3-6 October 2017 SERIES LAB HAMBURG | TABLE of CONTENTS

3-6 October 2017 SERIES LAB HAMBURG | TABLE OF CONTENTS

PARTICIPANTS COMPANIES & PROJECTS 4 Bufo FI Catpics CH Deluca Film DK Filmlance SE Hold the Page DE Leitwolf DE Letterbox Filmproduktion DE Monster Scripted NO Mother Production FR NY MONKEY DE Panache Productions BE SAM Productions DK Wüste Film DE The StoryBay DE Tamtam Film DE Topkapi NL Witcraft AT Yanez Film IT Zodiak BE EXPERTS SCRIPT DOCTORS 40 Nikolaj Scherfig DK John Yorke UK NDR Prize "Albatross" JURY 41 Maria Furtwängler DE Christian Granderath DE Nikolaj Scherfig DK BROADCASTERS 42 Marcus Ammon, SKY Deutschland DE Dr. Anke Beining-Wellhausen, Teleclub CH Gemma Derksen, BNNVRA NL Wolfgang Feindt, ZDF DE Liselott Forsman, YLE DRAAMA FI Christian Granderath, NDR DE Jennifer Green, TV2 DK Nico Grein, RTL DE Nils Hartmann, SKY Italy IT Thomas von Hennet, ProSiebenSat.1 Media DE Heidi Hermans, VRT BE AT Alexandre Piel, ARTE FR Katharina Schenk, ORF AT Paule Zajdermann, France Télévisions FR Michele Zatta, RAI IT DISTRIBUTORS 46 Amelie von Kienlin, Red Arrow International DE Sebastian Krekeler, ZDF Enterprises DE Moritz von Kruedenerer, Beta Film DE Julia Nisslein Warner Bros. DE FUNDS 47 Jan Roekens, Screen Flunders BE Karin Schockweiler, Film Fund Luxembourg LU Matteo Solaro, Creative Europe MEDIA BE ORGANISERS 48 Maria Köpf, FFHSH DE Michael Lehmann, Studio Hamburg Production Group DE Christiane Siemen, Creative Europe Desk Hamburg DE PARTNERS 49 PUBLIC EVENT 54 Behind the Scenes: Development and Financing of European Drama Series Presentation of European series project CONFERENCE VENUE 55

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 3 BUFO | FINLAND

MARK LWOFF Producer

* [email protected] ) +358 45 131 4652 ü www.bufo.fi

Founded in 2007 and led by producers Mark Lwoff & Misha Jaari,Bufo has produced a number of films of which many have received international recognition. Bufo’s productions all share the elements of clear artistic vision, innovation & high quality. Bufo has produced such films as Academy Award Winner Jörn Donner’s film Armi Alive! (2015) and Pirjo Honkasalo’s Concrete Night (Finland’s official entry for the Academy Awards & Golden Globes in 2014). Bufo's first TV series Northern Mishaps premiered in 2015. Furthermore, Bufo has been involved in a number of international co- productions. The latest co-production The Other Side of Hope by Aki Kaurismäki won the Silver Bear at the 67th Berlinale.

Producer Mark Lwoff (b. 1976) is co-founder of production company Bufo, establisbed in 2007. He has studied in Aalto University's Film Department in Finland. He has participated in European TV Drama Series Lab, EAVE Producers Workshop and Producers on The Move training programs among others. Films produced by Lwoff have received international recognition and 34 Jussi Award nominations (Finnish equivalent to Oscars)

4 | SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 FINLAND | BUFO

JAKOBSSON 3 x 52 min

Genre Crime Drama Director TBC Screenwriters Antti Karumo (FI) Estimated Budget 3.1 Million € Secured Financing 125.000 € Financier The Finnish Film Foundation, YLE

While desperately attempting to integrate into his new homeland, a burly Finnish insulation specialist overshoots things and is consequently swept up in Swedish history’s most infamous crime: the murder of Olof Palme. Jakobsson is an epic tale of migration, telling the story of how the arrival of new immigrants from the most troubled corners of the world, comes to change the face of Sweden forever. Based on the novel "The Night Swallows the Days" by Finnish author Asko Sahlberg.

"Död åt fnndjävlar", or "Death to the Bloody Finns". This is what it says on the wall of a depot engulfed in fames. Here we meet our man – the protagonist of our story, working on the assembly line, putting together a Volvo. With the 1980s fast approaching, JAKOBSSON has already spent several years slaving away at this encampment. He has long since had enough of the Swedes. As a Sweden Finn he has had plenty of struggles after the "big move": no job done or gesture made for the greater good of the Kingdom ever seems to be enough, nor does it give him any pleasure for that matter. And that’s what it was all supposed to be about: Gothenburg is said to have been founded as the apple of Gustav II Adolf’s eye, 400 years ago. And just as the King stood on top of the Utrella in central Gothenburg before him, Jakobsson had come here with dreams of building and fortifying the city. His role, which Jakobsson now curses, had been meant to provide him with an identity.

And that had been the case until ROBBAN arrived in town, driving a wedge between the mumbling loner and the other Finns in town. He told Jakobsson, "You may be ugly, but there might be other kinds of work out here for a big brute like you. We just have to work out the details."

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 5 CATPICS | SWITZERLAND

SARAH BORN Producer

* [email protected] ) +41 788 79 76 81 ü www.catpics.ch

Catpics Ltd was founded in 1984 in Zurich as an independent production company by Alfi Sinniger, Xavier Koller and Alex Grob. Since 2014 Sarah Born is a partner in the company. Sice its’ launch, Catpics has focused on producing quality feature films and documentaries with commercial appeal. Catpics represented Switzerland twice at the Oscar submissions with The Black Tanner (1986) and Gripsholm (2000), both by Xavier Koller. The co-production Emporte-moi by Léa Pool (2000) was Canada’s official entry for the Academy Award Nomination and competed at the Berlinale. Journey of Hope (1991) by Xavier Koller was awarded an Oscar for the best non-English language film.

Sarah Born studied cultural sciences with a focus on film, theater, literature and law at ‘Europa Universität Viadrina’ in Germany and in Spain. In 2004 she worked in production at Niko Film Berlin. From 2007–2011 she was in sales & aquistitions for First Hand Film. Working in this field has enabled her to travel and work at a number of top European film festivals and markets. In 2009 she participated in the EURODOC Programme for European documentary film producers. In May 2012 she joined Catpics Ltd. Since 2014 Sarah is a partner and Co-CEO of the Catpics Ltd.

6 | SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 SWITZERLAND | CATPICS

SCHOOL OF CHAMPIONS 8 x 45 min

Genre Coming-of-Age Drama Series Director Christian Keller (CH) Screenwriters Clemens Aufderklamm (AT) Estimated Budget 10 Million € Secured Financing 173.373 € Financier IDM Südtirol Alto Adige, Media Desk Suisse (MEDIA Ersatzmassnahmen), Graubünden, Succès Passage Antenne

SCHOOL OF CHAMPIONS is a coming-of-age-action-drama series about a group of young athletes and their mentors, all struggling to succeed in a highly competitive total institution: an elite boarding school for future world ski-champions.

The first episode follows four teenagers as they arrive at the International School for Snow Sports, also known as School of Champions. Before they can even settle in, the young athletes are thrown into the selection week, also known as "Week of Hell", where they have to push themselves beyond their very limits. Their results determine their training groups that will define their status in the school and forever affect their career trajectories.

Season One will follow our students and their mentors as they prepare for the important World Junior Alpine Skiing Championship at the end of the year.

CLEMENS AUFDERKLAMM Writer

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 7 DELUCA FILM | DENMARK & LETTERBOX FILMPROD. | GERMANY

DAVID C. H. ØSTERBØG Producer

* [email protected] ) +45 4031 0230 ü www.deluca-film.dk

Deluca Film produces and co-produces fiction, documentary and commercials as the only production company with permanent domicile in western Denmark and offices in Copenhagen. For almost 25 years Deluca Film has focused on unique and authentic story ideas with a strong voice. The company has produced a diverse slate of hard-hitting documentary, tv comedy and broad family entertainment. Deluca Film works with all media platforms and produced the first Danish series for online streaming in 2015. The company has delivered content to all major broadcasters in Denmark and continually develops content for old and new media. IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH TORSTEN GÖTZ & CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICHS (p. 16) Producers * [email protected] ) +49 160 743 9655 ü www.letterbox-filmproduktion.de

8 | SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 DENMARK | DELUCA FILM & GERMANY | LETTERBOX FILMPROD. NEW NORDIC NOIR 2017

Genre TBD Director TBC Screenwriters Mikkel Bak Sørensen (DK), Daniela Baumgärtl (DE), Wiktor Piatkowski (DE), Anders Rønnow Klarlund & Jacob Weinreich (DK) Estimated Budget TBD Secured Financing TBC Financier TBC

New Nordic Noir was initiated by Filmby Aarhus and Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein. The aim is to encourage German-Danish series co-productions and develop strong regional content in the Danish region of Ringkøbing- Skjern. Deluca Film and Letterbox Filmproduktion have joined forces with successful scriptwriters to create a series that is innovative and appealing.

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 9 FILMLANCE | SWEDEN

MARTIN CRONSTRÖM Producer

* [email protected] ) +46 708900602 ü www.filmlance.se

Filmlance, one of Sweden’s largest independent production companies has since the establishment in 1988, produced award-winning, high-end television and feature films for a worldwide audience. The filmography includes more than 100 titles of major motion pictures, animated children’s films, TV films, TV series and short films. In the production slate for 2016-2018, Filmlance has a number of strong titles, such as four new Beck-films, Rolf and Cilla Börjlind’s TV-series "Spring Tide", the 2nd season, a new TV-series signed Jens Lapidus, writer behind "Easy Money", with the ambition to start the new era in Nordic-noir. On the feature film side there is the epic high-concept story about Swedish entertainment phenomenon from the late seventies, the drag-show group After Dark, the tween franchise dramedy "Eva & Adam", and the young adult, contemporary off-beat drama "Broke", written and directed by the young and multi-talented creator and shooting star director Nikeisha Andersson. And there is more… Filmlance currently has 23 employees and is part of Endemol Shine Nordics, which is part of the Endemol Shine Group. TV-drama producer Martin Cronström was born 1963 in Stockholm. Raised in a music and theatre family he began his career as director assistant at the theatre working with both opera, musical and plays. After completing a double degree as a music and theatre producer and working in this fields for a period of years he began working with television in 1992. Ending up freelancing in the Swedish film industry in 1994 he has since 2008 been a full employee of Filmlance as producer and has produced over 60 hours of TV drama.

10 | SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 SWEDEN | FILMLANCE

A QUEEN WITHOUT A CROWN 10 x 60 min

Genre Historical Drama Director TBC Screenwriters Peter Emanuel Falck (SE) Estimated Budget 15-20 Million € Secured Financing 25.000 € Financier SVT Sweden Development

A woman thrust into battle. In the depths of Medieval darkness, Kristina Gyllenstierna loses her husband: Sten Sture, Regent of Sweden. As she seeks to avenge him, she takes up his bloody cause to free Sweden from Danish rule and claim the crown for herself. Based on a True story dramatized by Peter Emanuel Falck.

Chapter 1. A Tale of Two Princes Our characters are presented through the eyes of our main character, Kristina Gyllenstierna. We watch as Sten Sture of Sweden and Duke Christiern of Denmark become the leaders of their respective countries. A parallel story unfolds as both of their fathers die, and they find the loves of their lives. The episode highlights the similarities in their stories, though neither side is aware of the other.

PETER EMANUEL FALCK Writer

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 11 HOLD THE PAGE | GERMANY

RALPH CHRISTIANS Producer

* [email protected] ) +49 173 746 5157

Hold the Page GmbH, founded 2013, is a German company focussing on the development and exploitation of international English speaking projects - and a rights' holding company. Besides the Irish crime series "Jack Taylor" Ralph Christians and Katrin Hensel-Ovenden are creating, writing or co- producing Terry Pratchett's "Dodger", a 2x90 minutes adventure event series, taking place 1850 in London's "Seven Dials", the dirtiest square mile in the world; the Icelandic theatrical action thriller "Operation Napoleon" based on Arnaldur Indridason's bestselling novel; the Irish-German romantic comedy "Second Chance"; the teenage live action mystery series "Journey to the Underworld" (Verne Enigma), a co-production between Iceland, Germany, Ireland & Australia; ....and some more international stories. Ralph Christians studied Social Science and Journalism in the famous 70th and worked as editor for a leading nationwide satirical magazine and editor-in-chief for a daily newspaper. He joined the film industry in 1980 as a journalist for news and political programs, mostly investigative documentaries, for public broadcasters in Germany. Since 1988 he works as a producer and writer of fiction in live action and animation in his "magic triangle" Iceland, Ireland and the North of Germany. SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY JACK TAYLOR, TV crime series, starring Iain Glen, 9 x 90 min OOOPS! NOAH IS GONE... Creator, Full length animatedmovie in 3D sterescopic NIKO I & II, full length animated movies in 3D sterescopic THOR, full length animated movie in 3D sterescopic SUMMER OF THE FLYING SAUCER, full lenght live action movie, 92 min NORMAN NORMAL, animated TV series, 65 x 26 min

12 | SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 GERMANY | HOLD THE PAGE

LENA 6 x 90 min

Genre Crime Director TBC Screenwriters Katrin Hensel-Ovenden (DE), Ralph Christians (DE/IR) Estimated Budget 9 Million € Secured Financing 3.6 Million € Financier Telegael Media Group, Ireland; Star-Media, Russia World Sales Content Media Corporation London/LA

Lena is a modern, brave crime reporter in glamorous St. Petersburg, educated and funky, in jeans and shirt. She is a fresh contrast to the harsh and bleak crimes she has to deal with, even when she delves into the world of evil, where greed, jealousy and power reign. Based on the novels of the Russian crime writer Polina Dashkova, who sold more than 60 million copies worldwide.

LENA POLJANSKAJA (35) is an attractive journalist in St. Petersburg, who, through a crime that was committed to her, steps up to become a courageous crime reporter who refuses to give up, even when the police have long since sealed the files. She turns things around, searches everywhere and everyone until she finally unmasks the culprit. Lena is a laid-back, young Russian, not in high heels and fur, but in jeans and a shirt. She represents modern Russia, educated and funky, described as cosmopolitan, speaks many languages, has a very calm nature and is the mother of a young daughter, LISA. Exciting and profound cases, a charming and unconventional investigator, as well as twists and turns are the hallmarks of the series, told from the heart of modern, glamorous St. Petersburg. Lena comes as a welcomed, fresh contrast to the harsh and bleak crimes.

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 13 LEITWOLF FILMPRODUKTION | GERMANY

RÜDIGER WOLF Producer

* [email protected] ) +49 171 6926285 ü www.leitwolf.de

Leitwolf Filmproduktion is a young and growing filmproduction company, that stands for artistic quality and diverse productions. Rüdiger Wolf, Sven Rudat und Anette Unger founded the film division of "Leitwolf TV- und Filmproduktion GmbH" and act as partners and managing directors for Leitwolf Filmproduktion GmbH. Motivated through the successful co-production of two feature films for TV and one international co-production of a first feature, as well as the development of new fictional projects the goal is to establish the company for high-quality films and TV series. Rüdiger Wolf gained a comprehensive understanding for the film industry through working in the various fields of the TV and production industry. After several stations at the broadcasting network of ARD (Saarländischer Rundfunk) and ZDF he worked for well-known production companies like Schwartzkopff and Make it real. In 2009 he founded Leitwolf TV and Filmproduktion as a independent production company. In 2016 he founded the film department of Leitwolf together with Sven Rudat and Anette Unger. We work with the whole spectrum of talents - promising young guns to multi-award winning filmmakers. SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY 2017 MESSI AND MAUD (LA HOLANDESA) | Feature Film | Marleen Jonkman | co-produced with Smarthouse Film, NL 2016 AM ABEND ALLER TAGE | TV Feature | Dominik Graf | co-produced with Memento Film 2016 MATTHIESENS TÖCHTER, TV Feature | Titus Selge | co-produced with Memento Film Projects in pre-production: ARMER IRRER | TV Feature | Andreas Kleinert | NDR COUPE CONFUSED | Feature Film | Mischa Kamp | in co-production with Bosbros, NL and NDR THE TREE | Feature Film | Louw Venter | in co-production with Urucu Media, SA

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REVENGE 6 x 45 min

Genre Crime / Drama Director Randa Chahoud Screenwriters Nicholas J. Schofield (DE/UK), Randa Chahoud (DE/Syria) Estimated Budget 3 Million €

A small town in Germany. Wolfgang, a cranky guy with tattoos starts his new job as a chief in the long-established Angel Inn. In connection with the regular customers of the Inn mysterious and brutal murder cases occur in the district. Does the ominous stranger have anything to do with it? Based on the novels "Rache" and "Trieb" by Jochen Rausch (published by Pieper) REVENGE shows human dramas and catastrophes emerging out of ostensible normality, sometimes gradually, sometimes all of a sudden. Aggressions arise, develop and lead to escalation. Investigations are, if at all, conducted en passant. In doing so, the perpetrator becomes the main focus of attention, while the interrelations of the offender and the victim are pointed out.

Episode 1: No Parking Wolfgang (35) has his first day in the kitchen of Angel Inn and besides the owner Rainald Böttger (63) and the waitress Steffi (28) he meets some of the regular customers already. Georg Röbel (54) is unemployed and visits everyday, he always finds something that he can beef about and he sees everything that happens in his district. Now he spotted a woman parking her Maserati illegally in front of the pub. As the police does not really help him, due to his regular annoying complaints about everything and everyone, he starts to follow and observe the woman with the retiree Hilda, whom he sometimes helps out with stuff. As they park in front of the woman’s house and observe with a camera, the situation escalates and eventually Georg is hit by her Maserati and dies.

RANDA CHAHOUD Writer

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 15 LETTERBOX FILMPRODUKTION | GERMANY

CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICHS & TORSTEN GÖTZ (p. 8) Producers

* [email protected] ) +49 163 254 7487 ü www.letterbox-filmproduktion.de

LETTERBOX FILMPRODUKTION develops and produces fictional content programming. From long-standing series and programs to high-quality theatrical movies – the company produces programming for all major German broadcasters and the cinema market. A variety of formats originates from the on-going exchange with the creative stars of the industry resulting in a wide topical spectrum from crime, drama and mystery to comedy. An experienced fiction team produces custom-made programming for each individual time slot. Along with a sense for innovations and new trends, proven ideas and traditions remain in focus: Strongly rated television programs such as "Notruf Hafenkante" (ZDF), "Großstadtrevier" (ARD), "Die Pfefferkörner" (ARD) and "Die Kanzlei" (ARD), formerly "Der Dicke", as well as the Norwegian series "Liebe am Fjord" (ARD) draw millions of viewers. The film version of Sven Regener’s novel "Neue Vahr Süd" (ARD) belongs as much to the portfolio as the star-studded event film "Der Tote auf dem Eis (ZDF) with Manfred Zapatka, Kai Wiesinger and Ulrich Tukur or "Die Schuld der Erben" (ZDF) with Otto Sander, Lisa Martinek and Gaby Dohm. Additionally, originating from LETTERBOX FILMPRODUKTION among others are the television movies "Vater Mutter Mörder" (ZDF) with Heino Ferch and Silke Bodenbender, "Unter der Haut" (NDR) with Friedrich Mücke and more recently the thriller "Im Tunnel" (ZDF) with Maria Simon as well as "Die vermisste Frau" (ARD Degeto) with Corinna Harfouch, Jörg Hartmann and Ulrich Matthes. Recent productions include the screen adaptation of Pascal Mercier’s best-selling novel, "Night Train to Lisbon", starring, among others, Jeremy Irons, as well as "HEIL", a film by Dietrich Brüggemann, which was released in German theaters in 2015 and was awarded the German Film Critics Award for "Best Screenplay" and "Best Editing" at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. The companys’ current cinema productions "SIMPEL", the screen adaptation of Marie-Aude Murail’s bestselling novel, and "Die Pfefferkörner und der Fluch des schwarzen Königs" (WT), the first cinema adventure of the young detectives "Die Pfefferkörner", recently finished filming. Christian Friedrichs has been working in the media and television business over ten years. He started at Studio Hamburg’s affiliate for international sales and distribution as Head of Acquisitions and Co-Productions in charge of achieving international co-productions and co-financing various genres, e.g. kids programs, blue-chip documentaries as well as TV series like French, Spanish and German co-produced TV series entitled "Odysseus" with a total budget of € 12 million. In 2014, he joined Studio Hamburg Productions as executive producer with focus on international co-productions, especially TV series and limited series.

16 | SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 GERMANY | LETTERBOX FILMPRODUKTION

UNSOLVED 8 x 45 min

Genre Crime Director TBC Screenwriters Mario Cristiani, Fabio Paladini, Ulrike Molsen, Stefan Hering Estimated Budget 1.2 Million € per episode

Back home in the mountains a cop has to solve a cold case that turns out to be more than just one case and sheds a light on his father’s life and his own past …

The investigation of a crime becomes a real personal journey for South Tyrol born Stefan Koch (42), now a German Police Officer, who once left Brixen after an accident made him dependent on a wheelchair. Called back to his hometown he examines a cold case just to learn that his father is not the man he used to know… When the new Brixen Police Chief Mauro Thaler (42) finds an old car in a lake with 4 corpses inside he calls his former best friend Stefan Koch (42) in. Together with Laura Calvi (35) a cold case specialist from Rome, and Greta Kofler (24), Mauro's assistant, they investigate the 4 bodies only to find that a number of files are missing. The traces lead to Hans Koch (70), the legendary former Chief of the Brixen Police - and Stefan’s father. UNSOLVED is a crime drama about second chances in life. It explores the thin red line between good and evil, the balance between reason and passion and the various ways to cope with destiny. UNSOLVED is an 8 part 45 minutes long crime procedural with a strong horizontal story line about a rather unusual relationship between a son and his father.

MARIO CRISTIANI Writer

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 17 MONSTER SCRIPTED | NORWAY

HÅKON BRISEID Producer

* [email protected] ) +47 986 29 815 ü www.monster.as

Monster Scripted is currently the largest TV-drama production company in Norway; developing and producing tv- drama and fiction films in all genres for all channels. Monster is a part of the NICE Entertainment Group, one of the world’s leading creator, producer and distributor of scripted content. NICE is owned by MTG. In 2012 Monster Scripted produced the series The Half Brother for the Norwegian Broadcaster NRK. The series was sold to 16 countries. Since then, we have produced numerous tv-series, including last year’s high-end success NOBEL for NRK, which recently won the Prix Europa award for best tv-movie and miniseries. NOBEL has already been sold for global distribution through partners such as Netflix and Canal Plus. We are currently in production with three tv-series; Borderline (TV2, SKY), En Får Væra (TV2), and Young & Promising season 3 (NRK). We aim to expand in the national and international television market, strongly motivated by the opportunities to produce the best content possible for the clients and audiences. Our main focus is to concentrate on great storytelling. SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY 2017 FOLKEVALGT (BACKBENCHERS) | TV Series | Are Skjelvan og Bård Fjulsrud | 8 x 23 min 2016 NOBEL | TV Series | Per Olav Sørensen | 8 x 45 min 2015-2017 UNGE LOVENDE (YOUNG & PROMISING) | TV Series | Eirik Svensson & Bård Fjulsrud | 6 x 30 min 2014-2016 MENGLERNE (BROKERS) | TV Series | Are Skjelvan and Bård Fjulsrud | 10 x 23 min 2014 TA MEG MED| Feature Film | Per Olav Sørensen | 71 min 2009 ORPS - THE MOVIE | Feature Film | Atle Knudsen | 86 min 2007 TATT AV KVINNEN (GONE WITH THE WOMEN)| Feature Film | Peter Naess | 92 min

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FURY 8 x 50 min

Genre Thriller Director TBC Screenwriters Gjermund Stenberg Eriksen (NO) and Helena Johanne Nielsen (NO) Estimated Budget 10 Million € Secured Financing 55.022 € Financier Norway

Our story is about characters who must infiltrate a nationalistic subculture to root out a sinister and concrete terrorist attack. A quest that sends them on a journey from the idyllic fjords of Norway to political struggles in the heart of Europe, metaphorically and concrete.

Start of Episode 1: Flash-Opening. In dark woods. Someone running. A woman. Ragna (34), with blonde hair, white wool sweater and pants. Running, looking over her shoulder, we hear a phone-voice from her past, sounding like her own, afraid and in tears saying she will live, she must live, there is still love to live for in the world… Silence. Ragna stops. Catching her breath. An open flesh wound bleeding on her shoulder. Soaking her sweater. Her eyes tearing up. And hardening.

GJERMUND STENBERG ERIKSEN Writer and Director

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 19 MOTHER PRODUCTION | FRANCE

HAROLD VALENTIN Producer

* [email protected] ) +33 1 73 75 07 45 ü www.motherproduction.fr

Created in 2011, Mother Production is an independent production company dedicated to the development of projects in all formats from TV to Cinema. Our goal is to follow the desires of our authors and to develop stories with contemporary echoes. The name of Mother Production was chosen in reference of the Louise Bourgeois’s spider-sculpture which she called «Mother»: ambiguity of human relationships, a little bit of humour, here where the ingredients that embodied our cravings for complex characters into a name. Harold Valentin started his career at the Ministry of Foreign Office. After being in charge of the Media branch at the CNC, he worked for France 2 as head of factual unit and then in the fiction unit. Aurélien Larger is a civil engineer who created several companies after a long career in industrial banking. In 2011, Harold and Aurélien founded Mother Production. They produced a feature film, three TV movies and the Emmy-Award-nominated TV series "Call my agent" (third season in pre-production). SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY 2017 CALL MY AGENT | 2nd Season | TV Series | Laurent Tirard, Antoine Garceau and Jeanne Herr | 6 x 52 min 2017 MURDER IN STRASBOURG | TV Feature | Laurence Katrian | 90 min 2016 L'ENTREPRISE | TV Feature | Sébastien Deux | 90 min 2015 CALL MY AGENT | 1st Season | TV Series | Cédric Klapish, Antoine Garceau and Lola Doillon | 6 x 52 min 2014 LOU! JOURNAL INFIME | Feature Film| Julien Neel | 133 min 2014 MA VIE AU GRAND AIR | TV Feature | Nicolad Herdt | 90 min

20 | SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 FRANCE | MOTHER PRODUCTION

ALTER EGO 8 x 52 min

Genre Science Fiction Drama Director TBD Screenwriters Mark Aldridge (UK) Estimated Budget 12.8 Million €

Mankind is getting to a dead end, making people lonely, unhappy and self-destructive. A little change could bring hope: Alter-Egos. As a growing number of us meet their Alter and get connected to a higher level of accomplishment, their fates are linked for better or worst, even in death. How will the world react to this new evolution of mankind? A group of people will try to learn from it and to fight those who want to use it for today’s selfish purposes, in order to build a better future. Based on comics by Denis Lapiere and Pierre Paul Renders.

Every one of us on earth has an Alter Ego, even more sometimes as the world population grows. A being conceived exactly the same second as us. A sort of astral twin who we depend on and who depends on us. This extraordinary discovery was made by the Foundation, a private organization researching into quantum physics and its medical benefits for humanity. This research began 15 years ago, but only reached a result less than two years ago. It’s been kept under wraps as the consequences are still being studied, particularly their first finding: the day our Alter Ego dies, within 48 hours we will follow the same fate. And vice versa. Today, only small pockets of society know Alters exist. For these characters, the confusion, the heartache and the desires the Alter Ego phenomenon causes, will transform their lives forever.

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 21 NY MONKEY | GERMANY

VERONICA PRIEFER Producer

* [email protected] ) +49 176 609 109 24 ü www.nymonkey.com

NY Monkey was founded in 2015 with offices in Hamburg and in Berlin. We focus on the development of movies for the big screen as well as television series, always with the aim to reach large audiences. Our projects range from drama to thriller, science fiction and adventure. We often cooperate with larger production companies: Currently we develop a TV- Series with the »Aspekt Telefilm-Produktion GmbH (ATF)«, a project that has been funded by »Nordmedia«. The rights of another TV-series have been acquired by »Ufa Fiction«. Jens-Florian Groß and Veronica Priefer met as students during the M.A. program at Hamburg Media School (HMS). At the HMS they produced a total of six short films, which were shown at more than 150 festivals nationally and internationally and received multiple awards. For Die Verhandlung / The Hearing they collaborate with Hamburg based author Nicole Seifert. Her three novels were published by Rowohlt Verlag under the pseudonym Anneke Mohn. Kirschsommer was on the SPIEGEL bestseller list, Apfelrosenzeit and Unter einem Dach have been optioned by film production companies and are currently being adapted for TV, a process which Nicole Seifert closely cooperates in. SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY 2015 PHASE REPAIR - ALGORITHMIC EDITING | Short Film | Robert Rapoport | 10 min At Hamburg Media School: 2014 CHILD OF FIRE | Sven P. Pohl, J. Neuhaus, T. Rosen | 26 min 2014 BURDEN'S WEIGHT | Viviane Andereggen | 19 min 2013 DARK FOREST | Felix Walz | 4 min 2013 WALTZING MATILDA | Sven P. Pohl | 13 min 2013 DOGWALKER | Viviane Andereggen | 14 min 2013 CHAINS OF LOVE | Martina Plura | 4 min

22 | SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 GERMANY | NY MONKEY

THE HEARING 6 x 45 min

Genre Drama Director TBD Screenwriters Nicole Seifert (DE), Veronica Priefer (DE) Estimated Budget 3.6 Million €

THE HEARING is a drama series in six episodes of 45 minutes each. The story is told from the perspectives of the two main characters; Judith (42) and Hannah (27) as well as from the perspective of family judge Carolin Teichmüller (51).

The series explores the emotional and legal battle fought by the two sisters over the custody of ten-year-old Leni. Leni, who is Hannah’s biological daughter, has been brought up by Judith and her husband Niklas (43), whom the child believes to be her birth parents.

The childless couple took Leni in at her birth, after her 17-year-old mother disappeared to pursue her career as a ballerina. Now, ten years later, Hannah has returned and she wants her daughter back.

NICOLE SEIFERT Writer

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 23 PANACHE PRODUCTIONS | BELGIUM

ANDRÉ LOGIE Producer

* [email protected] ) +32 475 94 00 97 ü www.panacheproductions.be

Panache Productions is a production company established by André Logie in 2009. Its editorial line is to produce food-for-thoughts films that reach a wide audience through an entertaining stance, fostering awareness on current social issues. Some of Panache Productions’ films were selected in the largest international film festivals such as ‘Cartoonists-Foot soldiers of democracy’, by Stéphanie Valloatto (Cannes Film Festival 2014 - out of competition - and nominated in Cesar 2015) or ‘Retour à Ithaque’ by Laurent Cantet (Venice Film Festival, Toronto Festival and Saint-Sébastian Festival 2014). Panache Productions also co-produced highly successful films: ‘The Concert’ by Radu Mihaileanu (3 million admissions) or ‘Little white lies’ by Guillaume Canet (6 million admissions). Panache Productions is currently coproducing the TV series "Quartier des Banques" with the Swiss producer Pointprod; the series is at the postproduction stage. André Logie, a former lawyer (Hogan & Hartson - BT Telecom), studied at the Media Business School in 2000 and then completed an internship with Bac Films in Paris. He worked as a consultant with Cinéart - the largest film distributor in Belgium (Motorcyle Diaries, the Lord of the Ring…) and Artémis Productions (working on such films as « Merry Christmas», « La Femme de Gilles »...) for 8 years. SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY 2017 THE DEATH OF STALINE | Feature Film | Armando Ianucci | coproduced with Mitico-Gaumont (FR) 2017 K.O. | Feature Film | Fabrice Gobert | 115 min | co-produced with 2.4.7. Films (FR) 2017 GRAND FROID | Feature Film | Gérard Pautonnier | 86 min. | co-produced with Elzevir Films (FR) & Lava Films (PL) 2017 UN PROFIL POUR DEUX ( MR STEIN GOES ONLINE) | Stéphane Robelin | 100 min | co-produced with Ici et Là Productions (FR) & DetailFilm (DE) 2017 UN SAC DE BILLES ( A BAG OF MARBLES) | Feature Film | Christian Duguay | 110 min | co-produced with Splendido (FR) 2016 L'HISTOIRE DE L'AMOUR ( THE HISTORY OF LOVE) | Feature Film | Radu Mihaileanu | 134 min | co-produced with 2.4.7. Films (FR)

24 | SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 BELGIUM | PANACHE PRODUCTIONS

RENAISSANCE 10 x 45 min

Genre Adventure Director TBD Screenwriters Axel du Bus (BE) and Vincent Lavachery (BE) Estimated Budget 10 Million € Secured Financing 32.500 € Financier Communauté française de Belgique

In a world where electricity suddenly disappeared, a 17-year old genius fights for his family’s survival by setting up a cooperative and egalitarian system in his village. But the fragile balance attained in his community will be shaken by an individualistic and power-driven businessman…

Following a magnetic solar storm of exceptional magnitude, electricity disappears from Earth. As the world plunges into chaos, the members of a family spread in different countries try to gather together in their summer house in La Rochière, a small village in the Gard region in France. This vast domain and its drinkable water source have become a strategic spot. In Berlin, Jean-Jacques, the father, Anne-Marie, the mother, and their two daughters Adèle (20) and Zoé (13) join forces with Francis (46), a Belgian gangster who has transformed himself into a businessman. They try to reach together Brussels, then Paris and finally La Rochière. Jean-Jacques’ goal is to bring his wife and daughters safe to the village, where he wants to help the locals set up a viable alternative economic system. With what he has at hand, he starts a long and dangerous journey that will last several weeks, in a godless and lawless world.

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 25 SAM PRODUCTIONS | DENMARK & WÜSTE FILM | GERMANY

STINE MELDGAARD Producer

* [email protected] ü www.samproductions.dk

SAM Productions is a screenwriter-based production company in Copenhagen, with the ambition of working with the strongest talent from the world of TV-series and feature films, creating stories to a large audience both in Denmark, Europe and abroad. Søren Sveistrup ("The Killing"), Adam Price ("Borgen"), Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen ("A Royal Af- fair") and STUDIOCANAL founded SAM in 2014. The series "Below the Surface" and "Something’s Rockin’" both premiered in spring 2017, the co-production with DR, "Ride Upon the Storm", will air fall 2017. SAM has a strong slate in various stages of development, involving major international broadcasters from Europe, UK and US. SAM’s strengths count an excellent ability to fund projects internationally, and gaining maximum production value out of raised funds. IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH BJÖRN VOSGERAU Producer

* [email protected] ) +49 40 431 70 60 ü www.wuestefilm.de

Wüste Film is a German film production company with a solid foothold in the German cinema and television market as well as in European cinema. Established as Wüste Filmproduktion in 1989 in Hamburg, the company was incorporated in 2008. Wüste Film develops and produces feature films, documentaries, and TV-movies for the German and international market. Since its founding Wüste Film has also been intent on international co-productions, producing films with the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Poland, Spain, Luxemburg, Austria, Switzerland, and France, through which close ties developed with reknown producer in these countries.

26 | SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 DENMARK | SAM PRODUCTIONS &GERMANY | WÜSTE FILM UNDERCURRENT

Genre Offbeat crime and family drama Director Screenwriters Estimated Budget Secured Financing Financier Filmby Aarhus, Filmfund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein

UNDERCURRENT is a dark crime and family drama at the Danish Westcoast. A dead German politician in the sauna of a Danish summerhouse triggers a series of fatal events…. An original idea by Adam Price (Borgen) and Sören Sveistrup (The Killing).

When a human being has been lying in a 110°C sauna for 48 hours, it no longer looks like itself. It’s more or less been boiled in its own sweat and then dried up and slow-cooked. The skin is darkened and the meat so tender it falls from the bone. It’s not a pretty sight. A shame, since the North Sea is so lovely. The surfing south of the White Sands inlet. The dreamlike, iconic lighthouse by Lyngvig, and the nearby summer houses, cradled among the wind-blown dunes. And the Danes take good care of their summer houses. They won’t sell them to Germans or other EU-citizens for that matter. This little, special rule has been in place throughout Denmark’s years in the Union. Not that we don’t like the Germans. We particularly like the many Euros that they pay to Danish cash registers over the summer holidays. It’s an industry unto itself. It brings money and jobs. In the summer, the many beach restaurants sell Gebratene Schollenfilets mit remoulade, brot und butter and the rest of the year they just sell fried fish. There’s actually a whole little surfer culture evolving there, with long-haired, tattooed surfer-dudes and dolls, showing up their neo-hippie RVs, doing yoga, smoking joints and hanging out in their wetsuits while they wait for the perfect wave. The Danish West Coast can be a dangerous place. There are rip currents and, especially, the dangerous undercurrent that can take you far away from shore, out to the deep sea. But this year looks like it’s going to be a great summer.

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 27 THE STORYBAY | GERMANY

STEFAN GIEREN Producer

* [email protected] ) +49 17632538526 ü www.storybay.tv

Stefan Gieren founded the production company The StoryBay with offices in Hamburg and Salzwedel. His films have received over 80 international awards -among them two Student Academy Award winners and one Oscar® nomination. Stefan is focussing mostly on international coproductions in arthouse cinema. In 2016 German-Turkish feature film TOZ BEZI premiered at Berlinale. At the same festival he was named one of "10 German producers to have on your radar". We are a home for young auteur cinema. We dream in every language. We dance in every genre. And we fight for every frame. SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY 2017 WHATEVER HAPPENS NEXT | Feature Film | Julian Pörksen | in production 2017 TIAN | TV Feature | Damian Schipporeit | 90 min 2016 TSHWEESH | Short Film | Feyrouz Serhal | 26 min 2016 WAITHIRA | Eva Munyiri | 72 min 2016 AYNY, MY SECOND EYE | Short Film | Ahmad Saleh | 11 min 2015 TOZ BEZI | Feature Film | Ahu Öztürk | 99 min

28 | SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 GERMANY | THE STORYBAY

SCARS 3 x 90 min

Genre Historical Drama Director TBC Screenwriters Javor Gardev (BG) and Stefan Gieren (DE) Estimated Budget 2.8 Million € Secured Financing 800.000 € Financier Bulgarian National Film Center, Creative Europe MEDIA

A genius of despair meets a desperate genius in a sailor pub in Hamburg. An American poet teases violinist Vasko Abadjiev to tell his story, from climbing to the top of his career to hitting rock-bottom on the backdrop of Europe during the cold- war. Based on the life and death of Vasco Abadjiev

Hamburg in the 1970s. The economy is thriving. Its fuel being hundreds of thousands of "Gastarbeiter" - migrant workers who are struggling to make ends meet on the lower end of a blooming capitalistic society. Many of them send the major part of their income back home to sustain their families in a far away country that has become more and more estranged. Vasco Abadjiev is one of those workers who are waiting on the harbour entrance every day to be hired to unload cargo from ships in the port of Hamburg. But his hands have never become used to carrying burlap bags filled with coffee beans or boxes full of colombian bananas. He used to be the finest, most recognized violinist of his generation when he performed in Europe’s biggest concert halls. Vasco’s fingers play Paganini with breathtaking speed. Every once in a while he lands a recording job in the violin section of the radio orchestra of Hamburg but it’s not enough to sustain a living. And certainly not enough to fill those envelopes with money that he regularly sends home to Bulgaria. To Iren, a woman he fell in love with decades ago.

JAVOR GARDEV Writer

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 29 TAMTAM FILM | GERMANY

ANDREA SCHÜTTE Producer

* [email protected] ) +49 325 22 33 0 ü www.tamtamfilm.com

Tamtam Film was founded by producers Andrea Schütte and Dirk Decker in 2012 with the objective to establish a strong and reliable player on the market for both industry partners and audiences alike. No matter platform or format, our award-winning portfolio is entertaining, demanding and as diversified and versatile as the stories we want to tell. Until now, the company can account for twelve completed projects: five shorts, three feature films, two TV features, one documentary and one series. Our projects have been awarded with a FIPRESCI prize and Gothenburg‘s Dragon Award, the Audience Award at Filmfestival Max-Ophüls Preis, nominated for a Grimme Prize and shortlisted for a German Film Award. Tamtam Film is an EAVE alumni and member of the European Film Academy. Following her master's degree in English and German Literature and Political Studies, Andrea Schütte received her postgraduate degree in film production at Hamburg Media School in 2008. She was a producer for Berlin-based X Filme Creative Pool from 2008-15, working amongst others on WE ARE FINE by Henri Steinmetz, LITTLE THIRTEEN by Christian Klandt and 4 DAYS IN MAY by Achim von Borries. She is a founding member of the Berlinale Recep- tion for Film Academies and of the initiative HAMBURG LEBT KINO. SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY 2017 THE SYMPHONY OF UNCERTAINTY | Documentary Feature | Claudia Lehmann | 90 min (in postproduction) 2017 CHRONOLOGY | Feature Film | Ali Aydin | 90 min (in production) 2017 LETTERS FOR AMINA | Feature Film | Jacob Bitsch | 90 min 2016 SOME HAD CROCODILES | Documentary Feature | Christian Hornung | 87 min 2016 SCRAPPIN’ | Feature Film | 98 Min. | Max Zähle 2016 TWO PEOPLE MEETING | TV Feature | dir. Ulrike von Ribbek | 83 Min. 2015 COME ON! THERAPY FOR THE UNDECIDED| TV Series | Esther Bialas & Nathan Nill | 4 x 25 min 2015 THE ROMEO PRINCIPLE | TV Feature | Eicke Bettinga | 88 min 2014 IN YOUR ARMS| Feature Film | Samanou A. Sahlstrøm | 85 min

30 | SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 GERMANY | TAMTAM FILM

WHEN WE WERE FRIENDS 8 x 45 min

Genre Character Drama / Crime Co-Producer SF Studios Production Copenhagen, Denmark (Senia Dremstrup, Julie Rix Bomholt) Writers David Sandreuter (DK), Lennard Eberlein (DE) Idea & Concept Andrea Schütte, Senia Dremstrup Estimated Budget 5.5 Million €

It's New Year‘s Eve and a group of German friends in their early thirties travels back to the Danish island on which they used to spend their summers together. But when one of them is murdered, the place that is home to many of their happiest memories becomes a trap – and friends become prime suspects.

WHEN WE WERE FRIENDS traces how the mysterious death of one of their own peers leads to the dissolution of a circle of long-time friends. Through different narrative levels, we witness how a friendship is formed as well as how life‘s adversities will eventually lead to its dissolution. The story is related through the six individual fates of our protagonists: Six stories that are deeply interwoven but at the same time driven by individual fate and conflict. Through the combination of present day action and flashbacks, the inner circle will open up to the audience, will charm the viewers and betray their expectations. And as with every friendship, not everything will be disclosed and shared, the audience will have to form own allegiances. Set on the Danish island of Møn, where our group spent the summers of their twenties together, WHEN WE WERE FRIENDS uses the police investigation to delve deeply into its set of characters, their world, and the way the crime impacts their relationships and feelings as much as the community’s stability. The trauma of a killing flushes out secrets within the group, tests the fiber of a place and soils the façade of an otherwise peaceful community. Both past and new conflicts rear their ugly head and reveal our protagonists who their friends are - all the while separating the strong from the weak and the righteous from the treacherous. With a dual level of narration – the present day investigation and the flashbacks to the long gone happy summers – and distinct seasonal differences that reflect the state of their friendship and serves as a reminder of how nature can be so beautiful and terrifying at once. Set up as a German-Danish co-production between Tamtam Film and SF Studios Producti- on we strive to use the dynamics and expertise of each company and country to make WHEN WE WERE FRIENDS a unique Nordic Noir programme, designed for an international audience.

LENNARD EBERLEIN Writer

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 31 TOPKAPI FILMS | THE NETHERLANDS

IDSE GROTENHUIS Producer

* [email protected] ) +31 20 30 32 494 ü www.topkapifilms.nl

Topkapi is an Amsterdam based company run by producers Frans van Gestel, Arnold Heslenfeld and Laurette Schillings. The company, well experienced in producing and co-producing feature films and television drama for the Dutch and international market, strives to build long-term relationships with writers and directors, with renowned and upcoming talent. With focus on new ways of storytelling Topkapi recently started to collaborate with documentary company Moondocs and other documentary film makers (Robert Oey). In 2016 Topkapi established a distribution company; Topkapi Films Distribution. In 2017 Topkapi established an official TV branch: Topkapi TV, run by Idse Grotenhuis. Idse Grotenhuis started his career in 1993 as a director/producer. As showrunner he produced dramaseries in several genres, from Grijpstra & De Gier (policedrama) Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden (soap-opera) and De Erfenis (familydrama). As from 2010 Idse started as creative producer for high-end dramaseries, like The Prey (bankingcrisis drama) and According to Robert (black comedy), to join Topkapi Films in 2017. SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY 2016 KING OF THE BELGIANS | Feature Film | Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth | 94 min 2016 THE COMMUNE | Feature Film | Thomas Vinterberg | 91 min 2016 BELGICA | Feature Film | Felix van Groeningen | 127 min 2015 LAND AND SHADE | César Augusto Acevedo | 97 min 2012 THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN | Feature Film | Felix van Groeningen | 91 min 2012 POST TENEBRAS LUX | Feature Film | Carlos Reygadas | 95 min 2011 SCHLAFKRANKHEIT | Feature Film | Ulrich Köhler | 91 min

32 | SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 THE NETHERLANDS | TOPKAPI FILMS

THE LIFE 6 x 30 min

Genre Drama Series Director Giancarlo Sanchez (NL) Screenwriters Ashar Medina (NL, originally Surinam-Cape Verdian) Estimated Budget 1 Million €

Through trial and error – more errors than trials – three young slackers with Surinamese-Antillean backgrounds navigate their way through contemporary Dutch society. Fortunately, their friendship always sees them through.

The Life is a series portraying the adventurous lives of three young Dutch men of colour in Rotterdam: Glenn, Darryl and Jermaine. The three are from Surinamese-Antillean backgrounds and despite their personal differences this common background forms the basis of their friendship. They live in a working-class neighbourhood where they maintain their own traditions and customs. The young men represent a large ethnic group that isn’t totally estranged from Dutch society but at the same time has an idiosyncratic view of it. In terms of plot the series is about three young criminals in a deprived part of Rotterdam. They’ve been drawn to criminality either through curiosity, necessity or tradition. The guys come up with what seem like inventive plans, inspired by stories in movies and music, but often these plans are ill-conceived, naive and pretty impractical. This makes it painfully clear what white Dutch people think of this ethnic group: "This isn’t America."In terms of the characters the emphasis is on watching these three underprivileged ethnically mixed twenty-somethings struggle with work, love, family and ultimately with identity.

GIANCARLO SANCHEZ Writer

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 33 WITCRAFT | AUSTRIA

URSULA WOLSCHLAGER Producer

* [email protected] ) +43 699 17788177 ü www.witcraft.at

Witcraft is an award-winning production company based in Vienna. For its highly innovative yet feasible business concept, the company received a start-up grant from Departure, Wirtschaft, Kunst und Kultur GmbH and Slate Development funding from MEDIA/Creative Europe. Since 2016, Witcraft has operated in two structures: Witcraft Filmproduktion focuses on the development and production of feature films and documentaries, mainly art-house and comedy and is now starting a new branch in television. Witcraft Szenario OG offers training initiatives like DIVERSE STORIES – Stories Between Cultures and ProPro – The Producers Programme for Women, an initiative by the Austrian Film Institute to empower female film producers. Since 1995, Ursula Wolschlager has worked in screenplay and film production with numerous writers and directors incl. Michael Glawogger, Tony Pemberton, Kirill Serebrennikov, Nathalie Borgers, Christian Frosch, Bakhtiar Khodoynazarov, Nina Proll and Barbara Albert. The developed screenplays received script awards in Milan, Ghent, Sabam, and Vienna. For her screenwriting, Ursula was awarded the Carl Mayer New Talent Prize. SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY 2017 MADEMOISELLE PARADIS | Feature Film | Barbara Albert | 97 min 2017 ANNA F**KING MOLNAR | Feature Film | Sabine Derflinger | 100 min 2016 WE USED TO BE COOL | Feature Film | Marie Kreutzer | 96 min 2015 MA FOLIE | Feature Film | Andrina Mracnikar | 96 min 2011 THE FATHERLESS | Feature Film | Marie Kreutzer | 103 min

34 | SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 AUSTRIA | WITCRAFT

A CLASS OF THEIR OWN 10 x 45 min

Genre Dramedy Screenwriters Jakob Pretterhofer (AT), Ursula Wolschlager (AT) Estimated Budget 4.5 Million €

A CLASS OF THEIR OWN focuses on the trials and tribulations of staff at a school on the outskirts of Vienna. Our main protagonist is MAJA, late 20s, a teacher who is passionate about her work and has an instinctive rapport with her pupils. They respect her immensely, although she has all sorts of problems in the rest of her life – including, of course, conflicts with her esteemed colleagues and her devoted parents.

Math teacher KOPF is Maja’s main antagonist. He would dearly love to get rid of Maja: all she ever does is cause problems for him. He deeply resents her liberal values, while she tries to ruin his devious plans: he's trying to pressurize some pupils to quit before taking the school leaving exams, because this will increase the overall pass rate and ultimately help him achieve his long-term goal of becoming a school inspector. This conflict generates the horizontal arc which runs through the entire series: when the first of these underachieving pupils have left, Kopf begins to get threatening letters, and apparently he is subjected to blackmail. Although this looks like a bad joke at first, gradually the menace becomes very real and takes on an increasingly brutal character. But what can he do? Bring in the police? That would definitely ruin his career. So he keeps quiet, while among the staff there is an atmosphere of mounting suspicion as he conducts his own investigation. And the threats become more dangerous and urgent.

JAKOB PRETTERHOFER Writer

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 35 YANEZ | ITALY

ANTONIO TOZZI Producer

* [email protected] ) +39 3483646886 ü www.yanezfilm.it

After ten years of experience on film and television sets, I founded Yanez Film Company in 2013. I produced a documentary about Rossini directed by Lina Wertmüller. In 2016 I participated in the MAIA Workshops - intensive training for emerging European producers of Creative Europe. In 2017 I received a contribution for the production of the short film "Mother" and another one for the development of the feature "Mr. Zhang", from Mibact (Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage). "Mr. Zhang" has also been selected for the Genre Project Market - Focus Asia of the Far East Film Festival in Udine. SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY 2017 ROME, NAPLES, VENICE… IN A ROSSINI CRESCENDO | Documentary | Lina Wertmüller | 40 min 2015 SECOND TWENTY (as Line Producer) | Feature Film | Park Heung-sik | South Korean Production by Min Film. Projects in development: MR. ZHANG | Feature Film | Collective John Snellinberg with 8 Production TDF | TV Mini Series | A. Albanese, C. Loforti, S. Misuraca ABBE'S NUMBER | Feature Film | A. Costa, with 8 Production MOTHER | Short Film | A. Costa

36 | SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 ITALY | YANEZ

TDF – THE DIRECTOR OF FUNERALS 10 x 26 min

Genre Black Comedy Director Sergio Misuraca, Carlo Loforti Screenwriters Alessandro Albanese, Sergio Misuraca, Carlo Loforti (all IT) Estimated Budget 2.8 Million € Secured Financing 300.000€ tax credit

A disillusioned former movie director, accepts the offer of two friends: start a new business, becoming the director of videos of funerals, to create a "video memory" for the relatives of the deceased. An intelligent, grotesque but refined comedy. Black Sicilian humor. No mafia killers but a lot of deaths.

Sicily. Franco, a former movie director who has been living at the edges of society for years, accepts Alessio and Gianluca’s offer to join them in a new business: that of becoming the directors of videos of funerals, in order to create a ‘video memory’ for the families of the deceased. At the beginning, things don’t go very well. The three just continue rehearsing over and over, using friends and family in the rehearsals and forcing the surprisingly enthusiastic Grandpa Pino to play the role of the deceased. Until, during one of these rehearsals, Grandpa Pino actually dies. Franco and Alessio manage to convince his grandson Gianluca that this tragedy is actually the perfect chance for them: they can make their first funeral video, and put it into their show reel. Even though Gianluca isn’t very convinced, things start going better; they hire a foreign editor, Rachel, who is specialized in editing sappy, tear-jerking scenes, regardless of the fact that she’s actually a very cheerful and exuberant person. BeyondTheGrave Films starts to become a brand, also thanks to Father Bono, an accomplice who allows them to work without unpleasant middlemen, such as the funeral agencies. In few months, the four filmmakers work for several clients.

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 37 ZODIAK | BELGIUM & RED BALLOON FILM | GERMANY

SERGE BIERSET Producer

* [email protected] ) +32 498 22 28 99 ü www.zodiakbelgium.com

Zodiak Belgium was founded in 1993 as Kanakna. It became succesful by producing documentaries for the Flemish public broadcaster VRT. About a decade ago Zodiak Belgium also started producing drama for the Belgian TV-market. Successful tv-series like 'Duts', 'New Texas', 'Tom and Harry', 'Drew's rule' and 'Buck' were co-produced with our Flemish broadcasters or produced in house. Many new tv-series are in development right now and several of them are targeting the international market. IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH DOROTHE BEINEMEIER Producer

* [email protected] ) +49 163 726 6344 ü www.redballoon-film.de RED BALLOON Film was jointly founded in 2016 by CEO and producer Dorothe Beinemeier along with maze pictures executives Jörg Schulze and Philipp Kreuzer. This venture produces both local and international entertainment for theatrical release and TV. The guiding mission of RED BALLOON is to foster creativity and act as a house for filmmakers who share the passion to make compelling quality content for young audiences.

38 | SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 BELGIUM | ZODIAK & GERMANY | RED BALLOON FILM

GR5 10 x 45 min

Genre Thriller Director TBC Screenwriters Gert Goovaerts & Lynnsey Peeters (BE) Estimated Budget 7.25 Million € Secured Financing 525.000 € Financier Banijay Rights, VRT/Eén

Psychological road thriller about a group of travellers in their twenties taking the European Great Route 5 in memory of their friend Lisa. She disappeared five years earlier when taking the same path on her own. The physically demanding undertaking leads to a confrontation with themselves and a search for the truth behind Lisa’s disappearance.

The 'GR' trails run like veins throughout Europe. They are easy to follow thanks to the red and white marks. The most famous trail is the 'GR5' that runs from the North Sea, across the Belgian Ardennes, the French Vosges and the French Alps down to the French Riviera. Andy, Mats, Elsje and Ylena, four childhood friends, gather to commemorate Lisa, their mutual girlfriend who walked the GR5 five years before, with only a backpack and a tent. Lisa disappeared without a trace, only halfway on the trail. The last time she was seen alive, she was in the French Vosges. It seemed she was in the company of a person who never got identified. But she probably ended up even further down the trail since her smartphone and some snapshots were left in a canyon in the French Alps. In the Belgian Ardennes a ring of hers was also found.The mystery of Lisa's disappearance was never solved. Now her friends go on the same trail.

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 39 EXPERTS | SCRIPT DOCTORS

NIKOLAJ SCHERFIG (DK) Nikolaj is a prolific writer, best known for his work on TV series like "The BridgeI-IV", "Heartless", Jesus and Josefine" and "The Other World". A Graduate of the Danish Filmschool’s Screenwriting dept., he has also written feature films such as "Eye of the Eagle" and Worked as a free lance film consultant as well as film commissioner at the Danish Film Institute. Nikolaj is the Chairman of the Danish Writers Guild.

JOHN YORKE (UK) John Yorke is Managing Director of Angel Station where he works as a drama producer), consultant and lecturer on all forms of storytelling. He’s currently making The Moonstone for BBC1 and Red Rock for TV3/BBC1). A former MD of Company Pictures where he Exec Produced Wolf Hall, he’s worked as both Head of Channel Four Drama and Controller of BBC Drama Production. As a commissioning Editor/Executive Producer, he championed Life On Mars, The Street, Shameless and Bodies and in 2005 he created the BBC Writers Academy, a year-long in-depth training scheme which has produced a generation of successful television writers. The author of INTO THE WOODS – the highly acclaimed book about how and why we tell stories - John is Visiting Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and lives and works in London.

40 | SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 NDR PRIZE | ALBATROSS

This year awarded NDR prize "Albatross" will be given to an international series chosen from the group of projects participating in the SERIES LAB HAMBURG. As an incentive for the development of outstanding series, the award includes prize money of 7,500 euros. The jury is formed by: The Jury

MARIA FURTWÄNGLER ACTRESS Since 2002, Maria Furtwängler plays the role of inspector Charlotte Lindholm of the State Office of Criminal Investigationsin the Lower Saxony-set version of the "Tatort" series. In 2007, she starred as Lena Gräfin von Mahlenberg, the leader of a small convoy of refuge- es from East Prussia fleeing the advancing Red Army in the winter of 1944–1945, in the two-part television feature "March of Millions". Earlier this year, she played the leading role in Ilan Ronen's adaptation of Noah Haidl's play "The Homemaker". Both as an actress and as a doctor, promoting and strenghtening girls and women is a particular concern of hers. At the initiative of the MaLisa foundation, which was founded by her, Germany's four leading broadcasting groups as well as the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, the Federal Film Fund and the Bavarian Film and Television Fund have agreed upon a study that examines the representation of women throughout all formats of the broadcasting groups to be conducted by the University of Rostock. She has been awarded numerous times for her works and engagement.

CHRISTIAN GRANDERATH NIKOLAJ SCHERFIG Head of TV Fiction Department Screenwriter NDR Hamburg Film commissioner at the Danish Film Institute Chairman of the Danish Writers Guild

SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 41 EXPERTS | BROADCASTERS

MARCUS AMMON SKY DEUTSCHLAND (DE) * [email protected] Marcus Ammon is Senior Vice President of Fiction and Entertainment at Sky Deutschland. Among other projects, he led the launch of the channels Sky 3D and Sky Atlantic HD and is currently pre- paring Sky’s entry into Original Production. Between 2003 and 2009 he was Managing Director of MGM Networks Deutschland GmbH; before that, he was the Program Director at Universal Studios Networks Germany GmbH, heading up content acquisition and program planning for Pay TV channels 13th Street and Studio Universal.

DR. ANKE BEINING-WELLHAUSEN TELECLUB (SW), GLOBAL SCREEN (DE) * [email protected] For five years, Anke was a Board Member, COO and Managing Director of Switzerland's leading Digital TV and Media Platform Teleclub. During her tenure she managed Teleclub’s Pay TV Channels and VOD platforms, launched successful new platform services and TV channels and co-produced over 30 feature films. She is now responsible for co-productions at Teleclub. In 2017, she co-produced the first drama series "Quartier des Banques". Since July 2017 she is also the interim Mana- ging Director of Munich-based world sales company Global Screen.

GEMMA DERKSEN BNNVARA (NL) * [email protected] Gemma Derksen is Head of the Drama department of BNNVARA, a Public Broadcaster in The Netherlands. Gemma is a senior Drama professional who works for more than 25 years in the field of drama and film for several Dutch broadcasters and production companies. She developed and launched more than 100 drama-series and (television)films and award winning projects. One BNNVARA drama-series is "Holland’s Hope", about a psychiatrist and his family, who turns out to run a weed imperium in a typical Dutch polder.

WOLFGANG FEINDT ZDF (DE) * [email protected] Since 1996 he works as Commissioning Editor for the Second German TV Channel, the ZDF. He is responsible for German series, TV dramas and special events with focus on international coproduction. Among other projects he was responsible for the Stieg Larsson-Trilogie, "The Team", "The Bridge", "The Same Sky"-Series and the "Maximilian"-Trilogie.

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LISELOTT FORSMAN YLE DRAAMA (FI) * [email protected] Liselott Forsman is the Executive Producer of International Drama at Finnish pubcaster Yle, Head of the EBU/Eurovision Fiction Expert Group and the Program Director of Helsinki Script. Her practical education includes script writing for stage, screen and radio, but also heading and co-producing drama, culture and children’s programming. She’s been a speaker and moderator at TV/online drama series forums on five continents and lectured on games and series at European master educations.

CHRISTIAN GRANDERATH NDR (DE) * [email protected] From 1989 to 1995 Christian Granderath was a commissioning editor for TV fiction and documentaries at the public broadcasting service Südwestfunk Baden-Baden. Afterwards he worked as a producer in the production companies Dom Film, Ufa, Colonia Media and Teamworx in Cologne. Since 2010 he is the Head of TV Fiction Department, NDR Hamburg. His films have won numerous national and international awards.

JENNIFER GREEN TV2 (DK) * [email protected] Jennifer Green has worked with fiction for the last 20 years. At the moment she’s an executive producer for TV 2 Denmark, the biggest commercial TV-Channel in Denmark. Jennifer has been involved in the family series "Misfits" and "Grethe", the Christmas calendars "The Twins and Santa Claus" and "The Christmas Wish" and is now working with the coming Christmas calendar, due in Dec. 2017. "The Christmas Wish" had an average share of 48,5 over 24 daily episodes.Prior to TV 2 Jennifer has produced feature films for children and their families, among others she has been involved with producing the highly successful brand "Father of Four".

NICO GREIN RTL (DE) * [email protected] Nico Grein studied at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg until 2007. After this, he contributed to a variety of productions at Studio Hamburg/Letterbox, including "Notruf Hafenkante", "Die Schuld der Erben" and "Großstadtrevier". Since mid-2014, he has been working as an Commissioning Editor for RTL, where he is responsible for the three-parter "Winnetou", the action series "Alarm für Cobra 11" and "Bad Cop – kriminell gut".

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NILS HARTMANN SKY ITALY (IT) * [email protected] Born in Hannover in 1967, he grew up in Milan, lived in Rome, London and Cairo. He has been working for 25 years in Television Production and he has achieved a master at the London International Film School. In 2003 he launched SKY ITALIA and as a Director of Original Productions he produced TV series such as: Romanzo Criminale, Gomorra and 1992.

THOMAS VON HENNET PROSIEBENSAT.1 MEDIA (DE) * [email protected] Thomas von Hennet is VP International Co-Production & Documentaries at ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, a major German media group based in Munich. In his current position Thomas von Hennet over- sees international drama co-productions across the channels SAT.1, ProSieben and kabel eins as well as factual co-productions and acquisitions for the Free TV channels of the ProSiebenSat.1 group. In 2015 he played a major role in organizing ProSiebenSat1.'s international call for drama co-production proposals. He reports directly to Ruediger Boess, EVP Group Content Acquisitions & Sales.

HEIDI HERMANS VRT (Flanders) (BE) * [email protected] Heidi Hermans is working as a drama consultant/script supervisor for the network één (VRT). She is commissioner for the drama series in close relationship with the content manager and the manager of the network. Heidi worked as head writer for the daily drama series ‘Thuis’ and supervised the development of series as ‘Beau Séjour’, ‘Tabula Rasa’, ‘Professor T.’, ‘Salamander II’, ‘Undercover’.

ALEXANDRE PIEL ARTE FRANCE (FR) * [email protected] Alexandre joined Télé-Images/Marathon in 2006 to work on pre-financing and coproduction in the documentary and animation field, and then was in charge of project development and acquisition. In 2011, Alexandre was managing the Paris office of Zodiak Rights, handling the drama sales and acquisitions. He then joined Arte in September 2013 as Deputy Head of Drama, in charge of international and reporting to the Head of the Drama Department Olivier Wotling. Alexandre is particularly focusing on foreign series acquisitions, prebuys and coproductions.

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KATHARINA SCHENK ORF (AT) * [email protected] As head of series within the ORF Fiction Department, Katharina Schenk is responsible for the development and production of serialized fiction, of genuine Austrian as well as co-produced projects. She is deeply involved in all levels of production, working thoroughly with writers and production companies alike. On her credit list are various series such as the classic soap "Schlosshotel Orth", the everlasting cop show "Soko Kitzbühel", the now iconic series "Schnell ermittelt" and "Vorstadtweiber", and the miniseries "Janus". Alongside these shows she worked on numerous tv movies. She regularly holds classes at the FH Vienna (TV-, Film- und Medienproduktion).

PAULE ZAJDERMANN FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS (FR) * [email protected] Born in Paris in 1951, Paule Zajdermann is graduated from the IDHEC National Institute of Film in 1974. She first worked as an assistant director and as continuity girl for a number of feature film releases, and then for television films. Then she became a film director in 1983 and divided her time between documentary and fiction filmmaking. She has been commissioning editor for France Télévisions’s -fic tion department since 2007.

MICHELE ZATTA RAI (IT) * [email protected] Michele Zata started his career in television as an editor of TV movies and series. After serving as co-headwriter and producer for both soaps and prime time dramas, he became headwriter for "Agrodolce". He since started at RAI as an executive in the fiction department and has been in charge of international coproductions at Raifiction

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AMELIE VON KIENLIN RED ARROW INTERNATIONAL (DE) * [email protected] Amelie von Kienlin leads all scripted acquisitions and co-productions activity at Red Arrow Inter- national, the TV distribution division of global producer Red Arrow Entertainment Group. Before joining Red Arrow Amelie worked as Head of Co-production for Wild Bunch Germany, and as Head of Program Acquisition for International Sales at Telepool GmbH. She has also worked in TV and film production.

SEBASTIAN KREKELER ZDF ENTERPRISES (DE) * [email protected] After studying Law in Mainz and Castellón (Spain), Sebastian Krekeler joined ZDF in 2008 as Per- sonal Assistant to the CEO. In 2010, he took on responsibilities in Sales Management and VoD (Vi- deo-on-Demand) Business Development for the GAS region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). In 2013, he assumed the role of Director ZDFE.drama for Sales in GAS and Italy, maintaining his responsibilities in VoD Business Development, and in 2016 became Director ZDFE.drama for Sales & Acquisitions in GAS and Italy. Since 2013, Mr. Krekeler has served as Deputy Head of ZDFE.drama.

MORITZ VON KRUEDENER BETA FILM (DE) * [email protected] Moritz von Kruedener is Beta Film's Managing Director and responsible for national and international sales and distribution as well as positioning the company for the global market in the fields of development, financing, realization of event productions. Recent projects are national and international TV productions such as "Gomorrah" by Stefano Sollima, Tom Tykwer's "Babylon Berlin", and Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck's "Work without Author" for cinema.

JULIA NISSLEIN WARNER BROS. (DE) * [email protected] After her time as international strategy consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, Julia ful- filled various functions at Bavaria Film and worked as freelance producer and Manager German Production & Acquisitions at Studiocanal Germany before she joined the Local Productions team of Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany in December 2016. Among the feature films Julia worked on are GOODBYE BERLIN (aka TSCHICK by Fatih Akin) and MY BLIND DATE WITH LIFE (aka MEIN BLIND DATE MIT DEM LEBEN by Marc Rothemund).

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JAN ROEKENS SCREEN FLANDERS (BE) * [email protected] From 1995 till 2013 Jan Roekens was working as producer in Belgian production company Sophi- mages, where he produced fiction films, documentaries and dance films. He is founding member of Flanders Doc, national coordinator for EAVE and Head Production Screen Flanders. SCREEN FLANDERS is the economic support measure (annual budget: 4.5 million Euro) of the Flanders Region. Belgian producers can apply for up to 400.000 € in refundable advances. Screen Flanders supported series as The White Queen, The Team, The Missing, Occupied.

KARIN SCHOCKWEILER FILM FUND LUXEMBOURG (LU) * [email protected] Karin Schockweiler started her career in Corporate Communications. After serving in communications and programming departments at German TV channels, she worked as a consultant for the development and financing of international co-productions. She is the Luxembourg representative at the Board of Management of Eurimages, member of the Creative Europe MEDIA committee and Deputy Director Film Fund Luxembourg.

MATTEO SOLARO CREATIVE EUROPE MEDIA PROGRAMME (BE) * [email protected] Matteo Solaro is Head of Sector in charge of TV Programming, Audience and Innovative approaches within the MEDIA unit of the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), managing the calls for proposals for TV Programming amongst others. He has acquired a wide expertise in the European market of creative television productions, as well as in the legal and financial aspects of co-productions.

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MARIA KÖPF FILMFÖRDERUNG HAMBURG SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN (DE) * [email protected] Maria Köpf worked in several fields of film production and exploitation before producing i.e. the Tom Tykwer films WINTER SLEEPERS, RUN LOLA RUN and HEAVEN with X–Filme Creative Pool in Berlin. In 2007 she became Executive Director at Zentropa Entertainment Berlin and co-produced i.e. LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED by Susanne Bier and A ROYAL AFFAIR by Nikolaj Arcel. Since 2016 Maria Köpf is Managing Director at Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein with an annual funding budget of about 11 Mio. Euro.

MICHAEL LEHMANN STUDIO HAMBURG PRODUCTION GROUP (DE) * [email protected] Michael Lehmann is Chair of the Management Board of the Studio Hamburg Production Group. Subsidiaries include Letterbox Filmproduktion, Real Film Berlin, Nordfilm, Studio Hamburg UK, Amalia Film, Doclights and Riverside Entertainment. The Group is also affiliated with Ulmen TV/ Film, Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion and Eco Media. The Group's production portfolio reaches across all programming segments in the TV and film world. As Executive Producer, Michael Lehmann was responsible for a number of award-winning film and television productions.

CHRISTIANE SIEMEN CREATIVE EUROPE DESK HAMBURG (DE) * [email protected] Christiane Siemen is the CEO of Creative Europe Desk Hamburg, the German information office of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union. The Desk gives advice for applicants, promotes the programme in the national industry via professional events, on- and offline publications etc. Creative Europe Desk Hamburg is part of a network of offices in all 34 MEDIA member states. Prior to working for the MEDIA Programme, she worked in the press department of the Hamburg Mi- nistry of Culture.

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KERSTIN DEGERMAN CREATIVE EUROPE DESK FINLAND

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SERIES LAB HAMBURG 2017 | 53 PUBLIC EVENT | SERIES LAB HAMBURG BEHIND THE SCENES Development and Financing of European Drama Series Presentation of European Series October 6th, 11.30 am till 1.30 pm, Abaton cinema, Allende-Platz 3.

The consumption of epically composed drama series is by now deeply established. Having started with American series, the new genre contributes to build European identity through European stories. Broadcasters, Sales Agents and film funds support series projects already in the development or production phase and the list of „content made in Europe“ is getting longer and longer.

KEYNOTE: DR. RALPH OLIVER GRAEF Medienrechtskanzlei GRAEF Dr. Ralph Oliver Graef, LL.M. (NYU) is one of the most distinguished entertainment lawyers in Germany. He is Managing Partner and founder of the media law firm GRAEF Rechtsanwälte (www.graef.eu), specializing on film & tv, audiovisual media, games and publishing. He is qualified as a certified specialist for copyright- and media law as well as a certified specialist for intellectual property law and also admitted as Attorney-at-law to the New York Bar, USA. He serves as an arbitrator of the Independent Film & Television Alliance, L.A. (IFTA), the global trade association of the independent motion picture and television industry.

MODERATION: MATTEO SOLARO Creative Europe MEDIA Programme Matteo Solaro is Head of Sector in charge of TV Programming, Audience and Innovative approaches within the MEDIA unit of the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), managing the calls for proposals for TV Programming amongst others. He has acquired a wide expertise in the European market of creative television productions, as well as in the legal and financial aspects of co-productions.

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MALTESE Case study by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli presented by Sebastian Krekeler (ZDF Enterprises), Palomar Filmproduction und Philipp Kreuzer (Maze Pictures) Production: Palomar Filmproduction (IT) in co-production with Maze Pictures (DE), ZDF Enterprises and Rai Fiction

BAD BANKS, Case Study by Christian Schwochow presented by Dr. Lisa Blumenberg (Letterbox Filmproduktion) and Karin Schockweiler (Film Fund Luxemburg) Production: Letterbox Filmproduktion in co-production with Iris Productions S.A. (LU), ZDF and ARTE

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