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Here’s 1 of nan astir notable grant wins successful a minute: Kyrgyzstan play Red Pants has won nan influential Co-Pro Pitching Sessions arena astatine Series Mania.
The show, from Studio Oymo and Human Films, will person a €50,000 ($58,000) prize aft defeating 15 different projects for nan award, which was nan founding premise of nan full Series Mania conference.
Also landing wins astatine Series Mania are French bid R91, which won nan Series Mania Buyers Upfront yesterday, and Canada’s Chachachá!, which took location nan SeriesMakers Award, which is handed retired successful relation pinch Series Mania Institute.
Ten-part bid Red Pants is an action play group successful precocious 1970s Soviet Kyrgyzstan. It follows Aisha, a subject officer’s daughter, who forms nan notorious ‘Red Pants’ first female criminal pack to avenge her father’s decease and situation nan oppressive regime.
Tilek Cherikov is nan writer and nan producers are Erke Dzhumakmatova for Studio Oymo, Co-Producer Pavel Feldman & Alexander Seliverstov for Human Films.
The Co-Pro Pitching Sessions are considered among nan astir important elements of nan Series Mania Forum, and often showcases projects from little-known world drama-producing countries specified arsenic Kyrgyzstan. The erstwhile winners person hailed from nan likes of Slovakia and Ukraine.
R91 becomes nan 2nd victor of nan Series Mania Buyers Upfront. The thriller bid retired of France follows atomic craft bearer Charles de Gaulle (R91), which sets sail connected a strategical mission, only for unit personnel to beryllium recovered dormant and different missing. Military interrogator Paul Fischer and his second-in-command Helena Duval are rushed aboard to lick nan mystery.
Next Episode is nan shaper and SND Groupe M6 has world income rights.
The SeriesMaker Award winner, Chachachá!, is an eight-part bid retired of Canada from writer-director Alison Fairweather Murray and Nice Picture! shaper Jennifer Weiss.
The Series Mania Forum continues coming and ends tomorrow pursuing nan Lille Dialogues sessions, which tally passim nan day.
