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Series Mania also played a key role in getting the show off the ground when Karoliussen was first trying to break into TV drama and pitched it at the event’s Co-Pro Pitching Sessions in 2017. “It was kind of amazing how much attention it got.” “As soon as the news went up, we started being contacted by the press and potential partners,” he says. He suggests that simply being selected for Series Mania competition has already boosted interest in Twin, regardless of whether it wins the top prize. The suspense drama, starring Kristofer Hivju ( Game Of Thrones) in the roles of identical twins with opposite personalities, is premiering in competition alongside nine other shows including US thriller Chambers, starring Uma Thurman, and Shane Meadows’s The Virtues.

Karoliussen, whose film credits include documentary Magnus and family film Journey To The Christmas Star, is attending Series Mania this year with his first foray into high-end drama Twin. Other rising stars in this fast-evolving space include Berlin International Film Festival’s Berlinale Series and Drama Series Days in February Séries Series in Fontainebleau outside Paris in July Toronto International Film Festival’s Primetime programme and MIA/TV in Rome in October. Series Mania and Canneseries are among a proliferation of standalone TV festivals and TV-focused sidebars within film festivals and TV markets dedicated to developing high-end drama and showcasing hot series on the big screen. “Now that I’m doing TV as well as film, I could be travelling all year round from one festival to another,” says Norwegian producer Sigurd Mikal Karoliussen.

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Dovetailing with MIPTV, Canneseries was launched last year by MIPTV organiser Reed Midem and French pay-TV giant the Canal Plus Group, partly in response to the city of Cannes losing its bid to stage the state-backed event.Īs the lines between film and high-end TV drama continue to blur, professionals attempting to straddle both worlds often feel compelled to squeeze in these new meetings alongside traditional fixtures. It decamped to Lille from Paris in 2018 as part of a state-backed revamp and expansion to make it France’s main TV festival. Launched in 2010, Series Mania is the more established event of the two. Rival French TV festivals Series Mania (March 23-30) in the northern city of Lille and MIPTV’s Canneseries (April 5-10) kick-off within a week of one another this spring in an already busy time on the film and TV festival and market circuit.