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Powerful Fall/Winter Slate of documentaries for MIPCOM 2024

Autentic Distribution proudly unveils its exciting new fall/winter lineup for MIPCOM, offering over 100 brand-new hours of documentaries and factual series spanning a variety of genres. The new catalogue features hard-hitting current affairs, captivating explorations of nature and wildlife, fascinating history, and in-depth arts and lifestyle stories. With several flagship productions from Autentic Studios, the new slate promises to captivate audiences worldwide. 

History: Allure of Legendary Destinations and Social Hotspots 
Adding to the lineup, Deadly Science II (6 × 52′), produced by Go Button Media with Autentic Studios, unearths the human costs behind major scientific breakthroughs, revealing how innovation throughout history often came at a steep price. 

Science & Technology: Exploring Innovation and Human Perception 
Titans of Defense (6 × 52′) produced by Go Button Media with Autentic Studios, ventures into the high-tech realm of military innovation, revealing the world’s most advanced and powerful technologies, from supersonic aircraft to state-of-the-art drones and cutting-edge defense systems. 

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Cineflix Rights has unveiled its MIPCOM 2024 factual slate, spanning new lifestyle, renovation and food and travel franchises; blue-chip history and science documentaries; and new seasons of hit brands.

Alien Corridors (Go Button Media for Super Channel and Hearst Networks) examines the world’s hotspots of intergalactic visitation.

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Autentic, Super Channel commission Colossal Weapons, S2 of Deadly Science
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Autentic, Super Channel commission Colossal Weapons, S2 of Deadly Science

German producer, distributor and FAST channel operator Autentic and Canada’s Super Channel have commissioned a factual series called Colossal Weapons from Toronto-based Go Button Media, in addition to a second season of Deadly Science.

Colossal Weapons is a six-part series exploring the technological developments that have propelled wartime success. Using exclusive archival footage, 4K CGI and expert interviews, the series travels the world to explore its most striking weaponry, war machines and combat technology, observing the engineering found under the hood and how it measures up against competition in the field.

Deadly Science, meanwhile, explores the work of the innovators and incredible minds that have pursued progress, at any price. Each episode brings together three stories of people in a similar field, who lost their lives in the name of scientific advancement.

The second 6×60’ season features Rosalind Franklin, who discovered DNA’s double helix and used X-ray diffraction to capture it on camera, but then later succumbed to ovarian cancer from the radiation; Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who discovered seven new chemical elements, unaware that some, like cyanide and arsenic, came with deadly side effects; and American industrialist William Bullock, who died of gangrene after having his legs crushed by the machine that made the mass printing of newspapers possible for the very first time.

Both series will deliver in 2024, with international distribution, excluding Canada, handled by Autentic Distribution.

Read more on C21Media.net.

Canada’s Super Channel orders slate of factual content from Go Button Media
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Canada’s Super Channel orders slate of factual content from Go Button Media

Canadian pay TV network Super Channel has commissioned Toronto-based prodco Go Button Media to develop a slate of unscripted series.

The deal will see Go Button develop six series, comprising 36 hours of content from the areas of history, paranormal, engineering and science.

Go Button will produce the content – not linked to any specific titles, as yet – within a two-year period, with ZDF-owned Off the Fence handling international distribution.

It comes after Super Channel, Off the Fence and Go Button last year partnered on the six-part Second World War history series Forgotten Frontlines. More recently Super Channel aired Go Button’s six-part factual series Deadly Science.

Go Button, founded by showrunners Daniel Oron and Natasha Ryan, has been behind series such as Mysteries of the Ancient Dead, Secret Societies: In the Shadows and Secret Nazi Expeditions.

Loren Baxter, head of acquisitions at Off The Fence, said: “Forgotten Frontlines worked very well for us last year, so we are now keen to replicate and scale that success across our key content pillars of ‘yesterday,’ ‘today’ and ‘tomorrow.’

“This new partnership, alongside Super Channel, will not only give us six new series to sell but, as a commissioner, we also have a fantastic opportunity to work closely with Daniel and the team to marry Go Button’s creative ideas with our own market insights and ensure each series readily meets current international demand.”

Jackie Pardy, chief content officer at Super Channel, added: “Go Button Media has become one of our most valued suppliers of factual programming in recent years, so we had no hesitation in extending our relationship.”

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Deadly Science - The 2022 MIPCOM Shopper’s Guide
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Deadly Science - The 2022 MIPCOM Shopper’s Guide

Before MIPCOM kicks off in Cannes next Monday (October 17), Realscreen is presenting an all-week round-up of new non-fiction and unscripted titles that distributors will present at the French Riviera.

Deadly Science spotlights inventors, scientists and explorers throughout history who put their own lives on the line to advance human knowledge and achievement, and in some cases paid the ultimate price. Using archive, CGI, historical reenactments and expert interviews, the series profiles such “martyrs of the mind” as the 16th-century Spanish physician Michael Servetus, mountaineer George Mallory, physicist Marie Curie and ape researcher Dian Fossey.

Go Button Media and Autentic are production partners on the series, which is available in both German and English. Pre-sales have already been made to Curiosity, Superchannel and Spiegel Geschichte.

By Andrew Tracy, Realscreen

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