Five Mile River Films has distinguished itself as the U.S.-based company specializing in co-productions with established European broadcast partners. Offering everything from securing overseas financing and distribution to assembling multi-lingual production crews in far reaching locales, Five Mile River Films and Mr. Minoli exemplify the ideal of a truly worldwide marketplace for event television programming. It is a formula that is gaining more ground as the budgets for original films at U.S. networks shrink.

Over the past ten years, Five Mile River Films has worked with many international partners--RAI, Beta/Kirch Group, FRANCE 2, BSkyB, Best and Medien--in an effort to finance larger budget television films that otherwise would be difficult to produce. Mr. Minoli's international background, and his fluency in multiple languages, puts Five Mile River Films in a unique position to exploit European financing opportunities for U.S. productions. And the co-production formula flows both ways--the Bible Series, which was originally conceived in Italy, simply could not have been made without the ongoing U.S. financing and distribution of TNT.

Mr. Minoli, who has been at the forefront of the trend towards successful international co-productions, continues to use his creative business acumen to make even more film projects--ones that might otherwise not get made--a reality.