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HBO Max has travel disconnected nan backmost of a beardown week pinch a double triumph astatine nan Series Mania Awards for Polish bid Proud.
Proud, astir a cheery man who takes attraction of his babe niece aft a family calamity strikes, won nan Grand Prize successful nan world title and scooped champion character for lead Ignacy Liss.
Led by Icelandic showrunner and actor Benedikt Erlingsson, nan assemblage called Karol Klementewicz’s bid “a profoundly moving image of a young man astatine his breaking point, forced to return power of his life.”
Proud’s taxable matter is simply a patient tonic successful acheronian times. On Wednesday, a study from the Federation of Screenwriters successful Europe found writers are self-censoring owed to fearfulness complete reprisal from far-right governments, arsenic it questioned whether scribes will “decide to put their migrant aliases LGBTQ stories successful nan bottommost drawer.” The study was a awesome talking constituent astatine Series Mania.
Double triumph for Proud caps disconnected a bully week for HBO, which launched HBO Max successful nan UK, unveiled a buzzy Harry Potter and nan Philosopher’s Stone trailer and had execs retired successful afloat unit astatine Series Mania successful Lille.
Dennis Kelly’s BBC bid Waiting for nan Out won Best Screenplay successful nan world title while Best Actress went to Amanda Jansson, prima of Nordic co-pro My Brother. Another BBC series, Mackenzie Crook’s Small Prophets, won Best Series successful nan abstracted International Panorama section, which besides awarded that show’s character Lauren Patel.
The assemblage grant was fixed to Dustfall, the Australian thriller starring The Newsreader’s Anna Torv. Best French bid went to TF1’s All Shapes of Us.
The awards headdress disconnected different Series Mania, which has been moving since March 20.
