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Espresso Media International adds 30 hours of factual for Mipcom

High Altitude Carpenters focuses on a family-run renovation business

UK-based distributor Espresso Media International has revealed its slate for this month’s Mipcom, including more than 30 hours of factual and factual entertainment content.

New series include High Altitude Carpenters (6×44’) with a second season available for pre-sales). Premiering on Discovery Italy, the programme follows a family business renovating historical properties in the Italian Dolomites.

Building on previous successes in true crime, Espresso will also debut Where is Baby Gabriel? (2×52’). From the producer of Monster in the Shadows (a Peacock original airing on Foxtel, Viaplay and Sky Crime), the docuseries explores a missing baby case which continues to make headlines today.

The feature doc slate opens with A Crack in the Mountain (1×99’/1×52’), an exploration of the magnificent underground kingdom Son Doong.

Category: Woman (1×76’/1×58’) from director Phyllis Ellis (Toxic Beauty, 2019), follows four champion runners from the southern hemisphere fighting back against the policing of women’s bodies and biological sex testing in sport.

Espresso will also present two documentaries on motherhood: Birth Time (1×84’/1×55’) follows three women on a mission to revolutionise maternity care and reduce birth trauma; while My So Called Selfish Life (1×78’/1×52’) is a journey through the choice not to become a mother.

Philly on Fire (1×99’/1×52’) chronicles the shocking story of Philadelphia Police’s bombing of black liberation group MOVE, with key figures from the historical event speaking on camera for the first time. Meanwhile, Kaepernick & America (1×88’/1×52’) examines American racial injustice in the present day, profiling the sports icon and why he took the knee.

Both Philly on Fire and Kaepernick & America are co-directed by Ross Hockrow (HBO’s Women of Troy) and Tommy Walker (The List series including The Black List and The Trans List, HBO).

In the science and history remit, Espresso will also present to market Sound the Alarm (1×52’), which delves into how Russia reacted to a little-known past nuclear alert that could have sparked nuclear catastrophe; and stranger-than-fiction story The Man Who Stole Einstein’s Brain (1×78’/1×52’), commissioned by CBC for the Documentary Channel.

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