Tag: production company

  • Go Button Media strikes content deal with Off the Fence, Super Channel

    Go Button Media strikes content deal with Off the Fence, Super Channel

    Toronto-based prodco Go Button Media is extending its partnership with international distributor Off the Fence (OTF) and Canadian pay-TV network Super Channel with a new deal that will see Go Button deliver six further factual series over a two-year period.

    The deal follows on from the success that OTF and Super Channel enjoyed with Go Button’s recent factual title, the WWII docuseries Forgotten Frontlines. Under the terms of the agreement, Go Button will produce six series (totaling 36 hours of content) across the unscripted genres that it specializes in, including history, paranormal, engineering and science.

    “Super Channel has long been a supporter of Go Button’s projects, and we are elated to be making new programs for its audience on our home turf, said Go Button Media co-founder and executive producer Daniel Oron (pictured). “In addition, following a previous project, we are especially thrilled to extend and deepen our relationship with Off the Fence, creating a range of new factual content for this dynamic company to take to broadcasters and platforms around the world.”

    “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,” added OTF head of acquisitions Loren Baxter. “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.”

    By Andrew Tracy, Realscreen

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  • Autentic, Go Button team for “Animal Within”

    Autentic, Go Button team for “Animal Within”

    Go Button Media secures Autentic commission 

    Germany’s Autentic has commissioned Toronto-headquartered indie Go Button Media to produce The Animal Within for its Spiegel TV Wissen channel.

    The 6 x 60-minute natural history series (pictured) investigates how animals can outperform “our wildest engineering dreams,” featuring CGI and interviews with experts such as engineers and biologists.

    Slated to premiere in December, The Animal Within is executive produced by Daniel Oron and Natasha Ryan for Go Button Media and Alexandra Böhm, head of international co-production at Autentic. It will premiere later this fall and will be distributed internationally (excluding in Canada) by Autentic Distribution.

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  • Go Button gets the go-ahead for The Animal Within

    Go Button gets the go-ahead for The Animal Within

    The six-part series signals the Toronto prodco’s first natural history title and commission for Germany’s Autentic.

    Toronto-based boutique production company Go Button Media has received its first natural history commission from German factual entertainment label Autentic.

    The Animal Within (6 x 60 minutes) is executive produced by the company’s leads Daniel Oron and Natasha Ryan alongside Autentic head of international co-production Alexandra Böhm.

    “The Animal Within travels the world to bring new insights to unexpected species that nature has been busy perfecting over the ages – from hippo chemists who manufacture their own sunscreen to ant architects who create complex structures. As humans, we think we have all the answers, but we will electrifyingly demonstrate that nature so often has the upper hand and can serve as the most experienced of teachers,” said executive producer and director Oron in a statement.

    Shot in 4K, the series blends natural history with CGI and science, examining how evolution has created “over-achievers in the animal world” and questions such as what biological “tech” enabled some species to survive massive extinction events.

    Experts featured include Robert Sparling, Kristin Rodrigo, Andrew Lewin, Emily Rondel, Peter Soroye and Jeremy McNeil.

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  • Weathering the storm: Producers on keeping the ‘wheels running’

    Weathering the storm: Producers on keeping the ‘wheels running’

    Producers, broadcasters and distributors are venturing into largely uncharted territory as the COVID-19 pandemic upends production activities across the globe.

    With ‘Weathering the Storm,’ Realscreen will examine the impact of the disruption upon various sectors of the non-fiction screen content industry, and reveal how different companies and stakeholders in the business are coping with the changing landscape. 

    Daniel Oron, co-founder and executive producer of Toronto’s Go Button Media, says the company is focused on “continuing the supply chain” for broadcasters.

    “If you look at our industry, basically there’s a supply chain of television, right? It’s much like any supply chain. It’s conceived somewhere, then it’s developed, then it’s manufactured, then it’s sold,” he says. “We can’t, as an industry, flick a switch and then instantly go into production that day we’re allowed out of the house.”

    The objective for Go Button, and other producers in the same boat, is to (as much as possible) keep development and production firing on all cylinders.

    “How do we produce content in spurts over the next cycle of, say, 12 to 18 months that allows broadcasters to continue to function without relying wholly on their library or acquisitions that they are picking up from their competitors or other networks around the world?” Oron (pictured above with co-founder Natasha Ryan) says.

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

    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

  • Playback’s 2018 Channel of the Year: OUTtv

    Playback’s 2018 Channel of the Year: OUTtv

    “This year established a strong proof of concept in respect to our overall strategy,” says Brad Danks.

    OUTtv greenlit 11 originals including Sense Appeal and Mom vs Matchmaker.

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