Maria Kivinen is exiting Finnish pubcaster YLE as sales manager after 12 years at the company in order to launch her distribution and financing outfit, Norse Key Studios. The new venture, ...

Documentary+, the free streamer and FAST channel owned by prodco XTR, is teaming with global video platform Nowness on the co-acquisition of the Optimist production ImillaSkate: The Cholita ...

UK indie Dash Pictures (Billy and Dom Eat the World, Fantastic Friends) has unveiled a slate of new unscripted titles it is currently prepping for the international market, with buyers ...

Los Angeles-based private equity outfit Oaktree Capital Management, parent company to producer-distributor Shout! Studios, is acquiring New York City-headquartered FilmRise to form a new ...

Tubi is partnering with LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s Uninterrupted (part of Fulwell Entertainment) for The Second Set, a new feature doc on tennis superstar Naomi Osaka, which is slated ...

The 36th edition of Sunny side of the Doc, which took place in La Rochelle June 23-26, reported steady delegate numbers of around 2,100 (at par with last year’s attendance), ...

Channel 4 has signed on to broadcast the one-off documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack from indie prodco Basement Films, after the BBC withdrew as the doc’s commissioning partner due to ...

Fremantle is launching a new label, Fremantle Global Originals, that will be dedicated to the creation of original unscripted formats. According to a release, Fremantle Global Originals will ...

Global film and TV studio Fifth Season is bolstering its international television distribution business with the hiring of Kate Laffey as SVP of acquisitions. Reporting to Fifth Season EVP of ...

Blue-chip wildlife series Parenthood sells to multiple international territories All3Media International has closed a raft of early deals for Silverback Films’ Parenthood (5 x 60 min., pictured ...

Finnish actor and filmmaker Salla Kozma is launching her own production company with a focus on non-fiction and unscripted ...

The Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) and Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan’s Story Syndicate (Harry & Meghan, Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer) have reached a deal on ...