Producers, broadcasters and distributors are venturing into largely uncharted territory as the COVID-19 pandemic upends production activities across the globe.
Year: 2020
Fugitive Acquires 40 Episodes, Plus Format, Of Mom Vs Matchmaker
26th March 2019: In addition to its content development, financing and executive producing activities, Fugitive is to distribute selected finished content from its partners and can now announce its first…
Small companies, big ideas: Toronto’s Go Button Media on the benefits of “boutique”
There’s no question that the television industry is competitive, and it can be hard for a small prodco to break through the noise and find its niche. In ‘Small Companies, Big Ideas’ Realscreen chats with indies that are innovating and thriving, showing the unscripted world that sometimes the best things come in small packages
Below, Realscreen hears from Daniel Oron and Natasha Ryan, founders and executive producers of Toronto-headquartered Go Button Media.
Founded in 2015, the company has earned a reputation for turning “creative chaos into polished productions.” Its projects — spanning factual, lifestyle and branded content — have included Secret Nazi Bases for UKTV and Discovery, Sense Appeal and Mom vs Matchmaker for OUTtv, No Roses on a Sailor’s Grave and A World Without NASA for CuriosityStream and Documentary Channel, to name a few.
Here, Oron and Ryan discuss the advantages (and challenges) of running a boutique production house.
Read the interview on Realscreen.com
Award For Helping To Find A Lost D-Day Wreck
By Max James
A diving club’s help in finding the wreck of a ship lost during D-Day for one of the few who survived its sinking 75 years ago was rewarded with an award at the Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) annual conference this month.
Southsea Sub Aqua Club had joined the search for the ship that went down in 1944 with the loss of 35 of the 40-man crew. It started with the chance meeting of archaeologist John Henry Phillips, 25, and naval veteran Patrick Thomas, 95, during a D-Day commemoration. Patrick told John the story of how he had escaped but the ship had never been found and how he wished to honour his teenage friends who died in the sinking.
The story of how John found the wreck and the friendship between the two has been made into a feature-length documentary called No Roses on a Sailor’s Grave.
The role of Southsea Sub Aqua Club in helping to identify the wreck has honoured with the Adopt A Wreck Award at the NAS conference in Portsmouth.
The club did extensive research into wrecks in the Baie de Seine and their detailed survey work is to be used in a bid to gain these rapidly decaying ships better protection.
Alison Mayor from the club said: ‘The wreck is just one of at least 150 in the Baie de Seine believed to be associated with the Allied forces invasion. Our report has been submitted to the French Maritime Cultural Department and will form part of the documentation supporting the application for UNESCO World Heritage Site designation. We hope that our work will help keep the memory of these events alive and properly recorded within history’.
Read the article on divemagazine.co.uk
CuriosityStream launches Go Button’s World Without NASA
The two-part documentary special is set for broadcast on documentary Channel next month. Read more on Playback Online.
cheddar: How NASA Inspires Game-Changing Tech
Cheddar gets a look at CuriosityStream’s two part series, ‘A World Without NASA.’ Learn more on cheddar.com