The Austrian distributor’s Sales Representative is present at Mipcancun with a slate of new titles, including fiction series and its flagship documentaries, seeking to find new partners and screens in Latin America.
Following a very successful run at Mipcom, ORF Enterprise is now present in Mexico for the current edition of Mipcancun, seeking to further expand the reach of the titles it presented las month in Cannes.
“We have an incredible mixture of programs, from documentaries, real blue chip animal and history documentaries in our brand Universum,” Phoebe Clarke, Sales Representative, ORF Enterprise, said to ttvnews at the event in Mexico.
“We also have amazing fiction. Kafka is one of our top series”, she continued. The series is about Franz Kafka, the world’s most widely read German-language author, who would have died 100 years ago in June 2024. To mark the occasion, Superfilm, in co-production with ORF and ARD with participation of ORF-Enterprise, are producing the six-part mini-series, telling the story of the peculiar twentieth century writer.
One of the areas this series focuses on is in the person that actually “betrays” Kafka, Max Brod, the man that didn’t destroy all of Kafka’s books and his work as the author has asked him to do just before his dead. Brod he published his works, and that is the reason why Kafka is known today.
“Then there’s School of Champions, which has the most incredible pictures”, she highlighted. School of Champions tells the story of a freshman class at Austria’s most renowned and prestigious ski-academy. The graduates of this highly reputable institution regularly dominate the professional skiing world, but at this boarding school of pubescent athletes there is only a thin line between love and jealousy, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and frustration.
“Then we have kids’ programming, music, classical music, cross-over. You have to come and see the ORF programming, it’s not as well known as the BBC but it’s just as good”, she concluded.
