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  • Extra: Hollywood Suite and CBC acquire WWII doc

    Extra: Hollywood Suite and CBC acquire WWII doc

    Hollywood Suite acquires No Roses on a Sailor’s Grave documentary

    Canadian broadcaster Hollywood Suite acquired the award-winning documentary No Roses on a Sailor’s Grave, production company Go Button Media announced on Monday (Aug. 23).

    CBC & Radio-Canada Distribution, meanwhile, took the worldwide rights, excluding Canada, for the documentary (pictured). The CBC will soon announce the film’s launch into the global market.

    The documentary tells the story of a lost World War II ship, and how a young archeologist and the last survivor of the wreck work together to recover the ship from forgotten history, more than 70 years later.

    The ship, LCH185, was part of the first wave on Sword Beach on D-Day. It helped protect the landing beaches from German attack for two weeks, until it was struck by an acoustic mine. LCH185 sank, taking all but a few surviving crew members with it. Patrick Thomas, a veteran telegraphist in the British Royal Navy who was on that ship, has lived with the memory ever since then.

    John Henry Phillips, a 25-year-old British archaeologist, promised Thomas that he will find the lost, wrecked ship and see that a memorial is built for its missing crew. The documentary film follows this work.

    “With only a small number of World War II veterans still among us, it is critical we help tell and record these stories before they move on from living memory,” said Daniel Oron of Go Button Media, and the director and executive producer of the film, in a news release.

    Sharon Stevens, vice president of programming at Hollywood Suite, added that the film mixes history and personal testimony, and that with time running out to hear WWII stories first hand, opportunities to see a film like this are becoming rarer.

    No Roses on a Sailor’s Grave was an official selection at several film festivals, and won Best Feature Documentary at the Sweden Film Awards, Best Narrative at the Amsterdam World International Film Festival, Best Director: Documentary at the Berlin Indie Film Festival and Angeles Documentaries Festival, as well as Best Feature Documentary at the Rome Independent Prisma Awards and Angeles Documentaries Festival.

    The feature documentary is scheduled for a worldwide TV premiere on Nov. 11 at 9 p.m. ET.

    Read the full article on Realscreen.

  • Secret Nazi Ruins Season 2: Release Date, Updates and More!

    Secret Nazi Ruins Season 2: Release Date, Updates and More!

    Secret Nazi Ruins Season 2 premieres Sunday, July 25, 2021, at 10 pm ET/PT on Science Channel.

    From tunnels and towers to underground bunkers and communication hubs, Nazi Germany’s sinister footprint can be found all over the world. The structural remnants of Nazi Germany still exist today, waiting to reveal the truth about Hitler’s tactics and guard information about the sinister projects he was planned.

    Read More on Droid Journal.

  • TBI Weekly: Five ways the pandemic has affected change

    TBI Weekly: Five ways the pandemic has affected change

    The pandemic has forced the industry to pivot and adapt like never before, with innumerable lessons being learned along the way. Daniel Oron, co-founder at Canada’s Go Button Media, reflects on five experiences over the past 18 months that will remain with him as the industry slowly emerges to some sort of normality.

    Read More on Television Business International.

  • Autentic on Delivering Factual Content with Depth

    Autentic on Delivering Factual Content with Depth

    Among the genres that are performing particularly well at present for Autentic is people and places, which tackles topics from travel, escapism and adventure to foreign cultures, people and their passions, crime and culinary programming. “Especially escapism and adventure factual content is still high in demand,” says Strasser. “Another well-performing genre is science—be it human, technology or natural science. One of our best-selling titles last year was The Animal Within, an archive-based six-part series combining elements of nature programming with scientific aspects.”

    Read More on World Screen.

  • Go Button commissions series at Super Channel, partners with Cineflix Rights

    Go Button commissions series at Super Channel, partners with Cineflix Rights

    Toronto-based Go Button Media has announced that Super Channel in Canada has commissioned its new historical docuseries, Secret Nazi Expeditions, with Cineflix Rights on board as its international distribution partner with a focus on pre-sales.

    The 6 x 60-minute series focuses on the work of an elite team of Nazi scientists who searched the far reaches of the globe for ancient artifacts alleged to possess mystical powers in the name of Hitler’s regime.

    “Super Channel has been an incredibly supportive broadcaster to our business this year, so we couldn’t be more pleased to move into production with them on this second history series,” Daniel Oron, Go Button Media’s co-founder and series executive producer, said in a release. “We are also thrilled to be working with Cineflix Rights for the first time. The team was extremely enthusiastic about this new series from the first conversation and, given Cineflix’s impressive track record and extensive international network, I have every confidence that Secret Nazi Expeditions will soon find a raft of excellent homes across the world.”

    Secret Nazi Expeditions is set to begin production soon. It’s Go Button’s second Super Channel Fuse Original commission this year, following the World War Two series Forgotten Frontlines (6 x 60 minutes), co-commissioned by SBS Australia and Off The Fence.

    Read More on Realscreen.

  • cheddar: How NASA Inspires Game-Changing Tech

    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