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The winner of this year's MIPDoc International Pitch is Soora: Breaking the Silence, about four fearless feminists in Iran.

Some 350 hours of programming has been licensed by all3media international into Germany and Benelux in its latest round of deals, which sees Lion Television’s landmark three-part series The Great Fire of London: In Real Time heading to ZDF.

National Geographic’s Christian Drobnyk, CuriosityStream’s Steve Burns and France Télévisions’ Thierry Mino shared their acquisition and co-production strategies at MIPDoc this morning in a session moderated by Anna Carugati before each receiving a World Screen Factual Trendsetter Award.

Amazon has greenlit Lorena, a Prime original documentary series executive produced by Jordan Peele and produced by Monkeypaw and Sonar Entertainment.

Discovery has aligned with filmmaking heavyweights Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney for the event series Why We Hate (working title).

True North has hired former BBC exec Kieron Collins as the company's head of entertainment, effective later this month.

FremantleMedia International has licensed The Coronation into more than 70 territories across Europe, Latin America, Canada, the Middle East and Asia.

Are you attending MIPDoc this weekend? Make sure to get your copy of TV Real, visit TVReal.ws, access our Twitter feed, and peruse listings of numerous new shows via our Screening Rooms for MIPDoc.

STV Productions has appointed Rosy Marshall-McCrae as head of factual development, a newly created position.

Smithsonian Channel has lined up Ice Bridge: The Impossible Journey, an hour-long special that challenges scientists’ long-held theory about the first humans to inhabit North America.