NEW YORK, Dec. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, The FRONT, a female-founded, progressive production studio and cultural force, announced a continued partnership with the iconic science, exploration, and storytelling brand National Geographic Partners. The partnership leverages The FRONT's vision and expertise in premium long-form digital production to support select video-driven initiatives and follows on the launch of Wild Life with Bertie Gregory, Nat Geo Wild's first digital series developed and produced by The FRONT.
As a development and production partner, The FRONT is supporting long-form digital production on a number of National Geographic Partners projects including:
-- Wild Life with Bertie Gregory: Seasons 2 and 3 of Nat Geo WILD's first digital series, hosted by Bertie Gregory.
-- Untamed: Wildlife filmmaker Filipe DeAndrade and friends travel in search of Costa Rica's most diverse, iconic and unexpected animal species.
-- Genius: Promotional work for season 2 of NatGeo's Genius series.
-- Perpetual Planet: A collaboration with Rolex to promote exploration and conservation.
"The FRONT's mission is to elevate underrepresented perspectives in filmmaking that are so important for innovation and transforming culture. We seek out stories and partners with purpose, edge, and that span platforms," said Thalia Mavros, Founder and CEO of The FRONT. "That's why we we're thrilled to bring these projects to bear on one of the most compelling subjects of today — our natural world — in partnership with one of the most important media brands for understanding the changing planet: National Geographic."
"At National Geographic, we seek out opportunities to team up with passionate and talented creators who represent the diversity of the audiences we reach," said Jonathan Hunt, Senior Vice President of Audience Development, National Geographic Partners. "We look forward to continuing our partnership with The FRONT, whose creativity and vision will help us bring our fans around the world even more cutting-edge content."
In the coming months, The FRONT will continue to help National Geographic take their digital video projects to the next level with a unique combination of strategy, story development, and production leadership to inject purpose, narrative arch and entertainment across a number of their digital video series.
About The FRONT
BY WOMEN, FOR THE WORLD
Founded by veteran VICE Executive Creative Director, Thalia Mavros, The FRONT is a progressive production studio and cultural force that develops and produces purpose-driven, culturally relevant storytelling through a unique lens. It's time that powerful stories created by women are not only for women. The FRONT creates Original Content (digital+TV/film), Live Experiences/Events, and Branded Collaborations. Partners include: National Geographic, Spotify, Google, American Express, WeWork, and more. The FRONT has received numerous showcases, honors and awards, including Tribeca Film Festival: Official Showcase '17-'18, Marfa Film Festival showcase, LA Film Festival: Audience Award, Webby Winner: Best Documentary, GLAAD Nominee: Outstanding Digital Journalism, UN Women: Champion of Change, and SheRunsIt (AWNY): "Changing the Game" Award for "Creating Whole New Business Models, Industries, or Marketplace Opportunities". With support from lead investor A+E Networks, The FRONT family includes: A+E, Hearst, Bazaar, VICE, & Viceland. WATCH SIZZLE VIDEO.
About National Geographic
National Geographic Partners LLC (NGP), a joint venture between National Geographic and 21st Century Fox, is committed to bringing the world premium science, adventure and exploration content across an unrivaled portfolio of media assets. NGP combines the global National Geographic television channels (National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo WILD, Nat Geo MUNDO, Nat Geo PEOPLE) with National Geographic's media and consumer-oriented assets, including National Geographic magazines; National Geographic studios; related digital and social media platforms; books; maps; children's media; and ancillary activities that include travel, global experiences and events, archival sales, licensing and e-commerce businesses. Furthering knowledge and understanding of our world has been the core purpose of National Geographic for 129 years, and now we are committed to going deeper, pushing boundaries, going further for our consumers and reaching millions of people around the world in 172 countries and 43 languages every month as we do it. NGP returns 27 percent of our proceeds to the nonprofit National Geographic Society to fund work in the areas of science, exploration, conservation and education. For more information visit natgeotv.com or nationalgeographic.com.
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