SPi, Glassriver Attach Sérgio Graciano for Series Mania Project ‘Cold Haven’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Ed Meza @edmezavarIcelandic film production company Sagafilm and Sweden’s LittleBig Productions are developing a historical series about 17th-century Icelanders abducted by Barbary corsairs and sold into slavery in North Africa.Tentatively titled “Salé” — a city on the North African coast that was also a haven for pirates — the series is inspired by true events.

Anna Marie de la Fuente In its continued bid to lure more international productions to Spain and Portugal, Barcelona-based multinational The Mediapro Group has tapped L.A.-based Spanish publicist Alvar Carretero to represent the company in Hollywood.For the past 25 years, Mediapro has been represented in the U.S.

Naman Ramachandran Director Max Newsom (“Plunge: The Movie”) returns with new film “Iceland Is Best,” featuring a winning turn from Judd Nelson (“The Breakfast Club”) and a fresh young cast. The film follows 17-year-old Sigga who tells her parents she is leaving her beautiful Icelandic fishing village to become a poet in California as her grandfather has just given her enough money to buy a plane ticket.

Series Mania 2022

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFollowing a delayed, yet successful 2021 edition held last week, Series Mania will switch back to its usual Spring slot in 2022. The next edition will take place March 18-25 in Lille, France.

Get the latest Celtic news sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletterCeltic could benefit from a policy change from Portuguese club Benfica, after they secured the services of forward Jota for the 2021/22 campaign.Celtic have signed Jota on a season long loan deal, and the club have the option to make the move a permanent one.The 22-year-old has been with the Portuguese outfit since 2007 and spent time on loan last season in Spain with Real Valladolid.According to a Portuguese news

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French TV event Series Mania came to a close yesterday with the handing out of its awards. Scroll down for the full list of winners.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentPeriod tragicomedy “Blackport,” backed by Icelandic public broadcaster RUV and European network Arte, won top honors on Thursday at leading European TV festival Series Mania taking its Grand Prize.The biggest plaudit at Lille’s Series Mania represents the festival’s second prize for the series after it awarded it best pitch kudos at the Berlinale Co-Pro Series in 2018.“Blackport” represents a deep-dive into recent Icelandic history, kicking off in

Martin Dale ContributorScreening this week at Series Mania, “Doce” is a seven-part series about Portugal’s first major girl band. It is a musical odyssey in a country that was undergoing radical transformations in the wake of the 1974 revolution.“Doce” represented Portugal in the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest and were glitzy trailblazers of a new world of opportunities for women.

JD Linville In “The Last Socialist Artefact,” businessmen Nikola and Oleg travel to a rusted-out town in the Balkans to convince its citizens to restart the factory which once employed so many of them. This sparks a journey both individual and collective, and over six episodes their character is revealed, tested, and changed.Each episode is named after one of its characters and takes the time needed to explore their humanity.

Emiliano Granada During decades the Colombian film landscape has been shot through by what’s mistakingly been called an internal conflict when the reality is of an ongoing war whose violence has ripped through the whole social fabric.Films and shows have time and again addressed the ongoing violence.

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Naman Ramachandran “Kaiser Karl,” a series on fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, has been commissioned as a a Star original for Disney Plus by The Walt Disney Company Europe, the Middle East and Africa.While the designer has been the subject of documentaries, “Kaiser Karl” marks the first time a dramatic series will be made on him. It will begin during the summer of 1972 and will trace Lagerfeld’s quest to become successor of Coco Chanel.

Red Rainbow, a drama series with LGBTQIA+ elements set in 1979 Soviet Union, has been selected as the winner of the Series Mania Forum Best Project Award to kick off European TV confab’s annual Co-Pro Pitching Sessions. A check for €50,000 was presented Monday to producer Alexander Rodnyansky of AR Content/Non-Stop Production and writer Matt Jones for the eight-episode series, which was selected by a jury who heard pitches from 15 projects.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentRussia’s Alexander Rodnyansky, producer of high-level Cannes hits such as “Leviathan” and “Loveless,” has added another prize to his illustrious career, winning the Series Mania Forum Best Project Award for the Soviet-era period drama “Red Rainbow.”Presented Monday at the Forum, Series Mania’s industry arm, as one of 16 projects at its Co-Pro Pitching Sessions, “Red Ribbon” beat a strong field of other contenders to take the Award, which comes with