ORF-Enterprise Sells Crime & Factual Titles at German Screenings

VIENNA: Austria’s ORF-Enterprise scored several sales from its various catalogues at the German Screenings, which took place in Hamburg from November 30 to December 3.

Swiss pubcaster SRF took the political format Where to, Mr. President?, with plans being set to produce a pilot and continue the series before the national elections in 2015. Further European broadcasters including Poland showed major interest in the format. Slovenia’s RTV Slovenija (SI) went with all four feature-length episodes of the crime series Fast Forward, along with the crime TV movies Code Name Kidon, Deep End and Border Line, from the TATORT collection. That broadcaster also took current-affair titles The Caliphate’s Children, Lampedusa: No Island and Voices of Transition.

Additionally, France 5 picked up several documentaries from ORF’s UNIVERSUM strand, including Nock: Mountains at Heaven’s Door. A further six hours of nature and wildlife documentaries went to RTS.

Romanian broadcaster RCS-RDS acquired 200 hours of factual titles, while SRF bought more than ten hours of documentaries, including Forest of Fantasies and a prebuy of Pilgrimage Between Faith and Money. Croatia’s HRT took several culinary programs, as well as the documentaries Conchita: Unstoppable and 150 Years of Splendor: Vienna’s Ringstrasse.

Finally, Brazil’s Globosat nabbed the documentaries The Stone Age Puzzle and Gustav Klimt, plus an Easter concert from Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral.