Madrid-based international powerhouse The Mediapro Studio has joined forces with Emmy-winning producer-showrunner Charles Wachter to launch a brand new non-fiction banner, Stopwatch Media.
Wachter, whose notable credit embrace actuality exhibits “Million Greenback Secret” for Netflix, “Beast Games” for Prime Vídeo and “Received to Get Out” for Hulu, in addition to hit Netflix collection “Win the Mall,” can be based mostly out of Toronto the place Stopwatch Media may have its H.Q, permitting The Mediapro Studio to achieve a foothold on Canadian soil and proceed increasing its international infrastructure.
Led by Wachter, the brand new label will harness The Mediapro Studio’s worldwide attain, assets and partnerships to develop premium codecs for each the US and international audiences.
“Capitalizing on the pattern of U.S. exhibits coming to Canada, that is about placing a flag within the floor and constructing out the manufacturing infrastructure to ship bold, globally related exhibits,” Wachter stated. “With The Mediapro Studio as our accomplice, we’ve the imaginative and prescient, inventive freedom and ambition to develop concepts that may make an affect in the US and past.”
“The Mediapro Studio has all the time sought to accomplice with daring inventive voices who can push the business ahead and Charles Wachter is strictly that,” added Pam Healey, head of unscripted at The Mediapro Studio U.S. “His monitor file of delivering premium unique codecs with worldwide resonance makes Stopwatch Media a pure extension of our international content material technique. With this launch, we’re cementing our presence in Canada with one of many perfect.”
The launch of Stopwatch Media comes at a pivotal second for the business, as networks and platforms search high-impact codecs with franchise potential in an more and more crowded market.
“Collaborating with Charles at Stopwatch Media is a press release of how we see the way forward for nonfiction content material,” stated JC Acosta, director of The Mediapro Studio U.S. “Our precedence is obvious: to develop and produce daring, international unscripted codecs.”
Wachter is behind a number of the largest hit actuality exhibits on the streaming platforms and networks. “Million Dollar Secret,” Netflix’s reality competition series hosted by Peter Serafinowicz, is returning for Season 2 on April 15. His different credit embrace ABC’s “Concern Issue” and “Jamie Oliver’s Meals Revolution,” successful an Emmy for the latter.
Among the many extra outstanding production-distribution corporations based mostly out of Southern Europe, The Mediapro Studio has quick expanded to 53 outposts internationally.
Its fiction productions embrace such latest hit movies as “Aída y Vuelta,” “El 47,” and “The Good Boss,” starring Javier Bardem. It has additionally backed such bar-raising worldwide exhibits as “The New Pope,” “The Younger Pope,” “Yosi, the Regretful Spy” and “Barrabrava,” amongst many others.
