Exclusive HD Footage of Remote China added to NHNZ Moving Images

NHNZ Moving Images this week added to its archive 300 remarkable HD clips from the outer reaches of China.

Canadian adventurers, and brothers, Colin Pyle and Ryan Pyle (G219 Productions) signed up exclusively with NHNZ Moving Images to represent footage captured on their Guinness World Record breaking 18,000 km motorbike ride circumnavigating China - a journey that took 65 days.

NHNZ Moving Images this week launches the G219 collection with over 300 selected clips showcasing the diversity of terrain and cultures the brothers experienced on their journey around China, including imagery from little-known outreaches of western China.

NHNZ Moving Images Manager Caroline Cook says the footage includes imagery from the grasslands of Inner Mongolia to the high plateau deserts of Tibet and will be of particular interest to the factual producers emerging in China and to international producers creating productions out of China for the international broadcast market.

“G219 Productions chose NHNZ Moving Images to represent their footage because of our specialist knowledge of the factual industry, our reputation as a producer, and our commitment to taking very good care of every producer’s collection, including promoting new collections, and maintaining front line standards that make searching for content online at www.nhnzmovingimages.com fast and easy,” says Ms Cook.

Ryan, a professional photographer represented by Corbis Images, and Colin, an entrepreneur and former financier, launched their new production company G219 Productions in order to produce a television documentary of their Middle Kingdom ride, which will be co-produced by NHNZ’s Beijing office in 2012. The name G219 was chosen to commemorate a stretch of the world’s highest and most remote highway in northwestern Tibet, which they collectively refer to as “easily the most exciting and physically shattering stretch of our trip around China by motorcycle”.

The G219 footage is available for licensing worldwide with no restrictions. Contact images@nhnz.tv for free research.

NHNZ SIGNS FOOTAGE DEAL WITH NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNELS WORLDWIDE

National Geographic Channels Worldwide has chosen NHNZ’s Moving Images to be the footage sales agent for more than 20 years of accumulated footage from its blue-chip factual programming library, including hundreds of hours of HD footage.

The film archive deal adds thousands of hours of new footage to NHNZ Moving Images’ collection and provides a goldmine of fresh HD material, says Caroline Cook, Manager of NHNZ Moving Images.

“This is a real coup for NHNZ Moving Images. There is a significant market crying out for archive HD material and to date there hasn’t been a lot of fresh new content out there.

“The NGCI collection contains a huge variety of stunning footage. Unique animal behaviours, amazing establishing shots, aerials, time-lapse, CGI and slow motion shots – you name it and you’ll find it in this collection.”

Germaine Deagan Sweet, Vice President, Global Content Sales at National Geographic Channels, says NGC saw an opportunity to increase its revenue streams for its production investments through licensing.

“National Geographic Channel has a longstanding reputation for brilliant, high-quality imagery, and we wanted to provide producers with a broader opportunity to access the incredible breadth of our inventory with footage that has captivated audiences worldwide.  NHNZ’s Moving Images was a natural fit for this, and National Geographic Channels Worldwide is happy to partner with NHNZ on the venture.”

She says the footage collection represents many award–winning series and programmes including Living Edens, Known Universe, Megastructures, Shark Men, Secret Bible and Perilous Journeys, and spans core genres ranging from natural history and science to culture and engineering.

NHNZ General Manager, John Crawford describes the deal as a “significant boost” to the content of NHNZ’s stock footage library, which already holds over 200,000 hours of footage from its own productions and the many award-winning production houses and filmmakers it represents.

NHNZ Moving Images has been meticulous about selecting clips, and inputting high quality key wording to enable footage buyers to quickly access the NGCI collection through its website www.nhnzmovingimages.com

“We’ve also recently changed our purchasing model,” says Mr Crawford.  “There are no “killing fees”, no minimum order and it sells by the second not the clip. To make viewing and ordering easier entire sequences are placed online rather than breaking them up into short clips.”

For more information contact:
Caroline Cook, Manager NHNZ Moving Images Ph: +64 (0) 3 479 4832