Janson Media today announced that the Spanish-language home and lifestyle channel Casa Club TV has renewed the rights to air 45 episodes of the tasty series Bake Decorate Celebrate! (45 x 30′). Brand new episodes from Season 8 of Bake Decorate Celebrate! feature exciting segments like “Funky Fondant”, “Just For Kids” and “Chocolate Art”. As per the deal, episodes are scheduled to air in Latin American territories including Brazil and Portugal.

Produced by Wilton Industries, Bake Decorate Celebrate! is an exciting television series that features dessert decorating ideas and techniques for every occasion. The show combines elements of cooking, lifestyle, and how-to, creating an exciting program guaranteed to appeal to a broad range of viewers. Co-hosts, Nancy Siler and Melanie Glasscock welcome viewers into the Bake Decorate Celebrate! kitchen to show viewers how to create wonderful cakes, cookies, cupcakes and other edible treats that taste just as good as they look. A different theme is featured weekly including everything from Children’s Birthdays, to homemade Tarts, Cheesecakes and Appetizers.

Based in Woodridge, Illinois, and founded in 1929, Wilton Industries is the leading food crafting company in the industry, with the number one position in cake decorating and bakeware. Today, Wilton offers the industry´s most comprehensive and innovative selection of baking, cake decorating, candy making, cookie making, wedding and seasonal products.

Launched in 1997 in Latin America and debuted in the United States in 2003, Casa Club TV is a unique 24-hour Spanish-language channel designed for the U.S. Hispanic community by U.S. Latinos. The network’s mission is to deliver a high-quality television viewing experience centering on cooking, gardening, interior design, architecture and lifestyle. The networks programming schedule includes shows like Feliz Navidad Con Martha Stewart, 123 Rebecca with Rebecca Rincon and Rich Bride Poor Bride. Casa Club TV is currently seen in more than six million households in Latin America and Brazil. Casa Club TV is owned, operated and distributed by MGM Networks Latin America, LLC.

Based in Miami, MGM Networks Latin America, LLC is an alliance between MGM Networks, a division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (NYSE: MGM), and UnitedGlobalCom. Inc. (NASDAQ: UCOMA). In addition to Casa Club TV and http://www.casaclubtv.com, MGM Networks Latin America owns, operates and distributes MGM in Spanish and MGM in Portuguese in Latin America and Brazil, respectively.

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Janson Media announced today that it has licensed the investigative documentary Independent Intervention: Breaking Silence (1 x 52′) to the Iranian television network,  Press TV. The award-winning documentary about U.S. corporate-controlled media coverage of the Iraq War is produced by Ground Productions.

Independent Intervention is an award-winning documentary about corporate-controlled media coverage of the Iraq War. Focusing on the human costs of war, the film contrasts mainstream media’s coverage of the invasion of Iraq with independent media reports of the brutal realities on the ground.

Independent Intervention is the recepient of the  Roy W. Dean Finishing Award, Bronze Audience Award.

Press TV takes revolutionary steps as the first Iranian international news network, broadcasting in English on a round-the-clock basis. Our global Tehran-based headquarters is staffed with outstanding Iranian and foreign media professionals. Press TV is extensively networked with bureaus located in the world’s most strategic cities.

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Janson Media announced today that it has licensed the World War II documentary Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots of WWII (1 x 113′) to CCTV of China.  The film will air on the network’s science and education channel, CCTV-10.

Narrated by Hal Holbrook, Silent Wings – The American Glider Pilots of WWII reveals the critical role gliders played in World War II offensives. Thousands of lives were saved and battles won because of their efforts.

From the early race to build gliders to the D-Day invasion at Normandy and Nazi Germany’s final surrender, Silent Wings – The American Glider Pilots of WWII reveals the critical role gliders played in World War II offensives. Through rare archival footage and photographs, the film places the audience right at the center of the action in the dangerous world of the American glider pilot.

During World War II, 6,000 young Americans volunteered to fly large unarmed cargo gliders into battle. For these glider pilots every mission was do-or-die. It was their task to repeatedly risk their lives landing the men and tools of war deep within enemy-held territory, often in complete darkness. Catch a rare first hand look into the grueling battle and the brave men who fought it in this informative release.

CCTV-10 is the science and education channel of the television network, CCTV in the People’s Republic of China.

Janson Media today announced the release of the powerful award-winning film Water First: The Global Water Crisis (1 x 45′) to worldwide television, VOD, DVD, new media and non-theatrical markets. Water First releases in support of World Water Week, a five-day event encouraging people worldwide to conserve water and raise money to improve access to clean water. For more information about the initiative and instructions on how to contribute your voice, please visit Water.org

Filmed on location in Malawi, Water First is a character-driven film that conveys the importance of clean water and sanitation in addressing all major global issues and achieving the Millennium Development Goals set forth by the UN to reduce poverty in developing nations. Through the inspiring story of Charles Banda, a humble Malawian fireman turned waterman, we see how water is a solution to many of the problems in his impoverished, sub-Saharan country.

Water First draws a clear correlation between clean water and all of the other Millennium Development Goals. The goals are a set of 8 targets set by the UN in the year 2000 and endorsed by 187 nations. Sadly, at the halfway mark, we are less than halfway there. Charles Banda believes that if more people knew about the MDGs we would have a much better chance of achieving them. And, if clean water was the top priority, achieving the goals would be much more feasible. “30% of the goals would automatically be achieved if everyone had clean water,” says John Oldfield of Water Advocates.

Filmmaker, Amy Hart not only produced and directed the film, she also shot most of it and edited herself. The project has forged a strong relationship with Charles Banda and Freshwater Project Malawi. Water First gets to the heart of the global water and sanitation crisis,” writes David Douglas, President of Water Advocates. “Through the story of one man in a single African country, Hart documents how development springs from access to safe drinking water. With filmmaking that may save lives, Hart chronicles water’s link to health, girls’ education, environmental protection, women’s empowerment and economic productivity.”

Hart Productions is dedicated to creating films that address pressing global issues – especially those concerning water, women, children and the environment. Founded by Amy Hart in the early ’90s, Hart Productions began as a theater company and brought original plays to the UN Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, the World Social Forum in Copenhagen and several theater festivals in the states and abroad. The company now produces documentary and feature films.

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Awards and Festivals

International Jury Award, International Water and Film Festival, World Water Forum
Fulbright Cultural Exchange Award, EcoFilm Festival, Rodos, Greece
Environmental Film Festival In The Nation’s Capital
Maryland Film Festival
Global Peace Film Festival
Colorado Environmental Film Festival
Pan African Film Festival, Los Angeles
Starz Pan African Film Festival, Denver
Bergen International Film Festival
Cinespot Environmental Film Festival, Montpelier, France
Cortopotere Film Festival, Bergamo, Italy
UN Environmental Programme Award Film Festival, Istanbul
Voices from the Waters Film Festival, Bangalore
Ulisphotofest, Istanbul
Africala Film Festival, Mexico City
Verviers au Film de l’Eau, Verviers, Belgium
Food and Water-Global Hunger Conference, Chicago IL
Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival
Cascade Festival of African Films

Janson Media today announced its slate of programming for MIPTV 2012, to be held in Cannes next month, April 1st through 4th. The company is at MIPTV for the 23rd consecutive year, exhibiting at its Stand #R34.03, in the Riviera Hall of the Palais des Festivals.  Company president Stephen Janson may be reached at the Grand Hotel while in Cannes. Sales associates Tracey Doran-Carter and Lyn Siew, and consultant Joan Lence will also be on hand. To schedule an appointment please email us or use this online form.  For clients not attending MIPTV this year, DVD and digital screeners of all Janson Media titles are available upon request.

Crossing Borders (1 x 72′) is our acclaimed new feature documentary that follows four Moroccan and four American university students as they travel together through Morocco and, in the process of discovering “The Other,” discover themselves. Although filmed in an MTV “Real World”-style, the documentary looks at serious real-world issues.

The Wereth Eleven (1 x 60′) is a riveting new docudrama narrated by Corey Reynolds (The Closer) that recounts the heroic battle waged by the African-American  333rd Field Artillery Battalion against the massed attacking German army at the start of the Battle of the Bulge and the dramatic escape made by 11 soldiers were captured and massacred at Wereth, Belgium by Hitler’s most ruthless soldiers, the SS.

USS Franklin: Honor Restored  (1 x 71′ and 1 x 60′) is a documentary which tells the complete story of “The Ship That Wouldn’t Die,” the aircraft carrier that survived a direct hit by a Japanese armor-piecing bomb off the coast of Japan in March 1945. In an instant the crew’s lives were changed forever and the events that followed would make the story of “Big Ben” one of the most dramatic and inspiring in naval history. The film is narrated by actor Dale Dye (Saving Private Ryan).

Betsy’s Kindergarten Adventures (24 x 30′) This animation series, told from the perspective of 5-year old Betsy, is designed to ease a child’s transition from the home to school  by generating interest and excitement about the kindergarten experience. Winner of the 2010 Parent’s Choice Award. Broadcast nationwide on PBS Kids.

Essential Pepin (26 x 30′) is the newest cooking series from the legendary French-American chef Jacques Pepin. It includes everything that is essential to Jacques — his love of food and cooking, his teaching and mentoring, and his family and friends. Broadcast nationwide on PBS.

Aligned and Well (14 x 30′) is a new health and wellness exercise series created by bio-mechanist, Katy Bowman, which introduces the Biomechanical Model of Preventative Medicine. Based on physics, physiology, anatomy, and engineering, the method explains how many common, expensive ailments are a result of poor motor skills and can be corrected through diligent practice of simple movements.

Hong Kong, Macau and Guangdong: Quest for Harmony and The Matterhorn: Quest for the Water Castle are the 10th and 11th titles in the spectacular Richard Bangs’ Adventures with Purpose (11 x 60′) series of literate high-definition travel documentaries.

Wild Photo Adventures (13 x 30’) Tag along with host and professional photographer Doug Gardner to great locations to photograph wildlife, its behavior and its environment. The first wildlife and nature photography television show of its kind, viewers can expect useful tips on where to go, how to find wild subjects and how to photograph them in new and creative ways.

Spirit Lands: An American Desert Odyssey (1 x 52′) is a visual and musical journey to some of the most spectacular, beautiful and awe-inspiring natural wonders of the American desert.  Emmy Award-winning Fortney, whose filmography also includes Timeless: A National Parks Odyssey (1 x 52′), is highly regarded for his breathtaking achievements in cinematography, and his talent for creating  films that are an exquisite marriage of film and music.

Travel With Kids (49 x 30′) The Roberts family is back on the road… this time traveling to Peru, Italy, Greece and Mexico in Season 4.  Travel With Kids is full of entertaining yet practical travel adventure programs featuring two real-life kid brothers and their mom and dad. Season 5 is now in post-production.

Janson Media’s Emmy award-winning current affairs documentary, Split Estate, airing in the U.S. on the Sundance Channel, takes on the environmental issue of “fracking” (hydraulic fracturing), as citizens in the path of a natural gas drilling boom in the USA struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their communities and their health.

Last-minute additions to the portfolio include:

Living the Blues (1 x 60′) An intimate look into the lives of nine great artists that are living and playing the blues, telling their stories of struggle and hardship through portraits and songs from the roots of America.

Live from the Northside Tavern (1 x 60′) A night full of live blues music from the world-renowned club in Atlanta, Georgia, with blues styles ranging from the aquatic pemount style to some extraordinary electric blues. Featuring artists from Taj Mahal to Beverly Guitar Watkins, Cora Mae Bryant, Cool John Ferguson, Sammy Blue, Little Pink Anderson, Mr. Frank Edwards, Mud Cat, Cootie Starks, Neal Pattman, and Shelton Poe.

A Gift from the Desert: The Arabian Horse (1 x 60′) This fascinating documentary is a soaring panorama of the horse that began in Arabia and went on to create Empires and champions.  Here is the story of the development of the Arabian horse breed, from its earliest days until the present, including rare footage filmed in the Kingdom, and young Arabic women riding horses. Filmed on location in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Great Britain, Kentucky, and California.

Living River: The Ganges (1 x 60′) A groundbreaking and up-close look at the ecological scourge threatening the revered Ganges River in India.  The film presents an unexplored and authentic view of the river and people struggling with change. The pollution is a red flag for fresh water rivers around the world suffering from endemic problems of improper and inadequate treatment plants, illegal activities by chemical industries along riverbanks, improper oversight by government regulatory agencies, corruption, and lack of public awareness.

Water First: The Global Water Crisis (1 x 45 or 1 x 28′) This documentary, filmed in Africa, is the perfect primer on the global challenge of providing universal access to safe drinking water and sanitation.

Finally, for those who can’t get enough “how-to” lifestyle programming, Janson Media brings new seasons to the market of Quilting Arts TV,  Knitting Daily TV,   Hands on Crafts for Kids, the jewelry-making series Beads, Baubles and Jewels, a series for scrapbooking enthusiasts, Scrapbook Memories and the popular baking and cake-decorating series, Bake Decorate Celebrate!  The company has added a sewing series to its catalog called It’s Sew Easy.

For more information on MIPTV 2012 please visit the international content market’s official website.

Janson Media announced today that it has licensed Split Estate (1 x 76′) to OASIS HD of Canada. The buzz-worthy film has garnered more than 100 print, radio, and television articles and interviews, as well as hundreds of blog posts on the web.

Produced by Red Rock Pictures, the investigative film examines the lives of ordinary citizens victimized by oil and gas companies cashing in on the Rocky Mountain West natural gas drilling boom of the last decade. The critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning project captures the disconnect between energy development and environmental health that has left the health of surrounding communities compromised beyond their control.

Imagine discovering that you don’t own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas two hundred feet from your front door. Imagine having little recourse, other than accepting an unregulated industry in your backhttp://www.janson.com/wp/wp-admin/post-new.phpyard. Narrated by actress Ali McGraw, Split Estate maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the Rocky Mountain West struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their communities and their health.

Zeroing in on Garfield County, Colorado, and the San Juan Basin, this clarion call for accountability examines the growing environmental and social costs to an area now referred to as a “National Sacrifice Zone.”

Split Estate won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft – Research, the Florence Neilson Environmental Leadership Award, and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson’s New Vision Award.

OASIS HD™ is owned and operated by High Fidelity HDTV™, Canada’s leading HD broadcaster. OASIS HD is the first nature channel commited to continuous, clutter-free programming, showcasing the endless beauty of the natural world. OASIS HD lets viewers explore, reflect, and embrace the essence of our exquisite planet, with stories woven together from the finest Canadian and international documentary programming available.

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Today, Janson Media celebrates Black History Month and its purpose of educating and reminding Americans of the critical contributions African Americans have made in our country’s history. Janson is proud to offer a diverse selection of content that documents some of the most inspirational stories and movements from the African American timeline. Those compelling experiences which were vital America’s evolution are captured in the following titles.

The Wereth Eleven (1 x 60′) is an ambitious docudrama based on the true story of eleven African-American soldiers who were ruthlessly murdered by the Nazi SS during the Battle of the Bulge. The film weaves exciting visual effects, never before seen archival footage, and compelling interviews to detail one of the least known atrocities committed during World War II.

Proudly We Served (1 x 58′) is the thrilling true story of the USS Mason (DE 529) and its crew, the only African-American sailors to take a U.S. Navy warship into battle during World War II.

Racehoss: The Life of Albert Race Sample (1 x 141′) is the story of a man that emerged from an angry young man with an abusive childhood on a straight path to the penitentiary. Born in 1930 in Texas, Sample was the mixed-race son of Emma (a hard-drinking black prostitute and gambler) and Mr. Albert (a wealthy white cotton broker and one of her tricks).

The Greatest Journey’s on Earth: South Africa (1 x 48′) follows the story of Vuyisilli Mini, a political activist and composer of many South African freedom songs in the moments  he was condemned to death. As he sung his way to the gallows with his self penned songs, Mini proved that you can kill a man, but his song lives on.

Whispers of Angels: A Story About the Underground Railroad (1 x 60′) tells the story of three defiant, brave and free abolitionists Thomas Garrett, William Still and Harriet Tubman, whom along with hundreds of lesser known and nameless opponents of slavery, formed a Corridor of Courage stretching from Maryland’s eastern shore through the length of Delaware to Philadelphia and beyond — making the Underground Railroad a real route to freedom for enslaved Americans before the Civil War.

For a fourth consecutive year, Janson Media will have a presence at the World Content Market in Prague, Czech Republic, from February 20th through 22nd. This year Katya Thornton, International Sales Executive, will represent the company, meeting with both new and established clients, primarily from Eastern European territories, as well as Russia, the Ukraine and other CIS states. The company’s exhibitor’s office and screening room will be located in Suite #1210 of the Mövenpick Hotel. To schedule an appointment with Ms. Katya Thornton in Prague, please email market4tv@gmail.com   

Launched by Elena Sunbeam in 2008, the World Content Market is a three-day international event for television, film, DVD/home video, mobile, interactive, broadband and any other new media content providers and buyers worldwide. The trade show promotes a relaxed, professional environment centered on individual face-to-face interaction. Anticipating more than 400 sales executives, and 600 acquisition executives from over 50 countries, the World Content Market expects more than 1000 total participants in 2012.

Established in 1989, Janson Media is an independent production and distribution company based in the United States, with a rights portfolio of over 1,500 hours of exclusive programming available for licensing to worldwide television, VOD, DVD/video, non-theatric, and emerging new media markets, and a publisher/ manufacturer of award-winning DVDs. The company has licensed programming to virtually every country in the world, and its clients include most major broadcasters and media companies.

Prague (Praha) is the capital of the Czech Republic, and has been a political, cultural and economic center of Europe and particularly eastern Europe for over 1,100 years. The city is home to a number of famous cultural attractions, many of which survived the violence and destruction of 20th century Europe. Since 1992, the extensive historic center of Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites, making it one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe.

Janson Media announced today that its has licensed the series All Bird TV (26 x 24′) to Reel Corporation Australia Pty Ltd. Per the agreement Reel Corporation obtains Home Video Rights of  for the Australian/New Zealand Territory. The adventurous weekly series allows viewers to experience the best birdwatching locations around the world, with locations everywhere from the tropics Costa Rica to the Arizona desert.

In this popular weekly series, ornithologist and “celebrity bird man” Ken Dial takes viewers on adventures in birdwatching across North and Central America. The series originally aired on Animal Planet, and on Discovery Channels worldwide.

Reel Corporation is an independent Australian film distributor. Established in 1990, Reel Corporation distributes many films, children programmes and television series. The company also deals with independent studio film content titles which would receive limited release in cinemas.

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Janson Media announced today that it has licensed the animated series Betsy’s Kindergarten Adventures (24 x 30′) to Zebra TV’s HOP! Channel Ltd of Israel. The Hop! Preschool Channel serves as a unique entertainment and education source for Israeli children ages 1-7.

Told from the perspective of 5-year old Betsy, Betsy’s Kindergarten Adventures is designed to ease a child’s transition from the home setting to a school environment by generating interest and excitement about the kindergarten experience in young viewers. Nationally aired on PBS Kids, Betsy’s Kindergarten Adventures was voted one of TV Guide’s “Must See” shows. Betsy’s Kindergarten Adventures was also awarded with a prestigious Parent Choice Award for TV Series in 2010 and 2011.

Developed for ages 2-6, Betsy’s Kindergarten Adventures series also presents academic lessons to the audience. Each show is comprised of two activities drawn from the kindergarten experience, a behavioral or basic moral and an educational component.  The viewer is shown a practical application of the lesson, while being entertained by the adventures of the story.  Betsy combines endearing quality entertainment, with true function as it addresses a want in the market for programming that parents can feel confident in allowing their children to watch, while teachers can use the academic based curriculum.

Zebra TV Channels Ltd. is a leading media company, providing content for multiple platforms and sustaining a 360 degree spectrum as an innovative pioneer, operating specialty channels on cable, DBS, internet, and VOD services. All of Zebra Communications’ endeavors are developed with the help of leading educational experts and media specialists, ensuring that each and every one of the services provided by the company is in a class of its own. Zebra TV Channels Ltd. offers channels and services to preschool children, toddlers, and their parents with constant care and commitment to quality, including Hop! and Boom Hop!, Luli, Hop! Parents, Hop! VOD, Hop! on the Israeli Channel in the US, Hop! El Al and Hop! Learning.

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