UK-based factual distributor TVF International has finalised a host of post-MipTV sales, including selling nature disaster doc Inside The Firestorm (1x120'/2x60') to broadcasters in the UK and Switzerland.

Cable network AETN UK and Swiss pubcaster SF have both picked up the Renegade Films-produced programme, which looks at the bush fires that ravaged Australia in February 2009, claiming 173 lives and leaving almost 8,000 homeless. The doc originally aired down under on ABC.

AETN UK also bought Cult Killer (1x47'), a doc looking at the legacy of a cult that institutionalised paedophilia. TVF's director Leila Monks and sales manager Tatjana von Stein brokered the deals.

Von Stein said Firestorm had proven one of the distributor's most popular titles in Cannes. "The volcano eruption may have been the cause of a post-MipTV manic buzz, but in the run-up to and during Cannes, it was the buzz of a resurging market," she said.

Elsewhere, Australia's Foxtel picked up a package of 25 hours of history, biography and crime programming, including Shooting The War (3x60'), Second Life (1x52') and Norm (1x56'); while Living TV New Zealand secured 18 hours of programming, including One Degree Matters (1x52'), a doc presenting the latest science and solutions on climate change.

In the US, Halogen picked up A Song To Africa (1x53'), a portrait of Ugandan orphans; while in France, Planete bought The State of the Planet's Oceans (1x54') and Hitler's Favourite Royal (1x49'). Meanwhile, French satcaster Ushuaia TV acquired Oceanic Electric Power (1x52') and Return To Penguin City (1x48').

Adam Benzine, C21