TVF International has secured a slew of deals with Japanese broadcasters and platforms, including NHK, Asia Docs and Tokyovision, among others.<\/p>\n
NHK licensed a number of titles, including the 50-minute documentary Arming the Arctic<\/em>, produced by Wildcat Films and TVF International. The film explores rising geopolitical tensions in the Arctic.<\/p>\n NHK also licensed a special from the long-running series The Snake Master<\/em>, produced by TV Burabha. The special and series go face-to-face with the rare and venomous snakes of Thailand.<\/p>\n The VOD platform Asia Docs picked up a package of world affairs documentaries from TVF International, including The Daughter Tree<\/em>, Lost & Found<\/em>, From North Korea with Love<\/em> and Click to Ransom<\/em>.<\/p>\n The Daughter Tree<\/em>, produced by Trinetra Productions, follows a midwife and activist working in the Punjab region of India, where thousands of pregnancies are aborted every year because of gender. Lost & Found<\/em>, from Falls Family Films, follows the mission to reunite Japanese artifacts with their owners when they wash up on the coast of Canada a year after Japan was engulfed by a tsunami.<\/p>\n From North Korea with Love<\/em>, which grants exclusive access to a generation of influencers who have defected from North Korea, and Click to Ransom<\/em>, which goes inside a Japanese hospital in the middle of a ransomware attack, were also acquired for Asia Docs. They are both produced by Mediacorp.<\/p>\n For Nippon TV\u2019s World Great TV, TVF International licensed two films to Tokyovision: China\u2019s Abandoned Daughters<\/em> and The Surgery Ship<\/em>. From Mediacorp, China\u2019s Abandoned Daughters<\/em> provides access to women adopted during China\u2019s strict one-child policy for forced marriages. The Surgery Ship<\/em>, from Media Stockade, follows volunteer doctors on board a floating hospital providing care in remote and developing regions.<\/p>\n BS4 licensed two seasons of the wildlife docuseries Shamwari Untamed<\/em>, which is produced by Tracks Multimedia and centers on rangers working in South Africa\u2019s Shamwari Game Reserve.<\/p>\n In addition to these sales, TVF International has signed a deal to co-produce Japan\u2019s Wild Side<\/em> with Tokyovision. The title will reveal the wonders of Japan\u2019s animal kingdom across four seasons.<\/p>\n \u201cIt has been an exciting couple of months for our work in Japan, collaborating with valued long-term partners, and brand new clients,\u201d said Sam Joyce, senior acquisitions manager at TVF. \u201cWe are delighted to be extending our long-term collaboration with Tokyovision to bring the natural world of Japan to a global audience. This pure-wildlife co-pro is perhaps our most ambitious yet, and is already drawing major interest from buyers around the world. And on the sales side, opportunities in the territory are a testament to our slate of premium one-offs and dynamic, access-driven series, which hit the mark for major buyers in Japan.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TVF International has secured a slew of deals with Japanese broadcasters and platforms, including NHK, Asia Docs and Tokyovision, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":22992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[10953,10955,851,2402,10954,4516,3195],"class_list":["post-22991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-asia-docs","tag-bs4","tag-nhk","tag-nippon-tv","tag-sam-joyce","tag-tokyovision","tag-tvf-international","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n