CATALOGUE 2019 Flame Media is an internationally focused media organisation offering a suite of fully integrated services to content producers and buyers across all platforms. Contents Our business includes our UK-based production arm Wildflameand our new German production office Flame In Development 1 Media GmbH; a footage clipping service; channel sales; a In Production 3 multifunctional, sound-controlled studio facility in Sydney and a project finance, mergers and acquisitions advisory service. Kids 5 Lifestyle & Reality 8 Alongside these offerings isFlame Distribution, an international content distribution business with offices in Crime & Justice 19 London, Sydney, Singapore, North America, Greece and The Health & Medical 23 Philippines, and representation in Latin and North America. Flame Distribution represents over 3,000 hours of content from Science & Technology 27 more than 180 independent producers from around the world. Nature & Wildlife 31 We work to maximise the audience and financial returns on Slow TV 38 completed content, assist our producers find co-production opportunities, seek presales and advise on project financing. Documentary 40 The Flame sales team works with buyers across all platforms History 49 to offer a wide range of high-end factual and documentary Food 61 content. Our aim is to deal in a proactive, flexible and professional manner at all times. Travel & Adventure 74 Sport 80 Our team, across the entire Flame Media business, is always available to speak to you about your production or content needs. Arts 83 Best wishes, Adelphi Films 87 Index 90 Contacts 92 John Caldon Managing Director In Development IN DEVELOPMENT IN Dr James and His Bizarre Beasts 6 x 60 min, HD Dr James and His Bizarre Beasts follows an engaging and passionate young Australian vet who runs a specialist exotic and native Australian animal veterinary practice. Each week 28 year-old Dr James Haberfield treats a menagerie of between 100 and 150 animals that includes lizards, snakes, skunks and cockatoos. And this being Australia, James regularly treats some of the most dangerous creatures in the world. The series follows the daily drama of the lives of James, his staff and the pets’ owners and records the highs and lows, tragedies and triumphs of one of the most unusual animal veterinary practices in Australia. Metamorflix for Channel 9 Australia 1 Cave Hunters Soul Sisters Tim Faulkner's The Wild 6 x 43 min, HD/ 4K 10 x 60 min, HD Downunder Cave Hunters follows extreme speleologist Australia’s leading intuitive psychic profiler and 13 x 60 min, HD/ 4K Kieran McKay as he leads a series of her savvy sidekick join forces with the dead Tim Faulkner’s The Wild Downunder throws expeditions to explore ancient cave systems and to solve the problems of the living. Move over viewers into the hectic and passionate world of discover new life forms, the remains of extinct Mulder and Scully, Australia’s answer to a Conservation Crusader Tim Faulkner. We witness species and gain insights into the extraordinary dynamic duo dedicated to the paranormal has what it takes to save Australia’s endangered geology of New Zealand. arrived! species and change its current status of holding Using Lidar technology and with a camera One is a police-trained, straight shooting forensic the world’s worst ranking of animal extinction crew following the expedition through profiler and mentalist who “manages the dead” in recent times. All this whilst running a zoo and treacherous terrain, the explorers’ fear and using her finely tuned psychic ability; the other, being a father and husband. exhilaration are captured as new discoveries her wisecracking business partner who “looks Princess Pictures are revealed. CGI will bring to life the remains after the living”. Together, Julianna and Nicole use of long extinct species hidden from the world their ‘unworldly’ and ‘worldly’ skill base to crack and explain how rarely seen and undiscovered cold cases, counsel CEOs, connect loved ones, life forms exist in the blackness deep beneath and get to the bottom of anything people want the surface. to know - because “nothing is off limits when it Making Movies for Prime TV NZ, Discovery Brazil and comes to consulting a psychic”. ARTE France Delivery October 2019 Flickchicks Productions/ 2018 2 In Production IN PRODUCTION IN IN DEVELOPMENT IN Wonders of the Eastern Australian Current 3 x 60 min, 8K A blue chip natural history series exploring the biology and global significance of the East Australian Current. Shot in 8K using award-winning cinematographers and featuring respected experts, the series aims not only to capture the spectacular beauty of Australia’s east coast, but also to explore the profound importance that all ocean currents have on the lives of people all over the world. Wild Pacific Media for ABC in Australia 3 The Apollo Scandal Colours Luke Nguyen’s Vietnamese 1 x 52 min, HD 5 x 60 min, HD/ 4K Rail Adventures The Apollo Scandal traces the extraordinary Colours is a documentary series exploring the 10 x 30 min, HD immense influence colours have on our lives; story of how a sculpture was smuggled by Acclaimed chef Luke Nguyen takes a ride depending on culture, ethnicity and community, the astronauts on Apollo 15 in 1971 and placed through Vietnam's history on the iconic they are a sign and a stimulus, triggering off on the moon, along with a plaque listing the Reunification Express, which connects the North feelings, bearing open or hidden messages. names of all the previous fallen cosmonauts and of Vietnam with the South - from Hanoi all the astronauts who had died trying to get to the In China, there are five very specific colours way to Ho Chi Minh City. Watch as Luke goes moon. The story was covered up by NASA over resonating with meaning, right through every back to where it all began as he takes us on a the years. layer of traditional and modern life. Using these 10-part journey through rice paddies, dense The documentary casts a new light on the five profoundly influential colours as a guide, jungle, fishing villages and local haunts. A vital Apollo programme and many of those involved, the series takes the audience on a visual and lifeline in war and peace, Vietnam’s 1000-mile while revealing the secret history of Man’s first – cultural journey, with each episode exploring a long North-South Railway provides an all-in-one and so far only – artistic foray to another world. colour revealed in spectacular landscapes, in encounter with the country’s incredible beauty, particular moods, seasons and regions relevant people and history. It will provide first-hand accounts from all of only to that colour. Red Creative Media Pty Ltd for SBS Australia/ Available December 2019 the main protagonists, including spectacular archival footage and some hitherto unseen film Making Movies & Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion for ZDF, CICC & Arte from the late sixties and early seventies. Tinker Group for Canvas TV Belgium 4 NEW Does It Fart? KIDS 10 x 4 min, HD Everybody knows that everybody farts. Kids But do animals? Does It Fart? is the new fun-meets-science kids series that investigates and compares DEVELOPMENT IN all the amazing creatures in our world who pass gas, by bringing together science, entertainment, and humour to provide one smell of a good time. With the help of zoologist Rosie, Jr. scientists and fart fanatics, Ilamaria and Joey set out each episode to discover which animals fart, the biology behind their breaking of wind, and what effect — if any — their flatulence has on the environment and other species. Yellow Bear Studios for CBC Canada/ 2018 5 NEW Apple Tree House Project Planet We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Series 1: 30 x 15 min, HD 8 x 30 min, HD 1 x 30 min, HD Series 2: 30 x 15 min, HD Series 3: 25 x 15 min, HD Project Planet is a new original global TV format Adapted from the much loved International Best for the whole family in which kids empower kids Seller by author Michael Rosen, the animation Catering to a young child’s sense of fun, to make a difference. follows five siblings setting off on an unlikely curiosity and adventure, the storytelling in adventure in search of a bear. Apple Tree House shares valuable life lessons in With our planet standing at a crossroads, responsibility, kindness and being a good friend. communities around the world are feeling the Along their adventure they come up against impact of climate change, and our window to a host of unexpected obstacles. Rising to the The series celebrates diversity through its stop the planet warming is rapidly closing. challenge, the children venture through long portrayal of a vibrant inner-city estate that is wavy grass, thick oozy mud, a big dark forest Enter five young “Waste Warriors”, recruited from bursting with life! It is a place where the whole and a swirling whirling snowstorm. audience will see people they know. three very different schools across Australia, Lupus Films & Walker Productions for Channel 4 UK/ 2016 who are ready to take up the challenge to Available for MENA and Inflight Rights only Join Mali, Sam and Bella as they experience save the earth. Together with their classmates life, have adventures, solve daily problems and and communities they transform their schools’ overcome childhood dilemmas. Each episode relationships with the environment - forever. brings an opportunity for them to have fun and discover something new about contemporary Inspiring and educational, Project Planet is life, all within the safety net of their loving layered with everyday eco tips and hacks, whilst families and the inspirational, supportive offering a little humour into the real life drama community that surrounds them.