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Ceska Televize, more international
At recent Mipcom in Cannes, Ceska Televize, International department, organized a cocktail at its booth to stress its international expansion. There were traditional Czech food and a good presence of buyers and industry members, from different territories.Lubos Kriz, international manager at Ceska: ‘The last three years we have significantly invested on developing our international market, enriching our product portfolio and attending main content shows. Our sales are growing and more countries now consider us as a good partner for business. Apart from sales, we are interested in co-production projects’.
‘We are recognized in the market about detective stories, fairly tales, documentaries, animation and different types of product for Children. We represent a good variety of Czech producers, which assures us a varied portfolio, combining good quality production with fresh ideas and smart plots. Our sales are mainly in Europe but we have very good potential worldwide, for any region’.
Ceska Televize has an alliance for instance with Slovakia TV (STV) the public TV channels group of Slovakia. They generate co-production projects and different synergies to each other. Kriz: ‘We have lots of good things to do within the international market. While we evolve, new opportunities appear. Central Europe is consolidated as a content hub for the world and Czech Republic in particular, has a long tradition in high quality production’.
Some of the products introduced by the company at Mipcom were Film American letters, centered in the life of the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák; the crime miniseries The Case of the Exorcist, a three-part story inspired by the British literary and film traditions; and Crime Scene: Pilsen which aspires to attract the viewer by a sequence of crime episodes interconnected by the environment in which they happen.
Among new documentaries were My Efforts to make a Masterpiece, a devoted to classical music, and The Artistic Confessions, about prominent Czech artists. It was also promoting the modern crime series The Labyrinth, inspired in a Nordic story; The Gorilla Stories, a loose continuation of the animal tales collection, and Nature News, offering interesting facts about wild life and nature. And at least but not last, the classical puppet film The Little Man.