One film selling very briskly is Alex Gibney’s Finding Fela, screening in IDFA’s Music Documentary section.
This has now gone to NonStop Entertainment (Scandinavia, the Baltics, Iceland), Restart (Former Yugoslavia) and Just Wanted (Italy).
These deals follow on from TV sales already concluded with Arte France, VPRO (the Netherlands), AMC Global (MENA, CEE) and Canal+ (Spain).
Meanwhile, Lina Plioplyte & Ari Seth Cohen’s Advanced Style, about the fashion sense and daily lives of older New York women aged between “50 and death”, has been snapped up by Madman (Australia & NZ) and Jaguar (In-flight).
These deals follow on from the recently announced sales to AMC GLOBAL (Iberia), DBS (Israel) and EBS (Korea), DBS Israel, New Select (Japan), NonStop Entertainment (Scandinavia, the Baltics).
Among others here in Amsterdam, Dogwoof is beginning its roll-out of Ryan Mullins’ Chameleon.
The film, screening in IDFA’s Competition for Feature-Length Documentary, is produced by EyeStellFilm.
Supported by Sundance, it is a prime candidate for selection at early 2015 festivals following its premiere at IDFA.
The company is also beginning pre-sales on Des Henderson’s Project Children, about the NYPD bomb disposal expert who, over the course of 40 years, gave 30,000 children from Northern Ireland a holiday in the USA, away from The Troubles.
Denis Mulcahy was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, yet his story has never been told.
It is produced for Northern Ireland-based Alleycats by Ed Stobard.
Dogwoof has worldwide rights on the project.
“We are talking to various broadcasters and it was pitching at MIPCOM,” commented Dogwoof’s head of international sales and acquisitions, Vesna Cudic.
“The response has been very positive. I am hoping to find a US broadcaster. It is a US story and I think it will really resonate with US audiences.”
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