NFB Closes DVD, TV Deals at MIPCOM

MONTREAL, October 23: The
National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has secured a new deal for DVD sales in the
U.S., as well as a number of agreements with private and public broadcasters
around the world, including Italy’s RAI.

The NFB struck a U.S. DVD
distribution deal with BFS Entertainment & Multimedia for ten
documentaries, including Under the Hood, A Voyage into the World of Torture, Confessions of an Innocent Man and Whale Mission: Keepers of Memory.

SBS Australia took on the
three-part series The Dark Years,
while Italy’s RAI acquired Up the Yangtze and Four Wings and a Prayer. Italian distributor GA&A picked up the television rights to the
documentary Paris 1919, and
South Korea’s EBS also purchased Up the Yangtze.

Discovery/Animal Planet
acquired Wild Horse Redemption
for the British, Italian, German, Japanese and Taiwanese markets. Triage:
Dr. James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma, The Invisible National and
Under the Hood: A Voyage into the World of Torture all went to Al Jazeera Satellite Network.

Turner Broadcasting System
Latin America purchased Miracle Body, Confessions of an Innocent Man, Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma and Hannah’s Story, as well as several other titles, including Jeu, Uncle Bob’s Hospital Visit, Engine 371, Paradise and Sainte
Barbe. Poland’s TVP scooped up Sleeping
Betty, Uncle Bob’s Hospital
Visit and Madame Tutli-Putli.

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski