Following its recent acquisition by Germany’s Night Train Media, Ecco Rights will hold a pre-Mipcom 2022 Upfront in Turkey, exclusively for clients, to celebrate its 10th anniversary and unveil new Turkish dramas such as Hear Me and Golden Boy.

The distribution company Eccho Rights, formerly part of the Korean media group CJ ENM, was acquired a few months ago by Night Train Media, a German company focused on investing on and co-producing audiovisual content.

On its tenth anniversary, and with this renewed strength, Eccho Rights aims to surprise the international market at Mipcom 2022 with new titles and new seasons of successful Turkish dramas, as well as productions from its UK branch.

But Eccho Rights’s celebration will begin prior to Cannes, with a spectacular Upfront to be held on the weekend of October 14-16, exclusively for clients, where the company will present its new titles.

Barbora Suster, Sales & Acquisition Director for Latin America and Iberia, comments on these and other new developments in an interview with ttvnews.

A few months ago, the acquisition of Eccho Rights by Night Train Media was announced. How will the two companies work together? Night Train Media is a German company that is focused on co-production and development, and we are now looking for a common strategy. The idea is to complement each other in the development of new projects. We will have more funds to invest in co-productions and then we will try to distribute everything that is produced jointly.

How is Eccho Rights preparing for Mipcom 2022? The weekend before Mipcom we will be hosting an event in Istanbul, which we have already done in previous years, so our clients can join us. It’s an Upfront-type event, where we’re going to be presenting our entire line-up, but in a setting a bit more informal than the usual Cannes meetings. We will be celebrating Eccho Rights’ 10th anniversary on Saturday night and on Sunday we are all going to Cannes.

What new titles will be presented at the Upfront? At the Upfront we will present the same titles we are taking to Mipcom, mainly our line-up of Turkish telenovelas. We are coming with two or three new titles and two or three new seasons of returning shows, as well as European productions from our London branch. We expect to add more and more UK productions to our catalog, which gives us more breadth and level in terms of connections and clients.

Which are the Turkish dramas? One of them is Hear Me, a series that started in the summer and is doing very well, with more than 10 episodes aired. It’s about students at a very successful private school, so it’s aimed at a younger audience. Not only do we see the problems of the students, but also those of the adults.

And then the brand new one that was released a few weeks ago is Golden Boy, a family saga. It’s about a son of a very rich family who has an agreement to marry a girl from another family of a lesser economic standing. The father of this family has two daughters, and they have an agreement to marry the older daughter, but when the groom decides to marry the younger one, a family rivalry is created.

What other titles will you be bringing to Cannes? Apart from the big Turkish productions that we will be presenting, I would like to highlight the series that are returning, such as Legacy, which is back with its third season, and Chrysalis, also returning for a third season. Both are very successful titles, not only in Turkey, but internationally, and hopefully the third seasons will bring new interested customers.