Dori Media: powerful dramas and non-scripted shows
Dori Media Group continues non-stop with its production in Latin America and Israel, generating very strong dramas and non-scripted successes. For the APAC market, it is a global ‘all in one’ solution, with many brand-new contents to introduce.
Haikal Jamari, sales manager for Asia & Middle East from the company, is attending the market. Heading the catalog is Minimum Wage, a scripted drama that aims to explain the struggles faced by immigrants, especially undocumented ones who seek the US to find a better life for their families. It focuses on Puerto Rico ‘Boricua’ people, shot in Los Angeles, USA.
The company also highlights Lalola very much, the Mexican version of a comedy produced by Dori Media in Argentina many years ago, about a man who turns to a woman and has to follow ‘his’ day by day life from this new ‘perspective’. Love appears also… as a woman. At that moment it was an international success. At this time, with the female power on top, tremendous success is expected.
Indal is a brand-new drama that tells how a group of Ethiopian-Israeli youth decide to kidnap the police officer who peppered their adolescence with abuse and eventually murdered their closest friend. But what started as a personal revenge scheme quickly turned into a massive national protest movement against police violence.
Another title in Spanish that Dori Media is presenting to global buyers is the political action drama Amia (8×45’), based on an original idea by Palti and Yair Dori. Filmed in Uruguay and inspired by the 1992 terrorist attacks on the Israeli embassy and the 1994 terrorist attacks against the Argentine Jewish community, the series will premiere on Reshet 13 in Israel in 2024.
On the formats side, Power Couple is a reality format where 8 couples move into one villa for 6 weeks and each week they’ll have to face extreme challenges that will test how well they know each other. In case they stay loyal and trust one another that will transform into lots of money. It was sold to more than 15 territories worldwide!
The Best of All is a game show where a large audience of people will compete against studio participants. All the questions in the game are visual (video segments), questions with surprising factors, and questions that are fun to watch even if you’re not participating in the game.
300 seconds ride, a fast-moving studio prime-time TV quiz show, where one playing team embarks on a 5-minute ride on a platform called “time track” which runs from one place to the other, so they need to answer 8 questions before the time runs out, to have a chance to answer the final question.
Other titles introduced at ATF, are: The Selfie Challenge, 5 Stars, The Salvadors, and Hammam
Minimum Wage
(15 a la Hora) – Drama (10 X 30 min)
In Los Angeles, three Hispanic women – two undocumented and one Boricua from Puerto Rico – unite to launch their own cleaning service business, forming not just a business partnership but a tight-knit family. Formerly employed as cleaning staff at a city office building, an abrupt agency dismissal pushes them to take matters into their own hands. Working together, they offer their services at a low cost to their former workplace, astonishingly landing the contract. Balancing their personal ambitions, power struggles and quest for survival, they will embark on a journey of self-discovery while seizing control of their destinies.
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!
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 a WOW factor, questions that are fun to watch even if you’re not participating in the game.
Indal
Action Drama (8 X 45 min)
A group of Ethiopian Israeli youth 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 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.
Amia
Political Action Drama (8 X 45 min)
Diego, a Mossad agent whose sister was killed in the Argentina terrorist attack, takes a leave of absence and hooks up with Gisela, a local journalist to find those responsible. Their journey to uncover the truth draws them into a world of espionage, intelligence agencies and arms dealers. A dubious world in which lies are truths, and justice and revenge become indistinguishable. The journey that the two embark on will eventually lead to a re-examination of their connection with their families and even their concept of self-identity.
300 Seconds Ride
Studio Game Show
300 seconds ride” is a fast-moving studio based prime time TV quiz show. 1 playing team embarks on a 5 minutes ride on the “Time Track” – A unique and specially designed moving platform that runs back and forth, from one side of the studio to other. The team needs to answer 8 questions before, literally, running out of time. If they succeed, they get one chance to answer the Final Question, and win a million shekels.
The Selfie Challenge
Reality Game Show
«The Selfie Challenge” is an innovative, contemporary, dynamic reality game show filmed around the world that draws its inspiration from the cross-culture selfie phenomenon through a competition between two groups of 3 friends. The competition is simple and over a five-round competition, the groups must swiftly replicate selfies they receive and as the competition progresses, challenges become tougher, complex and daring. High levels of improvisation and creativity will be required when daring street selfies involving complete strangers will be required.
5 Stars (Las Estrellas)
Romantic Comedy (120X60min)
One father – Three mothers – Five sisters. The death of Mario Star leaves his five daughters facing a challenge, written in the form of a clause, which they will have to fulfill in order to claim the inheritance he has left for the sisters. The five women are forced to put their lives on hold to take care of a boutique hotel. This whim of the deceased has only one goal: to bring them together. They try to learn to tolerate one another while grieving their father, each in their own way. Living together brings to light the relationship each daughter had with their father, as well as the conflicts they face in their current relationships with men and their search for love.
The Salvadors (Los Hermanos Salvador)
Comedy (10 X 30 min)
The five Salvador siblings must come together to restore the glory of their antique and magic shop and thereby save the family legacy. But in doing so, they will have to settle their differences and learn to work as a team. While, on the other hand, the Quiroga siblings have the mission to end that legacy. This confrontation will trigger a series of supernatural adventures.
Hammam
Drama (6X45′)
An enigmatic journey inspired by the biblical story of the kingdom of Saul and David, which takes place in an abandoned military base. Following escalations throughout the West Bank, a platoon of paratroopers under the command of Shaul is sent to rebuild an old military base, abandoned twenty years earlier. The base is named «Hammam» after an ancient bathhouse 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 that the base is cursed, while he slowly loses his sanity. Eventually, he loses touch with reality and is replaced by Dudi, the most humble and introverted soldier in the platoon, who soon falls prey to the curse.
About DORI MEDIA GROUP
An international group of media companies, located in Israel, Switzerland, Argentina, Spain and Singapore.
The group produces and distributes TV and New Media content, broadcasts various TV channels and operates video-content internet sites. The group owns approximately 7,500 Episodes, more than 7,000 3 minute clips, 120-9 minute webisodes and around 556 1-5 minute cellular episodes.
Our catalogue contains weekly and daily series, reality and entertainment formats and kids programs that we sell to a wide variety of audiences in more than 100 countries.
Executives
HAIKAL JAMARI
MARIA PEREZ CAMPI
CAROLINA SABBAG
