{"id":13614,"date":"2019-10-30T10:38:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T14:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/kew-media-distribution-sells-margaret-atwood-doc-around-world\/"},"modified":"2019-10-30T11:56:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T15:56:53","slug":"kew-media-distribution-sells-margaret-atwood-doc-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/kew-media-distribution-sells-margaret-atwood-doc-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Kew Media Distribution Sells Margaret Atwood Doc Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kew Media Distribution (KMD) has inked a raft of international sales for<em> Margaret Atwood: A Word After A Word After A Word is Power<\/em>, a documentary film about the 2019 joint Booker Prize-winning author.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary follows Atwood over the course of a 12-month period, exploring her major works and delving into her youth in the Canadian wilderness and days as a poet at Harvard. It also shows her jetting off around the world to speaking engagements alongside her partner Graeme Gibson and visiting the set of <em>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Co-directed and co-produced by Nancy Lang and Peter Raymont, <em>Margaret Atwood: A Word After A Word After A Word is Power<\/em> is slated to bow on CBC\u2019s documentary Channel on November 19. KMD has sold the documentary, a White Pine Pictures production in association with the CBC, to multiple broadcasters worldwide, including Sky Arts in the U.K. and Ireland, SBS in Australia, Sky in New Zealand, NDR-Arte in Austria, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Switzerland, HBO in Central and Eastern Europe, YLE in Finland, SVT in Sweden, ERR Estonia, NTR Netherlands and Hulu in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><em>Margaret Atwood: A Word After A Word After A Word is Power<\/em> was produced with the participation of the Canada Media Fund, Rogers Documentary Fund, Ontario Creates and developed with the participation of Telefilm Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Ford, executive VP of sales at Kew Media Distribution, said: \u201cIf we needed proof of the rise in demand for fascinating, topical documentaries, then this is it. Margaret Atwood\u2019s literary superstardom has translated into worldwide interest in this film and we can only see this increasing following the recent Booker Prize co-win for her latest novel, <em>The Testaments<\/em>. Needless to say, we are very proud to include it in KMD\u2019s feature documentary slate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kew Media Distribution (KMD) has inked a raft of international sales for Margaret Atwood: A Word After A Word After A Word is Power, a documentary film about the 2019 joint Booker Prize-winning author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":13615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[3197,4378],"class_list":["post-13614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-kew-media-distribution","tag-margaret-atwood-a-word-after-a-word-after-a-word-is-power","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kew Media Distribution Sells Margaret Atwood Doc Around the World - TVREAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/kew-media-distribution-sells-margaret-atwood-doc-around-the-world\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kew Media Distribution Sells Margaret Atwood Doc Around the World - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kew Media Distribution (KMD) has inked a raft of international sales for Margaret Atwood: A Word After A Word After A Word is Power, a documentary film about the 2019 joint Booker Prize-winning author.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/kew-media-distribution-sells-margaret-atwood-doc-around-the-world\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-30T14:38:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-10-30T15:56:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/07\/margaret-atwood-kmd-1019.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/kew-media-distribution-sells-margaret-atwood-doc-around-the-world\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/kew-media-distribution-sells-margaret-atwood-doc-around-the-world\/\",\"name\":\"Kew Media Distribution Sells Margaret Atwood Doc Around the World - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-30T14:38:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-10-30T15:56:53+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/kew-media-distribution-sells-margaret-atwood-doc-around-the-world\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/kew-media-distribution-sells-margaret-atwood-doc-around-the-world\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/kew-media-distribution-sells-margaret-atwood-doc-around-the-world\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Kew Media Distribution Sells Margaret Atwood Doc Around the World\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\",\"name\":\"TVREAL\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\",\"name\":\"Chelsea Regan\",\"description\":\"Chelsea Regan is the managing editor of World Screen. 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