Off the Fence Media (OTF) has announced a set of partnerships with WildbearEntertainment and...
Off the Fence Media (OTF) has announced a set of partnerships with Wildbear Entertainment and Enderley Pictures as well as closing its first deal with premium factual specialist Afanti Media.
Under the new partnership with Welsh production company Afanti Media, which produces more than 180 hours of premium content a year for broadcasters including the BBC andS4C and OTF is launching Dark Waters (1 x 60 mins/1 x 90 mins) at MIPCOM. The in-production documentary for S4C and BBC Wales will deliver in January 2026, just ahead of the 30-year anniversary of the Sea Empress oil disaster in 1996, which disgorged 72,000 tonnes of crude oil off the coast of Wales. Using cutting-edge CGI from, the team behind Drain the Oceans powerful testimony and rare archive footage, Dark Waters combines the pace of a disaster thriller with the urgency of investigative journalism to unravel the truth behind one of the world’s most devastating oil spills.
Enderley Pictures, best known for its bingeable, stranger-than-fiction and true-crime titles, has awarded OTF the rights to its upcoming docuseries Staged: Deadly Deceptions (10 x 60 mins), which has been pre-sold to Hears’s A+E. The new series, to be delivered in 2026, examines cases that look like straightforward accidents, suicides or random acts of violence — until investigators start pulling at the seams and the carefully constructed cover stories unravel. Blending cinematic reconstructions, archive footage and harrowing first-hard accounts, the 10-part series allows audiences to play detective as hidden motives, false narratives and chilling betrayals come to light.
Other documentaries already on OTF’s slate from Enderley include Forging Fate: The Disappearing Art Deal (1 x 60 mins), which chronicles Inigo Philbrick’s journey from respected art dealer to notorious swindler; The Amazon Review Killer (2 x 60 mins), which tells the story of Todd Kohlhepp, whose 13-year killing spree was uncovered when investigators followed a ‘digital breadcrumb trail’ of 140 Amazon reviews; and The Sex Trafficker’s Wife (2 x 60 mins), which centres on a woman whose perfect life unravels when her husband it arrested for soliciting minors — including their own children — and running an underground sex-trafficking operation.
OTF’s MIPCOM 2025 headliners also include the second season of Wild Battleground (4 x 60 mins), produced by Australian integrated factual company Wildbear Entertainment. Originally produced for RTL Germany, the new series focuses on ‘nature’s ultimate warzones’ — those natural battlegrounds where the wild animals meet and clash in their struggle for survival. Through the metaphor of military strategy, each episode examines the tactics employed by both predator and prey, from communication through camouflage to combat. OTF also represented the first series of Wild Battleground, produced in 2023, which sold to broadcasters around the world, including Hearst (US), Blue Ant Media (UK, Eire, Australia and New Zealand), Knowledge Network (Canada), Viasat World, Mediaset (Italy), SVT (France), RTVE (Spain) and Discovery (India).
Loren Baxter, VP of acquisitions at OTF said: We’re thrilled to be back in Cannes this year, reaffirming our position in the market as part of the World Storytelling Media Group. As we continue to grow, we’re proud to strengthen our collaborations with key producers in the factual content space. A heartfelt thank you to our incredible partners for their trust and support as we embark on this exciting new chapter alongside our sister company, Insight TV.”
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Off The Fence (OTF), the Academy Award-winning independent producer anddistributor, has closed a...
Off The Fence (OTF), the Academy Award-winning independent producer and distributor, has closed a volume deal with Prime Video Germany for its streaming service in a deal that was brokered by OTF sales executive Klara van Doorn.
The package, which spans nature, wildlife, lifestyle and crime titles, includes two feature documentaries that will be territory premieres: the multiple award-winning films Silverback and We Are Guardians.
Acclaimed conservation documentary Silverback, which follows wildlife cameraman Vianet Djenguet on a mission to protect the Democratic Republic of Congo’s critically endangered eastern lowland gorillas, has recently added an Outstanding Nature Documentary Emmy nomination to its rollcall of honours.
The 90-minute film, produced by otf studios, the BBC, France Télévisions, and Featuristic Film, has scooped a string of awards since it premiered on the BBC in 2023, including Best Science and Natural History Documentary at the Grierson Awards, and a trio of Jackson Wild Media Awards: The Grand Teton Award; the People & Nature, Long Form Award; and the On-Screen Personality Award for Vianet Djenguet. And the accolades keep coming: Silverback has already bagged nominations this year for the Banff World Media Festival’s Rockie Awards and the
RTS Programme Awards.
We Are Guardians, produced by Mídia Indígena, One Forest, Highly Flammable, Random Good and Appian Way, addresses arguably our planet’s most urgent environmental crisis — the destruction of the Amazon rainforest — through the lens of Brazil’s indigenous ‘forest guardians’, who are fighting valiantly to protect their ancestral lands from deforestation. Five years in the making, the 90-minute documentary has won several prestigious awards since it launched in 2024 on Netflix Latin America, including the Cinema for Peace Green Film Award, the Jackson Wild Impact Award, the Best Documentary Award at Raindance Film Festival, and the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Mostra São Paulo International Film Festival.
Oliver Taprogge, OTF’s head of sales and strategic partnerships said: “We’re proud to be collaborating with Prime Video for the German premieres of We Are Guardians and Silverback. Amazon’s commitment to bold, high-quality storytelling, and its ability to connect audiences at scale, makes it the ideal home for two award winning titles that spark both emotion and conversation.’
Among the titles included in the package are The Secrets to Civilization (3 x 60 mins), which looks at next-generation science and planet data that are changing our understanding of the ancient past; true-crime special Forging Fate: The Disappearing Art Dealer (1 x 60 mins); Go Gently With Bonnie Wright (6 x 60 mins), which accompanies the Harry Potter actress and environmental activist on a spirited road trip along the US West Coast; and two series of Ocean Wonders (16 x 30 mins), fronted by heavy-metal marine biologist Tom ‘the Blowfish’ Hird.
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We are deligted to share that We Are Guardian is set for thretrical release in the US by Area23a....
We are deligted to share that We Are Guardian is set for thretrical release in the US by Area23a. Beginning on June 6 in LA, followed by a nationwide 50-city tour.
This powerful documentary, produced by Fisher Stevens & Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene, & Rob Grobman see the Indigenous forest guardians fend off the incessant encroachment of illegal loggers and invaders, a global story erupts entwining science, politics and ultimately the fate of the Amazon rainforest.
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This film will also premier on Amazon in June in Germany and the UK - watch for further announcements.
For more details or to screen this show, visit the programme page.
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We’re thrilled to announce that You Need This will be premiering at CPH:DOX this Sunday!...
We’re thrilled to announce that You Need This will be premiering at CPH:DOX this Sunday! 📅
Join us for an unforgettable cinematic experience as this powerful film takes the spotlight at one of the world’s leading documentary festivals. The buzz is building fast, and we're honoured that the film also has in-depth articles in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter 🎉