Off the Fence unveiled a new slate of nature content

Off The Fence recently showcased its slate of premium factual content focusing on issues related to the earth, set to be produced in partnership with various nature programmers. “When OTF started out, our focus on natural history and the environment was considered a bit eccentric — and certainly a bit niche. Now, nearly 20 years later, the world has caught up with us, and demand for the genre is fast outstripping supply," Loren Baxter, OTF’s head of acquisitions, said. 

Headlining the slate are two ambitious projects in collaboration with EarthxTV, the production arm of the non-profit environmental forum that seeks sustainable solutions to the most urgent environmental challenges. The first, "The Future From Above" (4 x 60 mins), is a co-production between OTF Studios, Sky, EarthxTV, Korean TV Channel, ENA(KT Skylife TV), and Borderless Lab, with funding from Korean Communications Agency, KCA.

The second OTF/EarthxTV co-production is "Ocean Mysteries," an eight-part show featuring Tom ‘The Blowfish’ Hird, whose recent television projects include Fishing Impossible for the BBC. In his new series, the marine biologist, scuba diver, and wildlife expert combines stunts and pop-science demos with stunning natural history footage and engaging analogies to unravel the mysteries behind a colorful cast of ocean creatures. Oceans cover 70% of the Earth’s surface, contain 90% of the planet’s living biomass, produce more oxygen than all the world’s forests, and absorb around 30% of global carbon dioxide though 95% of our oceans remain unexplored.

"Wild Hope,"  produced by the award-winning, science-focused impact studio HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and Part2 Pictures in a co-production with Wild Elements, is an eight-part acquisition that offers more optimism by profiling everyday people, conservationists, and scientists who are restoring and protecting our planet. Set across the world’s most beautifully exotic—and surprisingly familiar—places, each episode will inspire audiences with stories of intrepid changemakers and surprising allies who are tackling the threats to our wild creatures and habitats.

Another upbeat vision of the future is provided by The Endangered Generation (working title), which comes to OTF via a new producer relationship with Australia’s "Sweetshop & Green." The new feature documentary, narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Laura Dern (Jurassic Park), challenges the myth that our world is fundamentally driven by selfishness and competition. Instead, scientists, artists, and First Nation leaders explore the deep connections that bind us all to life, our world — and one another."Meanwhile, we’ve spent those 20 years forging partnerships with the world’s best producers of natural-history content, which means we’re in a uniquely strong position to meet that demand with balanced, accurate, and informative programming about the climate emergency and what we can do to mitigate it," Baxter said. "These are powerful films that tackle the greatest threat to human survival, but in a way that encourages action rather than fear and despair. We’re very proud to bring them to the world.”