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HIGHLIGHTS 2018/19 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 Wildflame; a footage clipping service; channel sales; a multifunctional, sound-controlled studio facility in Sydney and a project finance, mergers and acquisitions advisory service. In Development 1 Alongside these offerings isFlame Distribution, an In Production 3 international content distribution business with offices in Lifestyle & Reality 5 Sydney, Singapore, Greece, Philippines and London, and representation in Latin and North America. Flame Distribution Crime & Justice 10 represents over 3,000 hours of content from more than Health & Medical 13 180 independent producers from around the world. We Science & Technology 15 work to maximise the audience and financial returns on completed content, assist our producers find co-production Nature & Wildlife 17 opportunities, seek presales and advise on project financing. Documentary 21 The Flame sales team works with buyers across all platforms History 26 to offer a wide range of high-end factual and documentary Food content. Our aim is to deal in a proactive, flexible and 31 professional manner at all times. Travel & Adventure 39 Our team, across the entire Flame Media business, is Sport 43 always available to speak to you about your production Index 45 or content needs. Contacts 48 Best wishes, John Caldon Managing Director Cover image by Andrew Palmer In Development IN DEVELOPMENT IN Cave Hunters 6 x 43 min, HD Cave Hunters follows extreme speleologist Kieran McKay as he leads a series of expeditions to explore ancient cave systems and discover new life forms, the remains of extinct species and gain insights into the extraordinary geology of New Zealand. Using Lidar technology and with a camera crew following the expedition through treacherous terrain, the explorers’ fear and exhilaration are captured as new discoveries are revealed. CGI will bring to life the remains of long extinct species hidden from the world and explain how rarely seen and undiscovered life forms exist in the blackness deep beneath the surface. Making Movies for Prime TV NZ, Discovery Brazil and ARTE France Delivery October 2019 1 The Golf Courses of Great Redneck Psychic Soul Sisters Britain & Ireland 13 x 54 min, HD 10 x 60 min, HD 4 x 60 min, HD/4K Meet Kelley, a psychic medium living with her Australia’s leading intuitive psychic profiler family off the grid in the big Canadian woods. Blending history, nature, and some of the and her savvy sidekick join forces with the In each episode we follow Kelley as she uses biggest names in golf, The Golf Courses of dead to solve the problems of the living. Move her unique ability to help people with their Great Britain & Ireland will showcase the over Mulder and Scully, Australia’s answer to a problems. Whether it's a haunted location or a birthplace of golf in a way never experienced dynamic duo dedicated to the paranormal client in trouble, the audience get a backstage before. Charles Darwin’s grandson, Bernard has arrived! pass into Kelley's unusual line of work. At work Darwin, elevated sports journalism to an art or at play, Kelley, her husband Paul, and their One is a police-trained, straight shooting forensic form. The series takes his 1910 masterpiece, “The friends Deb and Bernard reveal their unique profiler and mentalist who “manages the dead” Golf Courses of the British Isles” and launches it way of life in a truly one of a kind, redneck using her finely tuned psychic ability; the other, into the 21st century, blending Darwin's stirring fashion. Whether you believe in the paranormal her wisecracking business partner who “looks prose, stunning 4K photography and stories and or not, you’re going to have fun. Kelley has after the living”. Together, Julianna and Nicole use analyses from some of the leading figures in found the perfect balance in her life as a their ‘unworldly’ and ‘worldly’ skill base to crack golf today. modern day medium and is finally ready to cold cases, counsel CEOs, connect loved ones, Landmark Media Productions, Title Entertainment & Big Baby share it. and get to the bottom of anything people want Productions for MBS/GAORA Japan to know - because “nothing is off limits when it Clerisy Entertainment comes consulting a psychic”. Flickchicks Productions/ 2018 2 In Production IN PRODUCTION IN The Apollo Scandal 1 x 52 min, HD The Apollo Scandal traces the extraordinary story of how a sculpture was smuggled by the astronauts on Apollo 15 in 1971 and placed on the moon, along with a plaque listing the names of all the previous fallen cosmonauts and astronauts who had died trying to get to the moon. The story was covered up by NASA over the years. The documentary casts a new light on the Apollo programme and many of those involved, while revealing the secret history of Man’s first – and so far only – artistic foray to another world. It will provide first-hand accounts from all of the main protagonists, including spectacular archival footage and some hitherto unseen film from the late sixties and early seventies. Tinker Group for VPRO Netherlands and Canvas TV Belgium Delivery January 2019 3 Heroes Behind The Badge The Sex of Science 3 x 60 min, HD 3 x 60 min, 4K A documentary series featuring some of the brave men and The Sex of Science will be shot in approximately 30 cities on women of law enforcement who put their lives on the line six continents and will address three principal topics: and survived, and those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Is Science Androcentric? explores how and why science is This inspiring series changes the way we look at the men and predisposed toward males and why it is crucial to change women of law enforcement and highlight the acts of bravery that trend. they commit each day in the line of duty. Their stories are powerful, emotional, insightful, and educational. Active duty Where Are All the Girls and Women in Science? follows the police officers, retired officers, and family members of the life of an hypothetical young girl, from birth to late-career fallen, provide audiences with an experience of what it’s in STEM, using real surrogates from around the world to really like to walk the thin blue line. represent her trajectory through pre-school, elementary Wildflame Productions & Modern City Entertainment school, high school, university, early career and onwards. Delivery early 2019 Women in Science: A Global Perspective examines some issues very specific to certain countries and cultures from Japan, where pursuing a scientific career, with its attendant stereotypes, is widely feared by young women as a threat to their love lives, to Algeria, which has one of the highest percentages of women STEM graduates in the world. Title Entertainment Canada-France-South Africa coproduction 4 NEW Start Me Up 6 x 30 min, HD Car-crazy Mike O’Donnell (MOD) and mechanically brilliant Martin Lafferty love cars, and on Start Me Up their mission is simple: find those overlooked, forgotten or abandoned classic cars hidden around the countryside and start them up. But the LIFESTYLE & REALITY odds are stacked against them - these vehicles haven’t run for years. That’s where Martin’s skill with the tools comes in - and MOD’s contacts whom he seeks out for those vital spare parts. The characters MOD meets are classics too - the quirky, interesting ‘shed guys’ with stories to tell and cars to discover. So let’s fuel up, hit the gas and get this show on the road! SMU Media for TVNZ/ 2018 Lifestyle & Reality5 NEW TITLES Frock Finders 6 x 30 min, HD A new series which goes behind the scenes of fashion boutiques capturing the difficult task of buying and selling the perfect dress for pivotal moments in our lives. From cutting edge couture to mother of the bride rig-outs, each boutique has a very different take on ‘style’ and very different customers. Frock Finders captures the story behind each purchase, from the retailers bending over backwards to sell the perfect outfit, through to the special occasion where the dress gets its first outing. Billionaire Wonderland Waddell Media for RTE Ireland/ 2017 5 x 60 min, HD Across five episodes Sherlock star Yasmine Akram visits the very different playgrounds of the super-rich – New York & the Hamptons, the Cote d’Azur, Mallorca & Ibiza, Dubai and Los Angeles. Growing Sense 10 x 23 min, HD There she meets Irish ex-pats who have carved successful careers and made fortunes working in Novice blind gardener Milena teams up with these glittering wonderlands. veteran ecological landscaper Rosmarie to Waddell Media for RTE Ireland/ 2018 build an accessible garden plot, tackle tough landscaping projects, and cultivate a new friendship with a common belief: regardless of challenges, each of us has the power to Eyes for the Job make a positive impact on our own lives and the environment through gardening and Series 1: 13 x 30 min, HD sustainable living. With these two dynamic Series 2: 13 x 30 min, HD women there will always be something new Hosted by do-it-yourself enthusiasts Chris Judge, and exciting cropping up in the garden. Rebekah and Alex, Eyes for the Job shares Tell Tale Productions for AMI Channel Canada/ 2018 DIY projects and home renovations with an accessibility twist. Chris Judge is a blind builder and there’s nothing that he loves more than getting into a workshop and building something. Rebekah and Alex have always loved crafting things, and the workshop has become their outlet to expand that love to larger creations.