ORF-Enterprise Inks Deal with Huawei Video

ORF-Enterprise has signed a volume deal with Huawei’s content service platform Huawei Video, sending 130 hours of content to Italy.

Huawei secured the rights for 17 movies from ORF’s crime series Tatort, in which two Viennese detectives investigate thrilling and politically relevant criminal cases by looking for clues all over Austria.

Additionally, Huawei Video acquired all nine seasons of Four Women and a Funeral, which sees four hobby investigators bringing excitement to their boring village by suspecting murder in almost every death and by investigating in an unconventional way.

The Italian platform also picked up the first four seasons of Fast Forward, featuring divorced single mother and criminal investigator Angelica Fast.

The content will be accessible on Huawei and Honor devices in Italy, San Marino and in the Vatican City State for one year.

“We are very excited with offering Tatort for our Italian users. This high-quality emblematic content will highly enrich our portfolio, ensuring we offer the best to our users with our cherry-picked content approach,” said Jaime Gonzalo, VP of Huawei consumer cloud services for Europe.

“The recent deal with Huawei shows once again that fictional content from Austria has become an international bestseller,” added Armin Luttenberger, head of content sales international at ORF-Enterprise. “The team of Content Sales InternationaI and I are delighted to announce the successful placement of ORF’s high-quality productions abroad, looking forward to expanding the footprint of Austria’s best-rated TV series and movies on a global scale.”