The 15 initiatives competing at this 12 months’s Series Mania Co-Professional Pitching Periods have been unveiled.
Reveals from the likes of Denmark’s Zentropa, Australia’s Wood Horse and Israel’s Sipur will battle for a €50,000 ($53,000) growth prize, chosen by a jury headed up by President M-Ok Kennedy, Government Managing Director of TV Collection at Studiocanal within the UK.
A sixteenth undertaking, U.S.-Germany co-pro Ruth’s Ghosts, has been chosen however is not going to compete for the grand prize.
Collection Mania famous that the 15 initiatives had been chosen from 406 purposes from 72 nations, with new territories resembling New Zealand, The Philippines, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Uganda and Eswatini coming into.
Becoming a member of Studiocanal’s Kennedy on the jury are André Béraud, Head of Scripted, Packages and Function Movies, ICI Radio-Canada Télé (Canada); Henriette Marienlund, Head of Drama, DR Drama (Denmark); José Pastor, Head Of Drama And Fiction, RTVE (Spain); and Frank Seyberth, Head of Coproduction, Worldwide Fiction, ZDF (Germany).
“The Co-Professional Pitching Periods are at all times a spotlight of the Discussion board given their objective of serving to high-end European and Worldwide drama initiatives discover potential monetary companions,” stated Laurence Herszberg, Founder and Basic Director of Collection Mania. “Since inception in 2013, we’ve seen nice success with these pitches, and it’s sure to proceed this 12 months given our stellar lineup of tiles from world wide. We sit up for welcoming our esteemed jury to Lille and awarding the winner of the Greatest Venture Award with €50,000.”
Reveals resembling No Man’s Land (France), Banking District (Switzerland), Protecting Religion (Nice Britain), Manor Home (Czech Republic), Stella Blomkvist (Iceland), Tabula Rasa (Belgium), Warrior (Denmark), Devils (Italy), The Head (Spain), The Final Socialist Artefact (Slovenia, Finland) and We Bought This (Sweden) had been all pitched within the competitors through the years.
Francesco Capurro, Director of Collection Mania Discussion board, stated: “Within the Publish Peak-TV period, co-financing is extra essential than ever. It’s the important thing to securing greater budgets, boosting gross sales, and staying aggressive on the worldwide stage. This 12 months’s choice contains many thrillers together with comedies, dramadies and horror with colourful themes starting from racing pigeons, creepy bugs, an unorthodox chaplain, and a revolutionary knitting collective to extra conventional topics resembling abductions, murders and troubled previous.”
Collection Mania runs from March 21-28 in Lille, France.
FULL RUNDOW OF PROJECTS
ANTIPAROS – 6 x 45′ – Greece
Style: Comedy, Crime
Produced by Dionyssis Samiotis, Improvement Producer Alexandra Orfanidou, for Tanweer Productions, Co – Producer Mark Denessen, for Ginger Movie Flanders (Belgium)
Written by Alexandros Tsilifonis and George Zafeiropoulos
Directed by Alexandros Tsilifonis
Brief synopsis: An overworked detective returns to his hometown within the island of Antiparos for a much-needed vacation. However as soon as there, an excessively regulation – abiding British policewoman drags him deep down into the mysterious disappearance of a overseas billionaire, and probably the most difficult case of murders in his whole profession.
CECILIE MARS – 6 x 45′ – Denmark
Style: Thriller
Produced by Karoline Leth for Zentropa
Written and directed by Christoffer Boe
Brief synopsis: In her pursuit of justice, Cecilie Mars, a courageous police officer, faces an ethical
dilemma that pushes her past the confines of the regulation. She embarks on a treacherous path to battle evil.
CONSULTANTS – 6 x 45′ – Germany
Style: Political thriller
Produced by Alexis von Wittgenstein and Gilda Weller for Violet Photos and Henning Kamm for Actual Movie Berlin
Written by Richard Kropf, Bob Conrad, Hanno Hackfort
Brief synopsis: Carlo, a younger political campaigner from Berlin, believes he’s landed the job of a lifetime: working at one of many world’s largest technique businesses, he’s a part of a digital marketing campaign opposing a neo-fascist occasion. He sees himself as one of many good guys—till the day he discovers he’s merely a pawn in a plot of unimaginable scale.
HEIST – 6 x 60′ – Belgium, France
Style: Motion thriller
Produced by Dries Phylpo for A Personal View and Antoine Simkine for Les Movies d’Antoine
Written by Ben Braeunlich
Brief synopsis: Beirut, 1976. The civil battle holds the Lebanese capital captive. And right here, amid all this terror, the most important financial institution theft of all occasions is about to go down.
INTIMACY – 8 x 42′ – UK/Israel
Style: Thriller
Produced by Ariel Weisbrod for Sipur
Created by: Dan Berlinka, Maude Sandham, Dan Buckland
Written by: Dan Berlinka
Brief synopsis: Intercourse scene, dying scene, crime scene. When an actress is discovered lifeless on set, the intimacy co-ordinator feels compelled to research, which suggests taking over the lifeless lady’s function… in additional methods than one.
INVISIBLE – 6 x 45’ – Eire
Style: Thriller Drama
Produced by Ciarán Charles, Darach Ó Tuairisg & Bernadette Hoban
Written by Matt Harvey & Marteinn Thorisson
Brief synopsis: A woman nobody respects. A person nobody believes. Against the law solely they will remedy.
MASQUERADE – 8 x 55′ – Iceland
Style: Crime/Thriller
Produced by Arnbjörg Hafliðadóttir for Glassriver, contact Andri Ómarsson
Created by Andri Óttarsson & Baldvin Z
Brief synopsis: A younger American reporter arrives in a small Icelandic village, investigating an outdated unsolved abduction case of a four-year-old lady—the granddaughter of the city’s most rich and highly effective man—who vanished whereas on trip in Florida 25 years in the past. As she digs deeper, she begins to unravel the village’s darkest secrets and techniques, solely to appreciate that these answerable for the kidnapping are most likely nonetheless dwelling within the village.
NEST – 8 x 60′ – Belgium, United Kingdom, Taiwan
Style: Flamboyant Crime Comedy
Produced by David Vermander for Cartouche, Anouk Mertens for Neo Studios and James Chia-Hao for Reel Asia Image
Written by Koen Van Sande, Sven Huybrechts, Daniel Lambo and Lai Kin Chang
Brief synopsis: When a captivating charlatan and her intellectually challenged brother inherit a promising racing pigeon, they’re thrust right into a lethal sport with the ruthless Taiwanese playing mafia.
NUCLEAR SUNSET CRUISE – 4 x 45′ – Germany
Style: Dramedy
Produced by Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis, Philipp Goeser for Schiwago Movie
Written by Robert Krause and Florian Puchert
Brief synopsis: A clueless East German cruise ship by chance sails straight into the Cuban Missile Disaster. With nuclear battle looming and deck chair battles raging, the true query is: can they survive one another?
PHENOMENA – THE SERIES – 8 x 50′ – Italy
Style: Horror/Soapy teen drama
Produced by Maria Grazia Saccà for Titanus Manufacturing
Written by Nicola Guaglianone and Menotti
Brief synopsis: Jennifer Corvino, an American scholar at a fencing academy within the glamorous Dolomites, hides her psychic hyperlink with bugs. When brutal murders strike, she should discover ways to use her secret energy to cease the killer, save her comrades and survive.
Collection Mania Co-Professional Pitching Periods
THE CHAPLAIN – 8 x 30′ – Australia
Style: Drama
Co-created and Produced by Jude Troy for Wood Horse
Co-created and Written by Elise McCredie
Brief synopsis: Airport Chaplain Tobias Wallace has a continually ringing cellular, a drawer full of money, and a decidedly unorthodox strategy to fixing the each day crises of an airport. When new administration threatens to terminate his contract, Tobias devises more and more ingenious methods to maintain his beloved chaplaincy – in any case, it’s the one factor protecting his submerged demons at bay.
THE INSTITUTE – 6 x 50′ – Germany, Denmark
Style: Thriller
Produced by Irina Ignatiew-Lemke for Boxworks Media and Deborah Bayer Marlow for Nordisk Movie Productions
Created by: Esther Gronenborn
Written by Esther Gronenborn and Astrid Ströher
Brief synopsis: The mysterious dying of a PhD scholar attracts an excellent scientist right into a lethal internet of deceit and intrigue, exposing the darkish aspect of energy and equality within the tutorial world.
THE LOTTERY TICKET – 6 x 50′ – Spain
Style: Dramedy
Produced by Secuoya Studios
Written by Carlos Villa
Brief synopsis: Julia’s fiftieth birthday turns chaotic as she reveals her terminal most cancers, reconnects along with her adopted daughter, and a profitable lottery ticket sparks a battle, unearthing outdated wounds and buried secrets and techniques.
TOKYO CRUSH – 8 x 30′ – France, Japan
Style: Comedy, Romance
Produced by Jonas Ben Haiem and Jean-Félix Dealberto for Salle Commune, and Hiroko Oda for Flag Inc.
Written by Clémence Dargent
Brief synopsis: Mona, a daring Parisian chef, is employed to reinvent a struggling Tokyo izakaya – if solely Toshiro, the proficient (and annoyingly good-looking) grandson of the founder, would let her.
WOOL – 6 x 50′ – Serbia, Iceland
Style: Drama
Produced by Milena Dzambasovic for Movie Highway Manufacturing, Jonas Margeir Ingolfsson & Milla Ósk for Act4, Danna Stern for In Transit Productions
Written by Milena Dzambasovic (creator), Mladen Maticevic, Birkir Blaer Ingolfsson and Milla Ósk Brief synopsis: In Sixties Yugoslavia, a lady transforms a village by uniting housewives right into a knitting collective. Their designs catch international trend consideration, revolutionizing their rural lives.
The sixteenth undertaking, introduced on February 18 in the course of the Berlinale’s Co-Professional Collection occasion
RUTH’S GHOSTS – 6 x 60’ – US, Germany
Style: Authorized thriller with supernatural parts
Produced by Jennifer Fox for A Luminous Thoughts Manufacturing, Tara Grace for Temair Photos and Jana Lotze for Oma Inge Movie.
Written by Jennifer Fox
