Seriesly Berlin Picks 18 Projects for New Pitch Format — SkimNews
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- Seriesly Berlin selected 18 international projects from over 250 submissions for its restructured Project Pitches, dividing them into Co-Production Pitch, Writers’ Pitch, and a new Vertical Drama Pitch format debuting September 15-16 at Fotografiska Berlin
- Susan Schmidt and Avenue Road Productions are developing Have You Seen Sabine?, an Australia-Germany co-pro about a writer’s seven-year investigation into the 2005 murder of a German backpacker in Australia, featured in the Co-Pro Pitch strand
- Hanna Doose, Zorana Mušikić, and May Odeh are collaborating on I Am God, a German ensemble dramedy centered on a spiritual festival at the German-Polish border exploring healing and reinvention
- Dužan Duong is directing Journey to the West, a German-Czech-Slovak co-production based on oral histories of the Vietnamese diaspora in the former Eastern Bloc, with a Czech broadcaster attached for co-development
- Robert Wilson and SPi are adapting Wilson’s novel into Small Death in Lisbon, developed alongside Pedro Lopes, writer on Netflix’s first Portuguese original Glória, marking another milestone for Portugal’s scripted output
- Madeleine Féret-Fleury and Cédriane Fossat will present Deep Fake, a French 30-part romcom thriller about a French-Korean influencer whose #30DatesIn30Days challenge turns sinister when a fake account hijacks her identity, in the new Vertical Drama Pitch
- Cine Chromatix will award €25,000 in-kind post-production services for color grading to the winning Co-Production Pitch project, while SteinbrennerMüller will provide €2,000 PR packages to one German-language project from each pitch category
Why it matters: The selection of 18 projects from 250 submissions highlights growing demand for structured international co-production platforms. With tangible prizes including €25,000 in post-production support and targeted PR, creators gain material pathways to market, increasing the stakes for emerging series in Europe’s evolving funding landscape.
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