Amcomri Entertainment’s Abacus Media Rights (AMR) opens the ATF market tomorrow with sales of more than 70 hours of scripted and unscripted shows to platforms in Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand and China.
Titles include factual series “Stephen Fry: Willem and Frieda – Defying the Nazis”, about two gay members of the Dutch resistance during World War II, which was acquired by Now TV in Hong Kong. The series premiered on Channel 4 in the U.K. in March this year.
Now TV also acquired “Tis the Season: The Holidays On Screen”, “The Trouble with Kanye” and “Bankrupt Billionaire”, along with five seasons of Jed Mercurio scripted thriller, “Line of Duty”.
Korea’s KBS Media has picked up Artemis Productions’ “Ningaloo Nyinggulu”, while in China, Haining Jianguo TV and Film Media licensed Werner Herzog’s “The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft” for Bilibili.
Other titles going to China include “Yellowstone Supervolcano”, “Icemen: 200 Years in Antarctica”, “Quoll Farm” and “The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World”.
Thailand’s TrueVisions picked up “The Bizarre Pet Vets”, “Million Dollar Buffet” and “The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katie and Maurice Krafft”.
The deals were brokered by Still Road Media’s co-founder and CEO, Pooja Nirmal Kant, for AMR.