Mercury Reputation Rising with Global Sales Success

London based film distributor MercuryMedia International is pleased to announce its latest international sales to broadcasters across all five continents.

Sweden’s Public service broadcaster Swedish Educational Broadcasting Corporation and Taiwan’s Public Television Service Foundation have acquired Antoine a sensitive portrait of a blind five year-old boy which won acclaim after its festival outings at Hot Docs and Sheffield Doc/Fest. Also in Sweden SVT has licensed Oil Spill: The Exxon Valdez Disaster. Additional European sales have been agreed with Finland’s YLE and Polish broadcaster TVP. Both have acquired the IDFA hit - The Invention of Dr. NakaMats. This humorous doc from Danish director Kaspar Astrup Schröder follows the world’s most prolific inventor on his mission to live until he is 144. Finally in Europe, Dutch broadcaster HG TV have acquired The Putin System and Runners High.

Israeli channel DBS have picked up three new Mercury titles ahead of their launch at Mipdoc: The Philosopher Kings (1 x 70’’) – reveals the lives of US College janitors; American Radical (1 x 88″) focuses on controversial Jewish academic Norman Finklestein, while The Invention of Dr. NakaMats reveals the life of Japan’s most colourful inventor.

In Australia, Foxtel network have acquired The Soviet Story (1 x 55’’), and Pride and Privilege (3 x 60) - An observational peek into Scotland’s most exclusive Public school ‘Glenalmond’. And In the US, doc specialists Link TV have picked up Hair India (1 x 75″) and The Unwinking Gaze (1 x 74″).

In Latin America, TBS has acquired a package of 6 films including: Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup, Pig Business, Where The Water Meets The Sky, Barack Obama : Peoples President, PetroApocalypse Now, and MAMA M.A.M.A.

And in the In-flight space, Mercury has struck a deal with Spafax channel to show The Street Stops Here (1 x 83″), the latest Basketball epic from Chicago based TeamWorks Media. The film debuts on British Airways and Emirates airlines, alongside its premiere on PBS in the US.

MercuryMedia’s Head Of Sales Patricia Hickey comments: ‘There is increased demand for quality docs and Mercury has the films that broadcasters want. Our ability to attract the best titles is matched by our skills in finding homes for them across the globe’

MercuryMedia Contacts:

Sales & Acquisitions
Patricia Hickey
patricia@mercurymedia.org
T: 44 20 7221 7221