MUMBAI: Australia?s Flame Distribution is launching a raft of documentaries at the television trade event MipTV next month.

?First Footprints? is a ZDF/Arte/ABC Australia production that tells the previously untold story of the original pioneers of all humankind, a history that began in Australia 50,000 years before modern humans reached America and Europe.

?The Story of Australia? is a Bearcage Production for CCTV 9 China that captures the stunning Australian landscape and people of contemporary Australia. Each aspect of Australian life will be seen through the lives of people like the wildlife ranger in Kakadu, the rodeo rider in NSW and the marine biologist on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland.

Bearcage has also produced ?Dinosaurs of the Outback? which uses live action and 3D animation to create reconstructions that tell the story of the grand creatures who used to roam the Australian Outback.

?Nothing on Earth?, Jerrycan Film?s follow-up to ?Salt?, follows artist Murray Fredericks on an adventure of extremes in one of the most breathtaking environments on earth - atop a melting glacier on the Greenland Icecap under the solar storms of the Aurora Borealis.

The company?s sales, acquisitions director Fiona Gilroy said, "We have been working closely with these producers over the past few years on all these projects and we are incredibly proud to be bringing them to the international marketplace. To have content of this calibre in our catalogue is a real coup for us."

In addition to these Australian productions, Flame is also distributing content from UK independents. Highlights include BBC?s ?The Farm Fixer? which Flame has already sold to SBS Australia, Choice TV New Zealand and TV2 Denmark.