{"id":7645,"date":"2017-04-20T12:02:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T16:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fertile-crescent-wins-series-mania-project-award\/"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:02:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T16:02:48","slug":"fertile-crescent-wins-series-mania-project-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fertile-crescent-wins-series-mania-project-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Fertile Crescent Wins Series Mania Project Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Israel-France submission of the drama series <em>Fertile Crescent<\/em> has been selected as the winner of the Series Mania Project Award.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 16 projects selected and pitched for this year\u2019s Co-Pro Pitching Sessions at the Series Mania Co-Production Forum, <em>Fertile Crescent<\/em> won a check for \u20ac50,000 to help finance its development. This marks the first year that a monetary prize has been given to the winners.<\/p>\n<p>The jury included Francesca Orsi, co-head of drama at HBO; Thomas Bourguignon, producer at KWAI; Piv Bernth, head of drama at DR; Henrik Pabst, managing director of Red Arrow International; and Pilar Perez Roel, head of acquisitions for DCD Rights. The team from <em>Fertile Crescent<\/em> accepting the honor included Maria Feldman (Masha Productions), Eitan Mansuri (Spiro Films), Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta and Simon Arnal (Haut et Court TV).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were thrilled by the quality of projects this year and the intensity of the meetings between the producers, broadcasters, sales agents and project holders,\u201d commented Laurence Herszberg, general director of Forum des Images and founder of Series Mania. \u201cNever have we reached such a high level of networking amongst the key television industry decision-makers. I am proud to congratulate the team from <em>Fertile Crescent<\/em> for this tremendous honor. With the prize of \u20ac50,000, Series Mania is reinforcing our goal of giving a significant financial boost to the development of the winning project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Orsi, jury president, said: \u201cIt\u2019s timely political conversation and emotionally daring and unique narrative makes <em>Fertile Crescent<\/em> a very exciting winner this year. I know I speak for the whole jury in saying we are greatly looking forward to seeing this globally important series come to life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israel-France submission of the drama series Fertile Crescent has been selected as the winner of the Series Mania Project Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":7646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1722,1677],"class_list":["post-7645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-series-mania-2017","tag-series-mania-co-production-forum","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fertile Crescent Wins Series Mania Project Award - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fertile-crescent-wins-series-mania-project-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fertile Crescent Wins Series Mania Project Award - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Israel-France submission of the drama series Fertile Crescent has been selected as the winner of the Series Mania Project Award.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fertile-crescent-wins-series-mania-project-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-04-20T16:02:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2015\/09\/FertileCresent.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kristin Brzoznowski\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kristin Brzoznowski\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fertile-crescent-wins-series-mania-project-award\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fertile-crescent-wins-series-mania-project-award\/\",\"name\":\"Fertile Crescent Wins Series Mania Project Award - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-04-20T16:02:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-20T16:02:48+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0026b5a5c019f9a498d0a452e6e9d4be\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fertile-crescent-wins-series-mania-project-award\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fertile-crescent-wins-series-mania-project-award\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fertile-crescent-wins-series-mania-project-award\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Fertile Crescent Wins Series Mania Project Award\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0026b5a5c019f9a498d0a452e6e9d4be\",\"name\":\"Kristin Brzoznowski\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/author\/kbrzoznowskiworldscreen-com\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Fertile Crescent Wins Series Mania Project Award - TVDRAMA","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fertile-crescent-wins-series-mania-project-award\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Fertile Crescent Wins Series Mania Project Award - TVDRAMA","og_description":"The Israel-France submission of the drama series Fertile Crescent has been selected as the winner of the Series Mania Project Award.","og_url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fertile-crescent-wins-series-mania-project-award\/","og_site_name":"TVDRAMA","article_published_time":"2017-04-20T16:02:48+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2015\/09\/FertileCresent.jpg","width":1,"height":1,"type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Kristin Brzoznowski","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kristin Brzoznowski","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fertile-crescent-wins-series-mania-project-award\/","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fertile-crescent-wins-series-mania-project-award\/","name":"Fertile Crescent Wins Series Mania Project Award - TVDRAMA","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-04-20T16:02:48+00:00","dateModified":"2017-04-20T16:02:48+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0026b5a5c019f9a498d0a452e6e9d4be"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fertile-crescent-wins-series-mania-project-award\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fertile-crescent-wins-series-mania-project-award\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fertile-crescent-wins-series-mania-project-award\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Fertile Crescent Wins Series Mania Project Award"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/","name":"TVDRAMA","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0026b5a5c019f9a498d0a452e6e9d4be","name":"Kristin Brzoznowski","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/author\/kbrzoznowskiworldscreen-com\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}