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Series Mania Forum 2023, a look to the future
Series Mania is already an important market of the content industry. On one hand, this year the festival format reaches its 13th edition, and on the other, its business forum celebrates its third anniversary, generating great attraction as a way of accessing new opportunities, fresh relationships.Always in Lille, France, the event is led by Laurence Herszberg, general director of Series Mania, and Francesco Capurro, director of the forum.
The numbers are impressive: in 2022 the event brought together more than 3,300 executives from 64 countries, between buyers, directors, producers, distributors and institutions dedicated to the audiovisual industry and 49 series were pitched in its dedicated sessions. For 2023 edition, more than 3,800 delegates are expected, from Europe, North America, South America and Asia, with high-ranking industry executives ready for business.
‘Each edition of Series Mania comes with its fair share of evolution that questions the way we view international creation. In 2023, we are paying special attention to series that originate in territories outside of the more established Anglo/European countries. Of the 396 series sent from 63 countries, we have preserved 54 of them, representing 24 different nationalities. Some come from territories we don't hear about very often, like Greece, Pakistan, Benin, Uruguay and Iran’, Herszberg said.
Some of the trends that will rule this year are narratives focused on vintage, with a lot of emphasis on 80s-90s; also, series that touch on important social questions about ethics and environmental in nature; and too, a marked trend on the power of women in the industry. HBO's Casey Bloys will deliver a keynote during the ‘Lille Dialogues’, titled "How HBO and HBO Max Dive into the Future".
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