The 15 tasks competing at this 12 months’s Collection 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 combat for a €50,000 ($53,000) improvement prize, chosen by a jury headed up by President M-Okay Kennedy, Govt Managing Director of TV Collection at Studiocanal within the UK.
A sixteenth challenge, U.S.-Germany co-pro Ruth’s Ghosts, has been chosen however is not going to compete for the grand prize.
Zentropa is behind Christoffer Boe-penned thriller Cecilie Mars, Wood Horse’s Jude Troy is co-creator of Elise McCredie’s drama The Chaplain and Sipur is engaged on UK-Israeli co-pro Intimacy, which is written by Dan Berlinka.
Different notable tasks embody Icelandic crime thriller Masquerade, which is from Glassriver; Greek crime drama Antiparos; German political thriller Consultants; Franco-Belgian interval crime drama Heist; “flamboyant” crime comedy Nest, which has Belgian, British and Taiwanese companions; Spanish dramedy The Lottery Ticket, Japan-France comedy romance Tokyo Crush; and Serbia-Iceland drama Wool.
Collection Mania famous that the 15 tasks have been chosen from 406 functions from 72 nations, with new territories akin to 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 Characteristic 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 all the time a spotlight of the Discussion board given their purpose of serving to high-end European and Worldwide drama tasks discover potential monetary companions,” stated Laurence Herszberg, Founder and Common Director of Collection Mania. “Since inception in 2013, now we have seen nice success with these pitches, and it’s sure to proceed this 12 months given our stellar lineup of tiles from all over the world. We look ahead to welcoming our esteemed jury to Lille and awarding the winner of the Finest Venture Award with €50,000.”
Reveals akin to No Man’s Land (France), Banking District (Switzerland), Retaining 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 Acquired This (Sweden) have 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 larger 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 akin to 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
Quick 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 legislation – abiding British policewoman drags him deep down into the mysterious disappearance of a overseas billionaire, and probably the most sophisticated case of murders in his total profession.
CECILIE MARS – 6 x 45′ – Denmark
Style: Thriller
Produced by Karoline Leth for Zentropa
Written and directed by Christoffer Boe
Quick synopsis: In her pursuit of justice, Cecilie Mars, a courageous police officer, faces an ethical
dilemma that pushes her past the confines of the legislation. She embarks on a treacherous path to combat 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
Quick 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 celebration. 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
Quick synopsis: Beirut, 1976. The civil struggle 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
Quick synopsis: Intercourse scene, demise scene, crime scene. When an actress is discovered lifeless on set, the intimacy co-ordinator feels compelled to analyze, which suggests taking over the lifeless lady’s position… 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
Quick synopsis: A lady nobody respects. A person nobody believes. A criminal offense solely they will clear up.
MASQUERADE – 8 x 55′ – Iceland
Style: Crime/Thriller
Produced by Arnbjörg Hafliðadóttir for Glassriver, contact Andri Ómarsson
Created by Andri Óttarsson & Baldvin Z
Quick 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 understand that these chargeable 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
Quick 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
Quick synopsis: A clueless East German cruise ship unintentionally sails straight into the Cuban Missile Disaster. With nuclear struggle looming and deck chair battles raging, the actual 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
Quick synopsis: Jennifer Corvino, an American pupil at a fencing academy within the glamorous Dolomites, hides her psychic hyperlink with bugs. When brutal murders strike, she should learn to use her secret energy to cease the killer, save her comrades and survive.
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
Quick synopsis: Airport Chaplain Tobias Wallace has a always ringing cellular, a drawer full of money, and a decidedly unorthodox method to fixing the every 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 spite of everything, it’s the one factor preserving 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
Quick synopsis: The mysterious demise of a PhD pupil attracts a superb 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
Quick 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
Quick synopsis: Mona, a daring Parisian chef, is employed to reinvent a struggling Tokyo izakaya – if solely Toshiro, the gifted (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 Quick synopsis: In Sixties Yugoslavia, a girl transforms a village by uniting housewives right into a knitting collective. Their designs catch world trend consideration, revolutionizing their rural lives.
The sixteenth challenge, 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 components
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
