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Press Release from Imira Entertainment
Barcelona, 10 May 2011: Imira Entertainment, Spain’s leading production and distribution company specialising in youth programming, has signed a number of deals across its portfolio in Latin America, with sales to Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador.
In Brazil, Imira-produced animated preschool duo Vitaminix (104X2´) and Saari (39X3´) have sold to free TV channel Canal Futura, with another free TV channel, TV Cultura, picking up the first season of live action show Wicked Science (26x26’) produced by Jonathan M. Shiff Productions, FFC, Film Victoria, Network Ten and ZDF Enterprises. Wicked Science has also sold to Canal 7 in Argentina which acquired all 52x26’ episodes of the series alongside Corneil & Bernie (52X13´) from Millimages.
In further deals, Imira has scored sales in Ecuador with free TV broadcaster RTV picking up the Millimages series Bugged (52X7´) and Breakthrough Entertainment’s Dino Dan (52X11´+ 1X22).
Christophe Goldberger, Head of Distribution and Marketing at Imira Entertainment said: “We have focused on building relationships in Latin America for several years and these deals show how the region has become a key market for our wide-ranging catalogue.”
Barcelona, Madrid and Vitoria based Imira Entertainment (
www.imiraentertainment.com ) is a producer and distributor of top quality youth programs. It creates innovative content for kids with strong editorial lines, and a universal appeal. Its productions incorporate the latest technologies as properties are developed for cross media exploitation (TV, video, licensing, merchandising, mobile phones and publishing). Imira Entertainment distributes a catalogue of over 4,000 half hours of premium kids programs, including animated feature films.
