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TV SERIES FESTIVAL SEASON 5 28-30 January 2016 at Ciné Lumière, London INDUSTRY GUIDE @TSerialized #TotallySerialized www.institut-francais.org.uk/totallyserialized ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Totally Serialized is organised by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, curated by Lorraine Sullivan and coordinated by Priscilla Gessati. Special thanks to: About Premium Content, Les Armateurs, ARTE, Atlantique Productions, Blue Spirit Studio, CALT, CANAL+, Channel4, Cyber Group Studios, Federation Entertainment, France Télévisions, Kudos, Kwaï, Mandarin Télévision, Mon Voisin Production, Mother Production, TF1 International, The Oligarchs Production, Shine France Films, Sky, Sky Atlantic, Studio Canal, SVT, Warp Films 2 CONTENTS INDUSTRY DAY (28/1): PRODUCTION p.4 2.00pm PRODUCER’S MASTERCLASS: Warp Films 3.00pm CO-PRODUCTION CASE-STUDY: Midnight Sun 4.30pm PANEL: Why Is Foreign Drama More In Demand? 6.15 pm SCREENING: Baron noir (International premiere) 7.30pm SCREENING: The Tunnel - Series 2, episode 1 (Special preview) 9.00pm INDUSTRY DINNER COCKTAIL INDUSTRY DAY (29/1): SCREENWRITING p.6 2.30pm TV SCREENWRITING PANEL: How Does the Writers' Room Work? 4.00pm SCREENING & CASE STUDY: Writing TV Comedy with A Very Secret Service (UK premiere) 6.00pm BAFTA MASTERCLASS: Screenwriting Continuing Drama 8.00pm SCREENING: Call My Agent! (UK premiere) PUBLIC PROGRAMME (30/1) p.8 10.30am DEBATE: Café Philo on TV Series (in English) 2.00pm KIDS SCREENING: The Long Long Holiday (UK premiere) 3.30pm SCREENING: The Bureau (UK premiere) 6.00pm All-Night Marathon SCREENING: This Is England '86, '88 & '90 WHO'S WHO p.10 PRACTICAL INFO p.15 3 INDUSTRY EVENTS: THURSDAY 28 JANUARY 2pm – 2.45pm | PRODUCER'S MASTERCLASS: Warp Films with Mark Herbert and Peter Carlton, joint-CEOs, Warp Films Warp Films is one of the most respected and exciting production company in the UK. Its joint-CEOs, Mark Herbert and Peter Carlton will talk about the role of producers and nurturing talent. 3pm – 4pm | CO-PRODUCTION CASE-STUDY: Midnight Sun with Stefan Baron, Head of International Co-productions / Nice Entertainment Group, Olivier Bibas, Co-CEO Atlantique Productions, Dominique Jubin, Director of French Drama and Co-productions at CANAL+, Christian Wikander, Head of Drama, SVT. Chaired by Neil Midgley, Media commentator, Forbes.com Midnight Sun is the first ever TV drama co-production between France and Sweden (Canal+/SVT). This high-concept thriller from Mårlind & Stein (Bron/Broen) stars French actress Leïla Bekhti (The Prophet, All that Glitters) and Gustaf Hammarsten (Bruno, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo). Kahina Zadi (Leïla Bekhti), a French police officer, travels to Kiruna, a small mining community in remote northern Sweden, to investigate the brutal murder of a French citizen. With the help of Anders Harnesk (Gustaf Hammarsten), a Swedish DA and a member of the Sami, an ancient, mysterious indi- genous tribe of Scandinavia, they are faced with new killings. with Creative Europe UK 4pm-4.30pm | COFFEE BREAK: Networking Session 4.30pm – 5.45pm | PANEL: Why Is Foreign Drama More In Demand? with Toby Etheridge, Head of Programming, Fox International Channels UK, Walter Iuzzolino, Chief Creative Office of Global Series Network (GSN), Frédérique Rouault, VP International Sales at TF1 International and Charles Touboul, Content Development Manager at AB International, chaired by Ed Waller, C21 Media Discussion followed by a screening of a selection of recent French TV series promo reels. with TV France International 6.15pm | SCREENING: Baron noir (International premiere) Opening Ceremony with CANAL+ introduced by Dominique Jubin, Director French Drama and Co-productions CREATION ORIGINALE, CANAL+ 7.30pm | SCREENING: The Tunnel, Series 2 (Special preview) Courtesy of SKY and CANAL+ Introduced by Anne Mensah, Head of Drama, SKY - Followed by a Q&A with writer Ben Richards and director Gilles Bannier chaired by James Rampton (The Independent) 9pm - 10.30pm | IndustrY Dinner Cocktail in association with CANAL+ 4 6.15pm - BARON NOIR Series 1, episode 1 | 52 mins | in French with English subtitles with Kad Merad, Niels Arestrup, Anna Mouglalis, Astrid Whettnall, Hugo Becker France | 2015 | 8×52 mins | created and written by Éric Benzekri and Jean-Baptiste Delafon | directed by Ziad Doueiri | produced by Kwaï | broadcaster France: CANAL+ | international sales: StudioCanal TV France, between the two rounds of the presidential election. Philippe Rickwaert, Socialist mayor of Dunkirk and MP, supports with fervour the left-wing candidate, his mentor Francis Laugier. Four days to the second round, as the final candidates are about to contend with one another on a TV Debate, Rickwaert is warned by a policeman friend of his that a search will take place in the headoffice of the Dunkirk council estate which served as slush fund for the campaign. Rickwaert will have to gather the missing funds before the arrival of the police if he wants to stop the events in motion from spiralling into a total media disaster. 7.30pm - THE TUNNEL, series 2 - Followed by a Q&A Series 2, episode 1 | 48 mins | in English and French with Clémence Poésy, Stephen Dillane, William Ash, Thibault de Montalembert, Juliette Navis France/UK | 2015 | 8×48 mins | written by Ben Richards | directed by Mike Barker, Gilles Bannier, Tim Mielants, Carl Tibbetts | produced by Kudos, Shine France Films | broadcaster UK: Sky Atlantic HD | broadcaster France: CANAL+ Clémence Poésy and the International Emmy award winning Stephen Dillane return for the second series of Ben Richards’ multi-award winning The Tunnel. A high-volume, geo-politi- cal, bi-lingual thriller, the series moves between the coasts of Kent and Northern France via the Eurotunel, against a back- drop of a continent in crisis. Commander Elise Wasserman and DCI Karl Roebuck reunite to investigate the case of a French couple abducted from the Eurotunnel. But the case is compli- cated when a plane carrying British and French passengers crashes into the Channel killing everyone on board. In a ter- rifying game of brinkmanship, Karl and Elise risk everything in the pursuit of true justice. 5 INDUSTRY EVENTS: FRIDAY 29 JANUARY Free screening ticket available at the Box Office 45 mins prior to the screening. Subject to availability. 2.30pm – 3.30pm | TV SCREENWRITING PANEL: How does the Writers’ Room Work? A discussion between screenwriters Camille de Castelnau (The Bureau) and Smita Bhide (Hunted) chaired by James Rampton (The Independent), who will compare their writing techniques and group working methods. with SACD, French Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers 4pm - 4.30pm | COFFEE BREAK: Networking Session 4pm – 5.30pm | SCREENING & CASE STUDY: Writing TV Comedy A Very Secret Service (UK premiere) - Followed by a discussion with screenwriters Claire Lemaréchal and Jean-André Yerlès, chaired by James Rampton (The Independent) 6pm – 7.15pm | BAFTA MASTERCLASS: Screenwriting Continuing Drama with writer Jeff Povey (credits include over 150 episodes of Eastenders), script editor Sophia Rashid (Eastenders and Holby City) and Stuart Blackburn series producer at ITV Studios (Coronation Street and Emmerdale), chaired by Anne Edyvean Continuing Drama series constitute some of the most popular, talked about and accessible drama on British television. Eastenders, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, Holby City all reach audiences of millions of viewers each week. With hundreds of hours produced annually, working on a continuing drama is hugely collaborative and often the training ground for top TV talent. In this session, a writer, a script editor and an executive producer will dismantle the process of writing on these long-running and much-loved programmes. 7.15pm - 8pm | Networking Session 8pm | SCREENING: Call My Agent! (UK premiere) Episodes 1&2 followed by a Q&A with director Antoine Garceau, screenwriter Benjamin Dupas and producer Harold Valentin, chaired by James Rampton (The Independent) 6 4pm - A VERY SECRET SERVICE | Au service de la France Series 1, episodes 2&5 | 2×26 mins | in French with English subtitles with Hugo Becker, Wilfred Benaïche, Christophe Kourotchkine, Bruno Paviot, Karim Barras France | 2014 | 12×26 mins | created by Jean-François Halin | written by Jean-François Halin, Claire Lemaréchal, Jean-André Yerlès | directed by Alexandre Courtès | produced by Mandarin Télévision - Gilles de Verdière | broadcaster France: ARTE | international sales: About Premium Content 1960. The world is dominated by a powerful, WWII victorious nation: la belle France, which the entire planet entrusts to keep the Cold War from spiralling into WWIII. Young André Merlaux is thrilled when he’s accepted into the French secret service, obviously the crème de la crème in intelligence. From the creator of OSS 117, A Very Secret Service is a chauvinistic comedy show and the French missing link between James Bond and The Office. 8pm - CALL MY AGENT! | Dix pour cent - followed by a Q&A Series 1, episodes 1&2 | 2×52 mins | in French with English subtitles with Camille Cottin, Grégory Montel, Liliane Rovère Thibault de Montalembert, Cécile de France, Line Renaud, Françoise Fabian, Fanny Siney France | 2014 | 6×52 mins | created by Fanny Herrero | written by Fanny Herrero, Nicolas Mercier, Quoc Dang Tran, Sabrina B. Karine, Camille Chamoux, Eliane Montane, Anaïs Carpita, Cecile Ducrocq, Benjamin Dupas, Camille de Castelnau | directed by Cédric Klapisch, Lola Doillon, Antoine Garceau | produced by Mon Voisin Productions, Mother Production | broadcaster France: France Télévi- sions