iproductneWs FIRST HAND FILMS
SWISS distributor First Hand brings a range of films from around the world to MIPTV. One highlight is And Who Taught You To Drive? (52/84 mins), a German cultural c omedy about three people who move country — from Germany to India, the US to Japan and South Korea to Germany respectively — who are all forced to obtain a new local driver’s license.
TRICON FILMS & TELEVISION
FEATURE-length special Satan explores the role of the Devil in the modern age, influencing popular culture from Milton’s Paradise Lost to The Exorcist to South Park. From Banger Films, producers of hit series Metal Evolution, the series features in-depth interviews with horror icons including John Carpenter, Linda Blair, Stephen King, Mike Mignola and Guillermo del Toro and musicians Bruce Dickinson, Jimmy Page, Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson.
GOLDCREST FILMS
THREE films are prioritised by the UK’s Goldcrest Films for MIPTV. In Cheerful Weather For The Wedding, Dolly’s wedding day is turned upside down when her lover from the previous summer throws her feelings into turmoil and she can’t decide whether to run away with her ex-lover or start a new life in Argentina with her husband-to-be. From the writer of War Horse, Private Peaceful is a film that tells the story of two brothers who fall out chasing the same girl, who are then reunited in the First World War only for their lives to be torn apart once more. And finally in The Girl, after a money-making scheme fails horribly, a woman ends up traveling across Mexico with a newly orphaned eight-year-old girl.
And Who Taught You To Drive (First Hand Films)
CAKE
TWO TITLES top the MIPTV slate for Londonbased distributor Cake. Firstly Space Racers (52 x 11 mins) is a pre-school CGI series based in Stardust Space Academy about a group of young cadets that make up an elite task force. NASA’s experts vet each episode to ensure accuracy. Secondly, The Sparticle Mystery (23 x 30 mins) is a live-action science-fiction series for kids about a scientific experiment goes wrong and all adults disappear, throwing the world into disarray.
Cheerful Weather For The Wedding (Goldcrest Films)
HENSON INDEPENDENT PROPERTIES (HIP) Satan (Tricon Films & Television)
WAI LANA PRODUCTIONS
Wai Lana Yoga (Wai Lana Productions)
US-BASED producer and distributor Wai Lana Productions brings 188 episodes of the Wai Lana Yoga series to MIPTV. Entertaining, informative, lively and yet serene, Wai Lana demonstrates yoga against stunning backdrops including the beautiful coastlines of Hawaii and California and the spectacular red rock deserts of Sedona. The shows feature relaxing soundtracks of original music by Wai Lana.
THE LICENSING arm of The Jim Henson Company, HIP, brings Sixteen South’s animated pre-school series Driftwood Bay (52 x 7 mins) to the international market. Season one is currently in production with delivery slated for early next year. Driftwood Bay is the makebelieve island seen by five-year old Lily from her beach hut home she shares with her dad. Each day Lily travels there with her trusted seagull friend, where she uses her imagination to craft wonderful adventures.
SMARTJOG
PARIS- and LA-based Smartjog has launched Cloud4Media, a platform to centralise the management, storage and delivery of digital media content, which includes unlimited storage with mirrored data centres; express file delivery; and a flexible file exchange service. New features planned include professional transcoding tools, metadata processing and an automatic quality check system. 40 I
preview magazine I March 2013 I www.miptv.com
Driftwood Bay (HIP)