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The political thriller The Interregnum has won Series Mania’s Seriesmakers, receiving a €50,000 prize.
Led by the Series Mania Forum and supported by Beta Group, Seriesmakers presents the Beta & Kirch Foundation Award in collaboration with HFF Munich for €50,000. As a part of receiving the honorary award, the team from The Interregnum will have the opportunity to work closely with Beta’s content and co-production division to develop a pilot script and a full package.
Laurence Herszberg, general director of Series Mania, said: “When we started Seriesmakers three years ago, our goal was to become the best mentoring program for filmmakers making their TV creator debut. As evidenced by the ten projects part of this year’s event and with the prize going to The Interregnum, we could not be more pleased with our results.”
Ferdinand Dohna, head of content and co-production at Beta, said: “The creators of The Interregnum impressed with a political thriller that reflects the complexity of some of the most pressing issues of our time: artificial intelligence and justice. The multi-layered aspects of these issues are told in a gripping thriller that introduces the ticking clock of a fictional EU referendum where the viewer has to decide where they stand.”
In the series, set in 2031, the EU faces a decisive referendum to approve an A.I. system that would replace human judges. As Inma and Lyda, the Yes and No campaign managers, battle for victory, a dark secret surrounding the death of the A.I. system’s creator, Alicia, threatens to revolutionize not only the campaign, but everything they believed themselves to be.
The series is from creator/director/writer Simón Casal and producer Mariela Besuievsky.
