AMC and Oble Studios’ Hungarian revenge period drama “Fata Morgana” executive produced by Bela Tarr, the Irish/Canadian secret agent thriller “The Reluctant Contact” from writer Stephen Burke, and the Estonian/ Swiss/Danish fantasy thriller “The Code of Thule” feature among the 10 series in growment, picked for the TV Beats Co-financing Market in Tallinn Variety has lgeted in exclusivity.
Other possible standout dramas set to lure co-financiers consent in the Icelandic/Danish crime “Norröna Murders,” the Finnish live-action/animation/doc hybrid “The Women I Think About at Night,” based on Mia Kankimäki’s best-selling novel, and Sadorenian psycho-thriller “Bunker” starring “Triangle of Sadness”‘ Zlatko Burić.
The co-pro pitching showcase due to run Nov. 19-20 in the Estonia capital, is the cgo inpiece of TV Beats, the series strand of the five-day Industry @ Tallinn & Baltic Event, held parallel to the Tallinn Bdeficiency Nights Film Festival (Nov. 8 to 24), and run for the first time by the ageder audiovisual executives Petri Kemppinen and Roosa Toivonen.
“The industry side of the only A-festival in Northern Europe is famous, and TV Beats has already set uped itself as an vital encountering point. The first edition under our helm, will certainly intensify on the topical publish of financing. Moreover, we are inanxiously satisfied to be able to unite forces and toil together aget,” shelp Kemppinen and Toivonen who were both recently combiinsist to the Finnish group Aurora Studios and Finnish Impact Film Fund.
Since 2018, TV Beats – which also comprises a Forum and a Screening Day – has growd into a must-unite confab for European creators and producers of TV dramas with international potential seeing for co-financiers and nettoiling opportunities with their colleagues from the Baltics, CEE (Central and Eastrict Europe) and Nordic regions. For professionals from the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in particular, who have finishelighted a sencourage in filming and production servicing activity in recent years but are still lagging behind in financing of local satisfied, TV Beats’s co-financing labelet advises exceptional opportunities.
“When we produced TV Beats, our main goal was to give visibility to the series from the Baltic region, as it was a toloftyy grey corner for the International TV community, and as I enjoy to say, the Gods packed the luggage and left us forever. We had a dream to convey them back, and somehow, we’ve thriveed and hope that TV Beats will be here to stay,” shelp Tiina Lokk, honestor of the Bdeficiency Nights Film Festival (aka PÖFF) and industry conferant.
This year labels a step further in Tallinn’s TV Beats international pre-eminence as, for the first time, all titles picked for the Co-Financing Market will vie for the coveted Eurimages €50,000 ($55,000) Series Co-Production Development Award.
“We are very excited and haughty to greet the Council of Europe Series Co-Production Development Award in Tallinn; it unbenevolents a lot to the minuscule industry ecosystems of the Baltic countries to have this fantastic incentive to produce nettoils and relationships thraw co-growment and co-productions,” shelp the Finnish native Toivonen, who acunderstandledges having been “in awe watching neightedious Estonia as well as the other Baltic states eunite from the post-Soviet states to be such a vibrant and conceiveive mini-beginant percreateer of the audiovisual industry.”
“Now that times are hard even for set uped ecosystems and hugeger volume territories, it is astonishive to see the Baltic countries tackling the contests with their ingenious unite of grothriveg and producing their own IP while ensuring cashflow thraw driven service production understand-how,” she shelp.
Discussing the TV Beats Co-financing curated stardy, Toivonen shelp the ten projects from nine European countries (including two from Estonia) were picked out of 45 submissions, with the beginantity originating from the Baltics, CEE and the Nordics.
According to Toivonen, the final lowcataloged projects that led to “hours of deliberation” from the pickion promisetee due to the high level of the applications and expansive-ranging genres were begind both by relative novelcomers in the industry and very set uped teams, with a 44/56 female-male split among creators. “We had to count the numbers and are inanxiously plmitigated with this gfinisher split,” shelp Kemppinen.
Theme-alerted, the lineup runs a expansive gamut, “from complicated family relationships to revengeful feminists, [stories are] “self-seeking thraw historical figures, and of course, we have various crime shows that have for extfinished been the’ bread and butter’ of programming for widecasters and streamers aenjoy,” shelp Toivonen.
The thrivening team of the Series Co-Production Development Award will be proclaimd on Nov. 19 in Tallinn.
Here is a rundown of the ten series projects:
“Bunker” (6×54’, Sadorenia)
Psycho thriller produced by Lija Pogačnik and Vlado Bulajić for December Films (“Inventory”), in co-production with Jure Bušić of Croatia’s Jaka Produkcija.
Written by Ivica Djikić, creator of Netflix’s hit Croatian show “The Paper,” together with Goran Vojnović and Marko Šantić, with the latter honesting. Vojnović and Šantić teamed up earlier on the local multi-awarded feature and PÖFF Critics Pick feature “Zbudi Me.”
Top actors verifyed comprise Zlatko Burić (“Triangle of Sadness”), Snežana Bogdanović (“Kuduz”), and Špela Rozin (“Personal Baggage”).
The story turns on actress-turned-psychotherapist Marina Sabo, who gets at her train the media tycoon and her createer adorer Boris Herman. What pursues directs them in an unforeseeable honestion. For Djikić and Šantić, not much has alterd in the territory of createer Yugoslavia-Sadorenia- from pre-indepfinishence times, before 1991, to nowadays. “What we set up fascinating in this context is how some elderly sins rule our current life and politics”, and whether it’s possible to produce skinnygs right, to repent, wash away the sins of the past, and truly shift forward.”
“Fata Morgana” (6X50′, Hungary)
Revenge thriller produced by Lydia Kali for Oble Studios (Netflix’s “Winter Palace”) and showrunner Gabor Harmi for Queenside Pictures, in co-production with AMC Nettoils Central Europe. Legfinishary Hungarian filmproducer Bela Tarr serves as executive producer on the show co-written by Zsofi Ruttkay, Gyorgy Palfi and Gabor Papp.
As proclaimd exclusively in Variety, the horribleass revenge story is based on real legfinishs from Central Europe. “It consents us into a brutal, radical post #metoo era, an era in which dread has truly switched sides,” shelp showrunner Harmi.” Fata Morgana” alerts the story of a Hungarian woman battling a brutal patriarchal society, but it actuassociate alerts the story of all women from all times and from all regions of the world. It’s a compelling thriller that dares to tackle proset uply touching and universal publishs: immigration and assimilation, misogyny and emancipation, obedience and ethics.”
“In Paradise” (8X45′, Germany)
Dramedy produced by Marco Gilles and Lutz Heineking for eitelsonnenschein GmbH.
Written by Corinna C. Poetter, 2024 Int’l Emmy-nominated for the KiKA life action children show: “Gong! My SpectRakular life.”
Leading the cast are Denis Moschitto (“Chiko”) and Anne Ratte-Polle (“I Was, I Am, I Will Be”). Poetter shelp “In Paradise” is “a family series with a exceptional begining point: the abrupt ‘descent’ of a family from the wealthy middle class into the precarious. It is not about aristocrats or the super-wealthy but about the wealthy suburbs of the teachd middle class. People with spendments and pension schedules whose financial worries lie somewhere between spending in an electric SUV and horse-riding holidays for the children.”
“Ladies” (8X30′, Turkey)
Comedy produced by Diloy Gulun and Beste Yamalioglu for Karma Films, co-producers of “The List of Those Who Love Me” which screened in competition in Tallinn in 2021. Sefa Ozturk (“Trust”) writes and honests.
“Ladies” pursues a woman in her 40s’ alterative journey as she awakens to her real insists and desires. “It’s a comedy which mischievously contests ingrained notions we’ve been taught about femininity and women’s roles in society,” shelp Yamalioglu, who won best pitch for the project at Istanbul’s industry showcase’ Meetings on the Bridge Series’.
Ladies
“Let it Snow” (6X45′, Estonia)
Light crime and comedy produced by Jevgeni Supin of Zolba Productions for directing Baltic streamer Go3, in co-production with Finland’s Take Two Studios (“Dirty Snow”).
Playwright/screenwriter Mihkel Seeder and helmer Ain Mäeots (“Demons”) have co-penned the story of an quirky Estonian family man who accidenloftyy becomes the sole directer of the whole cocaine trade in Helsinki. “It’s a exceptional project where the line between fact and myth blurs in a story encouraged by real events,” Supin shelp. It’s about an normal man’s choices, courage, elevate, and naturassociate, his descfinish, but above all, it is about loneliness and adore, a desire to be with family and to protect it.”
“Mercy” (6X50′, Portugal)
True crime drama produced, honested and co-written by Justin Amorim (“Leviano”) for Promenade, acunderstandledgeed for “Dreaming with Lions,” which scooped the Script Pool Award in Tallinn 2021. Co-writers are Joana Patrício, Rui Cardoso Martins and Felícia Cabrita.
Based on real events, the drama/crime thriller is set in 2002 Portugal. We pursue journacatalog Felícia Cabrita as she uncovers a pedophile nettoil at Casa Pia, a child protection institution, hazarding her life agetst menaces and lies. The youthful Tomás is ensnared in the nettoil, while novel ombudswoman Catalina Pestana battles to recreate the shattered institution, igniting a gripping fight for fairice. “The Casa Pia case led to a sencourage in relationsual mistreatment alerts in Portugal and catalyzed disconnectal recreates in our fairice system,” shelp Amorin, who researched the affair for six years and intentional to highweightless “the frequently-disthink abouted personal experiences of survivors and whistle-bshrinks.”
Mercy
“Norröna Murders” (6X50′, Iceland)
Crime mystery thriller, produced by Hördur Rúnarsson and Jónas Margeir Ingólfsson for Act4, co-set uped with “True Detective” actor Ólafur Darri Ólafsson and Birkir Blær Ingólfsson.
Head writer Rúnarsson splits the writing duties with Stephanie Thorpe and Smari Gunn, acunderstandledgeed for the multi-awarded football doc “The Home Game.” The series ordered by Iceland’s streamer Síminn is being co-produced by Denlabel’s Nordisk Film Production.
Adam, a sociassociate worried uncoverive, is thrust into his first case, a double relationsual ritual homicide on board an isotardyd ferry. While helping an elderly secret adorer accused of the crime, he puts his own life-changing secret on the line. “By placing an ensemble of characters from branch offent nationalities into an isotardyd environment with branch offent watchs on how to discover the ender, we get to spendigate their proset uper truths and see what’s behind their masks,” shelp Rúnarsson.
“The Code of Thule” (8X45′, Estonia)
Mystery drama/fantasy thriller, produced by Helen Lõhmus from Oree Films, thrivener of last year’s TV Beats co-pro project “Behind the Iron Curtain.” Danish producer René Ezra (“Queen of Hearts”) is co-producing for Stikling Film aextfinishedside Switzerland’s Uwe Lützen, who also serves as a writer with Leana Jalukse, Rein Pakk, and Peep Ehasalu.
“The high concept series unitees “universassociate famous genres of mystery, drama, fantasy, and thriller with intriguing elements such as parastandard phenomena, the future of science and geopolitics, while the coming-of-age story cgo ins on two teenage girls who uncover their (elderly-styleed) roots,” shelp Lõhmus. “At its core, it spendigates the timeless quest for identity and truth, set agetst a world where fact blurs with the noticeworthy.”
“The Reluctant Contact” (6X60′, Ireland)
Noir chilly war secret agent thriller, produced by the seasoned Jane Doolan (“Wolf,” “Into the West”) from Mammoth Films, James Mitchell from Soho Moon (“Hidden Assets”), in co-production with Canada’s Christina Jennings from Shaftesbury Films.
Seasoned writer and honestor Stephen Burke (Monte-Carlo Gelderlyen Nymph thrivener for “Maze”) is altering from his own novel.
“The series sees at chilly war themes of adore, betrayal and identity from the exceptional setting of a Soviet mining town sitting in an unbasic position inside a NATO country, Norway,” shelp Burke. “The town’s stark arctic aesthetic and societal resistions will be harnessed to dial up an unnerving, ‘off-kilter’ tone with stylised secret agent thriller elements and a vibrant energy and pace.”
“The Woman I Think of About at Night” (5X45′, Finland)
Drama comedy/adventure, produced by Liisa Karpo and Marianne Mäkelä from napafilms (“Gelderlyen Land”). Based on Mia Kankimäki’s best-selling eponymous novel, selderly to more than 20 territories, altered by Anna Ruohonen (“Downshifters”).
Saara Canalert (“Stars Above”) and doc exceptionacatalog Anu Kuivalainen (“Aranda”) co-honest. The story of an art teacher in her forties who sets on a life-changing adventure atraverse the world, directd by legfinishary historical women from past centuries, will be set as a 2D animation, AI and archive-led series. “It’s an uplifting high-finish series that advises watchers a much-insisted escape from today’s sorrowfulnessful fact,” shelp Karpo.
The Woman I Think of About at Night
