Blue Ant Media’s wildlife and nature brand, Love Nature, has made its debut in Poland through CANAL+ Polska.

The Washington, D.C.-headquartered brand’s linear 4K channel is now available, fully localized in Polish, through CANAL+ Polska’s 4K set top boxes. Subscribers will also soon have access to Love Nature’s programs on its VOD service.

Original series such as Becoming Orangutan, Wild Dogs: Running with the Pack (pictured), Battle of the Alphas, New Kids in the Wild, and Dawn to Dusk will be included in the subscription. Love Nature expanded its European audience through Amazon’s Prime Video in May.

Nish Media, Amérique Film

Quebec’s Nish Media and Amérique Film have signed a coproduction deal with Scotland’s Makar Productions for the Sick Heart River feature film.

Graeme Maley (Pale Star) will direct and write the film based on Scottish author John Buchan’s novel of the same name. Sick Heart River was selected to be part of Ontario Creates International Financing Forum at the Toronto International Film Festival. It follows a terminally ill adventurer who searches for a French-Canadian financier in Anishinaabe territory in the Quebec wilderness, according to a news release.

Nish Media’s recent projects include the French-language, Indigenous-created drama series Pour toi Flora for Radio-Canada. Meanwhile, Amérique Film recently released Monia Chokri’s Babysitter, which had its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival in January.

Asian Television Network International

Markham, Ont.-based Asian Television Network International (ATN) has acquired Canadian distribution rights to two more channels from Sony Pictures Networks (SPN) India, Sony YAY! and Sony PAL.

Sony YAY! marks ATN’s first children’s channel and is targeted at kids ages two to 14, while Sony PAL is a general entertainment channel. Both channels launched on TELUS Optik TV on Tuesday (Sept. 13) in Western Canada. They will launch in other parts of the country through licensed distributors.

ATN also distributes five other channels from Sony Pictures Networks India: SET HD, Sony SAB, Sony MAX, Sony MAX2 and Sony AATH. SPN is the consumer-facing identity of Culver Max Entertainment Private Limited, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation in Japan.

WildBrain CPLG

Paris-based ZAG has signed WildBrain CPLG as the licensing agency for its CG-animated series Ghostforce across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The entertainment, sport and brand licensing agency of Halifax-headquartered WildBrain will work on growing the property’s licensees, which include New York-based Rubies (costumes), Italy’s Panini (stickers) and Germany’s Edel (books), for a Halloween-themed CP launch in 2023.

Ghostforce (60 x 11 minutes) airs on Disney XD (U.S.), Discovery Kids (LatAm), TF1 (France) and on Disney Channel/Disney+ across the rest of Europe, Japan, India and the Middle East.

With files from Kidscreen

Image courtesy of Love Nature