Former NDF Chief Eric Welbers Launches Bravado Media (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features Editor Eric Welbers, who served as managing director of the production company NDF until the end of March, has set up the internationally focused content company Bravado Media, with headquarters in Munich.
Bravado has acquired all of NDF’s shares in Italy’s Viola Film (an 80% stake), headed by Alessandro Passadore, and Belgium-based Bravado Fiction (also an 80% stake), headed by Jan Theys, and Welbers is increasing his stake in NDF Intl.
Production, which he will continue to run together with Matthias Walter. The new company will make its first market appearance at next week’s trade fair for audiovisual content Mipcom in Cannes. “Bravado Media will be a contemporary, modern content house: internationally positioned, open-formatted, story-driven, content-oriented,” Welbers said. “Whether it be high-quality TV movies or films for streamers, event series for private and public service partners and, of course, for streaming services.
With its unique network of creativity and competence, Bravado will help producers and broadcasters to realize exciting stories.” Bravado already has an extensive portfolio of new productions in place to accompany its launch: Welbers has collaborated with Frank Doelger of Intaglio Films to produce a high-end series adaptation of Frank Schätzing’s bestselling novel “The Swarm” with NDF Intl.
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