Serielizados Awards: 'Etty' and 'Killing a Bear' Win Top Prizes — SkimNews
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- Hagai Levi's 'Etty' won best international series at Serielizados, a French-Dutch-German drama based on Etty Hillesum’s diaries set in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam and backed by Arte France.
- Killing a Bear ('Matar a un oso'), created by Jorge and Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo, won best national series, reimagining the crime genre with a bear as the victim and a suspect pool drawn from a 262-member Anti-Bears chat room in Spain’s Val d’Arán.
- El Observatorio, a Spanish series by Laura Roqué, Luis Sorolla and Eloy Zamora, won the €5,500 Mind the Gap pitch prize for its story about astrophysicists investigating mysterious lights believed to be messages from a deceased father.
- Diane Morgan won best performance for her role as Linda in the BBC’s 'Ann Droid,' a comedy series that earned acclaim from the international jury at the festival.
- Carmen Machi received best actress for her role in 'Celeste' Season 2, a Movistar Plus-100 Balas production that premiered at the festival and was praised for its sharp, downbeat humor.
- Arte France secured multiple wins, including best screenplay for the French comedy 'Camarades' and backing for both 'Etty' and 'Killing a Bear,' reinforcing its role as a key supporter of high-end European series.
Why it matters: The awards spotlight Arte France and Spanish producers as central forces in elevating genre-defying European series, with 'Killing a Bear' and 'Etty' gaining international visibility and 'El Observatorio' receiving crucial early support—boosting cross-border co-productions and platform interest in bold, character-driven storytelling.
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