K ino Lorber has acquired the rights to several titles by Canadian filmmaker Patricia Rozema in a deal negotiated by Brigitte Hubmann of Montreal’s Film Associates International.

The New York-based distributor has picked up North American distribution rights to the new 4K restorations of her queer classic When Night is Falling (1995) and her second feature, White Room (1990), and the U.S. rights to her drama Mouthpiece (2018).

Hubmann has also negotiated international sales for MUBI’s year-long acquisition of Rozema’s 1987 indie I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing in 230+ territories worldwide as a double-bill with Mouthpiece; and with German distributor Salzgeber & Co., which has picked up the rights for I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing and When Night is Falling for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Mouthpiece is also distributed with Bulldog Films in the U.K.

WildBrain

A handful of channels and platforms have acquired season four of animated series The Deep from coproducer and exclusive global distributor WildBrain. The new 13 x 30-minute instalment of the ongoing saga about a family of underwater explorers will launch soon on MBC’s linear channel MBC3 and streamer Shahid for the Middle East and North Africa, as well as RTP (Portugal), NRK (Norway), TVP (Poland), YLE (Finland) and Radio-Canada.

Public broadcaster ABC Australia originally commissioned the show back in 2013, and then renewed it last year for a fourth season that premiered down under this past June.

Season four is a copro between Australia’s A Stark Production, WildBrain and Singapore’s Infinite Studios, and has already been acquired by Family Channel, CBBC (U.K.), Mediacorp (Singapore), Super RTL (Germany) and SVT (Sweden). The Deep is currently airing in more than 130 markets worldwide.

QYOU Media

Toronto content and distribution company QYOU Media has partnered with next-generation data analysis platform StarLifter as it launches Q Data. The company-wide initiative uses data-driven technology to garner information for its advertising and programming to increase revenue generation across all QYOU Media business units.

The partnership with StarLifter’s cloud-base data analysis platform will enable core data analysis across all business units, said a news release, which also announced Jace Sparks has been named chief product officer for data-driven performance objectives company-wide.

Gusto TV

Gusto TV has inked a global deal with Linux-based smart TV operating system VIDAA+. The deal sees the Ottawa-based food international channel available on VIDAA Smart TV OS, the flagship product of VIDAA USA, which was established in 2019 and is headquartered in Atlanta.

VIDAA+ has availability in 155 countries. Gusto TV recently relaunched in Canada and has its programming available in English, Spanish and Mandarin across more than 160 countries on 30-plus different platforms.

With files from Kidscreen