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  • Goquest Media Ventures picks up drama content from China, Thailand, Taiwan

    Goquest Media Ventures picks up drama content from China, Thailand, Taiwan

    MUMBAI:  Independent content distributor GoQuest Media Ventures announced a raft of new acquisitions from China, Thailand and Taiwan. 

    Collaborating with leading Chinese streaming platform iQiyi, GoQuest Media has secured the rights for Vietnam to the epic drama series Tang Dynasty Tour (36 x 45’).  The costume drama, an iQiyi Original directed by Zhu Dong-Ning and produced by Gordon Chan revolves around Yun Ye, who one night falls asleep and wakes amid the opulent brickwork of an ancient Tang Dynasty palace.  Yun soon meets the troubled Li Anlan, a Tang princess disowned for being born out of wedlock.  Spurred to life by survival and his desire to stay at Li’s side, he embarks on a series of adventures ranging from hysterical to heart-wrenching.

    Entering the Asian drama space, GoQuest Media is also pleased to announce the acquisition of content through its Vietnam office, headed by Harshad Wadadekar, general manager – distribution business.  These include the rights for Vietnam to series such as Blind Date which is the Chinese remake of Dori Media’s hit romantic scripted comedy Ciega A Citas, An Oriental Odyssey, The Lost Swordship, Mr Swimmer, Legend of S. Fire Walker from Media Culture Ltd, Hongkong, The Masked Lover, Behind Your Smile, Swimming Battle, Home Sweet Home, Between from nationwide cable TV network Sanlih E-Television, Taiwan and A Billion Love Game, and Chaoweha from Thailand’s True4U.  

    Commenting on the acquisitions, GoQuest Media MD Vivek Lath said, “It is a privilege to be offering viewers in Vietnam great content homegrown in Asia and providing the ever-challenging TV market with good quality programming.  There is huge potential for Asian content and we strongly believe that shows such as these will be well received.'

  • GoQuest Media to globally distribute Cinema Vision content

    MUMBAI: GoQuest Media Ventures, a distributor of international content to television channels and digital platforms, has joined hands with Cinema Vision India (CVI) promoted by Siddharth Kak to facilitate distribution of content globally.

    Cinema Vision India has made some of the most iconic and popular Television shows which includes Surabhi, Bhoomi, Colours of India and India Dhanush.

    GoQuest is all set to showcase a plethora of CVI’s content in MIPTV. All of these will serve as an introduction to India’s culture in one single space.

    Through this partnership between the two, they plan to reach millions of viewers across the world to rediscover India in all its rich diversity of music, dance, art, history, customs and lifestyle in a contemporary format. With one of the new age content distributors taking on to disseminate Indian cultural content at a global level, this is going to be an unforgettable voyage of a Cultural Discovery of India. We hope your quest for knowing the Indian cultural content will be met here.

    “Cinema Vision India is excited to team up with GoQuest. We are confident that the team will give us great audiences for our programs. Through this collaboration we plan to open more avenues towards disseminating Indian culture on a global platform,” says Cinema Vision India producer and presenter Siddharth Kak.

    “We are excited to be working with CVI on such a huge catalogue of programming, showcasing the cultural and natural heritage of India. It gives us immense pride to take this content to the worldwide markets for distribution,” says GoQuest Media Ventures managing director Vivek Lath.

  • GoQuest to present its formats at MIPCOM 2016

    GoQuest to present its formats at MIPCOM 2016

    MUMBAI: GoQuest Formats, a non-fiction and fiction formats subsidiary of GoQuest Media Ventures- a global multi -platform for content syndication, distribution & production, is keeping up to its promise made at MIPTV 2016 to various global clients that GoQuest will be producing pilots of its 2 formats and presenting it at MIPCOM 2016.  

    The formats are:

    Ultimate Cinderella: A life makeover show, this unique TV program gives a second chance to deserving women changing their lives forever.

    Friends ForNever:  An exhilarating quiz game show where best friends go at each-other for a cash prize.

    This has come on the back of its having generated considerable interest on its paper formats from the participants at MIPTV 2016. This was announced by Vivek Lath, Managing Director and founder of GoQuest Media. The international pilots of the formats have been developed to showcase the novelty and entertainment factor in these FORMATS. The paper format of these shows received great response from participants from China, Greece, France, Germany, Turkey and UAE.

    GoQuest Formats will be presenting three more formats at MIPCOM:

    Sing-A-Songwriter– A unique singing reality show which wraps all the aspects of a song i.e. singing, songwriting and composing into one super music reality format. On Sing-A-Songwriter, every song is a new song.

    Dinner Karaoke: A fun weekend format which searches for a Karaoke star among regular restaurant diners.

    Kitchen 50: 50: A cooking show where two cooks who know each other in real life go against each other in a cook off to win a 10,000 dollar prize.

    All the formats have been designed to elicit a lot of excitement and drama for the viewer’s globally. Ease in execution is another advantage for broadcasters looking to produce these formats.

    Vivek Lath further adds GoQuest has collaborated with vibrant creators from Europe and North America to come up with ideas that have global resonance and cuts across various genres of Reality TV. GoQuest is approaching MIPCOM with an expectation to not only earn a name for itself in the FORMAT space with its offering but also to soak-in the latest trends and the current needs to help our creators and collaborators to continually develop more exciting options in the future”

  • GoQuest to present its formats at MIPCOM 2016

    GoQuest to present its formats at MIPCOM 2016

    MUMBAI: GoQuest Formats, a non-fiction and fiction formats subsidiary of GoQuest Media Ventures- a global multi -platform for content syndication, distribution & production, is keeping up to its promise made at MIPTV 2016 to various global clients that GoQuest will be producing pilots of its 2 formats and presenting it at MIPCOM 2016.  

    The formats are:

    Ultimate Cinderella: A life makeover show, this unique TV program gives a second chance to deserving women changing their lives forever.

    Friends ForNever:  An exhilarating quiz game show where best friends go at each-other for a cash prize.

    This has come on the back of its having generated considerable interest on its paper formats from the participants at MIPTV 2016. This was announced by Vivek Lath, Managing Director and founder of GoQuest Media. The international pilots of the formats have been developed to showcase the novelty and entertainment factor in these FORMATS. The paper format of these shows received great response from participants from China, Greece, France, Germany, Turkey and UAE.

    GoQuest Formats will be presenting three more formats at MIPCOM:

    Sing-A-Songwriter– A unique singing reality show which wraps all the aspects of a song i.e. singing, songwriting and composing into one super music reality format. On Sing-A-Songwriter, every song is a new song.

    Dinner Karaoke: A fun weekend format which searches for a Karaoke star among regular restaurant diners.

    Kitchen 50: 50: A cooking show where two cooks who know each other in real life go against each other in a cook off to win a 10,000 dollar prize.

    All the formats have been designed to elicit a lot of excitement and drama for the viewer’s globally. Ease in execution is another advantage for broadcasters looking to produce these formats.

    Vivek Lath further adds GoQuest has collaborated with vibrant creators from Europe and North America to come up with ideas that have global resonance and cuts across various genres of Reality TV. GoQuest is approaching MIPCOM with an expectation to not only earn a name for itself in the FORMAT space with its offering but also to soak-in the latest trends and the current needs to help our creators and collaborators to continually develop more exciting options in the future”

  • GoQuest Media brings Croatian romance drama to Africa

    GoQuest Media brings Croatian romance drama to Africa

    MUMBAI: India based worldwide television content sales agency, GoQuest Media is living up to its name of bringing exciting dramas of various genres to its clients worldwide. 

    A recent development in this regard is Lara’s Choice, a popular Croatian romance drama that has landed in Africa following a deal for the English speaking territories in Africa between GoQuest Media and Beta Films, the global drama and formats distributor.

    Lara’s Choice is a story about the choice of a woman between two men, the choice between career and family, loyalty, and the battle for survival. The show’s 50th episode was viewed by a record-breaking 1.2 million viewers in Croatia.

    GoQuest has been committed to bringing variety to its content offerings to the television and digital platforms in Africa.

    “In the past we have licensed one of the best Turkish dramas to Africa. With the evolving market, more opportunities will arise for Eastern European dramas and a series like Lara’s choice will give the African audience, a new flavour of drama entertainment” said GoQuest Media managing director Vivek Lath.

  • GoQuest Media brings Croatian romance drama to Africa

    GoQuest Media brings Croatian romance drama to Africa

    MUMBAI: India based worldwide television content sales agency, GoQuest Media is living up to its name of bringing exciting dramas of various genres to its clients worldwide. 

    A recent development in this regard is Lara’s Choice, a popular Croatian romance drama that has landed in Africa following a deal for the English speaking territories in Africa between GoQuest Media and Beta Films, the global drama and formats distributor.

    Lara’s Choice is a story about the choice of a woman between two men, the choice between career and family, loyalty, and the battle for survival. The show’s 50th episode was viewed by a record-breaking 1.2 million viewers in Croatia.

    GoQuest has been committed to bringing variety to its content offerings to the television and digital platforms in Africa.

    “In the past we have licensed one of the best Turkish dramas to Africa. With the evolving market, more opportunities will arise for Eastern European dramas and a series like Lara’s choice will give the African audience, a new flavour of drama entertainment” said GoQuest Media managing director Vivek Lath.

  • GoQuest Media licenses Hollywood biographical series ‘Celebrated’ to South Africa

    GoQuest Media licenses Hollywood biographical series ‘Celebrated’ to South Africa

    MUMBAI: India based content sales agency GoQuest Media has licensed Hollywood biographical series Celebrated to South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).

    Celebrated, which is a biography series that highlights the careers of Hollywood’s most famous stars, is produced by Reboot Entertainment and has been previously licensed to the USA and Indonesia.

    The series chronicles the dizzying heights of stardom as well as the personal pitfalls of fame – granting viewers access to stars like never before. Every episode includes rare interview clips, exclusive red carpet footage and behind-the-scenes tidbits.

    GoQuest Media has licensed entertaining content to Africa in past as well.

    “This is a stepping stone for us towards our global ambition of establishing ourselves as a global distribution company from India in the International markets. We are also in talks with television channels in India for this show,” says GoQuest Media managing director Vivek Lath.

  • GoQuest Media licenses Hollywood biographical series ‘Celebrated’ to South Africa

    GoQuest Media licenses Hollywood biographical series ‘Celebrated’ to South Africa

    MUMBAI: India based content sales agency GoQuest Media has licensed Hollywood biographical series Celebrated to South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).

    Celebrated, which is a biography series that highlights the careers of Hollywood’s most famous stars, is produced by Reboot Entertainment and has been previously licensed to the USA and Indonesia.

    The series chronicles the dizzying heights of stardom as well as the personal pitfalls of fame – granting viewers access to stars like never before. Every episode includes rare interview clips, exclusive red carpet footage and behind-the-scenes tidbits.

    GoQuest Media has licensed entertaining content to Africa in past as well.

    “This is a stepping stone for us towards our global ambition of establishing ourselves as a global distribution company from India in the International markets. We are also in talks with television channels in India for this show,” says GoQuest Media managing director Vivek Lath.

  • GoQuest Media licenses crime drama series ‘Ezel’ to Ugandan channel

    GoQuest Media licenses crime drama series ‘Ezel’ to Ugandan channel

    MUMBAI: The month of April will see a popular Ugandan channel being thronged by its viewers as GoQuest Media, an India based television content sales agency, has licensed Ezel – a Turkish crime drama series to a popular channel in Uganda.

     

    GoQuest Media Ventures, licenses TV series and Bollywood films to territories across the world. With the Ezel deal, the company claims to have broken the shackles of regional boundaries and are determined to expand the variety of their content offerings to clients all over the world. 

     

    Turkish dramas have proven popularity across the world. We have sold more than 1000 hours of Indian content in Africa. We now hope to do the same with content from other countries,” said GoQuest Media managing director Vivek Lath.

     

    The show is based on Alexander Dumas’ masterpiece Count of Monte Cristo. After betrayal by his best friends and the love of his life, Omer returns with a new face, new identity and with a flawless revenge plan. GoQuest Media has licensed Ezel from the global drama and formats distributor, Eccho rights.

     

    Eccho Rights managing director Fredrik Af Malmborg added, “Ezel is an amazing TV series that has been a success in every territory it has launched so far, most recently in South America where the daily ratings is above 25 per cent. We are excited about the development in Africa and are confident it will work also in Uganda.”

  • GoQuest Media Ventures readies for MIPCOM

    GoQuest Media Ventures readies for MIPCOM

    MUMBAI: The stage is set for the world’s biggest market for content, MIPCOM 2014, which will see distributors and broadcasters meet and exchange ideas/concepts.

     

    Though participating companies (both buyers and exhibitors) all over the world are still busy with their last minute preparations, GoQuest Media Ventures managing director Vivek Lath has packed all his bags and ready to leave.

     

    The company, which tags itself as the content distributors for the new age, will be attending the exhibition for the third year in a row.

     

    So what is the company looking at buying at this year’s MIPCOM? Its main focus will be to buy foreign content like Turkish dramas and Hollywood content to sell in India and sell Indian content like Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Du from Star Plus, Kesariya Balam Aavo Hamare Des on Sahara One and many more to the international markets.

     

    The company has already sold more than 2000 hours of Indian television soaps in Africa, Middle East, South East Asia and Europe. Concentrating not only on television, it also helps the content reach across the world and makes most amount of money from video platforms through digital distribution.

     

    The company acts more like distributor as it has partnered with broadcasters like Sahara One, Sony Entertainment Television (SET), Zoom, NDTV Lifestyle and many more.

     

    Lath reveals that this year it is planning to once again tap into markets like Eastern Europe, Africa, South East Asia, Middle East and Russia.

     

    The firm will concentrate on electronic media, specifically television, IPTV and VOD platforms. “We are very focused on selling in these areas. That is our strength,” states Lath. Lath believes that the MIPCOM this year for the company will be all about 50 per cent of re-connecting and 50 per cent of making connections with the new markets and platforms and digital is one of them.

     

    “This year we do expect to meet some interesting VOD players. MIPCOM has always been like a yearly pilgrimage where you have to go and meet people from the industry,” signs off Lath.