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Widely
recognised as one of the leading independent television sales
companies, HIGH POINT TELEVISION successfully co-finances and
distributes the very best in international, commercially focused
programming.
KEELEY
HAWES, SARAH PARISH, BILLIE PIPER, MARTIN FREEMAN, DEREK JACOBI,
DAMIAN LEWIS, JOAN COLLINS, HELEN McCRORY, WARREN CLARKE and STEPHEN
TOMPKINSON are just some of the great names that sparkle in High
Point's top quality line-up of compelling prime time drama, must-have
long running series and high concept factual. Selling world rights
for the best broadcasters and producers from around the world,
including the UK's BBC, ITV and CHANNEL 4 as well as family beacon,
NICKELODEON, Irish stalwart, RTE, South Africa's SABC, Australia's
SBS, CBC and CTV in Canada and VTM in Belgium, ensures that HIGH
POINT TELEVISION really stands out in the crowd.
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LATEST
NEWS
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- SUMMER
HEAT is added to our line up for DISCOP. This drama was
number one at the Dutch box office two weeks in a row
and has so far grossed over $2.5m since it was released
there.
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- TWISTS
OF FATE wins Best Screenplay at the Polish Film Festival
awards.
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- Lenny
Abrahamson's PROSPERITY wins BEST TV DIRECTOR and BEST
TV SCRIPT at the Irish Film & TV Awards
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- Jim
Threapleton's EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION is released on DVD
in North America March 25th and in the UK April 28th.
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- MOUNT PLEASANT, a drama starring Kelly Rowan (The OC)
is added to our MIP-TV line up
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CURRENT
TITLES
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 MATRIOSHKI
II
(post-production)
After
the events in the first series Ray Van Mechelen and Eddy
Stoefs are released from jail three years later only to
discover that Jan Verplancke escaped to Thailand to run
a strip-bar with all their money. Business is going good
for Verplancke but he's not aware that his two former friends
are out of jail and want their money back.
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 LAND
OF THIRST
A
historical romance set in South Africa's Karoo in 1913,
Land Of Thirst is an extraordinary love story about two
people far ahead of their time, caught in the crosscurrents
of emergent South Africa. Margaret leaves England and moves
to Africa for the treatment of TB, while Kanyiso goes there
to search for his African roots. Romance flourishes for
them in the Karoo - but can they keep their love alive in
such a hostile world?
3
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 SUMMER
HEAT
Number
one at the Dutch Box Office, multi-award winning actress
Monique van de Ven directs her first film, a romantic drama
set on an idyllic island where a photographer meets a beautiful
woman and is drawn into her dangerous world.
96
mins romantic drama
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 STORM
BOUND
The
holiday box office family hit of the Netherlands is a ripping
adventure yarn about teenage boys who join the crew of a
ship of the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century.
After a dramatic shipwreck and escape from an attack by
natives, the boys are left to find their way to safety by
themselves.
135
mins family adventure
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 MOUNT
PLEASANT
Starring
The OC's Kelly Rowan, three couples find their destinies
irrevocably intertwined in a fusion of obsession and fragile
love. Mount Pleasant is where the middle-class meet the
street criminals, prostitutes and drug dealers alongside
boarded up businesses, pawnshops and greasy spoon restaurants.
As the lives of three couples interconnect, the course of
their lives are changed forever.
87
mins drama
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 ZOO
RANGERS
A
youth soap opera set in a zoo where 8 kids are given jobs
as rangers to look after the animals. This is where it all
begins as the 8 rangers begin a new life working, living
and playing together.
325
x 10 mins series, plus
3 x 90 min movies |
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 PROSPERITY
Prosperity
is a series of four one-hour dramas for television from
director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O’Halloran, the
team behind the award-winning Adam and Paul and Garage.
Prosperity tells four powerful, moving and funny stories
set on the same day, with each episode examining the life
of a single character.
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 TWISTS
OF FATE
The
sixth film by Polish helmer Jerzy Stuhr, the award-winning
director of "Love Stories" and "Big Animal",
centres on an amoral student whose natural curiosity leads
to a chance encounter with a guilt-ridden professor, escaping
from a dark secret dating back to communism days that could
tear his family apart.
112
mins drama
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