Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefRaven Capital management, the U.S. private equity firm that last year acquired distributor Open Road, is to finance a slate of TV projects from South East Asia’s Coconuts.The arrangement will kick-off with pilots for seven unscripted TV shows.
Raven and Coconuts TV will partner on global licensing and distribution deals for the series.Coconuts TV is part of the Thailand and Singapore-based Coconuts digital publishing group, headed by Byron Perry.
With smart tabloid taste, the group likes to focus on “weird and wondrous” untold stories from Asia.The company’s credits include marijuana docu-series “Highland,” sold to Netflix in 2017; the hard-hitting short-docu variety show “Coconuts TV on IFLIX,” commissioned.
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