MercuryMedia, Aggregator License Films for Online Documentary Site

LONDON, January 23: In advance of the launch of their
broadband portal joiningthedots.tv in February, MercuryMedia and Aggregator
have licensed 50 films from a wide variety of international factual producers
and distributors.

Titles were
licensed from distributors such as Roco Films, Minotaur International, TVF
International, Verve Films, and Wysiwyg Films; and the producers Movietron,
Bigert and Bergstrom, Charon Films, Pissant Productions, Louder Than Words,
Globalvision, Riz Khan Productions, Hopscotch Films, Films Grain De Sable,
Babalu Pictures and San Andreas Films. The titles will be grouped into strands
such as ‘Life and Death’, ‘Another World’, ‘Our New Society’, ‘Forgotten
History’, ‘Hidden Lives’, ‘A Different Love’, ‘The Future Of Change’ and ‘The
New Politics’.

Ben Ross,
the head of acquisitions at joiningthedots.tv, commented: “I am particularly
pleased by the enthusiastic reaction to the joiningthedots.tv concept from both
producers and distributors—they really get what we are trying to do.
Every film we have licensed stakes a claim to be watched in the newly emerging
on-demand world. The site’s appeal to viewers is more than the sum of its
parts. Each film is important individually but taken together, the films
provide a new insight into the world which we are sure will appeal to our
target audience of free thinking individuals.”