Bavaria Media


Global Screen recruits Bavaria Media’s Brianne Bonney as Julia Weber departs

German content group Telepool has recruited Bavaria Media’s Brianne Bonney as head of TV sales at its distribution outfit Global Screen, with Julia Weber, head of sales and acquisitions, exiting the company. Weber said that she is leaving the company “to take on new challenges,” with Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann, who was appointed as CEO at Telepool […]

Bavaria Media hires Carlos Hertel as sales head

Bavaria Media has appointed Carlos Hertel as director of international sales. Hertel (pictured) will lead a new TV world sales division at Bavaria, which will be known as Bavaria Media International. Previously, he headed the international sales operations at Tele München Group for eight years. Before he worked at Telepool in Munich in various positions. His […]

Autentic opens new sales office

Autentic has opened a new sales office and said it plans to ramp up investment in documentaries for the international market. The company is a joint venture between Beta Film and Patrick Hörl and produces and distributes factual programming as well operating the Spiegel TV channel. Anne Hufnagel will run the new sales office, which […]

Global Screen picks up German disaster movie for MIPCOM

Global Screen, the sales and distribution joint venture by Bavaria Media and Telepool, has acquired worldwide distribution rights to TV movie Heroes. The 1x120mins disaster movie is in production and will debut on free-to-air broadcaster RTL next year. The movie follows events after a disastrous experiment in a research laboratory causes satellites to fall to […]