Series Mania Co-­Production Forum Opens Call for Submissions

PARIS: The Series Mania Festival is now accepting TV series project submissions for its fourth annual Co-Production Forum, with a deadline of February 26.

Once submissions are complete, 15 series projects in development will be presented to around 300 potential co-financers, including producers, distributors and channel representatives scheduled to attend. The annual event will include pitching and work-in-progress sessions, as well as conferences.

The Forum has joined forces with TV France International to present the best of French production to international buyers. A new section, called Coming Next from France, will showcase a lineup of French TV series (completed or in post-production) that are available in the international market. The Forum also has partnerships with Scripted, the new industry event exclusively for TV series, as well as Berlinale and the Göteborg Film Festival.

“The rise of international co-production in TV series development is absolutely flourishing,” commented Laurence Herszberg, the general director of event organizer Forum des Images and founder of Series Mania. “In 2015, the Co-Production Forum received 170 projects from 30 different countries for a final selection of 12 projects pitched. In 2016, we will surely be impressed by the quantity, as well as by the exceptional quality, of the projects we will be receiving.”