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Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald has won the €50,000 ($54,000) Series Mania Seriesmakers award.
The One Day in September director’s project is one of two winners to take home the prize, which has been forged by the Lille Confab and German major Beta Film.
Macdonald and producer Femke Wolting’s project is titled George Blake and tells the story of one of the most prolific double agents of not just the Cold War, but British history. The other winner is director Erik Matti and producer Ronald Monteverde for The Squatter from The Philippines, about a secretive Filipino maid and a tenacious Ukrainian detective who have to unravel the mysteries of a crime just as the crime itself unravels who they truly are.
The development lab is for feature film directors sidestepping into series production. Ten projects faced off including those helmed by Kaouther Ben Hania, who directed the Oscar-nominated doc Four Daughters. The winners will work closely with Beta’s content division, led by CCO Koby Gal Raday, to develop the pilot script and a full package.
The €20,000 Kirch Foundation prize went to Sleeping Swans by director Barbara Albert, writer Ulrike Tony Vahl and producer Martina Haubrich.
Last year’s winners were Yours, Margot and The Invisible Ink.
Sam Spiegel winner
Meanwhile at Series Mania, the Israeli $22,000 development award from the Sam Spiegel Series Lab went to That Hole by Orit Fouks Rotem, Adi Goral; Batya Deil and Miri Milstein, produced by Maya Fisher for Green Productions.
“The jury loved the original concept of a hotline in an Orthodox community serving as a vehicle of women awakening and empowering,” said the jury. “A story about a conflict in a community, while the protagonist chooses to stay in it, despite the
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Joe Swash paid a sweet tribute to his wife Stacey Solomon as she won an award at the Royal Television Society Awards.The loved-up couple, who tied the knot in 2022, attended the award ceremony at London's Grosvenor Hotel last night (26 March). Stacey, 34, took home the gong for Best Popular Factual Show for her well-loved home transformation show Sort Your Life Out. Following this, Joe, 42, took to social media to praise his talented wife.
Annette Bening‘s first major TV series role has won the five-time Oscar nominee the Best Actress prize at this year’s Series Mania.
Series Mania was Warner Bros. Discovery’s European roll-out timeline for Max, announced Thursday at the climax of the Series Mania’s Lille Dialogues. The most keenly anticipated session was nearly Series Mania’ Forum first: a Netflix showcase hosted by a confident Larry Tanz who significantly proved the only goal streamer exec to drill down on volume commitment.
Oscar-winning actress Patricia Arquette chaired a career masterclass this afternoon at Series Mania in Lille, France, where she served as this year’s guest of honor.
Scottish actor Peter Mullan, whose credits include The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Westworld, Harry Potter, and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, passed through Series Mania in Lille this week, where he participated in what turned out to be one of the festival’s most raucous masterclass sessions.
Anna Marie de la Fuente Netflix France’s campaign for Season 4 of the popular UK series, “Sex Education” was announced winner of Series Mania’s Best Marketing Initiative Award. Launched last year, the prize recognizes a company’s promotional efforts to consumers (BTC) as well as initiatives by producers and distributors to raise awareness of a show among commissioners and buyers (BTB). The jury included executives from BBC Creative Studios, Inédite Agency, and Make It Happen Studios, along with the Series Mania team.
, what are you supposed to do with the rings? If you're , you repurpose them into a whole new piece of jewelry. She calls them “divorce rings.” On March 19, Ratajkowski posted a carousel of photos of herself lounging topless in bed, and showing off her two divorce rings—which were repurposed from her original two-stone engagement ring by the same jeweler, Alison Lou.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Also on Instagram, Alison Lou posted, “A little BTS” about the making of Ratajkowski's new pieces. “We repurposed Emily’s original, iconic two stone engagement ring, that left a mark on the industry, and created these two beauties.
Christian Schwochow has signed up to direct , the upcoming Constantin Film and Big Light Productions scripted series based on events surrounding the Nuremberg trials that took place in the wake of World War Two.
EXCLUSIVE: Sky Studios and Groenlandia are readying feature film director Sydney Sibilia’s first TV drama series. Someone Killed Spiderman – Accidentally Famous (working title) is for Sky Italia and is about a non-conformist teenager who becomes on half of successful musical duo 883.
Disney+ unveiled new originals out of France, Germany and Spain at Series Mania, with period drama and a pair of true crime projects added to a 70-part Spanish novella that will be stripped through the week.
Slovakian drama series Our People has won the Series Mania Co-Pro Pitch and taken home a €50,000 ($55,000) development prize.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor A panel moderated by the European Audiovisual Observatory at Series Mania Tuesday looked at four key trends in series production in Europe. Warning Signs?Gilles Fontaine, EAO’s head of department for market information, said there were warning signs of a downward trend in the number of seasons being produced, first in the U.S.
Ben Croll An explosive political drama retracing the 2018 murders of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová, “Our People” claimed the best project award at this year’s Series Mania Forum. Winning €50,000 ($54,318) in prize money and earning an enhanced international stature, the unflinching miniseries should now see an easier path forward – particularly given the chilly reception it found with funding authorities in native Slovakia. “We thought it impossible,” said director Tereza Nvotova as she claimed the Series Mania prize.
A small pro-Palestine protest formed outside Series Mania in France on Tuesday.
EXCLUSIVE: AGC Television is dropping a hot TV project into this week’s Series Mania market in Lille.
Peak TV just got put into perspective. Asked at a Series Mania session about the volume of TV being made, European Commission official Lucia Recalde broke out an estimate that it would take over three centuries to watch everything currently on streaming services.
Ed Meza @edmezavar Variety’s Series Mania Bulletin highlights breaking news at this year’s French TV festival: Paramount+ has announced the schedule and pricing for its international ad-supported Basic subscription offering and Premium plan, both set to begin this month in selected countries. The ad-supported Basic plan will be available in April in Canada and in June in Australia, priced at $6.99 in Canadian and Australian dollars.
Creatives behind sperm donor series All & Eva have said the show represents a new wave of auteur-driven Scandi drama.
Ed Meza @edmezavar Spinning audiences back to the mid-1970s, UFA Fiction‘s latest period series “Disko 76” is set in a pivotal time in the industrial heartland of West Germany as a new American pop music craze takes over the airwaves and dance floors. The six-part series, which premiered at the recent Berlinale Series Market, continues its international rollout at Series Mania in Lille before bowing on the RTL+ streaming platform on March 28 and on RTL Group channel Nitro on April 1. UFA Fiction quickly won over RTL+ with the idea from former UFA Fiction producer Benjamin Benedict of a family story set in the disco era, says fellow producer Sinah Swyter.