Series Mania 2022
24.08.2021 - 11:39 / variety.com
Jamie Lang Kicking off its 2021 in-person edition this Thursday, Lille’s Series Mania has announced the creation of two new initiatives which will run under its Series Mania Forum banner.
This year, the festival is establishing the Woman in Series Award to honor a key female figure in the European TV industry, as well as the launching the Series’ Women program to enhance the careers of women working in the European drama series industry.Awarded in association with the European Women’s
.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.
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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.
Rebecca Souw Choi Ran began her screen career writing scripts for documentaries, before changing direction and moving into fiction. Her episodic creations include “Black” and “God’s Gift: 14 Days,” which was remade in the U.S.
Ed Meza @edmezavarEuropean arms industry corruption, forbidden love in 1920s Berlin and the impact of public outrage on the justice system are some of the themes explored by upcoming Germans TV productions showcased on Aug.
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.
Naman Ramachandran Jan Koeppen, president of The Walt Disney Company Europe, the Middle East and Africa is bullish about production of originals in the region.Delivering a keynote at Series Mania Lille Dialogues on Tuesday, Koeppen noted that Disney is currently on track to produce 60 European original series by 2024, up from the previous target of 50.“While The Walt Disney Company has a long heritage of producing content in Europe for our channels business, as well as producing some of our big
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Jamie Lang Benoît Danard, head of research and statistics at France’s National Film Board (CNC), hosted a brief presentation at the Series Mania festival in Lille on Tuesday, where he outlined international TV commissioning trends according to a recent Ampere Analysis study.For the study, Ampere tracked all commissioned TV shows for both linear broadcasters and VOD platforms from Aug.