Factual distributor TVF International (TVFI) is bringing 150 hours of programming to LTVS, leading with the buzzy doc Trump and the Tech Giants (1 x 59 min.) from Germany’s South&Browse, which examines the relationship between the U.S. president and Silicon Valley.
TVFI is also bringing Trade Secret (1 x 100 min./2 x 50 min.) from EP Adam McKay, which goes inside the underground trade on polar bears; and Mediacorp’s Bones of Contention: The Global Dinosaur Skeleton Trade (2 x 47 min.), which explores the growing market for dinosaur bones in New York’s Sotheby’s and other auction houses.
Also from Mediacorp is Inside Unit 731: Japan’s Secret Human Experiments (2 x 48 min.), which boasts access to the last remaining member of the unit alive, Hideo Shimizu, and reveals how Japan experimented on Allied prisoners of war from China, the U.S. and the UK.
TVF has partnered with Finnish broadcaster YLE on science, wildlife and investigative docs including USA: The War on Gender (1 x 48 min.), The American Abortion War (1 x 48 min.) and Fleeing Putin’s Poison (1 x 48 min.).
Other science docs include Raising Expectations: The Truth About AI (4 x 47 min.) from Mediacorp, Our Quantum Future (1 x 59 min./1 x 75 min.) and Dark Skies: The Truth About Light Pollution (1 x 44 min.) from CBC as well as The Cancer Killers (2 x 60 min.) from CBC and SBS.
On the lifestyle side, the distributor is offering the HBO Max and Discovery series Man of the Hour (8 x 45 min.), focused on luxury watchmaking; as well as the food series In Search of Heat (10 x 23 min.), Salt of the Earth (6 x 23 min.) and New Stirrings: Singapore’s Food Hawker Secrets (3 x 47 min.) about the UNESCO World Heritage-listed street food culture in Singapore.
In sport, TVF International is shopping Welcome Home FC Barcelona (1 x 54 min.), featuring Lionel Messi, Pep Guardiola and more.