Da Vinci Media GmbH Press Kit: South Africa

ABOUT DA VINCI MEDIA GmbH DA VINCI MEDIA GmbH is an independent media group, providing audio-visual education via television. It was founded in 2007 by Ferdinand Habsburg and is an entirely independent company, offering and reassuring the program, focused to quality content. The head-quarters of the company are in Berlin, Germany.

Television program Da Vinci Learning was the first media project by Da Vinci Media GmbH, launching first in CEE countries and in CIS countries. Today it is also available in multiple markets in Asia. In South Africa the channel is in OpenView HD, South Africa’s first and only free-to-air satellite television platform. Currently Da Vinci Learning can be viewed by 14 million subscribers across the world. The TV channel is localized in majority of countries, where it is present.

ABOUT DA VINCI LEARNING For curious minds, Da Vinci Learning television program is passionate about offering fascinating & inspiring quality learning experiences.

Embodying the spirit of Leonardo da Vinci, everything Da Vinci Learning does feeds the human thirst for knowledge, curiosity and discovery. The way Da Vinci Learning feeds this desire is by providing easy access to entertaining, thought-provoking and educational information in a multi-media environment. Awarded educational shows and documentaries from around the world are selected carefully to enable the viewers of different age groups a pleasure to enjoy the topics like nature, technology, science, discoverers, civilizations, chemistry and many more that capture the world we live in. The lifelong learning of Da Vinci Learning is an entertaining and imaginative adventure that encourages everybody to find out more and get excited about science and art.

Da Vinci Media GmbH Mehringdamm 55, 3.Hof 10961 Berlin, Germany Phone +49 (0)30 4050 468-0 - Fax +49 (0)30 4050 468-16 Mail: info@davincitv.net www.da-vinci-learning.com

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OUR SHOWS We are committed to offering programs inviting for audiences of all ages, from our littlest geniuses to their greatest grandparents.

Playful characters help our youngest viewers build essential skills in all sorts of fields like math, science, biology, geography, history. Engrossing documentaries make the most complicated topics accessible to anyone. Our family series travel through time and around the globe, capturing imaginations. Adults can enjoy evenings when we take a look inside most interesting stories from technology, biographies of big minds, scientific highlights, known universities, events that shaped our belief or just about anything you always wanted to know. Da Vinci Learning creates an environment where every member of the family finds the opportunity for personal growth.

SEAMLESS LEARNING FOR EVERYONE! Mornings and early afternoons on Da Vinci Learning are dedicated to children, late afternoons and early evenings to the whole family and the evenings to adults. Programs with fascinating experiments parents and children can do together and intriguing journeys through space and time, create an environment for families to share their adventures in learning. Because learning shouldn´t have an age limit.

Da Vinci Learning creates an environment where the family members can watch, learn and discuss together. Viewing interesting, fun-educational shows about the world around us stimulates discussion among family members and enhances the understanding and remembering of the content. Da Vinci Learning makes knowledge TV an exciting and inspiring event!

Thematically designed as educational television, the channel´s selective program criteria guarantees engaging, non-violent content suitable also for young children.

Da Vinci Media GmbH Mehringdamm 55, 3.Hof 10961 Berlin, Germany Phone +49 (0)30 4050 468-0 - Fax +49 (0)30 4050 468-16 Mail: info@davincitv.net www.da-vinci-learning.com

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Some of our popular TV shows Kids A half hour series blending live action and animation to show kids that art is everywhere and that there is an artist in each one of them!

Artzooka! provides audiences with traditional techniques in unconventional ways and teaches children to draw outside the lines and create their own masterpieces. The works created represent a broad spectrum of art including digital movies, silk-screened t-shirts and lamps made from oranges!

An exciting new series for kids 8-12 that introduces a younger audience to science through adventure presenting a wide range of topics guaranteed to capture the imagination of kids. Who can resist learning more about the future of living underwater?

Ever wonder how the magic of movie making works?

Or what it takes for a detective to investigate a crime scene?

These and other questions will be researched, investigated and answered by our energetic young explorers Andrew and Paula.

With its innovative animation style, Time Compass, leads children and adults alike to fall in love with history. Significant events from across the globe and throughout the ages are portrayed in an easily-digestible, kid-friendly way. Laugh your way through time travel, rediscovering the great feats of Islam, Ancient Egypt, Classical Greece, Incas, Aztecs, Imperial Rome, Ancient China, India and other.

Older and younger viewers adore this classic animated series.

Through animated figurines and with the help of the leading storyteller, Maestro, different topics such as the human body and its functions; the history of man, discoverers and explorers; planet Earth are told in a fun but educational way.

Da Vinci Media GmbH Mehringdamm 55, 3.Hof 10961 Berlin, Germany Phone +49 (0)30 4050 468-0 - Fax +49 (0)30 4050 468-16 Mail: info@davincitv.net www.da-vinci-learning.com

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Some of our popular TV shows Entire family James May´s Big Ideas is a three-part series in which the journalist James May travels the globe in search of inventors making science fiction a reality. He looks for brighter, more powerful and technologically forward-thinking sources of energy, explores the world of cyborgs, robots, robotics and the difficulties of making an artificial version of human beings. And is finding a better, bolder way of transportation or getting from point A to B.

You never know when you’ll be lost in the wild with four of your closest friends with nothing to save you but your wit and wisdom. But with a few materials, some scientific know-how and a good dose of ingenuity, a precarious situation can turn into a memorable adventure. Rough Science brings together five scientists, drops them in nature and challenges them to perform amazing feats. Catch the lunar eclipse from a rugged mountainside. Pan for gold in New Zealand. Reconstruct a U-boat to sail the seas. Find out just how useful science can be.

Presenter Professor Jim Al-Khalili reveals how electricity not only powers our lives, but underpins every aspect of technological advancement. He will discuss how a diverse collection of people learned to create, store and move electricity, not only for heating and lighting, but also to convey information over vast distances. It allowed almost instantaneous communication across the seas and through the air, to connect people across the world in ways unimagined before. It supercharged the progress of science in every other field and is now the lifeblood of the modern world.

Da Vinci Media GmbH Mehringdamm 55, 3.Hof 10961 Berlin, Germany Phone +49 (0)30 4050 468-0 - Fax +49 (0)30 4050 468-16 Mail: info@davincitv.net www.da-vinci-learning.com

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Some of our popular TV shows Adults Countries are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.

Unemployment is out of control. And anger at the world’s financial system is leading to riots. All this is happening at a time when economists are becoming more influential.

Do they really know what they are doing? Follow different approaches and analysis in this three-part series that brings you Keynes, Hayek and Marx closer to understanding of economy and the consequences we are facing today.

Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, escorts viewers through the history of this most important of all intellectual disciplines. In a journey that takes him through the ages and around the world, he examines the development of key mathematical ideas and shows how, in a multitude of surprising ways, mathematical ideas underpin the science, technology, and culture that shape our world.

Explores different historical aspects of how the industrialization in Great Britain and other countries affected the world. Topics such as how the rapid urbanization in the 19th century changed society structure, how the new technology affected both modern medicine and warfare are on the programme in this fascinating and educational series.

Da Vinci Media GmbH Mehringdamm 55, 3.Hof 10961 Berlin, Germany Phone +49 (0)30 4050 468-0 - Fax +49 (0)30 4050 468-16 Mail: info@davincitv.net www.da-vinci-learning.com

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DVL AS FUN-EDUCATIONAL TOOL Sometimes it can be hard finding suitable sources that deepen the knowledge or simply explain the seemingly complicated topics taught in school. Various ways of presenting one idea like writing, video, learning-by-doing can significantly enhance child´s possibility to understand and to remember. If you are looking for the additional, easy to comprehend presentation of school topics, you will find Da Vinci Learning as an educational tool that makes your young forget about the process of learning, but rather do it in a seamless way.

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ONLINE WORLD Da Vinci Learning online is the world of endless activities for adults and children: experiments one can do at home, crafts that can be created alone or in a family circle, games played or quizzes taken. Our Parent’s Corner includes many ideas on how to make the little time families spend together true quality time. Tips that help parents being more confident with their children in front of computers or TV sets, how to arousing a child’sare just a couple of suggestions.

Children can become members of the Little Genius Club and access even more creative scientific activities. Stepping into an elevator and exploring nature, the human body, culture, technology and space explains more about the world around us.

for Everyone: www.da-vinci-learning.com for Kids: www.kids.da-vinci-learning.com

Da Vinci Media GmbH Mehringdamm 55, 3.Hof 10961 Berlin, Germany Phone +49 (0)30 4050 468-0 - Fax +49 (0)30 4050 468-16 Mail: info@davincitv.net www.da-vinci-learning.com

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DA VINCI LEARNING EVENTS We create opportunities for children and their parents to “touch science”. In most of the countries where we are present you can find fun scientists making experiments and showing you how physics and chemistry are essential parts of our daily lives and how they can spark ideas also in your kitchen.

Check our website www.da-vinci-learning.com to see if there might be an event coming up in your country soon.

Invite your family members for a meeting with science they will never forget!

CONTACTS At Da Vinci Learning we are aware of the importance of people behind the channel. Parents in our team understand what children look for, how they respond to their enviroment and what sort of presentation of topics is useful in certain period of chilhood. Specialists with years of working experience travel around the world to find the most suitable content for our viewers. This is why adults too can enjoy the quality stories of just about any topic of their interest. Cultural and national diversity of our team members results in better understanding of local needs. The “pleasure to learn” becomes obvious nor only for our viewers - making sure kids, adults and parents learn more and grow personally with Da Vinci Learning contributes to a better quality of life of each member or our team.

Marketing

PR

Sales

Lukasz Gozdzik +49 (0) 30 40 50 46 8 - 33 lgozdzik@davincitv.net

Tina Parazajda +49 (0) 30 40 50 46 8 - 30 tparazajda@davincitv.net

Petya Dapkova +49 (0) 30 40 50 46 8 - 32 pdapkova@davincitv.net

Head of Networks

Legal affairs

James Ramsay +49 (0) 30 40 50 46 8 - 28 jramsay@davincitv.net

Tobia Birnbickel +49 (0) 30 40 50 46 8 - 27 tbirnbickel@davincitv.net

Da Vinci Media GmbH Mehringdamm 55, 3.Hof 10961 Berlin, Germany Phone +49 (0)30 4050 468-0 - Fax +49 (0)30 4050 468-16 Mail: info@davincitv.net www.da-vinci-learning.com