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CANNES: Silver Wolf International is promoting an array of factual, lifestyle and documentary titles.

CANNES: Female-skewing factual programming features prominently on Breakthrough Entertainment’s MIPCOM slate.

CANNES: The science series The Crowd & The Cloud, which APT Worldwide is showcasing, explores the new frontier of citizen science in the age of mobile technology.

LONDON: Discovery Networks International has unveiled a major restructuring, with Marjorie Kaplan exiting the company and Susanna Dinnage taking on leadership for the international content division.

MUNICH: A new production company, 7Stories, has launched as part of the Red Arrow Entertainment Group to create factual series and branded-entertainment programs for ProSiebenSat.1 Group as well as for broadcasters and platforms around the world.

LONDON: Station12, S4C Digital Media and their joint venture, Media Rocket, have invested in Parade, a distribution venture set up by former Shine International exec Matthew Ashcroft.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Coinciding with the theatrical release of The Birth of a Nation, National Geographic Channel has slated a one-hour documentary executive produced by the film's director, Nate Parker, about Nat Turner and the slave uprising he led.

LOS ANGELES: Z Living is slated to premiere the lifestyle show POPSUGAR Presents: Conquered, the third project to come out of its collaboration with millennial media company POPSUGAR, early next year.

MIAMI: Next month, Fusion is due to debut The Traffickers, a new investigative documentary series about the black market that comes from the FremantleMedia International catalog.

SYDNEY: Escapade Media has entered into a partnership with the Garvan Institute, Freehand Productions and The Content.Company for Outcome Unknown (The Revolution of Reimagining and Redesigning Life), a title that is currently in development.