Tricon Scores Sales for Documentaries & Specials

TORONTO: Tricon Films & Television has secured sales for 12 documentaries and one-off specials around the world, including to SVT in Sweden.

SVT in Sweden opted for Everything’s Coming My Way, a one-hour story of an 87-year-old man’s lifelong goal to make it in the music business.

ABC Australia went for We Ain’t Terrorists, an hour-long comedy starring Dave Merheje and Ali Rizvi. VEA in Australia took Where’s My Goat, a journey to a Zambian village to see if ethical gifts are actually received; Among the Missing, which looks at the continuing controversy of the Vietnam War’s Prisoners of War/Missing in Action issue; Catfight, a look at why women sabotage each other; Murid, the story of an American man who is drawn into a mystical Islamic sect at a young age; and Raising Cassidy, about a mother’s journey to find the child she gave birth to while addicted to crack cocaine. Each is an hour-long program.

Origo in Hungary went for the one-hour special National Vampire, an in-depth look into the lifestyle of the vampire.

Once TV in Mexico signed on for the 3×1-hour Original Kin, about adopted adults searching for their birth parents; Garbage, which delves into environmental issues; and Wednesday Nights, a look at divorced parents working to share responsibilities.

Spafax for Air Canada and MacTV for BBC ALBA for the Scottish Gaelic-speaking U.K. market opted for Racing Around the World Alone, a story of the 2008-09 Vendée Globe race in which 30 skippers competed to be the fastest to sail 27,000 miles around the world, nonstop, on 60-foot sailboats.