We are thrilled to announce the 9 series projects and 3 development executive participants that have been selected for MIDPOINT Series Launch.
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Series Launch 2023 lineup!
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Series Launch 2023 lineup!
March 07, 2023
Let us introduce you to nine projects and the participants, which will be presented at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event in November 2023:
Arizona Joe / Latvia
Matiss Kaza, writer
Dace Siatkovska, producer
Behind the Wall / Czech Republic
Lia Berger, writer
Vasco Viana, director
Iuliia Mamaeva, producer
Brain Drain / Serbia
Matija Dragojevic, writer
Ljubica Lukovic, writer
Maja Popovic Milojevic, producer
I Seek A Kind Person / Germany
Romina Ecker, writer
Gabriele Simon writer, producer
Kilwater / Poland
Malgorzata Pilacinska, writer
Kaja Jalocha, producer
Love is a Pitch / Slovakia
Michaela Klanicova, writer
Hana Hancinova, writer
Lukas Teren, producer
Palace of Worries / Switzerland
Luka Djikanovic, writer
Fiona Ziegler, writer, director
Rainbow Gravity / Serbia
Sara Saric Writer, director
Andjela Lazic, producer
Vertebrae / Romania
Andrei Epure, writer
Ioana Lascar, producer
Meet also three Development Executive participants:
Klara Follova / Czech Republic
Jon Gojani / Kosovo
Elif Ozsut / Turkey
Writers, directors, and producers are about to experience the intensive development process as well as meet the international market and decision-makers. Three development executive participants will accompany the selected projects on their nine-month journey while enhancing their skills.
The program welcomes again on board series programs Head of Studies Gabor Krigler (Hungary), who will act as a group leader alongside Tatjana Samopjan (Sweden) and Steve Matthews (United Kingdom).
We are very excited to welcome aboard new Development Executive Mentor Christopher Haug. Norwegian screenwriter, consultant and executive producer currently serves as Head of Drama Series Development for the Nordics at HBO Europe.
Series Launch program will start with the online preparatory kickoff (March 13-17, 2023) and afterward, all the creative Teams and DE participants will meet together in person for two residential workshops in the Czech Republic (March 27 – April 2, 2023 and June 12 – 19, 2023).
The program will conclude in November with a third residential workshop within the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event with the presentation platform Season Finale.
Congratulations to all selected projects and participants!
Welcome aboard!
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Arizona Joe
A fictionalized account of a summer during the late 1970s in Riga Film Studio. The studio is finally making a new blockbuster called “Arizona Joe”. In order to escape conscription in the ruthless ...
Behind the Wall
Chaos erupts in an old upper-class building in Vinohrady when 35-year-old Triska Nemecova-Rose returns from the United States to inherit her father’s building. In the 6 months following her father’s ...
Brain Drain
Serbia, 2033. Over the past decade, not much has changed for the struggling country (surprise - still not in the EU) - apart from becoming a hot luxury travel destination. All thanks to flexible ...
Rainbow Gravity
After robbing the dealer Mule, and stealing a stash of illegal hormones stuffed in a panda sex toy, a gay drug dealer Ash, and his best friend, lesbian gambler Lily, decide to sell them fast and ...
I Seek a Kind Person
On the night of December 10th, 1938, a train with 500 Jewish children leaves Berlin “Anhalter Bahnhof” station. Among them are Ruth, Iris, Jona, Henri and Elisa - five children from the ...
Kilwater
MARTA is a first-time Polish Search and Rescue (SAR) captain. During one of the first rescue missions under her command, a Swedish yacht mysteriously goes missing. The case of the sunk ship is ...
Love is a Pitch
Group of 30-something women with ‘the fear of missing out’ establish an amateur football club to start a journey of reshaping views on failure through unexpected win, togetherness. The only thing ...
The Palace
Standing on the top of banking, booze and hotel industry, the Fassbind family has created its name for some time already in Engelberg, a Swiss mountain town. Fassbind Jr., a man ahead of his time, ...
Vertebrae
Cosmina is a police officer in the Romanian coastal town of Mangalia. When a body is discovered on the shore, Cosmina and her partner, Liviu, are assigned to the case. The identity of the victim is ...
