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Saxonia Media Filmproduktions GmbH
Description
The team at Saxonia Media Filmproduktionsgesellschaft mbH is committed to telling emotional stories and explosive topics at the highest cinematic level and thus providing exciting entertainment. The focus is on establishing fictional series, serials and the production of successful television plays.
Saxonia Media is one of Germany's leading series producers and has produced more than 100 Tatorte and Polizeirufe as well as over 40 television and cinema films since 1995. With the series In aller Freundschaft and Tierärztin Dr. Mertens, Saxonia Media produces two of the highest-rated primetime formats on German television. The spin-off In aller Freundschaft - Die jungen Ärzte is one of the most successful formats in ARD's early evening programme. With WaPo Bodensee and WaPo Berlin, Saxonia Media has established a new crime brand in this programme segment since 2017. The children's and youth series Schloss Einstein complements the portfolio and celebrated a very special anniversary with the 1000th episode in 2021.
In 2020, Saxonia Media founded the label RED PONY PICTURES. Together with young and experienced creatives from the film industry, innovative and zeitgeisty fictional series and films - from mainstream to edgy, from national to international - are developed for the world of streaming and online platforms under this label. The series 2 Minuten, produced exclusively for the ARD Mediathek, was nominated for the Grimme Preis 2021 and ran successfully at festivals worldwide. The film Du Sie Er & Wir was produced exclusively for Netflix.
Facts and figures
Founded: 1995
Managing director: Sven Sund
around 30 permanent staff and up to 260 freelancers per year
around 5000 newly produced broadcast minutes per year
around 90,000 minutes on air annually
more than 2200 series episodes, more than 100 crime scenes and police shows, more than 40 films
Casting specialisations
Film, Television