UFA, the German production giant owned by Fremantle, is doubling down on documentaries and setting up a new unit, UFA Documentary, to focus on high-end non-fiction for the German and international market.
Gwendolin Szyszkowitz-Schwingel and Marc Lepetit will run UFA Documentary as co-managing directors. The unit will sit alongside the company's other three production divisions, UFA Fiction, UFA Serial Drama and UFA Show & Factual, and focus on the development and production of feature-length documentaries, high-end docudramas and serial features.
UFA has made a major push into documentaries in recent years and found success with docudramas, including Hannelore Kohl — Die Erste Frau — about the life of the long-serving "first lady" and wife.
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