Globosat buys eight-film Java package

Brazilian satnet has acquired an eight-title package with Paris-based documentary distributor Java Films.

The deal includes on presale for the upcoming doc Global Gay and comprises Kidnapped by North Korea, GPS A Global War, Speed: In Search of Lost Time, Erebus: Operation Overdue, Mum Please Stop it: When Mothers Abuse Their Children, High Five and Brazil: Memories of a Dirty War.

Global Gay is a 1x52mins doc from Ligne de Mire about the fight to decriminalise homosexuality. It has already presold to Swedish educational pubcaster UR.

In further news, Java has sold Money For Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve to TVI in Portugal, YLE in Finland, Phoenix, Channel News Asia and NRK in Norway. Ray Donovan star Liev Schreiber narrates the programme.