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INTER MEDYA READIES ‘SAYGI’, ITS SECOND ORIGINAL SERIES Can Okan, Founder and CEO of Inter Medya
Can Okan, founder and CEO of Inter Medya, spoke to ttv about the company’s plans for Mipcom Online+, its focus on miniseries and its growing investments in original production. By Pina Mezzera
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ith the goal of extending and diversifying its catalog, Turkish distributor Inter Medya continues to work on adding new, high-quality titles to its series, formats and feature films slates.
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Within these efforts, Can Okan, founder and CEO of the company, highlights two recent trends that have led him to raise the bar with two types of products: movies and miniseries.
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“Latin America has truly led the way for Turkish distribution in recent years.”
“In recent years, especially in the past few months, the Turkish feature film industry also started to attract great attention from all over the world. In addition, following the popularity of online streaming platforms, mini-series have been on the rise in general. So this year, we have expanded our mini-series catalogue with new and international hits as well,” the CEO said to ttv.
A New Mipcom For Everyone With this in mind, the company is getting ready for a one-of-a-kind edition of Mipcom, where it will showcase its new titles, including the new miniseries ‘Interrupted’.
The romantic drama revolves around a young and idealist journalist named Ozan who loses his life in an unfortunate car crash, and his girlfriend Elif, who will go after the people who took Ozan’s life. And in terms of movies, ‘Miracle in Cell No. 7’ is another one of its most successful titles. “The feature film was watched by 5.2 million moviegoers in Turkey. Set during the early 1980s during Turkey’s coup d’état period, it tells the heartbreaking story of Memo, who lives with his beloved little daughter and grandmother in an Aegean town,” Okan explained. In August, the Turkish film premiered in Mexico on Imagen TV, becoming the most successful movie in the network’s history, drawing in over 3 million viewers. In addition, Inter Medya is also presenting its series ‘The Ambassadors’ Daughter’ at Mipcom, one of the most successful titles of the season, which was already acquired in over 50 territories. Recently, the company sold the series in Spain, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay and Costa Rica, “and 5 more countries that we will an-
