Bavaria Fiction’s Emanuel Rotstein on the contracting TV documentary market

Today we hear from Emanuel Rotstein, head of documentaries at Bavaria Fiction, about how the German prodco’s non-fiction arm is faring two years after launch and finding its way through the challenges of today’s marketplace.

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German drama producer Bavaria Fiction hired former A+E Networks Germany programming chief Emanuel Rotstein two years ago to spearhead a move into non-fiction.

The company, a joint venture between Bavaria Film and ZDF Studios, already has a number of projects underway via its Icon Docs arm, including a true crime documentary for Sky Deutschland about the murder of a millionaire in her penthouse flat above a Munich car park, and another about the October 7 Hamas Israeli music festival massacre.

Rotstein spoke with Clive Whittingham about these projects, the health of the German non-fiction sector versus markets elsewhere and how international copros are only growing in importance as public broadcasters everywhere become squeezed.

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