London-based distributor MercuryMedia has picked up 16 new documentaries to launch at MipTV next month, and has licensed docs into Italy, Sweden, the UK and Taiwan.

Antoine (1×82′), a film about a five-year-old blind boy that screened at Hot Docs and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam last year, has been picked up by Rai in Italy, Swedish Education Broadcasting in Sweden and PTV in Taiwan, as well as by German theatrical distributor EYZ Media

^[1]Meanwhile, UK satcaster Sky Arts has licensed the series Icons Among Us: Jazz In The Present Tense (4×52′). The deal comes after Sky Arts in New Zealand and DR in Denmark picked up the title last year.

Among the new titles premiering at Mipdoc will be Houston: We Have A Problem (1×81′), from New Angle Media, an energy doc focusing on Big Oil; Philosopher Kings (1×84′), from Transcendental Media, billed as a journey through the halls of America’s most prestigious colleges and universities to learn from the establishments’ janitors; and Hana, dul, Sed… (1×90’/60′), from RI Film, profiling the highs and the lows of four members of the North Korean women’s national football team.

Mercury Media non-exec chairman Simon Shaps will moderate the Mipdoc What Buyers Want panel session in Cannes next month, as previously reported.