Bavaria Fiction’s documentary unit, based in March 2022, has been spun off as a separate model known as Icon Docs. The unit produces each movies and collection for cinema, TV and streamers.

Along with in-house and commissioned productions, nationwide and worldwide co-productions are set to be more and more produced sooner or later. Icon Docs is headed by Emanuel Rotstein, who will proceed to report back to Marcus Ammon, managing director content material at Bavaria Fiction. 
 
Ammon stated: “Lately, the demand for factual programming has elevated worldwide. We’ve got due to this fact established Ion Docs as an unbiased label within the German and worldwide market with our documentary group centered across the famend management of Emanuel Rotstein.”
 
Rotstein stated: “Icon Docs stands for state-of-the-art initiatives with a distinctive excessive manufacturing and information worth. We need to transfer individuals, shake them up and construct bridges between cultures. With a transparent deal with present, political and investigative subjects, biographies and modern historical past, we create refined content material that deserves the eye of a broad, world viewers.”
 
Icon Docs’ present productions embrace the true-crime documentary “Automobile Park Homicide – Who Killed Charlotte Böhringer?” for Sky and the biopic “Extremely-Orthodox: Rabbi Akiva’s Journey to Freedom” for ZDF and 3sat.

Initiatives in growth embrace “Hitler in Hollywood” (working title), which examines the complicated relationship between Hollywood and Nazi Germany within the Thirties, and “The Park – New York’s Revolutionary Coronary heart” (working title), a documentary about Washington Sq. Park reflecting its historical past “as a spot of change, resistance and the seek for identification – in addition to an area within the combat for freedom and equality,” which takes on a specific poignancy within the gentle of the forthcoming U.S. presidential election, Bavaria Fiction stated.