Vietnam-based sales agent Skyline Media and streaming platform Galaxy Play have struck a partnership that can send Galaxy Play Originals into international markets for the primary time, with Skyline Media named exclusive international sales agent for greater than 20 original miniseries.
The deal was unveiled during DANAFF Industry Days on the fourth Danang Asian Film Festival, a program launched to attach Vietnamese content producers with buyers from abroad. It gives Skyline Media a foothold in premium scripted miniseries alongside its existing slate of Vietnamese and international feature movies, while opening a path for Galaxy Play to maneuver its original productions beyond Vietnam’s local streaming market.
The initial slate covers crime, motion, thriller, horror, romance and drama titles. The flagship is “Brothers for Life,” Galaxy Play’s gangster motion crime saga that has run for 4 seasons and picked up honors on the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting+ Awards and the Asian Academy Creative Awards. Also included is “Thousand Dollar Baby,” a high-end escort drama that ranks amongst Vietnam’s best-known streaming franchises, and “Sugar Daddy vs. Sugar Baby,” a relationship drama centered on the country’s underground sugar dating culture.
The lineup moreover features “Container 39,” drawn from the real-life Essex lorry tragedy wherein 39 Vietnamese migrants died, and “Eve of the Crime,” a thriller based on an actual murder case in a distant Vietnamese mountain town. Ham Tran, director of “Devil’s Diner” and “Hijacked,” directed the latter title.
“This partnership marks a vital milestone for Skyline Media as we proceed expanding beyond feature movies into premium Vietnamese miniseries,” said Hang Trinh, CEO of Skyline Media. “All over the world, audiences are increasingly embracing serialized storytelling, and we consider Vietnamese creators have compelling stories that should be discovered internationally. Along with Galaxy Play, we sit up for introducing a brand new generation of locally produced premium series to global buyers and opening more opportunities for Vietnamese IP to travel across borders.”
Anh Pham, head of production of Galaxy Play, framed the deal as a method to extend the platform’s reach beyond its home market.
“Galaxy Play Originals were created to deliver premium Vietnamese stories that resonate with local audiences through high production values and compelling storytelling,” added Anh Pham, head of production of Galaxy Play. “Partnering with Skyline Media gives these productions the chance to achieve broadcasters and streaming platforms internationally, allowing Vietnamese stories to attach with much more audiences all over the world.”
Galaxy Play serves greater than two million paying users and holds Vietnam’s largest premium library of local movies and series, alongside local box office hits and major Hollywood studio releases. The platform has built out an intensive 4K catalog with Dolby 5.1 surround sound and has drawn multiple Asia-Pacific honors for its scripted originals.
Skyline Media distributes greater than 800 foreign movies and represents greater than 150 Vietnamese and Southeast Asian titles as sales agent, with a reach spanning greater than 50 countries and territories through upward of 130 partnerships.