TV sales arm to mark first anniversary at Cannes content market.
Wild Bunch TV will launch a trio of new series at the upcoming edition of Mipcom Oct 17-20, its second time at the content market since launching last year.
It will kick off sales on Belgian-produced, bittersweet romance and road trip Tytgat Chocolate about a mentally-challenged, chocolate factory worker who sets off in search of his girlfriend after she is deported back to Kosovo.
The Flemish-language series is written and directed by Marc Bryssinck and Filip Lenaerts. Brussels-based deMENSEN – which previously made Beau Sejour and Highway of Love – produced the series for Vrt.
The quirky drama stars Jelle Palmaerts alongside other members of Belgium’s Theater Stap, a company of mentally-challenged professional actors.
Flemish stars Els Dottermans and Jan Decleir also feature in the cast.
Israeli dramas
Wild Bunch TV has also picked up sales on Israeli director-writer Keren Weissman’s psychological drama Mama’s Angel...
Wild Bunch TV will launch a trio of new series at the upcoming edition of Mipcom Oct 17-20, its second time at the content market since launching last year.
It will kick off sales on Belgian-produced, bittersweet romance and road trip Tytgat Chocolate about a mentally-challenged, chocolate factory worker who sets off in search of his girlfriend after she is deported back to Kosovo.
The Flemish-language series is written and directed by Marc Bryssinck and Filip Lenaerts. Brussels-based deMENSEN – which previously made Beau Sejour and Highway of Love – produced the series for Vrt.
The quirky drama stars Jelle Palmaerts alongside other members of Belgium’s Theater Stap, a company of mentally-challenged professional actors.
Flemish stars Els Dottermans and Jan Decleir also feature in the cast.
Israeli dramas
Wild Bunch TV has also picked up sales on Israeli director-writer Keren Weissman’s psychological drama Mama’s Angel...
- 10/4/2016
- ScreenDaily
English-language farce revolves around correspondent who stages Isis-style kidnapping in bid to stay in Jerusalem.
Israeli director Oded Davidoff is gearing up to shoot his first English-language feature Live From Jerusalem, set against the backdrop of the city’s international news community.
The dark farce revolves around a reprobate British correspondent, enjoying the high life in the city, who stages his own Isis-style kidnapping to get out of an assignment to Darfur. The stunt finds him at the centre of a hunt by Israeli secret services as well as extremists.
Casting for the lead as well as the correspondent’s German and Palestinian crew has yet to commence.
Screenwriter Roy Iddan says he was inspired by his experiences working in the now defunct Fink’s bar – an institution Jerusalem frequented by politicians and journalists for 70 years until its closure in 2005.
“A lot of the patrons were foreign journalists,” says Iddan, who was a student...
Israeli director Oded Davidoff is gearing up to shoot his first English-language feature Live From Jerusalem, set against the backdrop of the city’s international news community.
The dark farce revolves around a reprobate British correspondent, enjoying the high life in the city, who stages his own Isis-style kidnapping to get out of an assignment to Darfur. The stunt finds him at the centre of a hunt by Israeli secret services as well as extremists.
Casting for the lead as well as the correspondent’s German and Palestinian crew has yet to commence.
Screenwriter Roy Iddan says he was inspired by his experiences working in the now defunct Fink’s bar – an institution Jerusalem frequented by politicians and journalists for 70 years until its closure in 2005.
“A lot of the patrons were foreign journalists,” says Iddan, who was a student...
- 7/10/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Israeli formats continue to be a hot commodity. In a competitive situation, NBC has landed the rights to Israeli mystery drama Timrot Ashan, aka Pillars of Smoke, for Peter Traugott’s recently launched Ums-based production company to produce. Search is already underway for a writer to adapt the series created by Noah Stollman and Oded Davidoff, which is often referred to as Israel’s Lost. Described as Twin Peaks meets Northern Exposure meets Lost, the original Pillars of Smoke is an offbeat mystery series set in Israel’s remote, rural Golan Heights. When the members of a remote cult disappear leaving no traces behind, a police investigation slowly uncovers the darkest secrets of the region and its inhabitants, as well as a grander political conspiracy and environmental disaster from which the cult members are attempting to escape. Traugott will executive produce the NBC version with his development executive Rachel Kaplan.
- 8/29/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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