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  • GoQuest Media secures sales for two titles in Eastern Europe

    GoQuest Media secures sales for two titles in Eastern Europe

    Mumbai: Global independent content distributor GoQuest Media has secured sales for two titles in Eastern Europe.

    TV3 Group, a leading media house in the Baltics has acquired linear and on-demand rights for Go3, and Slovenian multimedia company Pro Plus has acquired SVOD rights for its digital platform Voyo to the award-winning crime thriller “Rats.” It is created and written by Czech screenwriter Miro Šifra (Rédl) and directed by multi-Viktor Tauš of production company Heaven’s Gate and Matěj Chlupáček (Terapie) of Barletta Productions in association with Czech TV and MD4.

    Pro Plus has also acquired the TV and SVOD rights to “Civil Servant,” a Serbian spy thriller produced by Telekom Srbija and Film Danas. It is created and produced by Predrag Antonijevic and directed by Miroslav Lekic and Ivan Zivkovic. Season three of the show is currently in production and set to air on Superstar TV (Serbia) in Spring 2022.

    “We are proud to partner with these renowned companies and bring these gripping stories to audiences in Latvia and Slovenia,” said GoQuest Media CEO Vivek Lath. “When we chose Rats and Civil Servant for our catalogue, we knew they would travel well – both are strong, universally relatable, and highly entertaining stories set against some never before seen backdrops. Both series have characters suited for co-viewing and work wonderfully for a multi-screen audience.”

  • SBS inks deal with GoQuest Media to air Czech crime thriller in Australia

    SBS inks deal with GoQuest Media to air Czech crime thriller in Australia

    Mumbai: Global independent content distributor GoQuest Media on Tuesday announced that it has concluded an exclusive deal with Australian national pubcaster SBS. The deal sees SBS acquiring the AVOD rights for the Czech crime thriller ‘Rats’.

    The fact-based drama was aired in 2020, during primetime on Ceska televize to unprecedented critical acclaim and multi-generational rating success. Made in collaboration with the National Anti-Drug Centre of the Czech Republic (DEA), Rats is created and written by Czech screenwriter Miro Šifra (Rédl) and directed by Viktor Tauš (Vodnik, Clownwise, Dom) of production company Heaven’s Gate and Matěj Chlupáček (Terapie) of Barletta Productions, in association with Czech TV and MD4. 

    Boasting a stellar Czech cast including Cyril Dobrý, Lenka Krobotová, Václav Neužil, and new-comer Miloslav Pechácek, Rats has won the Czech Lions and Czech Film Critics’ Awards in 2021 for Best TV series and was nominated at the International Zurich Film Festival and Serial Killer (festival).

    SBS On Demand, channel manager, Haidee Ireland said “Rats is a thrilling and stylish series, and we are excited to have it join our collection of world-class dramas from all over the world, handpicked and curated for local audiences on SBS On Demand.”

    Commenting on the deal, GoQuest Media, VP – sales & acquisitions, Jimmy George added, “We are delighted to have SBS introducing Rats to Australian audiences. The series has a one-of-a-kind approach to the traditional worldview of drugs both in terms of its protagonist’s story as well as the physical world it is set in. This is a new and extremely interesting universe that viewers will be introduced to, and we can promise they won’t be disappointed.”

  • GoQuest Media signs international distribution rights for RATS

    GoQuest Media signs international distribution rights for RATS

    MUMBAI: Global independent content distributor GoQuest Media has partnered with Czech production company Heaven’s Gate to take the international distribution rights for the gripping crime thriller RATS (6 x 55') – a bold, hard-hitting drama about the Czech drug trade.

    Based on true stories and made in collaboration with the national anti-drug centre of the Czech Republic (DEA), RATS was created and written by talented young Czech screenwriter Miro Šifra (Rédl) and directed by multi-award-winning Viktor Tauš (Vodnik, Clownwise, Dom) of Heaven’s Gate and Matěj Chlupáček (Terapie) of Barletta productions in association with Czech TV and MD4. RATS aired in spring 2020, during primetime on Ceska Televize to unprecedented critical acclaim and multi-generational ratings success.

    RATS is set in the evolving world of the Czech-Vietnamese meth syndicates which are led by an immigrant mafia, funded by cryptocurrency and monitored by the DEA, who have to change their traditional tactics in order to adapt to the new order.  But change begets mistakes, which often cost lives and nobody wants to end up as a rat for the DEA, but David (Cyril Dobrý) didn’t have a choice.  After cracking under the interrogation of Major Jan Blažek (Václav Neužil), spilling the secrets of the syndicate and betraying his best friend, becoming an informant might be his best chance to survive.

    Only now he’s being targeted by the police and the mafia, with only the ambitious police analyst Petra Vávrová (Lenka Krobotová) to back him up.  In a world where nobody trusts him and he can trust nobody, David is learning to make up the rules as he goes along.

    Boasting a stellar Czech cast including Cyril Dobrý (Das Boot, Ulice) Lenka Krobotová (Díra u Hanušovic), Václav Neužil (Bába z ledu) and new-comer Miloslav Pechácek, RATS will screen at numerous festivals this autumn including Serial Killer, Odessa and the International Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) where it has been nominated for the Golden Eye for Best International TV Series.

    GoQuest Media Europe and north America head Paula McHarg said, “From the first frame of RATS until its gripping conclusion we were nothing short of transfixed.  Globally launching such an outstanding series from a region that’s currently bubbling over with potential is truly an honor and we have no doubt that the international marketplace will respond with as much enthusiasm as we have.”

    Heaven's Gate CEO Viktor Taus added, “I believe that part of the reason for the global resonance is, paradoxically, the local specificity.  Besides its thrilling content, a crime mini-series in 2020 also has to be an authentic report of the state of the world when the story takes place.  RATS is like that.  This is the world we live in.  I’ve never met with such a deep interest to understand the story, its heroes, and the meaning of the storytelling visuality as with Paula and her team at GoQuest Media.  Through them RATS has been awarded a distributor with the same passion as the team we told the story with.”