FilmRise includes over 200 hours of Black-led content to its catalogue

The production and distribution company has acquired titles from National Black Television Media’s library for the U.S., Bermuda, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean.

21 MAR 2023
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“Arnold’s Caribbean Pizza”

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FilmRise has acquired the exclusive rights in all media to over 200 hours of content from National Black Television Media’s library to represent them in the U.S., Bermuda, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean. In addition to linear, TVOD, SVOD and AVOD, FilmRise to create, curate and distribute programs as single series FAST channels.

The deal features 331 episodes across 14 series including “Love That Girl,” starring Tatiyana Ali, Mark Adair-Rios and Bresha Webb; “Arnold’s Caribbean Pizza,” and “Talk It Up". Three films are also included in the deal, the action, comedy “Cop and a Badman,” “Gangsta’s Paradise,” and “Rude Boy The Jamaican Don.”

Max Einhorn, SVP of Acquisitions & Co-Productions for FilmRise states, “This deal with National Black Television Media significantly adds to our free offering of Black-led content. We are excited to add this programming to our diverse library of content, especially featuring it on FilmRise Black TV and associated branded FAST channel, which offers the widest library of free content for African-American audiences.”

Trenten Gumbs, Partner at NBT continues, “We are excited to have our programming become part of the FilmRise Streaming Network ecosystem. It is important that we offer audiences the option to watch our content via many different avenues – including AVOD and FAST.”