancient
ruins of Masada; the 90-minute Jeff Tweedy—Sunken Treasure—Live
in the Pacific Northwest, an
intimate film chronicling the solo acoustic tour of Wilco frontman and founder,
Jeff Tweedy; the 4×1-hour Keeping Score, a music documentary series hosted by renowned composer and conductor
Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony; and the one-hour music
special Dissonance and Harmony: Arabic Music Goes West, in
which Miles Copeland, the record producer and manager of The Police, brings Arab musicians to Los Angeles to meet and
collaborate with their Western counterparts.

Other new titles that APT
Worldwide will bring to MIPTV include the 6×1-hour Ultimate Thrill Rides, a tour of thrilling amusement park rides in North
America; the one-hour Senator Obama Goes to Africa, a documentary that follows U.S. Presidential
hopeful Barack Obama on his recent tour to Africa; the 48-minute Who’s
Afraid of Happy Endings?, a look
at what it takes to write and sell romance novels; and the one-hour Volcanic
Sprint, a grueling marathon that
takes runners up and down a live volcano. Also available at the market is the
60-minute Murder House, a
documentary that explores what it takes to be a real-life crime scene
investigator; and the HD one-hour title Out of the Ashes: Recovering the
Lost Library of Herculaneum, a
exploration of the scientific methods used to read the charred remains of
scrolls that were buried centuries ago under Mt. Vesuvius.

—By Irene Lew