Serial Maven Studios sets up distribution arm with factual slate of 300 hours

Serial Maven’s sales slate includes W Films’ Tiger 24

Serial Maven Studios, the Toronto-based unscripted company established earlier this year by Solange Attwood and Asha Daniere, has launched a distribution arm with a catalogue of over 300 hours of factual content.

The division, led by Serial Maven CEO Attwood, has unveiled a slate spanning science, nature, lifestyle and kids and family, with 12 titles coming to the international market for the first time.

Serial Maven’s sales slate includes Secrets of Egypt’s Valley of the Whales (1×60’, Windfall Films, Rezolution Pictures, Handle Productions), Search & Rescue: North Shore (10×60’, Peg Leg Films), Cosmic Mysteries (7×30’, Deep Field Productions), Tiger 24 (1×90’, W Films) and A Wild Irish Year (4×60’, Crossing the Line).

Sales titles come from a range of outlets, such as BBC One, Smithsonian, HGTV, E! Entertainment, Netflix, PBS, CBC, Arte, NHK and Discovery.

Other titles include The Wild Gardener (2×60’, Crossing the Line), Gareth Malone’s Easter Passion (2×60’, Somersault Studios), Locals Welcome (10×30’, Artifactual Media), So Surreal: Behind the Mask (1×90’, Rezolution Pictures), All It Takes (1×120’, Artifactual Media)m Her Right to Play (1×90’, Goldfinch) and Trading Skills (26×11’, Riverbank Pictures).

Attwood and company president Daniere, both former execs at Blue Ant Media, set up Serial Maven Studios in January with the goal of building out a studio business with a focus on finding new models for the development, financing, production, distribution and monetisation of original unscripted properties.

In May, another former Blue Ant exec, Julie Chang, joined the company as chief operating officer.

“We are thrilled to present our debut catalogue to international content buyers this fall and at Mipcom this October with a diverse range of premium content and 12 brand new titles,” said Attwood.