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4 DESTINY With more than 12,000 spectators and 600 accredited professionals during the
2012 edition, the Series Mania Festival, launched by Forum des Images, has now
5 JORDSKOTT become a major cultural event. Through its large programming scope and stimu-
lating debates, it offers a unique overview of recent worldwide television series
production.
6 POWER & GRACE
From April 22 28, 2013 the fourth edition of Series Mania will screen over 40
7 THE REPUBLIC international television series, currently unreleased in France. Taking advantage
of the vital meeting platform that the festival has become, the Forum des images
8 TREPALIUM has initiated the 1st European TV Series Co-production Forum from April 24
26, alongside the public screenings.
9 VENGANZA European projects in development from Spain, France, the Czech Republic,
England, Germany and Sweden have been selected and will be presented by
10 JERUSALEM their creators and producers to some of the most influential potential co-produ-
cers from all over Europe. Two extra-European projects, representing Israel and
Canada, will complete this panel broadening the international range of potential
11 NAUTILUS European co-productions.
12 WHOS WHO ? The selected participants of the 1st European TV Series Co-production Forum
will participate to pitch sessions, individual meetings and networking events
18 INTERNATIONAL as well as an access to the international showcase audiovisual database which
includes 60 recent international television series (including 30 from Europe)
SHOWCASE accessible on individual viewing screens.
19 THE TEAM Through this initiative, we are hoping to facilitate and broaden the perspec-
tive of European television professionals by offering an overview of current
television series as well as meeting with new project producers and creators.
We aspire to enhance business networking and opportunities that will secure
adequate budgets and higher production qualities allowing better pan-European
broadcasting of TV series.
Best wishes for an excellent festival and to numerous and significant business
opportunities during this first European Co-production Forum
With the support of the Media program of the European Union and the CNC
COMPANY PROFILE
Henrik Bjrn Filip Hammarstrm
Palladium Film Palladium Film PALLADIUM FILM is a top rated and award-winning production company for moving
media in Sweden. The company started in 1994 and is now part of a larger media group,
including high-end companies for production of music, commercials and post produc-
tion. PALLADIUM FILM is an independent company owned by the three founders Iggy
Strange-Dahl, Johan Jihde and Henrik Bjrn.
PANINI MEDIA is an international distributor focused on independent, original family
entertainment. PANINI MEDIA operates as part of The Licensing Machine (TLM), the Pa-
nini Group Licensing agency, and is now concentrating on extending its successful legacy
into supplying quality programming into the TV distribution arena. PANINI MEDIA has
Bruno Zarka Tony Verdini developed a portfolio of titles which is extending its activity into all vibrant areas of broad-
Panini Media Panini Media
casting and currently includes Japanese anime, SCI-FI/Fantasy and Drama series as well as
CONTACTS Documentaries. The PANINI Group is the worldwide leader in the collectibles and trading
PANINI MEDIA, a division of Panini UK Ltd
cards sector and a very significant publisher of magazines, comics and juvenile books.
Brockbourne House 77, Tunbridge Wells, UK
bzarka@panini.it - tverdini@panini.it GOALS AT THE CO-PRODUCTION FORUM
+39 335 1207909
PALLADIUM FILM
Pitching JORDSKOTT at Co-Production Forum will offer the possibility to meet with
Kungsgatan 4b, Stockholm, Sweden production companies and discuss with them about possible business models to explore.
henrik@palladiumfilm.se - filip@palladiumfilm.se We also wish to meet with broadcasters and Media Desk representatives to evaluate and
+46 8 444 98 80 assess options to the full achievement of prospective financing plans available.
Ralph Christians
Molten Rock Media
Katrin Hensel-Ovenden
Molten Rock Media
COMPANY PROFILE
Molten Rock Media GmbH (MR) is a film production company based Northern Germany,
focused on the development, financing and (co) production of live action crime series,
TV event movies and feature films for the European and international market. Since the
majority of productions are shot in English and developed for global exploitation, Molten
Rock Media has a functioning network of national and international production partners,
broadcasters, distributors and financiers.
CONTACTS
MOLTEN ROCK MEDIA GmbH
Feldstrasse 58, 28203 Bremen, Germany
ralph.christians@moltenrock.eu
katrin.hensel@moltenrock.eu
+49 42169625520
www. moltenrock.eu
THE
REPUBLIC
PROJECT INFORMATION
Original project title : Prvn Republika
Format : 22 x 52
THE REPUBLIC
Czech Republic
Genre : Historical Family Saga With Crime Plot
Writer(s) : Jan Gardner / Magdalena Butov
SYNOPSIS
Director(s) : Biser A. Arichtev
Producer(s) : Filip Bobiski, Petr izling THE REPUBLIC is a unique blend of family saga, melodrama, ghost story and murder-
Co-producer(s) : Czech Television mystery. We follow three generations of Valentas family through, possibly, the richest
TV Channel : CT 1 period in Czech modern history.
International sales : tbc
From the end of the World War I in 1918 till the conclusion of WWII in May 1945, we map
Development stage : pre-production
the events and everyday life of the Valenta family members in a country sandwiched
between Russia and Germany.
Shooting dates : July 2013 March 2014
Shooting languages : Czech
Shooting locations : Czech Republic AUTHORS PROFILE AND NOTE OF INTENTION
Global estimated budget : 5 500 000
Filip Bobinski and Petr Sizling created and produced the award winning retro series Vypravej
Budget per episode : 225 000 / 52 version
(Wonderful times) which became a hugh success in the local market and received professio-
Financing confirmed : CT1
nal recognition internationaly (Monte Carlo Golden Nymph 2011). They have also produced
Part of co-production : 10% other successful long-running tv series, both for commercial and public broadcasters before.
THE REPUBLIC is an entertaining period drama, a family saga, that combines a strong story
with an attractive visual concept. It is a mix of melodrama and mystery that will keep the
MEET THEM AT THE 1ST TV SERIES audience on the edge of their seats and wanting more. Theres also a subplot of a ghostory,
CO-PRODUCTION FORUM narrated from the
childerns point of view. We are looking at the most interesting era in the history - between
two world wars - seeing from a country sandwiched between Russia and Germany. The time
maybe old, but the the universal human dramas and values are very much contemporary.
COMPANY PROFILE
Dramedy is one of the leading production companies in Prague and the most prolific inde-
Samuele Proietti
pendent producer of TV fiction in the Czech Republic. Dramedy introduced the creative pro-
Filip Bobiski
Dramedy Productions Dramedy Productions ducers approach to the TV fiction in the territory, introduced the first series created by a team
of scriptwriters and was the first in the country to produce TV series based on an adaptation
of a scripted format.
Dramedy has been producing the original, in-house developed retro series Vypravej since
2008. This series follows the lives of an ordinary Czech family from the mid 1960s to the
present day. Vypravej almost doubled the audience share of its timeslot on Czech Television
and was awarded TyTy Series of the Year 2009, 2010, 2011 and Golden Nymph in Monte Carlo
TVF 2011. Dramedy team members have solid experience with international co-productions
and finance.
Marketa Stinglova
Czech Television GOALS AT THE CO-PRODUCTION FORUM
Dramedy International is looking for minority co-producer/s and/or possible international
sales company for THE REPUBLIC.
CONTACTS Dramedy is also looking for projects to enter in as minority co-producer.
DRAMEDY Productions s.r.o.
blick 965/2h,
182 00, Praha 8, Czech Republic
+420 271752470
www.dramedy.cz
MEET THEM AT THE 1ST TV SERIES AUTHORS PROFILE AND NOTE OF INTENTION
CO-PRODUCTION FORUM Antars Bassis completed a postgraduate degree (DEA) in screenwriting and directing in
2004. He is currently writing two comedy features as well as working on a documentary about
a contemporary circus company. In parallel, Antars conducts writing workshops at the Mai-
son du Geste et de lImage and the Cinmatque in Paris.
Sophie Hiet : a 2001 graduate of the screenwriting department of La Fmis, Sophie Hiet writes for
Film and for TV. She worked with the director Julie Lopes Curval, with whom she co-wrote Toi
et Moi (2006) and Mres et Filles (2009). She is now completing a script for another feature
film to be directed by Curval. In TV, she has written for the drama series Plus Belle La Vie
(France 3), Bienvenue aux Edelweiss (TF1) and Les Revenants (Canal+), amongst others.
Katia Ras Judith Louis
Kelija productions Arte
Sophie Hiet and Antars Bassin co-wrote 2 award-winning short features : LEmploi vide ,
a science fiction tale, and Porteur dhommes , a humanistic fable and they completed the
script for a comedy feature.
Our approach is to use the genre to comment on society, to examine major issues via an enter-
taining tale. We find the themes of work and social usefulness particularly fascinating as they
are at the heart of modern society: today, we define ourselves through our jobs, and they form
an integral part of our identity. Not having one increasingly leads to exclusion, to a loss of
identity and dignity. We find the genre of social science fiction very exciting, as it provides the
Adrienne Frajacques opportunity to talk about society and its ills by extrapolating situations, associating the plea-
Arte sure of narration with the seriousness of the subject in question. By imagining the future, we
try to better understand our present world. We like social science fiction and science fiction,
not for its excessive special effects or settings, but on the contrary, for its unhinged universes,
for the human trajectories portrayed, and for what these genres disseminate. Our references
are Richard Fleischers Soylent Green, Andrew Niccols Gattaca and Alfonso Cuarons The
Children of Men - masterpieces that have managed to transcend the genre with emotionally
powerful tales told without excessive and unjustified means.
COMPANY PROFILE
Antars Bassis Sophie Hiet Kelija is a department of Feniprod created in July 2012 by Lagardere Entertainment, first
Author
Author producer and creator of Tv drama in France. Katia Rais is the TV producer in charge of Kelija.
She has produced many Tv drama and series for principals French broadcasters. Before she
CONTACTS used to work at M6 as artistic director on development of Tv drama and series during 8 years.
KELIJA department of Feniprod
24-26 quai Alphonse Le Gallo 92100
GOALS AT THE CO-PRODUCTION FORUM
Boulogne-Billancourt, France The coproduction will provide help to sustain and to enrich artistic technical and visual
katia.rais@lagardere-active.com desires of our project. Every kind of coproduction or association is needed: shooting could be
+33 6 08 48 28 87 in any European country, presales to any European broadcaster, financing coproduction
COMPANY PROFILE
BIG TREE PRODUCTIONS : Simon Wright, Managing Director of Big Tree Productions,
started his producing career at the Comic Strip. After leaving to work as a freelance TV
writer for 2 years, Simon then joined Working Title and served as the President of Working
Title Television for 17 years.
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SIMON WRIGHT
BIG TREE PRODUCTIONS
Producer
simon.wright@bigtreeproductions.co.uk
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BRUNO ZARKA
PANINI MEDIA
Sales Manager
BZarka@Panini.it
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The Whos Who? was made with information received before April 17th, 2013
* The International Showcase is for accredited audiovisual *series also presented on big screens, as part of the public screenings
The 1st European TV Series Co-production Forum was organised with the collaboration of the Forum des Images team :
Jeanne Pelissier, Nathalie Bouvier, Franois Pellet, Lily Candahl-Touta, La Colin.