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Catalogue Productions for Sale 2013 the Anthill on the Line Catalogue productions for sale 2013 The Anthill On the line Format: Entertainment Format: Docushow (in the can) Duration: 45’ Duration: 24’ Release: For sale / Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and the U.S. Release: For sale / RTP (Rádio e Televisao de Portugal) / Canal Extremadura TV Languages: By country Languages: Spanish / Portuguese Catalogue availability: For sale only in the territories of Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Catalogue availability: For sale Description: Spanish television’s most successful international entertainment format. Description: 39 programmes on the excellent relations between Spain and Portugal told through the stories of border towns in Andalusia, Extremadura, Castilla La Mancha and Galicia. RTVE Advisory Board Finalist. Princes of the road Format: Reality-road film (in the can) The Cemetery Duration: 45 x 24’ (currently producing 26 more episodes) Release: For sale / Channel 13C, Chile Format: Docureality Languages: Spanish Duration: 26’ Catalogue availability: For sale across Europe and the U.S. Release: For sale Description: A group of bikers in South America and Spain leave their professions to travel the world Languages: By country on a motorcycle. From the Pan-American Highway to the USA; from Spain to Eastern Europe; from Catalogue availability: For sale the Silk Road into the beyond. Description: We travel the cemeteries of the world to find out what makes them unique: who is buried there? And what happens at night in row 13 in the Prague Cemetery? Why does no name appear Far from ordinary on that tombstone? Who lies in that mass grave? Amador Format: Docushow 48’ Duration: Format: Adventure show : For sale / in pre-production for La 2, Spain Release Duration: 52’ Spanish Languages: Release: For sale For sale in Latin America Catalogue availability: Languages: Spanish The most famous artists from the worlds of culture in Spain and Latin America open the Description: Catalogue availability: For sale doors to their lives. The format is an adaptation of “Nada Corriente”, which we produced for two years Description: Amador believes in UFOs and claims to have found them. He has invoked spirits and for Canal Extremadura TV. Winner of the RTVE Advisory Board’s “Best Television Programme” award. talked to them too. Amador can be lost in a forest, in the Gobi Desert, on a desert island or a frozen mountain. And yet we know, Amador will always survive. World & Music Villages of Europe Format: Docushow Format: Docutourism (in the can) Duration: 48’ Duration: 4 episodes (x 35’) Release: For sale Release: La 2, Spain / Spanish regional channels / European channels / American channels Languages: Spanish / English Languages: Spanish / English / German / Polish / Italian Catalogue availability: For sale Catalogue availability: For sale Description: We follow the fortunes of buskers in thirteen different countries. Description: A series that takes us through 20 small towns in Spain, Germany, Italy and Poland. What happened here? I, doctor Format: Docushow Format: Docushow Duration: 50’ Duration: 24’ Release: For sale / Castilla La Mancha TV Release: For sale / Canal Sur TV Languages: By country Languages: By country Catalogue availability: For sale in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Catalogue availability: For sale in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Description: There are many places that you pass by every day and which are full of amazing stories. Description: Discover the close relationship that exists between a doctor and his patient when the happiness of the latter de- Concealed behind the façade of a street, a building, a place and even a party. What happened pends on the skill of the former. Major illnesses or minor discomforts, psychological or physical traumas, emotional and moral here? reveals an undiscovered world; and yet, at same time, a world that is right in front of us. conflicts ... all real cases and all have a specialist who is trying to find a solution. Two stories per programme that reveal the reality of a life full of uncertainties for sufferers and their families and, on the other hand, how doctors have the power to restore Diplomatic corps hope and the will to keep fighting. Format: Docushow Duration: 50’ 40 days without sex Release: For sale Languages: By country Format: Docushow Catalogue availability: For sale in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Duration: 50’ Description: They come from far away and from all corners of the Release: For sale world. They represent the millions of foreigners living in the country. Languages: By country They are “the diplomatic corps”. Ambassadors, consuls, foreign min- Catalogue availability: For sale in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. isters, diplomats who have found a new home in a foreign land. Description: A reality show that presents a major challenge for many young people today. Four specially selected candidates will go 40 days without sex in any of its varieties. Young people who sometimes live or have lived just for sex face a personal challenge for which they will need the help of their friends and family to succeed. Therapy, activities, new situations ... these First-person are the moments that will help them discover that not everything in life is about sex. Format: Docushow / paper format Holy Holidays Duration: -- Release: For sale Format: Docushow / paper format Languages: By country Duration: -- Catalogue availability: For sale in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Release: For sale Description: “First Person” is a programme dedicated to getting to know the true face of celebrities, revealing their hidden Languages: By country sides and their best kept secrets in a totally new and original way. “First person” will allow us to better understand the posi- Catalogue availability: For sale in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. tives and negatives of a celebrity and perhaps make us realise that we were wrong about them or, on the other hand, reaf- Description: A docushow that draws on the essence of a number of currently popular pro- firm all our preconceptions. In every programme, we send one famous person and three journalists from celebrity maga- grammes focusing on people who visit distant countries in order to learn about how their zines to spend a weekend together alone in a house. During this time, the journalists are required to find out as much citizens live. This time the programme’s reporters set out to discover the vacation destinations information as they can about the celebrity in question because, after the weekend is up, they will be required to write of these citizens: both those that change often as well as the regular favourites. Where they the biography of their famous subject during the following week. When the biography is finished, the celebrity will read it go and why, what they find there that they cannot do in other places, what connects them to and give his or her opinion about it: in other words, whether it is an ‘authorized’ biography or an ‘UNauthorized’ biography. the place and what are the differences, especially with respect to their own home countries. Proud of you Roman Roads in Europe: Ruta Vía de la Plata Format: Docushow / paper format Format: Docutourism / historical (in the can) Duration: -- Duration: 5 x 35’ Release: For sale Release: For sale / La 2, Spain / regional Spanish channels / European channels / Japanese channels Languages: by country Languages: Spanish / German / English / Japanese / Italian Catalogue availability: For sale in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Catalogue availability: For sale / view sample Description: Coaching scenario in which we put someone who has overcome a difficult situation in contact with Description: We follow the Antonine Itinerary from Seville to Astorga. Then we travel secondary roads someone who is currently in the same situation. With the help of his experience, his advice, his work, the per- until we arrive in Gijón, a historical milestone in the Bay of Biscay. son who is experiencing a hard time will achieve success. The person in need will receive the help of this tu- tor over the course of a month. This person will become his life coach. Not a conventional coach, but rather a coach whose unique (and most important) qualification is that he has successfully coped with a similar situation. Rural Tourism in Europe Format: Docutourism (in the can) Moments in common Duration: 30 x 7’ Release: Regional channels / European channels Format: Docushow / paper format Languages: Spanish / German / English / Portuguese Duration: -- Catalogue availability: For sale Release: For sale Description: We review the tourism offerings of several European regions, from heritage to rural tour- Languages: By country ism, through their gastronomic or leisure offerings. This work is sold as fillers for TV. Catalogue availability: For sale in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Description: The programme offers viewers the chance to see the same situation as it is experienced by six different people in six different circumstances and in six different places. We discover how, Legendary Hotels despite the personal and social differences, a single moment can unite people emotionally. Format: Documentary (in the can) Duration: 13 x 26’ Release: For sale / BTV Bulgaria / Fox Finland Languages: English Miscellaneous reports Catalogue availability: For sale in Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and the United States. Description: We show thirteen hotels in thirteen different countries. We review each hotel’s unique Format: Reportage (in the can) history, its illustrious clients and, in many cases, we discover that European history was written in the Duration: 48’ rooms of such hotels as the Dolder Grand in Zurich or Munich’s Bayerischer Hof. Release: For sale Languages: Spanish / German / English Catalogue availability: For sale 27 days in Europe Description: More than 100 reports on topics as diverse as Format: Docushow / paper format the daily hardships of the homeless, alcohol problems in Duration: 27 x 26’ our society, GM food and organic food, the world of pros- Release: For sale titution, the business of the middlemen or life in the Saha- Languages: English rawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria).
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