Best TV Experience for Red Bull TV

Red Bull TV has been named the winner of the 2017 Google Play Award for Best TV Experience at the 2017 Google I/O Developers Conference in San Francisco.                                                                                    

Red Bull TV beat out Netflix, Haystack and a number of other applications to take home this highly-coveted award from one of the biggest names in technology. The Best TV Experience award further validates Red Bull TV as a best-in-class platform offering a user experience that’s far beyond the ordinary.

"This year's winner [Red Bull TV] has completely updated their UI to provide a fresh, best-in-class TV user experience. Using simple controls and beautiful designs, they give users a content rich offering with high-quality live and on-demand content." - Sascha Prueter | Director - Android TV and presenter of Best TV Experience award 

This is a significant honor for the Red Bull Media House team whose engineers have been working with Google over the last 12+ months to optimize Red Bull TV on the Android platform, and speaks to the deep relationships and product roadmap alignment Red Bull fosters with Google and its partners.

Download the Red Bull TV app from the Google Play store to experience beyond the ordinary content from the World of Red Bull.

Red Bull TV is distributed digitally as an app across mobile phones, tablets, consoles, OTT devices, Smart TVs and online at www.redbull.tv.

Cliff divers Orlando Duque and Jonathan Paredes tackle the world's largest waterfall in The Smoke that Thunders.

"This is one of the most beautiful places," says Duque, who, with 13 cliff-diving world titles, two Guinness world records and more than 20 years in the sport, has dived off most places it's possible to dive off. "Standing in the gorge, looking around, you think, 'This is unreal.' But what sets this dive apart from others is the analysis you've got to do. It's not as black and white as you think.“

Indeed. Victoria Falls in Southern Africa is the biggest curtain of water on earth and one of the seven natural wonders of the world. Every minute, 625 million litres of water plunge over the 100-metre waterfall and with a width of 1 708 metres and height of 108 meters, it is classified as the waterfall with the world's largest sheet of falling water. Victoria Falls is roughly twice the height of North America's Niagara Falls and in width is rivaled only by Argentina and Brazil's Iguazu Falls. It is known as “Mosi-oa-Tunya” in the local Tokaleya Tonga tongue.  This translates to ‚The Smoke that Thunders’ and is in reference to the famous spray, which – when the Zambezi River is in full flood, typically in April every year – can rise to 400-metres.

But recently, Victoria Falls has become known for something new as world-class cliff divers Orland Duque and Jonathan Paredes challenged themselves to one of the most astonishing cliff dives to date: a 30-metre dive from the world’s most iconic waterfall. It is a whole different ball game to previous dives the athletes have conquered, this river is ever changing and the 3m long crocodiles, shattered oars and eddies swirl waiting for the pair at the bottom of their dive make for an incredibly challenging analysis. Both athletes face their own challenges, Duque takes the responsibility of setting the limit on their ambition and of course dives first. Paredes, on the other hand, battles a visceral fear of climbing to the take-off spot, and often struggles to clear his mind of chattering doubt.
The full documentary is now available on Red Bull TV.

For this documentary, directed by Wayne de Lange, we received two awards at 2017 Mountain Film Festival in the categories 'Best Director‘ and 'Action Sports Competition‘.

It’s one thing to watch Cliff Diving from a safe distance; it’s quite another to edge your toes to the cliff side and stare down into the Adriatic Sea before pushing off and plummeting 28 meters into the surf. Red Bull VR lets you take the plunge at one of the most spectacular stops on the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series tour: Polignano a Mare, Italy. The five-minute 360° VR action clip is a breathtaking inside look at the highlights from the contest, showing everything from the divers' terrifying POV, to underwater shots capturing the moment they hit the water. 

Red Bull Virtual Reality takes viewers to unreachable sweet spots of the world: from Italy's Adriatic coastline cliffs, the skies above Dachstein in Austria, to the edges of skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur and more. The captivating VR stories can be experienced on RedBull.com/VR via desktops, mobile devices, and tablets, using the track pad or touch screen for navigation. A fully immersive split-screen option for each story is available for users of Head Mounted Displays, Console VR Headsets or projection accessories that pair with many smart phones.

"The Ivory Game“ is among the 15 finalists for the best feature documentary Oscar.

The investigative ivory-trade doc produced by Terra Mater Film Studios, and executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio was shortlisted from a total of 145 submissions. The five final nominees will be announced January 24, along with the rest of this year’s Oscar nominees. The 89th Academy Awards will take place on February 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

The Ivory Game is an undercover feature-documentary which exposes the dark world of ivory trafficking. Award-winning director Richard Ladkani and Academy Award nominated director Kief Davison filmed undercover for 16 months, moving across the continents of Africa and Asia, documenting the deep-rooted corruption at the heart of the global ivory trafficking crisis.

"The Ivory Game would just be another heart-pounding crime thriller if its subject matter wasn't so depressingly true.“
Mashable

"In any event: a committed, valuable film.“
The Guardian

" ‘The Ivory Game’ may be a harsh wakeup call to anyone concerned about the future of the largest land mammal, but it’s also a keen evaluation of the efforts being made to correct the situation.”
IndieWire

The film is available on Netflix in 190 countries in 19 languages. Find here the trailer.

Terra Mater Film Studios, is the cinema branch of Terra Mater Factual Studios, a sister company of Red Bull Media House which produces and distributes a wide variety of programming for TV and theatrical release.