Blue Ant locks slate of Latin America sales

The rights division of Blue Ant Studios has locked sales for more than 125 hours of multi-genre unscripted content to buyers across Latin America.

The rights division of Blue Ant Studios has locked sales for more than 125 hours of multi-genre unscripted content to buyers across Latin America.

AMC Networks International – Latin America has acquired a sizable package of natural history programming from Blue Ant nature brand Love Nature’s catalog.

Titles include Animal Senses (6 x 40 minutes; Blue Ant Studios); Mysteries of Evolution (6 x 22 minutes); Africa’s Hidden Kingdoms (6 x 60 min; Off the Fence); Africa: A Wild Year on Earth (6 x 60 minutes; Northern Pictures); and three titles from Arcadia Entertainment, Animal Empires (6 x 60 minutes), The Living Beach (6 x 60 minutes), and The Wild Wild East (14 x 30 minutes), which explores the woods and waters of North America’s maritime region.

Additionally, AMC Networks’ LatAm operation has picked up a selection of factual entertainment titles from Blue Ant, including seasons one and two of Crazy Beautiful Weddings (20 x 30 minutes; Blue Ant Studios) and two series from Nikki Ray Media Agency: lifestyle series Great Escapes with Colin and Justin (8 x 30 minutes) and season one of property series Custom Built (26 x 30 minutes).

Latin American pay TV service DIRECTV Latin America, along with the live-TV and streaming platform DGO, has sprung for a trio of true-crime docs, including Tata: Escobar’s Widow (2 x 60/1 x 90 minutes; Telegramme Media), on the spouse of late cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar; the ITVX title The Playboy Bunny Murder (2 x 60 minutes; Future Studios, Soho Studios); and Body in the Suitcase (2 x 60/1 x 120 minutes; Transistor Films).

The same buyers also picked up factual titles #Racegirl: The Comeback of Sophia Flörsch (1 x 90 minutes; Beetz Brothers Film Production; pictured), a profile of the FIA Formula 3 driver as she battles to get back on the track after a horrific accident at the 2018 F3 Macau Grand Prix; and Finding Satoshi (1 x 60 minutes; Mt. Melvil), about the worldwide search for the pseudonymous creator of pioneering cryptocurrency Bitcoin. In a lighter vein, DIRECTV and DGO also acquired seasons one and two of lifestyle series Coolest Places to Stay (12 x 30 minutes), from Nikki Ray Media Agency.

Sociedad Televisora Larranaga S.A. (Teledoce) acquired a natural history package that includes Osprey: Sea Raptor (1 x 60 minutes; Cosmovision, Love Nature); Alaskan Summer (1 x 60 minutes; Blue Ant Studios); and the first seasons of Wild Latin America (3 x 60 minutes; Blink Films), Africa’s Wild Year (4 x 60 minutes; Merx International), Wild Year on Earth (6 x 60 minutes; Northern Pictures), Pacific ( 4 x 60 minutes; Voltage TV) and Valley of Flood and Fire (3 x 60 minutes; Plimsoll Productions).

Rounding out the package are seasons one and two of The World’s Deadliest Weather (26 x 60 minutes), from back2back Productions.

Finally, ¡HOLA! TV has licensed Charles III: The Coronation Year (2 x 60 minutes/1 x 90 minutes; Oxford Films), which follows King Charles and Queen Camilla through landmark moments of their first year.

This story originally appeared in Realscreen

Image courtesy Beetz Brothers Film Production