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Secret Nazi Bases' "Villa Winter" Awarded Silver Remi

Go Button Media is excited to announce that Episode 3: Villa Winter of the documentary series Secret Nazi Bases has been selected to win a Silver Remi Award at The 53rd WorldFest-Houston Intl Film Festival for best Historical Program.

Many thanks to WorldFest Houston for the award and congratulations to the Secret Nazi Bases team!

About Secret Nazi Bases

The collapse of the Third Reich left as many secrets as it did relics. Still today, remnants of the Nazi’s schemes lie concealed in structures scattered across the globe. Skeletons of projects give way to mysteries. Conspiracies abound about science fiction scenarios. The Nazis were nothing if not methodical, and a deeper look reveals even darker plans. From tunnels to towers, artillery sites and communication centres; the remains of these schemes lie waiting to reveal truths about the Fuhrer’s tactics and dreams in Secret Nazi Bases.

As facts about these outposts materialise, the viewer will ponder how the events of World War II could have taken a very different turn. What did Hitler have planned?

Secret Nazi Bases appears on Documentary Channel, Science Channel (as Secret Nazi Ruins), UKTV, Discovery EMEA (as Secret Nazi Ruins) and Hollywood Suite, and distributed by DCD Rights.

Watch the Episode Promo Below:

Small companies, big ideas: Toronto’s Go Button Media on the benefits of “boutique”
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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
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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