Autentic Distribution, the sales division of the factual label Autentic, has secured the global rights to a stand-alone documentary “Corona Diaries” focusing on personal fates during the coronavirus pandemic.
The title (1x43’, 1x52’, 1x90’) traces 30 days of the pandemic using material filmed by protagonists around the world with their mobile phones. The documentary is an authentic portrayal of different personal fates in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic – whether of a nurse in Spain, a girl in a refugee camp in Greece or a student in China, a construction worker in India or a delivery boy in New York.
The doc is produced by Berlin Producers for Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle and the acquisition marks another collaboration between Berlin Producers and Autentic Distribution.
HIGH SUCCESS OF “BERLIN 1945”
The factual distributor is also celebrating the high ratings success of the premiere of “Berlin 1945” on French-German broadcaster Arte, which was immensely well-received by critics in Germany.
The French-German channel aired Volker Heise’s World War II series “Berlin 1945” about the last moments of the metropolis before its liberation by the Allied forces on May 8th and scored an excellent market share of 1.9% for the first episode and 3.2% for the second episode. The groundbreaking historical series has captured up to 1.4 million viewers (part 1: 650,000 viewers; part two: 800,000 viewers) with never before seen archival footage.
“Berlin 1945” is produced by zero one film in co-production with bauderfilm, Rundfunk BerlinBrandenburg (rbb), in cooperation with Arte, funded by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. Autentic Distribution is in charge of the worldwide distribution of the docuseries, which comes as a 3×50’ series, a 2×90’ series and a 1×180’ special.