CBC & Radio-Canada Distribution, the global content-licensing division of the public broadcaster, has landed several broadcast deals from its slate of factual content, with a particular focus on nature and wildlife shows.

SVT in Sweden and Skyword Co. in China have acquired Nature’s Cleanup Crew (1 x 52 minutes) produced by Toronto-based Kensington Communications, highlighting animals who share our cities and how they help recycle consumer waste, while SVT and Italy’s Mediaset have picked up First Animals (1 x 52 minutes, pictured above), produced by Toronto’s Red Trillium Film, about B.C.’s Burgess Shale fossils that helped rewrite our understanding of evolution.

Wild Canadian Weather (4 x 52 minutes) produced by Vancouver’s River Road Films and exploring extreme weather events in Canada, was sold to SVT and Bomanbridge Media (Asia-Pacific), with a multi-territory deal for Viasat World for CEE, Russi, pic and CIS, Baltics, and Scandinavia.

Meanwhile the climate change special Rebellion (1 x 52 minutes), produced by Toronto’s Grand Passage Media, was acquired by Mediawan Thematics (France) and SIC (Portugal); while The COVID Cruise (1 x 52 minutes), from L.A.-based producer Blue Pearl Productions, about the early days of the pandemic, has sold to Bell Media (French Canada) and PBS (U.K. and Ireland).

And PBS/’POV’ (U.S.), Al Jazeera (MENA), CNEX (Taiwan) and Sky Arts (New Zealand) have picked up the TIFF-selected short Sing Me A Lullaby (29 minutes) produced by Toronto’s Golden Nugget Productions, about filmmaker Tiffany Hsiung’s efforts to find her mother’s birth family in Taiwan.

The story originally appeared in Realscreen, pictured