Las Vegas poverty docuseries headlines Quintus Studios’ MipTV factual slate

Quintus original Poverty to Paradise: Las Vegas

German distributor and channels operator Quintus Studios is bringing a slate of its original commissions to next week’s MipTV in Cannes, including observational docuseries Poverty to Paradise: Las Vegas.

The 5×60’ series focuses on homelessness and poverty among the bright lights of Vegas. It was produced by UK-based New Take Films as a Quintus original.

Quintus Studios owns and operates YouTube channel brands including Free Documentary, FD Real, FD History, FD Nature, FD Paranormal and Endevr. It also owns and operates FAST channel Radical Docs, which is available on platforms including Rakuten TV.

Among the other content available to international buyers from its slate of originals for the channels is Mission to Collision: Kenya’s Flying Trucks’ (5×60’), an obs doc focusing on Kenyan truckers, from Africa Live Media.

Meanwhile, Banged Up: My Story (5×60’), from the UK’s Middlechild Productions, features first-hand accounts from former inmates of some of the toughest prisons in the world.

Finally, Wild Cats (1×60’), from Czech-based wildlife specialist KM Plus, shows indigenous big and small cats from sub-Saharan Africa, the jungles of India, the mountains of North America and the Amazon rainforest.