SERIES MANIA FORUM ANNOUNCES 15 PROJECTS SELECTED

At press conferences held in Lille and Paris, Ms. Laurence Herszberg, Founder and General Director of Series Mania, announced the 15 projects selected to be pitched during the Co-Pro Pitching Sessions, which have become the cornerstone of the Series Mania Forum, the industry arm of Series Mania.

Having received over 400 projects from 50 different countries, the goal of Series Mania Forum is to help these high-end European and International drama projects find potential financial partners. Herszberg also announced that eOne’s Polly Williams, Head of Drama, Scripted Television – UK, has been selected as Jury President, and will oversee a team of four other members, to be announced shortly, who will determine the best project among the 15 pitched and award a grand prize of €50,000 to help develop the winning show.

The following list of selected projects will be pitched by their producers to a panel of potential financiers:

• "A Marriage", Indigo Film, Italy
• "Casa Girls", The Film TV, France
• "Doppelgänger", AVI FILMS, Spain/Argentina
• "Frozen Land", Non-Stop Production, Russia
• "Good People", Hélicotronc, Belgium
• "Life and Fate", Cosmopolitan Pictures, United Kingdom
• "My First Family", Haut et Court TV, France/Israel
• "Play of Mirrors", Velázquez in Rome, Vertice 360, Spain
• "Submarine", The Mediapro Studio & Globo, Spain/Brazil
• "Tahrir", Artza Productions, Israel
• "The Abduction of Yossele Shumacher", Eran Riklis Productions, Israel
• "The Black Lady", AT-Production, France/Germany/Belgium
• "The Island", Producers At Work, Germany
• "Turbo", Sense Production, Serbia
• "Underground", Anagram Norway, Norway

At the heart of the Series Mania Forum, the Co-Pro Pitching Sessions continues to be the springboard for finding the best projects in development from around the world. “With over 400 submissions this year, for the first year from all over the world, I can say that it was not an easy task to narrow the search to the top 15 series. With projects from Argentina, Spain, Brazil,  Russia, as well as all the projects from Europe and Israel, our selection is more international than ever before. We are pleased to be offering a series from Serbia as the Balkan region definitely appears to be an up-and-coming creative hot spot,”  Herszberg said.