Beta Film has picked up international distribution rights to the edgy thriller series “Homejacking” by Lupin-scriptwriter Tigran Rosine. The series will celebrate its world premiere on March 21 in Series Mania’s French Competition section. Besides, Tasse Film-produced “Soviet Jeans” from Latvia and Trimafilm-produced “30 Days of Lust” from Germany have been selected as part of Series Mania’s International Panorama Competition. Beta Film’s CCO Koby Gal Raday and Series Mania’s Managing Director Laurence Herszberg will announce the winners of the second edition of the coveted Seriesmakers initiative on March 20.
At Series Mania’s Forum, Beta Film’s Veronika Kovacova will elaborate on the fresh wave of creativity for series coming from the Balkans, joining Orestis Plakias, producer of Greece’s newest TV sensation “The Beach,” for which Beta Film handles world sales, together with other creatives from the region. The panel takes place on Tuesday, March 19 at 1 pm. Beta’s Managing Director Moritz von Kruedener will take the stage together with key players in worldwide distribution, highlighting successful international collaborations and production capacity growth in the CEE on Wednesday, March 20, at 4.15 pm.
“Homejacking” (6x1h), written and created by Tigran Rosine (“Lupin,” “Cassandre,” “Contact,” “Murders in…”) and Florent Meyer (“Blackspot,” “The Island of Thirty Coffins,” “Murders in…”) in collaboration with Emmanuelle Faguer, is set in an affluent suburban residence where one morning, a middle-class couple is the victim of an intrusion by a hooded assailant. No one knows yet what he is looking for, but deep in their basement lies a secret that was hidden for decades. The six-parter is directed by Hervé Hadmar (Pigalle, la nuit; Au-delà des murs) and produced by Lincoln TV with the participation of OCS, launching on the French pay-TV channel in spring this year.
“Soviet Jeans” (8x1h) is a dramedy based on true stories about the power of blue jeans and Rock’n’Roll in Latvia during the time of the USSR. The young rock music fan Renars (Karlis Arnolds Avots) is sent to a mental asylum for political reasons, where he starts the illegal production of counterfeit US cult jeans with his inmates. They flood the black market while the KGB tries to discover the people behind the business. “Soviet Jeans” is produced by Tasse Film, financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the National Film Center of Latvia, co-financed by Go3 and TV3, and sponsored by DEPO and ORLEN Latvia.
“30 Days of Lust” (8x30’) follows high school sweethearts Freddy and Zeno, both about to turn thirty. A daring experiment puts their 15-year relationship to the test: 30 days of sex with whomever they want. Can it do the trick? Or will this risky escapade end up crushing them? Trimafilm produces the series in co-production with SWR, funded by FFF Bayern and MFG Baden-Württemberg.
Representing the Beta Group in the International Competition, “Herrhausen—The Banker and The Bomb,” produced by Sperl Film-und Fernsehproduktion and X-Filme Creative Pool subsidiaries, centers around Alfred Herrhausen, the visionary banker and Deutsche Bank CEO during the 1980s, when Germany was split between East and West.
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