Kikim Media created three special features for the DVD release of the first season of HBO's Deadwood, which Fresh Air's David Bianculli said were "as good as DVD features get." The first piece, The Real Deadwood, is a 30-minute story of the real people and lawless roots of the town (above) that inspired the series. The other two pieces, An Imaginative Reality and The New Language of the Old West feature actor Keith Carradine in conversation with series creator David Milch about the ideas behind the show.
MIPCOM, the main international audiovisual content market, has honored the first season DVD of Deadwood with its MIPCOM Award for the Best Television Series DVD. The MIPCOM DVD Awards were organized in partnership with the DVD Association (DVDA, USA) and the International Video Federation (IVF, Belgium). An international jury chaired by Bernie Mitchell (President, DVDA) judged the original content of DVDs according to special features, web features and interactivity, programme content restoration and navigation and graphic design. Deadwood also won the Video Software Dealers Association award for Best Overall Presentation of a television DVD release.
Kikim Media's special features for the Deadwood DVD have won wide acclaim. Fresh Air's David Bianculli wrote that they are "as good as DVD features get." Kikim recently completed the special features for Deadwood's Season Two DVD release in 2006.
Kikim Media's behind-the-scenes and historical features for DVD releases of network entertainment series have set a new standard for DVD bonus material. Critics have said that Kikim's pieces are "as good as DVD features get."
Two years before September 11th, Kikim began development of a ground-breaking project to help Americans better understand the history of Islam. Since that terrible event, Kikim has devoted considerable energy to projects about history and religion that help improve interfaith tolerance and understanding.
Kikim Media has produced numerous programs for national television broadcast on a wide variety of subjects, including science and technology, health, medicine, religion and other contemporary social and political issues.
