The 15 initiatives competing at this yr’s Collection Mania Co-Professional Pitching Periods have been unveiled.
Reveals from the likes of Denmark’s Zentropa, Australia’s Picket 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 mission, 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, Picket 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 initiatives 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 initiatives have been chosen from 406 functions from 72 nations, with new territories equivalent to New Zealand, The Philippines, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Uganda and Eswatini getting 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 objective of serving to high-end European and Worldwide drama initiatives discover potential monetary companions,” mentioned Laurence Herszberg, Founder and Normal Director of Collection Mania. “Since inception in 2013, we’ve got seen nice success with these pitches, and it’s sure to proceed this yr given our stellar lineup of tiles from world wide. We stay up for welcoming our esteemed jury to Lille and awarding the winner of the Finest Venture Award with €50,000.”
Reveals equivalent to No Man’s Land (France), Banking District (Switzerland), Maintaining 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 Obtained This (Sweden) have been all pitched within the competitors through the years.
Francesco Capurro, Director of Collection Mania Discussion board, mentioned: “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 yr’s choice consists of 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 equivalent 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 regulation – abiding British policewoman drags him deep down into the mysterious disappearance of a international 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
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 regulation. 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 Footage 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 companies, he’s a part of a digital marketing campaign opposing a neo-fascist get together. 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 warfare 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, loss of life scene, crime scene. When an actress is discovered useless on set, the intimacy co-ordinator feels compelled to research, which suggests taking over the useless girl’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. Against the law 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 comprehend that these liable for the kidnapping are in all probability nonetheless residing 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 an enthralling 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 warfare 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
Quick 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.
THE CHAPLAIN – 8 x 30′ – Australia
Style: Drama
Co-created and Produced by Jude Troy for Picket Horse
Co-created and Written by Elise McCredie
Quick synopsis: Airport Chaplain Tobias Wallace has a continually ringing cellular, a drawer full of money, and a decidedly unorthodox method 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 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 loss of life of a PhD scholar attracts a superb scientist right into a lethal net of deceit and intrigue, exposing the darkish facet 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 together with her adopted daughter, and a successful 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 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 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 mission, 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 Footage and Jana Lotze for Oma Inge Movie.
Written by Jennifer Fox