Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking with Isidoor Roebers and Lea Fels, partners at Dutch doc producer Scenery, a joint venture with Banijay Benelux that has served up artistic but commercial unscripted projects for everyone from local public broadcaster Npo to Netflix and Prime Video.
Scenery has been one of the Benelux region’s most influential documentary producers for several years, and now it is moving beyond its core Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg operations and into the UK and U.S.
Dutch producer Isidoor Roebers had already launched a company, Fonk Films, but in 2016 teamed with former Vice Media Benelux Head of Production and Head of TV/Editor-in-Chief of Vice TV Lea Fels to create Scenery. The two had met with Roebers was...
Scenery has been one of the Benelux region’s most influential documentary producers for several years, and now it is moving beyond its core Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg operations and into the UK and U.S.
Dutch producer Isidoor Roebers had already launched a company, Fonk Films, but in 2016 teamed with former Vice Media Benelux Head of Production and Head of TV/Editor-in-Chief of Vice TV Lea Fels to create Scenery. The two had met with Roebers was...
- 12/16/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Banijay Benelux joint venture producer Scenery has signed an exclusive partnership deal with the director of the company’s Netflix doc series Human Playground, Tomas Kaan.
He joins the firm, which Banijay Benelux runs as a Jv with producers Lea Fels and Isidoor Roebers, as Creative Producer. He will develop international stories and support other talent to fulfil their own doc plans.
Kaan directed the Idris Elba-narrated Human Playground, a six-part doc series Scenery co-produced with Banijay UK’s Workerbee about the origins and evolutions of the world’s most unique sports for Netflix internationally and Youku in China. He also directed Netflix’s sex line drama Dirty Lines, which was nominated for a Golden Calf.
The Tanzania-born director’s upcoming projects include a collaboration of Luuk Bouwman on The Eighth Continent, a doc series about moon missions.
Tomas Kaan
Fels, Partner at Scenery said: “Tomas is a...
He joins the firm, which Banijay Benelux runs as a Jv with producers Lea Fels and Isidoor Roebers, as Creative Producer. He will develop international stories and support other talent to fulfil their own doc plans.
Kaan directed the Idris Elba-narrated Human Playground, a six-part doc series Scenery co-produced with Banijay UK’s Workerbee about the origins and evolutions of the world’s most unique sports for Netflix internationally and Youku in China. He also directed Netflix’s sex line drama Dirty Lines, which was nominated for a Golden Calf.
The Tanzania-born director’s upcoming projects include a collaboration of Luuk Bouwman on The Eighth Continent, a doc series about moon missions.
Tomas Kaan
Fels, Partner at Scenery said: “Tomas is a...
- 11/17/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Idris Elba is to narrate and exec a high-end Netflix docu-series about the origins and evolutions of some of the most unique sports in the world.
Human Playground will launch later this month from Banijay labels Scenery in the Netherlands and Workerbee in the UK.
Our Planet director Tomas Kaan is aboard the show, which will explore the likes of unique robot camel races in the United Arab Emirates, Big Wave surfing in Nazaré Portugal and Eagle Hunting in Kyrgyzstan.
Luther star Elba is a huge coup for Netflix’s high-end docs offering and the six-parter has long been in the making.
Exec Rick Murray said the show is a “perfect fit” for Elba as narrator and Netflix as commissioner.
“We are delighted to have helped get the project off the ground, the team in Amsterdam are world class and we hope to work with them again in the not-too-distant future,...
Human Playground will launch later this month from Banijay labels Scenery in the Netherlands and Workerbee in the UK.
Our Planet director Tomas Kaan is aboard the show, which will explore the likes of unique robot camel races in the United Arab Emirates, Big Wave surfing in Nazaré Portugal and Eagle Hunting in Kyrgyzstan.
Luther star Elba is a huge coup for Netflix’s high-end docs offering and the six-parter has long been in the making.
Exec Rick Murray said the show is a “perfect fit” for Elba as narrator and Netflix as commissioner.
“We are delighted to have helped get the project off the ground, the team in Amsterdam are world class and we hope to work with them again in the not-too-distant future,...
- 9/21/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Stake
Japan’s biggest film group Toho announced that it has taken a controlling stake in Tia (previously Toho Interactive Animation), a production company behind the “100 Nichikan Ikita Wani,” film and anime series “iii icecrin,” “iii icecrin2” “Ninja Collection” and “That Is the Bottleneck.”
Originally known as I&a, the company was established in 2017 by Ilca and Anima. The name changed to Tia after Toho bought a nearly 35 from the two founders in 2020. Toho has now bought out Anima’s stake, giving it a 67.4 majority holding and cause to rename the company again, this time to Toho Animation Studio. Deal terms were not disclosed.
Keiji Ota, managing executive officer of Toho, in charge of the studio’s video business and digital content division, is to be appointed as president and representative director at Toho Animation Studio.
Toho has been ramping up slowly in animation over the past ten years and...
Japan’s biggest film group Toho announced that it has taken a controlling stake in Tia (previously Toho Interactive Animation), a production company behind the “100 Nichikan Ikita Wani,” film and anime series “iii icecrin,” “iii icecrin2” “Ninja Collection” and “That Is the Bottleneck.”
Originally known as I&a, the company was established in 2017 by Ilca and Anima. The name changed to Tia after Toho bought a nearly 35 from the two founders in 2020. Toho has now bought out Anima’s stake, giving it a 67.4 majority holding and cause to rename the company again, this time to Toho Animation Studio. Deal terms were not disclosed.
Keiji Ota, managing executive officer of Toho, in charge of the studio’s video business and digital content division, is to be appointed as president and representative director at Toho Animation Studio.
Toho has been ramping up slowly in animation over the past ten years and...
- 9/21/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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