TV Real Screenings Festival Spotlight: ZDF Studios

ZDF Studios arrives at MIPCOM with highlights across its key strengths of history, wildlife and science, which are also spotlighted in the TV Real Screenings Festival.

Produced by south&browse for ZDF in association with ARTE and ZDF Studios, Unearthed—The Mystery of the Shaman Woman explores a key European archaeological discovery: the shaman woman of Bad Dürrenberg.

“From a time when there were no written records, this site was first researched by the Nazis, who saw a physically strong male warrior from an ‘original Aryan race’ in the buried person,” says Ralf Rückaeur, VP Unscripted. “It was, in fact, the most powerful woman of her time.”

ZDF Studios is also unveiling the three-part Welcome to the Forest, which offers a unique perspective on battling climate change.

Rückauer also highlights the five-part Fateful Planet, which “chronicles the history of our planet from its dramatic birth, through the cosmic and terrestrial forces that have shaped it.”

Rückauer bills Time: A Journey Through Thousands of Years as a “groundbreaking two-part documentary focusing on the universal concept of time.” It is ZDF Studios’ first collaboration with the Film, Drama and Documentary Programming Center of China Media Group.