Fremantle Buys Israeli ‘Shadow Of Fact’ Producer Silvio Productions – Deadline

Fremantle has acquired a majority stake in Israeli producer Silvio Productions and Fremantle-owned Shtisel indie Abot Hameiri’s Man Hameiri will turn out to be Chair.

Alongside Fremantle Group COO/Continental Europe CEO Andrea Scrosati, Hameiri spearheaded the deal and Silvio Founders Yotam Guendelman and Mika Timor will report back to him, with each indies working carefully collectively.

The transfer is the newest in a flurry of Fremantle M&A exercise and is the RTL-owned super-indie’s second in Israel, following the 2016 Abot Hameiri deal, which was prolonged to a 100% stake in 2021.

Silvio is finest identified for Hot8 true crime doc collection Shadow of Fact, which was picked up by Netflix globally and examines the mysterious homicide case of an Israeli woman discovered murdered in her highschool bogs, together with Showtime’s Emmy-nominated Buried. A brand new season of Shadow of Fact is in manufacturing alongside Kan’s 1948 and Sure Docu’s Dunam and a Half.

The acquisition comes with Fremantle seeking to “scale-up our world documentaries capabilities” below Mandy Chang, in accordance with Scrosati, who hailed Silvio’s “confirmed observe report and nice delight of their filmmaking and storytelling.”

Hameiri mentioned Silvio’s reveals “not solely join with an area viewers, however importantly globally, which has been acknowledged by worldwide retailers,” whereas Silvio’s Guendelman and Timor described the transfer as a “distinctive alternative.”

Fremantle has been averaging what appears like one acquisition per week over the previous months as the corporate seeks to fulfill RTL’s €3B ($3.1B) income goal by 2025.

Current buys embrace highly-rated 9/11: One Day in America producer 72 Movies, British pure historical past agency Wildstar Movies, Regular Individuals indie Component Footage and veteran Italian outfit Lux Vide.

European M&A is transferring at such a tempo at current that final week three offers have been introduced throughout the area of 1 morning.