Richard Gadd Gets Maximo Breakthrough Award in Rimini
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- Richard Gadd will collect the Maximo Breakthrough Storyteller Award at the closing ceremony of Italian Global Series at the Teatro Galli in Rimini on July 11.
- Gadd will take part in an in-conversation session at the event, followed by a screening of the first episode of his BBC and HBO Max series Half Man.
- Italian Global Series organizers cited Gadd as "one of the boldest and most original voices in contemporary television storytelling" in announcing the honor.
- Gadd is the actor-writer-producer behind Netflix's Baby Reindeer and the visceral BBC/HBO Max show Half Man, and is a three-time Emmy winner.
- Gadd will next appear in the A24-produced Apple TV+ comedy-drama The Husbands alongside Juno Temple and an ensemble cast.
- Italian Global Series runs July 3–11 across Rimini and Riccione in its second year, with confirmed guests including Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright, Bertie Carvel, Serkan Çayoğlu, and Bates Motel creator Carlton Cuse.
- The festival's Drama section opens with the debut screening of Benidorm Is Murder (UK/Spanish, starring John Hannah) and Brazilian medical series Emergency 53, plus international premieres Secret Service (Gemma Arterton) and Korean thriller Speaking Dead.
Why it matters: Gadd's honor — a screening of Half Man's debut and a sit-down interview attached — gives the second-year Italian Global Series its highest-profile international anchor, and reinforces the cross-platform pull of a creator who already delivered Netflix's Baby Reindeer and a BBC/HBO Max series.
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