Series Mania Unveils Eureka Series Initiative

Series Mania is launching Eureka Series, an intensive 14-week, full-time training course for writers and producers of television drama series from all over Europe.

Delivered in partnership with La Fémis, it is an initiative created by the Series Mania Institute to train professionals in the TV series industry. Applications for Eureka Series will be open through May 14. The selected participants will be given the opportunity to attend this year’s Series Mania Forum in Lille, France, which will take place from August 30 to September 1.

This training course will bring together 12 participants—six writers and six producers—of various European nationalities. They will benefit from the support of international teachers and professionals through partnerships with schools such as ECAM (Spain), the Lodz Film School (Poland), IFS (Germany), Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Italy) and Westerdals (Norway). The course culminates in a two-week residency, at the end of which projects will be pitched to a jury of broadcasters, including France Télévisions, RAI (Italy) and ZDF (Germany), who collectively form The Alliance.

Eureka Series will include masterclasses with creators, showrunners, scriptwriters, directors and TV series producers from Europe and beyond, as well as case studies of European series in the company of the creators. The training course will also include theoretical and practical courses on the structure, financing and production of European series and group work on future co-production projects.

Eureka Series is part of the Series Mania Institute, supported by the Hauts-de-France Region and the CNC.

Laurence Herszberg, founder and general director of Series Mania, said: “Since announcing the Series Mania Institute last June, we have been working toward our mission to reinforce the training of European professionals in the field of series and audiovisual content. With today’s launch of Eureka Series, we are encouraging the emergence of new talent from a diversity of backgrounds and origins and bringing together multiple nationalities to benefit from the support of international teachers, industry professionals and our partner schools. We could not be prouder.”