Antenna Studios, the content and distribution arm of Antenna Group, the international entertainment and media organization, will be participating at this year’s NATPE Budapest, Central and Eastern Europe’s most established content marketplace.
Antenna Studios, with an output of 2,500 hours of produced content annually and a distribution of 8,500 hours of drama worldwide, holds the prestigious title of being the foremost producer and global distributor of Greek content. Antenna Studios has been steadily expanding its offering with new content, fiction and factual, bringing to market premium new projects while increasing its distribution partnerships.
This year at NATPE Budapest, Antenna Studios will be showcasing two of ANT1’s latest prime-time hit series The Witch and Soul Daughters. The event will take place on June 26, 2024, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, in Ballroom III at the InterContinental.
George Levendis, managing director at Antenna TV, Makedonia TV and Antenna Studios, will be introducing Antenna Studios at the exclusive screening event of the two-hit series while Victoria Elmacioglu will be the moderator of the Q&A sessions.
The Witch screening: A suspenseful crime drama and an intriguing story about redemption and revenge, one of the biggest drama series ever to be produced by a Greek network, directed by Lefteris Charitos and written by Melina Tsampani & Petros Kalkovalis. The story unfolds in 1817 Ottoman-occupied Greece, in the unconquered region of Mani, where two rival families are united by marriage and the birth of their first son. With the disappearance of the child a young maid’s vision leads her to the missing infant. As her visions intensify and suspicions of witchcraft emerge against her, she must find the infant’s kidnappers to save herself and avert a civil war that ends all hope of revolt against Greece’s occupiers. A fast-paced series with twists and turns across all episodes. The Q&A session with Director Lefteris Charitos who along with Nikos Christoforou, Chief Content Officer Antenna Group, will discuss the series’ compelling storytelling and innovative direction which portrays the country’s breath-taking beauty.
Soul Daughters screening: This female-led drama is set in 1950’s Athens and focuses on four sisters, from the Greek countryside who agree to foster placement at a wealthy household, only to be separated and forced into abusive servitude. Their struggle to reunite, their fight against their cruel new foster families and the inhuman yet legal foster tradition in Greece over this period compile the emotional and passionate tapestry of this story. The Q&A session with Producer, Irene Souganidou who along with Frosso Ralli, Creative Director, will discuss how this exceptional and captivating new series mesmerized the audience achieving both record breaking streaming views and FTA ratings success.
With a unique wealth of talent, stories and locations in Greece, Antenna Studio’s mission is to accelerate the development and production of premium content that can attract audiences from around the world, while establishing Greece as a key destination for production, co-production and licensing opportunities.
Through its distribution division, Antenna Studios actively promotes and sells original Greek content abroad selling Greek hit drama series such us Brousko and Wild Bees across all regions including Croatia, Bulgaria, the Baltics, Latin America, MENA, Israel, Serbia, Poland, and Georgia. Notably, Antenna Studios has secured deals with Netflix Greece and Cyprus for the series Save Me and Serres, with further international distribution extending to CEE, CIS, Estonia, and MENA regions for Save Me.
