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TFL Extended – TV Series 12-16 February 2020 TFL EXTENDED HEAD OF STUDIES Eilon Ratzkovsky Israel • Producer TFL EXTENDED – TV SERIES TUTORS Marietta von Hausswolff Eszter Angyalosy von Baumgarten Hungary • Scriptwriter, Sweden • Scriptwriter, Story Editor Story Editor Rasmus Horskjær Chiara Laudani Denmark • Scriptwriter, Italy • Scriptwriter, Story Editor Story Editor P. 2 Arca Genesis P. 15 Tenure P. 3 Chess P. 16 The Bridge P. 4 Dr. End P. 17 The Comedy of Time P. 5 Flatmates P. 18 The Ghosts of Molly Keenan P. 6 Fuxthaler P. 19 The Red Princess P. 7 How to Be P. 20 The Rule P. 8 Limboland P. 21 The Umbrella P. 9 Number 61 P. 22 Tinika P. 10 Parousia Second Coming P. 23 Ultima Date P. 11 Pyramid P. 24 Unholy Island P. 12 Sauble B**ch P. 25 Video On Demand VOD P. 13 Sekste P. 26 Wien 1913 P. 14 Shadow Man Arca Genesis ARCA GENESIS is a spaceship, a fringe science project and the last chance for the human race to survive the death of planet Earth. After 1400 years it Roberto Costantini almost reached its destination: Scriptwriter • Italy the blue planet Aquos. 13 years ago, AG1, the artificial Roberto Costantini was born in 1972 in Foligno and intelligence that manages the has a background in philosophy and cinema. He spaceship gave birth to the attended masterclasses and training programmes only three passengers of the in directing and screenwriting with Giorgio Arlorio, ship: Broll, Nina and Liv. They Vincenzo Cerami, Susanna Styron and Leonardo are meant to be the refounders Staglianò, among others. With the independent of the human race, and AG1 creative group ZooTroupe he wrote, directed and is in charge of their education produced several short films, and he is developing the and training. feature film project Ferretti Brothers vs Real Madrid. The day of the kids’ 13th birthday, the A.I. virus named HKR hacks the system to sabotage the Arca Genesis project. Will the kids survive this AI fight? PROJECT STATUS The project is at an early stage of development. We are working on refining the concept, the characters and the bible of the first season. We are looking for co-producers and sales. CONTACT INFORMATION Roberto Costantini [email protected] T +39 3405214937 2 TFL EXTENDED – TV SERIES • 12-16 FEBRUARY 2020 Chess 1994, small town Ireland. Over the course of a summer, an Under-16 chess team battles its way to the National Finals, where they will vie for the Ray Lawlor Gold Medal. These players Scriptwriter • Ireland must not only overcome increasingly tougher teams, Born in the West of Ireland, Ray’s passion for story but navigate internal team was ignited when as a child he visited the set of Jim struggles: a win-at-all-costs Sheridan’s Into the West. After finishing school, he captain, a pregnant team earned a BSc in Film and Television at the Dublin member and a new player with Institute of Technology. a dark past that jeopardizes His work has been optioned and funded by Screen everything. Ireland, TG4, Virgin Media Television, the Western Chess is a nostalgic, twisty Region Audiovisual Production Fund (WRAP Fund) tale about not growing up too and Channel 4. Among his screenplays, Ray’s soon. Based on the writer’s feature script Natural Selection was selected at EAVE real-life experiences, the 6 Producers Workshop 2017. He is currently developing episodes build to an emotional the 6-part drama Obituary with Virgin Media crescendo as lump in your Television, supported by WRAP and Screen Ireland. throat as anything Rocky With a proven track record in the development and Balboa could deliver. production process, Ray is addicted to twisty dramas and the absurdities burrowed beneath everyday life. PROJECT STATUS The project is at an early stage of development and is supported by Screen Skills Ireland. We are looking for producing partners, broadcasters and international co-producers. CONTACT INFORMATION Ray Lawlor [email protected] T +353 867366638 TFL EXTENDED – TV SERIES • 12-16 FEBRUARY 2020 3 Dr. End Maya Kenig Writer/Director • Israel Assaf was kicked out of his Cardiology internship and Maya Kenig studied at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television somehow found himself as School and at the London Film School. Her debut feature a home hospice doctor who Off White Lies (2012) was screened at several film festivals helps terminal patients. He is all around the world, including Busan IFF’s Flash Forward, quite frustrated in his job as Palm Springs IFF’s New Voices, New Visions and Berlinale Generation, and received 7 nominations at the Ophir the angel of death, until one of Awards, including Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best his patients invites him to his Director. Her short film In the Shade of the Palm Tree (2018) farewell party and asks him to was screened at the MoMA in New York as part of a tribute finish him off. After thinking it film to Avraham Heffner, curated by Renen Schorr. Maya also over, Assaf decides to go along edited the TV series On the Spectrum by Yuval Shafferman and actively helps him to die. (Grand Prize at Series Mania Festival 2018, Ophir Award for Best Editing 2018) and Just for Today by Nir Bergman At first, he feels tormented: (Special Jury Prize at Series Mania Festival 2019). She is it is not for him to do that currently developing her new feature film project Milk. and, furthermore, it is illegal. But when Assaf feels the satisfaction of finally taking control, he is tempted to do it again. It puts him at great risk, but after so long, he finally feels alive. Yael Benaya PROJECT STATUS Producer • Israel Dr. End is an 8 × 40’ drama series. The subject might Yael is Head of Development and Distribution in the Film & sound intimidating, but TV Department at Green Productions, Israel. Besides, she is a writer and an actress. She graduated in Scriptwriting from the tone is light and full of the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at the Tel Aviv humour. University. From 2015 to 2018, she worked as News and The project is written with the Magazine Editor at the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Currently, support of the Israeli Hot cable she is doing her graduate studies in Literature. TV and is scheduled to be shot in 2021. CONTACT INFORMATION Maya Kenig Yael Benaya [email protected] [email protected] T +972 547640928 T +972 549250344 4 TFL EXTENDED – TV SERIES • 12-16 FEBRUARY 2020 Flatmates Federico Peduzzi Writer/Director • Italy Flatmates is an English- speaking dramedy, starring Federico was born in 1989 and began his film career as a SAG Award-nominated Giorgio production assistant on the set of Parlami D’Amore by Silvio Cantarini as the 25-year-old Muccino (2007). In 2010, he graduated from the Directing cute clumsy painter Paolo, and Screenwriting course at the Roma Film Academy, and who leaves his pretty town in 2014 he earned a Master’s degree in Psychology at the Sapienza University. His two short films The Accused (2010) in Italy, taking a chance to and The Prisoner (2013) have been awarded at several make it in the Berlin art scene festivals. In 2014, Federico moved to Berlin, where he started when offered to be part of an to work as a director and AD for several short and feature exhibition due in 30 days. films, including the feature Effigie by Udo Flohr (2019). He is currently writing his first feature film project Aphrodite. However, his planned creative output, clashes with bizarre flatmates and hours spent on a bike delivering food. Also, the blossomed romance with hip chaotic Kathleen, who introduces him to the dynamic Berlin, leaves him perplex when she disappears out of Flavia Oertwig the blue. Producer • Germany/Italy Will he meet the vernissage’s Flavia Oertwig earned an MA in Philosophy and Media deadline? Theory from the University of Hamburg, where she also worked as a tutor, as well as a Postgraduate Master in PROJECT STATUS Audiovisual Management MEGA from Media Business School, Spain. Flavia worked as a writer’s assistant, The project is in development, script reader, junior producer, head of development and setting up an international consultant for many production, distribution and TV writers pool, with one head companies. Her credits include feature films, shorts and a writer. 360° VR film, screened internationally at several film festivals. We are looking for broadcasters and sales agents. The trailer is available. CONTACT INFORMATION Federico Peduzzi Flavia Oertwig [email protected] [email protected] T +49 1633154989 T +39 3336948543 TFL EXTENDED – TV SERIES • 12-16 FEBRUARY 2020 5 Fuxthaler In this family entertainment series with a mix of action, comedy and drama, we experience the adventures of a modern time Robin Paul Harather Hood-style couple on their Producer • Austria quest for justice. Elements of the show include Paul Harather worked as a teacher in the film horses, silver plated throwing schools of Kassel and Ludwigsburg, in Germany. knifes, slingshots and jokes. He has written, directed and produced several feature films and TV series for Austrian and PROJECT STATUS German broadcasters. We received interest from With his company Breitwand Austria and NSA an Austrian TV broadcaster Germany he also produces TVCs. and we are looking for international co-producers. CONTACT INFORMATION Paul Harather [email protected] T +43 69915048436 6 TFL EXTENDED – TV SERIES • 12-16 FEBRUARY 2020 How to Be Rosie Westhoff Writer/Director • United Kingdom How to Be is a coming-of-age dramedy that follows 15-year- Rosie has worked as a freelance producer and line producer old Charlotte struggling to for almost 15 years.