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Projects from creators in Europe, Taiwan, Japan, Israel and the UK are among those to have been shortlisted as part of Series Mania Forum’s Co-Pro Pitching Sessions, which takes place next month.

An international jury of industry professionals will determine the best project among the 15 shortlisted, with the winner taking home €50,000 to help develop the series.

The shows – full details of which can be found below - were selected from 406 applications from 72 countries, including new territories such as New Zealand, The Philippines, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Uganda and Eswatini.

A 16th project, Ruth’s Ghosts from the US/Germany (6 x 60 minutes), was...

The 15 projects competing at this year’s Series Mania Co-Pro Pitching Sessions have been unveiled.

Shows from the likes of Denmark’s Zentropa, Australia’s Wooden Horse and Israel’s Sipur will fight for a €50,000 development prize, selected by a jury headed up by President M-k Kennedy, Executive Managing Director of TV Series at Studiocanal in the UK.

A sixteenth project, U.S.-Germany co-pro Ruth’s Ghosts, has been selected but will not compete for the grand prize.

Zentropa is behind Christoffer Boe-penned thriller Cecilie Mars, Wooden Horse’s Jude Troy is co-creator of Elise McCredie’s drama The Chaplain and Sipur is working on UK-Israeli co-pro Intimacy, which is written by Dan Berlinka.

Other notable projects include Icelandic crime thriller Masquerade, which is from Glassriver; Greek crime drama Antiparos; German political thriller Consultants; Franco-Belgian period crime drama Heist; “flamboyant” crime comedy Nest, which has Belgian, British and...