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EXCLUSIVE: Germany’s Seriencamp is gearing up for nan 2026 edition. The industry-facing confab returns to nan German metropolis of Cologne, moving from June 9-11, moving alongside nan nationalist Seriencamp Festival, which will big nan world premiere of Westend Girl, starring Golden Globe nominee Helena Zengel.
Seriencamp is nan biggest TV arena successful Germany, pinch nan awesome broadcasters, streamers, producers and creatives each successful town. Deadline presents its German TV Disruptor Award astatine nan event, and specifications of this year’s recipient will beryllium revealed soon.
Organizers said nan manufacture is undergoing a translator and they will style this year’s twelfth version accordingly, leaning successful to some nan challenges and opportunities successful nan caller world of drama.
“Good stories will ever find their assemblage – but really they are told, produced, distributed, and, supra all, discovered is presently changing rapidly,” said Gerhard Maier, Artistic Director astatine Seriencamp.
“While nan early of nan bid manufacture will beryllium shaped by caller and modern content, it will besides dangle connected nan willingness to research caller approaches to contented development, production, and distribution, to analyse technological possibilities, and to mobility existing certainties successful nan process. Over nan people of 3 days, nan Seriencamp convention will research what this intends specifically for creatives, broadcasters, and producers.”
Drama producers are negotiating challenging terrain nan European scripted TV sector. In nan environment, getting nan funders and commissioners successful nan room is ever welcomed by nan program-makers. Seriencamp has commissioners from ZDF, WDR, SWR, ARD DEGETO, ORF, SRG, RAI, NRK, SVT and DR already confirmed. Pubcaster ZDF’s accumulation and distribution section ZDF Studios returns arsenic nan event’s main partner.
As good arsenic nan Meet nan Commissioners strand, nan celebrated pitching sessions will return. A strand called PLOT NXT will tally done June 11-12 focusing connected actual examples of really artificial intelligence tin beryllium harnessed successful nan TV business. A time earlier nan convention kicks off, location funders Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and nan Film- und Medienverband NRW and shaper group Produktionsallianz will tally a convention arena called Story Vision Europe that Seriencamp badge holders tin attend.
Since 2023, nan main backing partners of nan events person been nan State of North Rhine-Westphalia and nan Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.
