APT WORLDWIDE SECURES REPRESENTATION RIGHTS TO WILDLIFE DOC WOLVES IN PARADISE

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BOSTON, Massachusetts (April 23, 2009): APT Worldwide, the international sales division of U.S. public television distributor American Public Television, has secured the international representation rights to the wildlife documentary Wolves in Paradise. Produced by William Campbell, Homefire Productions, KUSM-TV/MontanaPBS and The Independent Television Service (ITVS), the film examines attempts among ranchers and environmentalists to live with the wolf population expanding from Yellowstone National Park.

In 1995, ranchers in southwest Montana lost a long battle to keep the gray wolf from being reintroduced into the region. As the growing packs begin to move outside of the protected confines of the park, ranchers and wildlife experts struggle to find ways to keep the wolves from killing cattle and sheep without violating the laws that protect these endangered predators.

Can ranchers and wolves coexist peacefully? Set in the soaring mountains and majestic valleys of southwest Montana, Wolves in Paradise explores the answer to that question as it follows two very different ranching operations through a grazing season in wolf country.

APT Worldwide
APT Worldwide, located in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., is a major supplier of quality non-fiction programming to broadcasters around the world. It is a division of American Public Television, a leading distributor of television programming to public television stations in the United States. For more information, visit APTWW.org or contact Kevin_McKenna@aptonline.org.

About American Public Television
With more than 10,000 hours of programming in its library, American Public Television (APT) has been a prime source of programming for the nation’s public television stations for 47 years, distributing more than 300 new program titles per year. APT milestones include distribution of the first HD series on public television and the 2006 launch of Create – the TV channel featuring the best of public television’s lifestyle programming. Known for its leadership in identifying innovative, worthwhile and viewer-friendly programming, APT has established a tradition of providing public television stations with program choices that strengthen and customize their schedules, such as Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert, Battlefield Britain, Globe Trekker, Rick Steves’ Europe, Great Museums, Jacques Pépin: Fast Food My Way, America’s Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated, Broadway: The Golden Age, Lidia’s Family Table, California Dreamin’ – The Songs of The Mamas & the Papas, Rosemary and Thyme, P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home, The Big Comfy Couch, Monarchy With David Starkey, and other prominent documentaries, dramatic series, how-to programs, children’s series and classic movies.