David Chase Selected for Jury at Series Mania Festival

PARIS: Emmy winner David Chase (The Sopranos) has been selected to serve as president of this year’s jury at the Series Mania Festival.

David Chase has produced, written and directed critically acclaimed TV shows such as I’ll Fly Away and the HBO drama series The Sopranos, which he created. Chase has received a total of seven Emmy Awards.

“We could not be more thrilled than to have David Chase, the absolute godfather of television series, presiding over our first-ever international jury,” commented Laurence Herszberg, general director of Forum des Images and founder of Series Mania. “David has served as a mentor to many of today’s most influential showrunners like Terence Winter and Matthew Weiner and he is the perfect leader to serve as president for our jury.”

Series Mania Festival is hosting a brand-new competition for world and international premieres at this year’s edition, which will take place in Paris from April 15 to 24. Series Mania programmers will select eight recently finished TV series from eight different territories around the globe. An international jury made up of five names involved in series, cinema and culture will judge these TV series and present the winner with the best series award.

Herszberg added, “TV series have now arrived at such a level of quality and expectation that they merit the same attention at international festivals as given to the cinema for so many years and Series Mania is the ideal platform for this new competition.”