Emmanuel Eckert, deputy director, acquisitions at French media giant Mediawan, gave a keynote speech.
Circus documentary Fantastique from director Marjolijn Prins won the Perfect Pitch award at Connext, the Flemish film and TV showcase that took place in Antwerp this week. It was one of four winners, sharing an estimated €80,000 worth of support. They were chosen by the international delegates attending the event via the Connext app.
The documentary about a female acrobat from Guinea who faces conflict at home as she goes in pursuit of her dreams is produced by Serendipity Films. The award comes with postproduction support from Flow,...
Circus documentary Fantastique from director Marjolijn Prins won the Perfect Pitch award at Connext, the Flemish film and TV showcase that took place in Antwerp this week. It was one of four winners, sharing an estimated €80,000 worth of support. They were chosen by the international delegates attending the event via the Connext app.
The documentary about a female acrobat from Guinea who faces conflict at home as she goes in pursuit of her dreams is produced by Serendipity Films. The award comes with postproduction support from Flow,...
- 10/11/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Emmanuel Eckert, deputy director, acquisitions at French media giant Mediawan, gave a keynote speech.
Circus documentary Fantastique from director Marjolijn Prins won the Perfect Pitch award at Connext, the Flemish film and TV showcase that took place in Antwerp this week. It was one of four winners, sharing an estimated €80,000 worth of support. They were chosen by the international delegates attending the event via the Connext app.
The documentary about a female acrobat from Guinea who faces conflict at home as she goes in pursuit of her dreams is produced by Serendipity Films. The award comes with postproduction support from Flow,...
Circus documentary Fantastique from director Marjolijn Prins won the Perfect Pitch award at Connext, the Flemish film and TV showcase that took place in Antwerp this week. It was one of four winners, sharing an estimated €80,000 worth of support. They were chosen by the international delegates attending the event via the Connext app.
The documentary about a female acrobat from Guinea who faces conflict at home as she goes in pursuit of her dreams is produced by Serendipity Films. The award comes with postproduction support from Flow,...
- 10/11/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Belgian banner De Mensen and Keshet International (Ki) have kicked off the shoot of “Diamonds, ” a family crime thriller series penned by Yuval Yefet and Rotem Shamir, the pair behind “Fauda” and “Line in the Sand.”
Ordered by Netflix and Belgian public broadcaster Eén, the series follows a Jewish Ultra-Orthodox family in Belgium’s Antwerp Diamond Square Mile.
The eight-part series stars Belgian actor Kevin Janssens as Noah Wolfson, who returns to Antwerp where he reconnects with his family and the ultra-orthodox Jewish way of life which he had rebelled against. Noah discovers that his brother has ruined the once powerful family business by trading diamonds with sketchy people. Despite tense relations with his parents, brother and sister, Noah attempts to save the business but gets embroiled in a criminal world.
Janssens stars opposite Dudu Fisher, Yona Elian, Mendy Cahan, Ini Massez, Robbie Cleiren, Jeroen Vander Ven, Marie Vinck and Els Dottermans,...
Ordered by Netflix and Belgian public broadcaster Eén, the series follows a Jewish Ultra-Orthodox family in Belgium’s Antwerp Diamond Square Mile.
The eight-part series stars Belgian actor Kevin Janssens as Noah Wolfson, who returns to Antwerp where he reconnects with his family and the ultra-orthodox Jewish way of life which he had rebelled against. Noah discovers that his brother has ruined the once powerful family business by trading diamonds with sketchy people. Despite tense relations with his parents, brother and sister, Noah attempts to save the business but gets embroiled in a criminal world.
Janssens stars opposite Dudu Fisher, Yona Elian, Mendy Cahan, Ini Massez, Robbie Cleiren, Jeroen Vander Ven, Marie Vinck and Els Dottermans,...
- 9/21/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix and Belgium’s Flemish community public service broadcaster Vrt have commissioned eight-part crime drama “Diamonds.”
Co-created by Yuval Yefet and Rotem Shamir, who also directs, the series with mafia-style undertones, is set within Antwerp’s diamond district and follows the struggles of one of the city’s most influential diamond-dealing families.
“Diamonds,” to be shot in Dutch, English and Yiddish, will be co-produced by Keshet International and Belgium’s De Mensen. It was commissioned by Netflix alongside Vrt’s head of scripted, Wim Janssen, and is supported by Screen Flanders.
The series will be executive produced by De Mensen’s head of scripted Pieter Van Huyck and Ivy Vanhaecke (“Undercover”), alongside Keshet International VP of global drama Atar Dekel and CEO Alon Shtruzman and Keshet Media Group CEO Avi Nir.
“We are excited to join forces with the fantastic teams at De Mensen, Keshet International and Vrt to bring...
Co-created by Yuval Yefet and Rotem Shamir, who also directs, the series with mafia-style undertones, is set within Antwerp’s diamond district and follows the struggles of one of the city’s most influential diamond-dealing families.
“Diamonds,” to be shot in Dutch, English and Yiddish, will be co-produced by Keshet International and Belgium’s De Mensen. It was commissioned by Netflix alongside Vrt’s head of scripted, Wim Janssen, and is supported by Screen Flanders.
The series will be executive produced by De Mensen’s head of scripted Pieter Van Huyck and Ivy Vanhaecke (“Undercover”), alongside Keshet International VP of global drama Atar Dekel and CEO Alon Shtruzman and Keshet Media Group CEO Avi Nir.
“We are excited to join forces with the fantastic teams at De Mensen, Keshet International and Vrt to bring...
- 2/18/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The first season of ‘Beau Sejour’ was shown on Netflix and set in a hotel.
A host of new Flemish TV series, at script stage and in production, were pitched today at Connext, the Flanders Image industry event in Ghent.
Flemish TV is having a moment thanks to the international success of shows like Tabula Rasa and 13 Commandments. International companies attending Connext to scout new series this year included Netflix, Attraction Distribution, Dynamic Television, Global Screen, Global Series Network, Just Film, Serie Series, Series Mania, Wild Bunch TV and Zdf.
Some of the top pitches were A Good Year,...
A host of new Flemish TV series, at script stage and in production, were pitched today at Connext, the Flanders Image industry event in Ghent.
Flemish TV is having a moment thanks to the international success of shows like Tabula Rasa and 13 Commandments. International companies attending Connext to scout new series this year included Netflix, Attraction Distribution, Dynamic Television, Global Screen, Global Series Network, Just Film, Serie Series, Series Mania, Wild Bunch TV and Zdf.
Some of the top pitches were A Good Year,...
- 10/11/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Hanne Palmquist talks plans for HBO Nordic and Sherlock Holmes heads to Finland.
Goteborg Film Festival’s first Nordic award for Best TV Drama Script, worth $23,000 (Sek 200,000) and funded by the Nordisk Film & TV Fond, has been presented to Nobel screenwriters Mette M Bolstad and Stephen Uhlander.
Nrk’s Nobel is a Homeland-style drama about a Norwegian Lieutenant returning home from duty in Afghanistan who discovers a political conspiracy.
The prize’s jury included Lars Blomgren of Filmlance, producer Gudrun Giddings, consultant Isabelle Pechcou and critic Leena Virtanen.
They said of Nobel: “The script was precise, well-structured and solid. This is a strong, unpredictable drama with a sense of fresh realism. The story was thrilling and worked well also as a metaphor of the global instability between war and peace…This TV series has an impressive complexity in the scriptwriting, no loose ends and no inconsistency. There is no filter to the truth. It is so transparent...
Goteborg Film Festival’s first Nordic award for Best TV Drama Script, worth $23,000 (Sek 200,000) and funded by the Nordisk Film & TV Fond, has been presented to Nobel screenwriters Mette M Bolstad and Stephen Uhlander.
Nrk’s Nobel is a Homeland-style drama about a Norwegian Lieutenant returning home from duty in Afghanistan who discovers a political conspiracy.
The prize’s jury included Lars Blomgren of Filmlance, producer Gudrun Giddings, consultant Isabelle Pechcou and critic Leena Virtanen.
They said of Nobel: “The script was precise, well-structured and solid. This is a strong, unpredictable drama with a sense of fresh realism. The story was thrilling and worked well also as a metaphor of the global instability between war and peace…This TV series has an impressive complexity in the scriptwriting, no loose ends and no inconsistency. There is no filter to the truth. It is so transparent...
- 2/2/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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