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neWs CO-PRODUCING WITH CANADA CANADA is one of the most dynamic co-production countries, according to Carolle Brabant, executive director of Telefilm Canada. In the Co-Produce With Canada Overview, she highlighted Canada’s new co-production of sci-fi drama Primeval: New World (with the UK), and on-screen talent including Francois Arnaud of The Borgias (co-produced with Ireland and Hungary) and Amber Marshall of Heartland — both attending MIPCOM. “We practically invented the co-production approach,” Brabant said. “It’s a gateway to other partners and the North American market.” This was the case for Morgan O’Sullivan of World 2000 Entertainment and Octagon Films’ James Flynn, who had partnered with Take 5 to make MGM Studios’ Vikings. “On the technical side there’s a wealth of Canadian talent,” O’Sullivan said at the Case Studies: Drama panel. For the makers of Rouge Bresil, Canadian co-operation made sense of complex co-prod treaties. “Canada was the go-between,” said Nicolas Traube, whose Pampa Production, with Brazil’s Conspiracao Films, brought the story of France’s ill-fated 16thcentury conquest of Brazil to the screen. Also on the panel were Take 5’s John Weber and Ricardo Rangel of Conspiracao.
World 2000 Entertainment’s Morgan O’Sullivan
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Investment boosts production schedule for XII Tribes ANADIAN production company XII Tribes Entertainment has arrived i n Ca n ne s w it h stars from its new dark comedy drama Hit Women walking the red carpet, a slate of new drama programming lined up for 2013 and an announcement that the company has gone public. “Archeos Entertainment has bought 35% of XII Tribes which helps us to get our productions fully financed in the future,” Nicolas Kanellopoulos, chief ¿nancial of¿cer, XII Tribes Entertainment said. Michel Zgarka, CEO, executive producer, XII Tribes was quick to underline the continuing vision of the company to create compelling scripted drama with women as the central characters.
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XII Tribes Entertainment’s Michel Zgarka (left) and Nicolas Kanellopoulos
“We always will have independent, strong women as the lead in our dramas — women who don’t depend on men but who have their own exceptional qualities.” Production is set to start on the corporate thriller Signs (12 x 60 mins) with 12 leading female characters who are all managing companies and con-
duct their business by waging battles against other corporations according to the strengths and weaknesses of their zodiac sign. Detective drama Hit Women features four women who make up a Hit Women Agency that aims to rid a city of criminals by using their charm as well as trickery and force.
KELENCONTENT’s Tanya Kelen and Nordic World’s Jan Salling shook on a representation deal for Canadian reality format Mantracker, in which an outdoorsman, skilled in the art of tracking, hunts down two contestants over a 36-hour period.
Octapixx and Mill Creek seal deal
Mill Creek Entertainment’s Jeff Hayne (left) with Octapixx Worldwide’s J Gary Gladman
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THE LONGSTANDING informal relationship between distributor Octapixx Worldwide and home video provider Mill Creek Entertainment has matured into a long-term deal that will see Octapixx distribute Mill Creek’s programming worldwide. The deal was first mooted at MIP. “This market is a hub for the international broadcast and home-video community,” Mill Creek director of content acquisition Jeff Hayne said. “There is
no better place for Octapixx and Mill Creek to begin our international partnership.” The ¿rst title in the deal is Guns: The Evolution Of Firearms (7 x 60 mins) a high-de¿nition series ranging over 400 years and using archive footage and re-enactment. Future titles will include Prohibition (6 x 60 mins), History Of The Military (6 x 60 mins) and WWI: The War To End All Wars (10 x 60 mins).
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