Doc Sales Made for September Films

LONDON, June 26: NBDtv/DCD
Media has inked sales on three documentaries produced by September Films and
executive produced by creative director Sheldon Lazarus: Boys Joined at the
Head, Stephen Wiltshire: The
Human Camera and I Am the
Elephant Man.

The hour-long Boys
Joined at the Head, created for
Five in the U.K., tells the story of conjoined Egyptian twins. It has been sold
to Blue Eyes Television in Germany, Kanal 5 in Sweden, Nelonen in Finland, Nine
Network in Australia, TV2 in Denmark, TV3 in Ireland, TVNZ in New Zealand,
Radio Canada and Viasat for Estonia, Latvia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovenia.

Also for Five, Stephen
Wiltshire: The Human Camera profiles
an autistic artist who is able to draw incredibly detailed landscapes entirely
from memory. The documentary has been acquired by Danmarks Radio in Denmark,
Kanal 5, Nine Network, Televisio De Catalunya in Spain, TV Norge in Norway, New
Zealand’s TVNZ, VTM in Belgium, Canada’s TV Ontario and BBC America.

I Am the Elephant Man, a one-hour doc for Channel 4 in the U.K., follows
the work of a Chinese physician who deals with abnormal tumors that other
doctors have been too afraid to handle. His most famous case is a 31-year-old
man who suffers from one of the world’s most extreme cases of neurofibroma, a
tumor of the nervous system. The documentary has been sold to Kanal 5, Nine
Network, TV Norge, Red Media in Russia, Teva in France and Finland’s Nelonen.

Nicky Davies Williams, the
CEO of NBDtv/DCD Media, said: “We are thrilled
with the sales secured for these fascinating documentaries, all of which rated
extremely well in the U.K. This success further strengthens our valuable
relationship with September Films, which continues to produce high-quality
human-interest documentaries which resonate with audiences throughout the
world.”

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski