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Berlin / Potsdam – The new media funding is launching the next round of the matchmaking event series for broadcasters and producers from the capital region BERLIN PRODUCERS TO MEET – for the second time with Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland. With this format, this time as a digital edition, Medienboard would like to continue and expand the creative exchange between producers from Berlin-Brandenburg and Mediengruppe RTL in 2021. Mediengruppe RTL has been a broadcasting partner of Medienboard’s new media funding since 2020.

The event will be held digitally on 28 and 29 April 2021. After a joint kick-off, the participants have the opportunity to pitch their ideas to the broadcaster representatives in one-on-one meetings. The best ideas have the chance to receive development funding and to further develop the project idea together with Mediengruppe RTL and Medienboard. The focus is on small and medium-sized enterprises from Berlin and Brandenburg that are able to implement both the development and the production of their series idea. The initiative is looking for unique serial non-fictional formats – from reports to factuals to documentary series. The deadline for applications is 26 March 2021. Find more information here.

Stated Helge Jürgens, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg managing director for new media funding: “The next edition with our broadcasting partner Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland is imminent. A strong partner when it comes to strong content, and that’s what we have in Berlin-Brandenburg! With this joint event, we want to discover unusual, innovative factual formats and bring the creative minds behind them together with the potential evaluator. We are looking forward to 28 and 29 April, when once again the motto will be: ‘It’s a match!’”

Stated Henning Tewes, Managing Director RTL Television and Co-Managing Director TVNOW: “In the first round of ‘Berlin Producers to Meet’, we were already presented with numerous, exciting non-fiction format ideas for our linear channels and TVNOW. Three pitches particularly impressed us and were awarded a development budget. One project is about to be piloted. This shows how much creative and innovative potential Berlin-Brandenburg has. In cooperation with Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, we are happy to be able to enter into direct exchange with the region’s creatives through this format and are already very excited about the continuation.”

About Mediengruppe RTL

With its portfolio of 14 strong channel brands and the streaming service TVNOW, Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland is the leading provider of video content in Germany. In addition to TVNOW, the group’s digital brands include the news service ntv and the general interest portal RTL.de. With its channels and platforms, Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland reaches up to 65 million viewers per month on linear TV and up to an additional 39.11 million users with its digital offerings. The fast-growing streaming service TVNOW offers more than 47,000 hours of programming and is the leading German streaming service with up to 5.95 million UUs (agof daily digital facts, 03/2020) and up to 41 million visits (IVW, 09/2020).

About Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg is the place to go for the film and media industry in the German capital region. In recent years, the region has developed into a creative and up-and-coming location for the production of bold, forward-looking serial formats. Medienboard supports this development by funding series in the areas of fiction, entertainment and factual.