Dori Media Group attends MIPCOM 2023 with over a dozen new series in production globally and launching international sales for two of its big new action-drama series,Amia and Indal,it was announced today by Nadav Palti, CEO & President.
‘The business is stronger than ever: we are producing between Los Angeles, Mexico, and in Israel we also continue with all the production and we do not plan to remove any, beyond the problems of the war, since that implies removing work from the Israelis. . We hesitated whether or not to come to MIPCOM, but we came to believe that the greatest response we could give to the enemy is to attend,’ Palti told to Prensario. The studio, which have a full contingent of sales executives and representatives in its booth at MIPCOM (P-1.F50), has a diverse slate of both scripted and unscripted series that are in production around the globe, spanning multiple territories, languages and cultures.These include dramas Amia, filmed in Uruguay and inspired by the terror attacks of 1992 on the Israeli embassy and 1994 against the Argentinian Jewish community and Indal,an action-packed series that follows the kidnapping of a police officer by a group of Ethiopian Israeli youth. Dori Media is also behind the remake of global hit and International Emmy-nominated romantic comedy Lalola, which is currently in production in Mexico for ViXas well as, Hammam, a modern Israeli-set enigmatic journey inspired by the biblical kingdom story of Saul and Davidand set in an abandoned military base.
Other series Dori Media will be showcasing at MIPCOM include drama 15 a la Hora (a brand-new remake of the successful seriesMinimum Wage), produced by Paramount, which follows three Latina women in Los Angeles, who take charge of their own destiny, openinga cleaning service business, as well as the erotic psychological thriller,Losing Alice.
On the unscripted side, the studio is bringing hit international format Power Couple and the globally popular shiny floor game show The Best of All.And Dori Media will also be selling additional windows for the award-winning, worldwide hit Shitsel and dramedy Nehama, a hilarious series about a father of five going through a mid-life crisis.“We are coming to MIPCOM with one of our biggest slates of original programming in Dori Media’s history, with a diverse collection of high-quality series that are being produced across the globe in multiple languages,” says Dori Media CEO & President Nadav Palti. “Our two new action-dramaseries, Amia andIndal, are already creating a lot of buzz, as is our remake of the hit Spanish comedy,LaLola.”
Amia—PoliticalAction Drama (8 x 45 min)
Based on an original idea from Palti and Yair Dori, Amia is a political action drama inspired by the terror attacks of 1992 and 1994 in Buenos Aires against the Israeli embassy and the Jewish community, from which the series coined its name.Created by GivonSnir and Shuky Gur, the series follows Diego, a Mossad agent whose sister was killed in the Argentina terrorist attack. The main language for Amiais Spanish, combined with additional languages: English, Hebrew and Persian. The series is produced by Dori Mediaand Yair Dori and is set to debut on Reshet 13 in Israel in 2024.
Indal–Action Drama (8 X 45 min)Action series Indalfollows a group of Ethiopian Israeli youth who decide to kidnap the police officer who peppered their adolescence with abuse and eventually murdered their closest friend. What starts off as a personal revenge scheme, quickly boils over into a massive national protest movement against police violence and for equality. Led by the pain and rage of SELAM, the beautiful sister of the police’s victim, and the small-time crook INDAL, the group capture the officer in an abandoned public pool and turn the whole area into an autonomous zone for the struggle. The series is produced by Dori Media and AbotHameiri and will debut in 2024 on HOT in Israel.
Lalola – Comedy (20 X 30 min)Lalo, known for his heartless conquests of the women he desires, experiences a dramatic twist when he breaks Romina’s heart. Fueled by a desire for vengeance, she implores a mysterious witch to turn him into a woman so that he will endure the same heartache as her. In an unexpected turn of events, Lalo awakens to a new reality as Lola, on the day of a crucial business meeting, setting in motion a challenging ordeal. Lalo – now Lola – will have to navigate the complexities of being a woman in a society deeply entrenched in machismo, while searching for a solution to reverse the spell.
Production Company: Dori MediaBroadcaster: VIX
15 a la Hora (Minimum Wage) – Drama (10 X 30 min)Three Latina women living in Los Angeles, two of them undocumented and the third is Boricua (from Puerto Rico), each carrying a difficult past and an even harder present, decide to take charge of their destiny and open a cleaning service business, becoming not only business partners, but family as well.
Production Company: Paramount Hammam – Drama (6 X 45 min)An enigmatic journey inspired by the kingdom biblical story of Saul and David, takes place in an abandoned military base. Following escalations throughout the West Bank, a paratrooper platoon under Shaul’s command, is sent to reconstruct an old military base, abandoned 20 years earlier. The base is named “Hammam”after an ancient bathhouse site located in the nearby wadi, where a Bedouin tribe has claimed the ruins of an ancient castle. A series of mysterious events lead Shaul to believe the base is cursed, as he slowly loses his sanity. Finally, he loses touch with reality and is replaced by Dudi – the platoon’s humblest, most introverted soldier – who soon falls prey to the curse himself.
Production Company: Dori Media, AbotHameiri Broadcaster: Kan 11Losing Alice – Psychological Thriller (8 X 60 min)An erotic, psychological neo-noir drama thriller inspired by Faust’s tale that tells the story of Alice, an ambitious 47-year-old female film director who becomes obsessed with 24-year-old femme-fatale Sophie and eventually surrenders all moral integrity in order to achieve power, success and unlimited relevance. Through the prism of this female Faust, the series explores issues such as guilt; jealousy; fear of aging, rage and the complex relationships women have with each other. And, above all, Losing Alice is a love letter for the-still too rare – female director. Losing Alice is a thrilling cinematic journey that uses flashbacks and flash forwards in a satisfyingly confusing narrative that takes the viewer through the conscious and subconscious of its protagonist’s mind.
Production Company: Dori MediaBroadcaster: HOT
Shtisel– Drama (33 X 45 min)A bachelor Haredi (ultra-Orthdox) and his widow father share an apartment, a cynical humor and a quest for love and a little motherly warmth in the cold world of god. This delicious gentle drama follows a shy yeshiva boy and his closely-knit, argumentative family. He meets an older widow just as the family is trying to marry him off, while his widowed father has a little fling of his own. The lives of the extended Shtisel family, a warm and broken Haredi family, integrated in the big and desperate love story. Forget everything you thought you knew about the Haredi life and prepare to be charmed.
Production Company: AbotHameiriBroadcaster: YES Nehama– Dramedy (10 X 60 min)Guy Nehama has a perfect wife he loves, a job in a high-tech company he despises, and 5 children that he doesn’t really know. He finds himself in the midst of a mid-life crisis, feeling that because of his family, he gave up on a career as a stand-up comedian. When his wife dies in a car accident, he starts chasing after his old dream. Nehama is obsessed with his love for his dead wife. He tries to figure out what secrets she kept from him until he must wake up and choose between his dream as an artist and his children.
Production Company: Yoav GrossBroadcaster: HOT
Power Couple – Reality Format An international and successful prime time reality format that puts love to the test like you’ve never seen before! The couple’s emotions, humor, tensions and love come into play. 8 couples move into a one villa for 6 weeks and each week they’ll have to face extreme challenges that will test how well they really know each other. In this game, couples who are confident in themselves and believe in their relationship can turn that into a lot of money, the winning couple’s relationship determines the size of the prize. Power Couple is a new and different experience in the reality show genre bringing a lot of humor, emotions and love to the screen and not only intrigues and conspiracies! Production Company: AbotHameiri (original format) Broadcaster: Reshet 13 (original format)The Best of All – Shiny Floor Game Show
The theory states that the average of the answers to a question of a large audience will be a more precise evaluation of quantity than any one opinion even that of a professional. “The Best of All”, a new shiny floor game show, is there to find out if the «Wisdom of the Crowd» theory really works? How many people make a «Crowd»? It depends… There is no one answer… In “The Best of All”, a large group of hundreds of people compete against studio participants. All the questions in the game are amusing visual questions (video segments), questions with aWOWfactor, questions that are fun to watch even if you’re not participating in the game. Production Company: AbotHameiriBroadcaster: Reshet 13
