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Syndicado and Autlook Film Sales Announce New Content Distribution Agreement

(August 30, 2011 – Toronto) Syndicado and Austria’s Autlook announced today a new content distribution agreement that will bring Autlook’s cutting edge and critically acclaimed library of feature documentaries to leading digital service providers in North America.

“We continue to grow our library of feature length documentaries,” says Greg Rubidge, President of Syndicado, “offering digital service providers a curated, competitive and deep offering in this genre, which continues to perform well across all platforms.” 

Some of these new titles to Syndicado’s Library include: Accordion Tribe, Every Seventh Person, Zoro’s Bar Mitzvah, The Beast Within, Children of the Prophet, and Vienna’s Lost Daughters.

“We're very pleased to be partnering with Syndicado for digital strategy and distribution,” says Peter Jager, Head of Autlook Film Sales, “and look forward to bringing an ongoing slate of our award winning documentaries to new audiences, beyond traditional distribution platforms." The move extends our audience exposure in North America for our filmmakers and library, offering new revenue opportunities that we didn’t have before.”

About Syndicado
A digital distribution company focused on feature length documentaries and factual TV programming for launch on digital platforms such as Internet, TV VOD, and mobile. The company partners with traditional distributors, producers and sale agents, managing all aspects of digital distribution, strategy and marketing, on the leading digital service providers in North America and Europe. The company’s expertise and business model allow distributors and other rights holders a cost effective strategy to fully exploit emerging digital opportunities, while remaining focused on their core business. www.Syndicado.com

About Autlook
A full-service sales agent, handling festivals, TV (theatrical, educational) DVD, and digital sales worldwide. We select 25 TV documentaries a year, and up to six docs with worldwide theatrical potential. autlook attends key theatrical markets such as: Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Pusan, Locarno, Sundance, Hong Kong, Rotterdam, and all Doc markets such as: IDFA, Hot Docs, Sheffield, Leipzig, Visions du Reel, MIPTV, MIPCOM.

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For more info regarding Syndicado, get GAT:

Ingrid Hamilton | ingrid@gat.ca  | 416-731-3034

For Autlook, please contact:
Astrid Guger | astrid@autlookfilms.com | +43 720 34 69 34

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 (August 24, 2011 - Toronto, Canada/London, UK) - Syndicado Inc. a leading digital distributor and content aggregator, is pleased to announce the extension of their distribution partnership with Journeyman Pictures, covering North America and other territories for their ongoing output of new release features and TV documentaries. The agreement extends beyond their existing partnership, which covers digital distribution and broadcast sales agency in North America, to include the UK, Australia and New Zealand on select new releases on digital platforms.

“After building upon some key digital wins and platform launches in North America,” says Greg Rubidge, President of Syndicado, “we’re delighted to have the opportunity to extend our partnership with Journeyman in to other markets and with added titles. Journeyman’s vast catalogue of entertaining and critically acclaimed documentaries have been a key addition to our core acquisition focus, which provides our digital service provider customers with a deep and distinctive offering within this genre.”

 “Syndicado provided the best strategy and model for us to start exploiting our library on new platforms in North America,” adds Mark Stucke, Managing Director of Journeyman Pictures. “And in addition to complementing our broadcast presence overseas we’re happy to extend both the number of titles and markets that we’d like to serve through digital. At the end of the day, it’s about returns for our filmmakers, and we found working with Syndicado a compelling avenue for us to explore these new opportunities, while allowing us to focus on our core business.”

 Some of the titles in this distribution partnership includes Emmy award winning The Good Soldier,  David vs. Monsanto, Crips, Buskers, Butterflies, Dad’s in Heaven with Nixon, and Tipping Point.

 

About Syndicado
A digital distribution company focused on feature length documentaries and factual TV programming for launch on digital platforms such as Internet, TV VOD, and mobile. The company partners with traditional distributors, producers and sale agents, managing all aspects of digital distribution, strategy and marketing, on the leading digital service providers in North America and Europe. The company’s expertise and business model allow distributors and other rights holders a cost effective strategy to fully exploit emerging digital opportunities, while remaining focused on their core business. www.Syndicado.com

About Journeyman Pictures
Founded in 1990 by producer Mark Stucke, Journeyman Pictures is one of Europe’s leading independent distributor of topical news features, documentaries and footage. Having grown as rights owning producers in the independent sector our success and keen ability to sell grows from an intimate knowledge of the bottom line. Journeyman markets the films of many renowned independents and broadcasters. Our sales culture centred on reactivity, topicality and the rapidly developing multi-media industry is what makes it a very different business from most other television marketing companies. Our sales team has a central journalistic ethic. We offer a constant turnover of up-to-date and relevant documentaries and features.

For more info about Syndicado Inc. get GAT:
Ingrid Hamilton | ingrid@gat.ca  | 416-731-3034

 For more about Journeyman Pictures Contact:
Emma Simpson | Tel: 44-208-786-6051

 

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July 2011

We will be attending TIFF this year and available to meet between September 8th and September 18th. 

We are looking for feature length documentaries, and factual TV series that would be of interest to the North American and European audiences.

Please reach out to set up an appointment today - info@syndicado.com

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March 10, 2011

 

We will be attending SXSW in Austin from March 12th to March 17th. We are looking for feature length documentaries, and factual TV series that would be of interest to the North American and European audiences.

Please reach out to set up an appointment today - info@syndicado.com

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January 2010 - Syndicado is pleased to announce our latest distribution partnership with Canadian MSO, Rogers Cable.

Syndicado will be providing an ongoing slate of new release feature documentaries and art house films on both VOD and Internet based On Demand platforms. Rogers is Canada's largest cable TV provider and leader in On Demand programming and the addition of Syndicado's catalogue adds to diversity and depth of their existing strong digital library.

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January 2010 - 

Syndicado is pleased to announce a new distribution partnership with Canada's largest telco and leading satellite TV provider, Bell.

Under the terms of the agreement, Syndicado will be providing  an ongoing catalogue and slate  of award winning feature documentaries and curated art house films, representing the best titles from Syndicado's distributor clients.

Syndicado is a leading new platform distribution company that partners with traditional distributors to manage and monetize their feature film assets on digital platforms such as VOD, Internet and mobile.

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Syndicado is pleased to announce the launch of season 1 of Keys to the VIP from Buck Productions & the Comedy Network on hulu in the USA. November 23, 201

hulu is the leading online streaming service for premium TV series and features, bringing the broadest array of premium network content to the US digital audience. Syndicado is pleased to partner with hulu and offer it's clients a key pillar and distribution opportunity in the US to  Syndicado's distributor and filmmaker clients.

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Syndicado is pleased to announce a new distribution agreement with Vudu! Under the terms of the deal, Syndicado will be launching its catalog of award winning documentaries,  art house independent features, and non-factual television programming on Vudu's integrated VOD and download television platform.

Starting in November 2010, customers with Vudu enabled bluray players from Samsung, Toshiba, LG and Vizio, as well as PC/Mac with Boxee, will have access to our clients' feature documentaries such as Go Further, Poetry in Motion, The Nightmare, Twist and more. Vudu is a leading provider of HD films and tv programming on enhanced BluRay and HD Television appliances. Vudu was acquired by Walmart in February 2010.

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Announcement:

"A Touch of Grey" by writer/director Sandra Feldman will be released theatrically starting November 5, 2010 at the follow theatres: Vancouver-Empire Granville;  Halifax- Empire Bayers Lake. Check local news papers for more information.  Come out and support one of Canada's rising auteurs.

"A Touch of Grey" is a heartfelt reflection back at one's life since the carefree days of highschool, from the perspective of four women. It's Sex and the City meets The Big Chill, but without the guys. Starring four of Canada's leading actresses, "A Touch of Grey" is a bittersweet and humorous look at life through the eyes of a mother, an executive, a cougar and a stray.

Check out the trailer here.

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MARKETS

Syndicado will be attending the following markets:

• realscreen Summit - Washington - February 1 to February 3rd.
  

• EFM during the Berlin Film Festival from February 11th to February 14th - CELL: +49-(0)152-023-8513
  

• MIP TV - Cannes, FR - April 12th to April 15th

• HOT Docs - Toronto - April 29 - May 9

• TIFF - Toronto - September 

• AFM - LA - November 6th to November 10th, 2010
  

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New Additions to our Library

We are pleased to announce the acquisition of Gus: An American Icon, during the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival in May of 2010. Syndicado is proud to have been selected as international sales agent and digital distributor and we are seeking local distributors and broadcasters for this 89 minute documentary in HD on the founder of American Jazz dance. We also have secured digital rights in all the territories mentioned.

 

In June, we completed a sales agency and digital sub-distribution agreement with a major UK distributor of documentaries and will be launching with major and regional digital service providers over the next two quarters.

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