Freud Selected for Series Mania Co-Production Forum

PARIS: The Austro-German series Freud has been selected from the Berlin Film Festival to be presented at the fifth edition of the Series Mania Co-Production Forum.

From a set of projects pitched at the Berlinale, Series Mania’s Laurence Herszberg selected Freud from German writer Stefan Brunner, known for his work on series such as Tatort and Kommissar Rex. The series features Freud and his involvement in police investigations at the turn of the 19th century. It is co-produced by Bavaria Fernsehproduktion (Germany) and Satel Film (Austria).

Series producers Moritz Polter and Henrich Ambrosch are invited to the Series Mania Co-Production Forum in April, where they will reveal how the project is coming along to a panel of international TV execs, boosting their chances of raising the financing they need.

“Freud is a real European co-production with strong international potential, involving an emblematic character as well-known as any international brand,” Herszberg said.

Also in Berlin, Drama Series Days presented Warrior, a project that was featured at the Co-Production Forum in April 2016. Created by filmmaker Christopher Boe (Reconstruction), Warrior is being produced by the Danish company Miso Film, producer of Those Who Kill and currently producing a new project, The Rain, for Netflix.