APC Gets Mysterious With International Sales Of Geoffrey Enthoven’s Thriller UNSEEN And AJ Annila’ Spy Thriller SHADOW LINES

ZDFneo in Germany, MHz Choice in the USA and Canada, serieclub and Salto in France, Showjet in Russia, Media4Fun in Poland and Streamz in Belgium have all picked up rights to French-language mystery series Unseen, produced by Kwassa Films for RTBF and The Proximus Group in Belgium.

Season 2 of Shadow Lines, produced by Zodiak Finland for Elisa Viihde, has been picked up by AMC Networks' streaming service Sundance Now for the US & Canada, International broadcaster Viasat World for Epic Drama across Central & Eastern Europe and CIS, AMC Networks International Southern Europe (Spain and Portugal) and Filmin for Spain, SBS for Australia, Okko for Russia and Proximus for Belgium.

Global broadcast partners including ZDF, Sundance Now, SBS and Viasat World board new Belgian and Finnish drama series

Boutique co-producer and distributor About Premium Content (APC) has secured new international sales for its Belgian scripted series Unseen (8 x 52’) and Finnish spy thriller Shadow Lines (8 x 45’) season 2.

ZDFneo in Germany, MHz Choice in the USA and Canada, serieclub and Salto in France, Showjet in Russia, Media4Fun in Poland and Streamz in Belgium have all picked up rights to French-language mystery series Unseen, produced by Kwassa Films for RTBF and The Proximus Group in Belgium. The drama is directed by Geoffrey Enthoven and written by Marie Enthoven, Nicolas Peufaillit and Bruno Roche.

Season 2 of Shadow Lines, produced by Zodiak Finland for Elisa Viihde, has been picked up by AMC Networks' streaming service Sundance Now for the US & Canada, International broadcaster Viasat World for Epic Drama across Central & Eastern Europe and CIS, AMC Networks International Southern Europe (Spain and Portugal) and Filmin for Spain, SBS for Australia, Okko for Russia and Proximus for Belgium.

Set in a small village in Belgium, Unseen follows a community in the midst of a strange phenomenon and explores the moral complexities which arise in its wake. A huge relay antenna appears, birds fall from the sky and, little by little, some people start ‘disappearing’ – they’re still there: they’ve just become invisible. For some, invisibility is a power; for others, it’s a disease. It can be used to protect yourself, spy on others, take revenge or dominate – a blessing or a curse. As more and more people begin to ‘disappear’, the Unseen are soon perceived as a threat, and the authorities want to control them.

Shadow Lines season 2 is a gripping, witty and glamorous, spy thriller set in Finland in the spring of 1956. Mixing real life historical events with fictional characters, the series offers a never-seen-before outlook on the Cold War. It is directed by AJ Annila and written by Katri Manninen and Kirsti Manninen.

Laurent Boissel and Emmanuelle Guilbart, Joint-CEOs and Co-Founders at APC, say “Mystery dramas continue to be a staple of broadcasters’ schedules around the globe and there is a huge demand for quality shows in this genre. Unseen and Shadow Lines are engaging, gripping and high-end series, which demonstrate their international appeal in the collection of global partners who have come on board each title.”

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APC is headed by experienced principals Emmanuelle Guilbart and Laurent Boissel and is a leading independent production and distribution company that partners with global content creators to develop and finance projects from inception to international distribution.  APC has built a curated slate of English-language and local-language fiction from a range of global producers all over the world including hit drama Keeping Faith (BBC/S4C), Man in Room 301, Shadow Lines (Elisa Viihde), Operation Buffalo (ABC Australia), Gigantes, La Linea invisible (Telefonica Studios), Alex (Viaplay), stylish series A Very Secret Service (Arte) and Valkyrien (NRK). APC also has a quality slate of top-tier factual programmes and has a children’s division APC Kids which houses its own production company Zephyr Animation.