Introduction

Industry: Film&TV Production/Distribution 

Business Scope: Film&TV Production/Distribution 

Our Roots

Independent TV producer Mark Stucke founded the company. One of the first to make the new co-production formula work for the independent sector Mark Stucke produced cutting edge documentaries and magazine features for most of the world's leading broadcasters. After 4 impoverished years traipsing the world's most risky places, from the Gulf War to Sarajevo to Somalia, Mark Stucke realised that with a wealth of valuable copyright in his library he would be foolish to continue producing such dangerous material for the pay he was receiving for his work. It was at this stage that he set his mind to formulating a distribution system, which would bring greater returns to TV producers working in the neglected international actuality arena. As the company's experience grew we utilised our unique knowledge of one of the most difficult markets in the world to branch into distribution of the genre on a wide scale.

Our Mission

The free flow of information is the elixir of healthy democratic life. As journalists the company has spent ten years at the forefront of the international current affairs agenda. We've helped uncover and shed light on some of the most dangerous international issues of the last decade. Cutting edge documentaries produced by our group have helped to change the world for the better. Our films have had an impact on the proliferation of the corporate mercenary who kills for diamonds, others have driven the human rights agenda in China, and one of our most recent films is turning heads in Washington with its incisive exposure of the nastier side of the US drugs war being waged in South America. Such films define who we are and where we shall remain. Our dedication is to the producers who believe such stories are worth making despite the time, danger and self inflicted poverty, which often comes with the territory. Our promise is to make their endeavours not only broadcast but to also create new revenue for their work into the future.

Journeyman Today

Having grown as rights owning producers in the independent sector our success and keen ability to sell grows from an intimate knowledge of the bottom line. As independent producers our survival depended on it. Ten years on our hungry sales team have become the central element of the company, utilising a deep understanding of the actuality market to dominate the international circuit.

We market the films of many renowned independents and broadcasters. The key to actuality marketing is a sales culture centred on reactivity, topicality and the rapidly developing multi-media industry. It's what makes it a very different business from most other television marketing. Our sales team has a central journalistic ethic. We strive to offer a constant turnover of up-to-date and relevant documentaries and features. To us it means selling what relates and amplifies the day's interests.

Each week our films are broadcast to roughly 10 million people around the world. Many European actuality programmers rely on our supply. It's enabled us to become one of the largest actuality archives. But a large library all too often becomes a dead and inactive library, filled with films, which saw the light of day just once, but are now forgotten and buried, impossible to find. Not at Journeyman. A combination of the web's interactivity, a powerful publicity machine and a topical sales focus means films remain easy to discover, and continually on offer.