Globo in Brazil and Paramount+ in the UK are among the international buyers to have picked up television movies from London-based distributor Cineflix Rights.

Upgrade Productions, the new Los Angeles-based production company that develops and produces premium local language productions for a global audience, is partnering with Japanese producer Shochiku on new series A True Novel.

Gruffalo producer Magic Light Pictures has appointed former Superights and Jet Pack executive Marie-Laure Roche as head of international sales.

Award-winning filmmaker and executive producer Vesna Cudic has been appointed head of documentary partnerships at Sky Studios, the original-programming arm of the European pay TV broadcaster.

London-based financer, producer and distributor 108 Media has acquired a majority stake in Asia-Pacific prodco Revolution Media.

Public broadcaster France Télévisions has commissioned After the Asteroid, a premium documentary film from Vivendi-backed prodco Pernel Media.

European production and distribution group Fremantle has acquired a majority stake in UK film and drama production company Element Pictures, the firm behind the BBC’s adaptations of Sally Rooney’s Normal People and Conversations with Friends.

South African free-to-air network e.TV has done its first content deal with the sales arm of youth-skewing media outfit Vice, picking up more than 400 hours of unscripted content.

Christian Rank, former head of drama at Danish pubcaster DR, has resurfaced at Fremantle-backed Nordic production company Miso Film.

Fremantle executive Kristian Farcin-Leth is switching to rival European production group Banijay to lead its Mastiff Denmark production label.