MIPTV round-up: DCD doc sales; FilmRise to shop ‘Corner Gas’; Pure Fiction to adapt ‘Baztan’ novels

Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision (Source: DCD Rights)

DCD doc sales

NHK in Japan has acquired a remastered version of David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars: The Motion Picture, following a deal with UK distributor DCD Rights. The 1 x 100-minute film was produced by the Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company, and includes the full uncut performance of Bowie’s iconic 1973 concert at the Hammersmith Odeon.

Meanwhile, DCD Rights has also pre-sold Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision, a 1 x 90-minute special launching at MIPTV this week, to Sky in the UK to air on Sky Arts later this year. The film details the creation of Electric Lady Studios, rising from a bankrupt Greenwich Village nightclub to the state-of-the-art recording facility inspired by Jimi Hendrix’s vision.

Additionally, DCD has made an early pre-sale to PBS for Rock Fuel Media’s Chicago & Friends: Live At 55 which celebrates their spectacular music legacy.

Also launching at MIPTV is Christmas At Graceland, a 1 x 60-minute special produced by Done+Dusted & Authentic Studios for NBC and Peacock. A television special, filmed live, celebrates Christmas at Elvis Presley’s famed family home, Graceland.

Corner Gas (Source: FilmRise)

FilmRise to shop ‘Corner Gas’

New York-based FilmRise has acquired AVOD and FAST rights to Canadian comedy series Corner Gas, from Prairie Pants Distribution.

FilmRise will have sub-distribution rights to all six seasons of Bell Media original sitcom as well as Corner Gas: The Movie in the US, UK, New Zealand and Australia.

Produced by Vérité Films and 335 Productions, the ensemble comedy series about a bunch of nobodies who get up to a whole lot of nothing in the fictional prairie town of Dog River, Saskatchewan.

Pure Fiction to adapt ‘Baztan’ novels

Tom Winchester’s Pure Fiction Television has secured the rights to author Dolores Redondo’s Baztan Trilogy and the prequel, La Cara Norte Del Corazón and is developing them into a returning, premium international TV series.

The Spanish novels followhomicide detective Amaia Salazar and are set in the Basque region of Northern Spain, as well as in New Orleans.

Pure Fiction is developing the project with screenwriter and playwright, Lydia Adetunji (His Dark Materials, Noughts & Crosses, The Last Kingdom).

Fluid: Life Beyond The Binary (Source: TVF International)

TVF expands factual offering

Factual distribution specialist TVF International is bringing more than 200 hours of new content to MIPTV this week.

The UK-based firm’s slate includes Fluid: Life Beyond the Binary, a 1 x 48-minute science documentary hosted by comedian Mae Martin exploring sexual fluidity in both the natural and human world; and obs-doc The Good Virus (1 x 52-minute or 1 x 80-minute) from ID Productions and Matter of Fact Media on phage therapy research.

TVF’s aerial catalogue, meanwhile, includes Zona Mixta’s Castles From Above (4 x 52-minutes); while from Attitude Pictures comes new factual entertainment format, Four Go Flatting (5 x 45-mnutes).

The company is also launching two new true crime series from Law&Crime Productions. Behind the Crime (4 x 60-minutes ) uses real case footage to take viewers behind the scenes from crime to investigation, trial to verdict, in some of the USA’s most high-profile murder cases; while The Trials of Kyle Rittenhouse (2 x 45-minutes or 1 x 85-minutes) examines the infamous case of teenager Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two people at a Black Lives Matter protest in Wisconsin in 2020, but was found not guilty of murder.

Other highlights include 1979: The Year of the Islamist Revolution (2 x 50-minutes) from OR Media; Gran Angular’s Weird Ocean Creatures (10 x 48-minutes); and Marlon Brando: In Paradise (1 x 52-minutes) from Berlin-Producers.