From ‘The Real Mo Farah’ to ‘The Dawn Wall,’ Blue Ant Studios Adds Standout Red Bull Studios Titles

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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Blue Ant Studios has struck an exclusive worldwide distribution rights deal to select series and films from Austria’s Red Bull Studios as Blue Ant drives ever more into third-party content.

The titles will be presented to buyers at a Blue Ant Studios’ showcase on Feb. 27 at this week’s London TV Screenings. Primarily doc features ranging over 60-120 minutes, plus docuseries “Compton Magic” from Lightbox, the Red Bull titles amp up Blue Ant’s offer of top-tier sports and adventure documentaries joining its library of over 7,500 hours of programming.

Acquisitions take in some of the highest-caliber last decade titles from Red Bull Studios, the content division of the energy drink brand Red Bull.

Among standouts are “Anna Gasser: The Spark Within” (2021), a portrait of what drives the two-time Big air Olympic gold medalist, a gymnast turned skateboarder who took sport to a new technical level, pioneering the triple cork; and “The Dawn Wall” (2017), the record of a milestone in big wall free climbing, when in 2015 Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson ascended the towering buttress of El Capitan in Yosemite.