Blue Ant reveals new-look distribution slate following acquisition of Marblemedia, D360
True crime series The Playboy Bunny Murders
Canada’s Blue Ant Media is heading to Mipcom with an expanded slate of titles following its acquisition of Marblemedia and its sister distribution company D360 over the summer.
Titles to be shopped at Mipcom include documentary Mr Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe, about the iconic Canadian children’s entertainer. The project, produced by Marblemedia and Hawkeye Pictures for Prime Video Canada in association with CBC, recently had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People’s Choice Documentary Award.
Other Marblemedia-produced series joining the slate include sandcastle-building competition series Race Against the Tide and Best in Miniature, which sees contestants build their dream home in miniature form. Both shows are produced for the CBC in Canada.
Blue Ant will also be shopping: factual entertainment series Supercar Showroom (Air TV) and Great Australian Walks (Mint Pictures); true crime projects The Playboy Bunny Murders (Future Studios and Soho Studios for ITVX), The Murder Retrial (Screendog Productions for Channel 4), Body in the Suitcase (Transistor Films); science docs Apocalypse Plan B (Grand Passage Media) and two-parter Neu Earth (Beach House Pictures); and paranormal docuseries History’s Most Haunted (Small Army Entertainment).
The company’s nature, wildlife and environment offerings are Dynamic Planet (NHNZ Worldwide), Macaque Island (Beach House Pictures), My Best Friend’s An Animal (Big Wave), Deep Dive Australia (Big Wave) and Levison Wood: Walking With… (October Films).
On the history front, Blue Ant is selling Silk Road from Above (Beach House Pictures), Israel from Above (Ananey Studios) and JFK: The Final Evidence (Coleman Television).
Blue Ant said the new-look sales slate for this year’s Mipcom “strategically supports [its] recent announcement to merge production and distribution operations with Marblemedia into one unified studio and rights business.”
On the distribution side of the business, several significant changes have been revealed since Blue Ant announced its acquisition of Marblemedia.
Earlier this month, Solange Attwood, executive VP of Blue Ant International, announced she was exiting the company after 10 years. Attwood will remain with Blue Ant until November 30, and thereafter is expected to launch her own production business. Details of the new venture remain under wraps.
Blue Ant later appointed former BBC Studios exec Jon Penn as MD of its restructured business in the Asia Pacific region.
