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The European Film Forum on
The Art of Screenwriting is organized
by the European Commission
and BOZAR.
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DG Connect – Head of Media Unit:
Lucia Recalde
DG Connect – Media Support
Programmes: Bronagh Walton
Com: Lauriane Bertrand
EACEA
MEDIA – Creative Europe – TV, Audience,
Innovation Sector – Head of Sector:
Matteo Solaro
BOZAR
European Film Forum Team
Head of Cinema: Juliette Duret
Project Coordination: Pascale Valcke
Consultant: Helen Perquy
Production: Laure Hendrickx, Zoi Fulidu
Com & Press: Sandrine Demolin,
Hélène Tenreira
Audiovisual: Yves Gervais
Planning: Hélène Goethals
With dedicated support by:
the hosts and technical team
Management
CEO BOZAR: Paul Dujardin
Head of Exhibitions: Sophie Lauwers
Director of Finances: Jérémie Leroy
Director of Operations: Albert Wastiaux
Head of Cinema: Juliette Duret
Head of Music: Ulrich Hauschild
Director of Human Resources:
Marleen Spileers
Director of Marketing, Communication
& Sales: Filip Stuer
Director of Technics, IT, Investment,
Safety & Security: Stéphane Vanreppelen
Director of General Administration:
Didier Verboomen
Partners
Cover photo: The Bridge 3 ©Baldur Bragason
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The European Film Forum initiated by
the European Commission in 2014
provides a space for a structured
dialogue between the Commission and
stakeholders in the audiovisual sector.
The European Film Forum opened 2015
in Berlin and events were and are held
at important European Film Festivals
like Cannes, Venice and MIPCOM.
BOZAR created the festival
Are You Series? celebrating the burst
of creativity in series today. The festival
focuses in particular on the art
of screenwriting.
The 3rd of December promises to be an
international encounter of renowned
screenwriters with proven ability to
touch a large, international audience
with high quality storytelling. The
purpose of this day is to provide a
perspective on the creative process of
screenwriting and the birth of a series
as an artistic whole.
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09:00
Registration & coffee
09:30
Presentation Creative Europe
by Lucia Recalde
Existing support for the production
of series, training opportunities
and distribution
10:00
Screening of 1 episode of The Bridge 3
A series supported by
the European Commission
11:00
Case study of The Bridge 3
How to develop creative content
and find financing
In the presence of the team:
Lars Blomgren (Producer),
Anders Lundström (Showrunner),
Camilla Ahlgren (Screenwriter),
Tasja Abel �ZDFE – distributor),
Kristian Hoberstorfer �SVT – Broadcaster)
Moderator: Matteo Solaro
14:00 — 17:30
Two roundtable discussions
on screenwriting
14:00
Panel I: Screenwriting in team.
A stimulants to creativity?
With:
Alex Berger �FR, Le Bureau des Légendes),
Clive Bradley �UK, Trapped),
Ben Harris �UK, The Paradise, Transporter),
Carl Joos �BE, Cordon,
The Broken Circle Breakdown),
Karianne Lund �NO, Occupied)
Moderator: Wim Janssen
16:00
Panel II: Shooting of a series.
How to create an artistic ensemble?
With:
Emily Ballou �UK, Humans, The Slap),
Jan Bennemann �DE, Transporter),
Gilles Coulier �BE, Bevergem),
Maria Feldman �IS, False Flag, Fauda),
Vincent Lannoo �BE, Trepalium),
Moderator: Tasja Abel
17:30
Summary of issues raised during panels
by Ian Macdonald
&
Evaluation of training opportunities
in screenwriting & challenges for
the future by Martin Dawson
How to stimulate new generations
of screenwriters?
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03.12.2015 — 10:00
�SE/DK/DE, 2015, season 3,
ep. 1, OV, st EN, 1 x 60’)
Creator(s) Hans Rosenfeldt
Screenwriter(s) Camilla Ahlgren,
Erik Ahrnbom, Astrid Øye,
Hans Rosenfeldt, Nokolaj Scherfig
Director(s) Henrik Georgsson,
Rumle Hammerich
With Sofia Helin, Dag Malmberg
Producers Filmlance International AB,
Nimbus Film Productions,
In Co-Production with Sveriges Television
�SVT�, Danmarks Radio �DR�, Zweites
Deutsches Fernsehen �ZDF�, ZDF
Enterprises Gmbh, Film I Skåne, Norsk
Rikskringkasting �NRK�, Lumiere Group,
Copenhagen Film Fund, Stiftelsen
Ystad-Österlen Filmfond
Support The Creative Europe Programme
of the European Union, Nordvision in
co-operation with the City of Malmö
The long-expected third season of one of Scandinavia’s
most exciting series. When the city of Malmö is startled by
a murder on a Danish victim, Saga Norén will once again have
to collaborate with police of Copenhagen. Soon it becomes
obvious that the murderer wanted the body to be found.
The discovery is part of a larger scheme and is followed by
a series of spectacular murders that seem to be closely tied
to Saga.
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Tasja Abel
Tasja oversees the development,
acquisition and coproduction
activities for ZDFE.drama. ZDF
Enterprises is the worldwide distribution arm of ZDF, one in two
public broadcasters in Germany.
ZDFE.drama is involved in
productions such as Bron or The
Killing as well as upcoming SVT
Series Before we Die and Tabula
Rasa. ZDFE.drama also has First
Look Partnerships in the UK with
a number of English-launguage
series in development.
Camilla Ahlgren
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Emily Ballou
Camilla Ahlgren, born 1964, is a
screenwriter and script editor,
who lives outside Ystad in southern Sweden. She has worked
with Bron season I, II and III,
both as a writer and script editor.
She has written several episodes
of The Sandhamn Murders
based on Viveca Sten’s books of
the same name. Gåsmamman is
an upcoming television series in
which Camilla and her husband
have written after a Dutch
model, Penoza. She has been a
script editor on TV series such as
the Spring Tide, Beck, Millenium
trilogy and Real Humans.
Emily Ballou is an award-winning Australian-American
poet, novelist and screenwriter,
residing in the UK. She adapted two episodes of Christos
Tsiolkas’ The Slap (Aus), Anouk
and Aisha for ABCTV, screened
on BBC4, and nominated for
International Emmy, BAFTA, and
Royal Television Society Awards.
She writes original drama for
Channel 4, BBC and ITV, including Sally Wainwright’s Scott &
Bailey, Kudos/C4/AMC’s Humans
and an upcoming adaptation of
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Signature of
All Things for Origin Pictures and
PBS. Her feature film adaptation of Oscar-winning Shaun
Tan’s luminous picture book
The Arrival is being produced
by Passion Pictures and Nick
Wechsler. Her verse-biography
of Charles Darwin, The Darwin
Poems �UWAP, 2009) won
several awards.
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Jan Bennemann
Lars Blomgren
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Lars Blomgren is Managing Director of Filmlance
International AB, which is part of the Endemol
Shine Group. Lars is part of the Senior Group
Management, with focus on scripted.
His recent works as an executive producer
includes all three seasons of the acclaimed and
multi-award winning TV series Bron/Broen,
a second season of Arne Dahl in addition to
Spring Tide and Beck 31 -34, which both are
in production.
Alex Berger
Starting in 2003 Jan
Bennemann has since produced
over 100 hours of serialized
primetime drama for the German
and the international TV market.
Working for German prodco’s
neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft
(ndF) and teamWorx as well
as Paris-based Atlantique
Productions, his credits include
shows like ZDF’s Die Bergretter
(still one of Germany’s top 3
primetime TV series) and RTL’s
event mini-series Die Patin –
Kein Weg Zurück as well as
Frank Spotnitz’s small screen
adaptation of Luc Besson’s
iconic feature film franchise
Transporter. In 2014 Bennemann
joined Dynamic Television,
a global television packaging,
acquisition and distribution
company with o�ces in LA,
Paris and Berlin.
Executive producer and content creator of
scripted drama, Alex Berger is also a media
entrepreneur as well as TV producer in the UK
and France. Former senior Vice President of
Canal+ Group for Pierre Lescure, Chairman &
CEO of CanalNumédia & VivendiNet as well as
strategic committee member of both Canal+ and
Vivendi Universal, his career has been devoted to
premium media strategy and content production.
He is currently executive producer of Le Bureau
des Légendes for Canal+, associate producer for
Marseille for Netflix, and developing several other
US based scripted drama series.
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Gilles Coulier
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Clive Bradley
Clive Bradley was nominated for
a Writers Guild of Great Britain
Award for City of Vice (Channel
Four). Other credits include Last
Rights (Channel Four), and A
Harlot’s Progress (Channel Four).
He has also written for The Vice
�ITV�, Waking the Dead �BBC�,
Single-handed �RTE/ITV�, and
Crossing Lines (Tandem). He
wrote the original screenplay for
WΔZ (Vertigo 2008). His That
Summer Day �BBC� won the
Bafta for Best Children’s Drama
in 2007. Trapped �RVK/ZDF�,
which he co-wrote with Sigurjon
Kjartansson from an idea by
Baltasar Kormakur, will be
broadcasted in the UK in 2016.
He is co-writing (with Rod Lurie)
a six-part mini-series, Lawrence
of Arabia (Fremantle/Roland
Emmerich). Clive has a number of
television projects in development, including Under the Wire
(Touchpaper Television), Inca
�DNA/FX�, and Shadow Police
(Kindle). He is also developing
several feature films, including
Baptism (Slingshot films).
Director/Writer/Producer Gilles Coulier, born in 1986,
funded production company ‘De Wereldvrede’ together
with actor Gilles De Schryver and CEO Wouter Sap. He is
an acclaimed director nominated two times for Cannes
Film Festival and numerous times on other international
film festivals for his 3 short films. He wrote, directed
and produced The Natives (Bevergem). This dramedy
series aired in september 2015 and was a revelation of
the year as wel on public opinion as on marketshare.
Gilles Coulier is currently in the preproduction of his first
feature film Cargo, produced by ‘De Wereldvrede’ and
is in preparation of two drama series. De Wereldvrede
represents several talented upcoming directors such
as Wannes Destoop (Shortfilm Prix Jury Cannes 2011),
Moon Blaisse, Sien Versteyhe…
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Martin Dawson
Martin is the new deputy Head
of Unit for Media Support in
the European Commission,
Directorate General CONNECT.
He helps to coordinate the
management and development
of support policy in the fields
of audio-visual media in the
digital age, as well as multimedia
actions. Support programmes
such as MEDIA aim to bridge
competitiveness and diversity
through 15 di�erent schemes
regarding content development,
distribution, access to markets
and audience development. The
unit also supports a European
media sphere through channels
such as Euronews and Euranet.
Beforehand, Martin was deputy
Head of Unit for Knowledge
Sharing responsible for innovative collaboration and performance management in the DG,
bridging research, policy and
regulation.
Maria Feldman
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Maria Feldman is the creator
(with Amit Cohen) and the
producer of the Israeli series
False Flag. The series premiered
at Berlinale’s Special Series
section alongside such series
as Better Call Saul and Follow
the Money. It went on winning
the Grand Prize (sharing it with
Olive Kitteridge) at Series Mania
Festival of Forum des Images
in Paris, and later was acquired
by Canal Plus. False Flag was
produced by Tender Productions,
one of the top Israeli production
companies that was founded
by Maria Feldman together
with producer Liat Benasuly.
The company produced such
successful shows as Prisoners
of War (Keshet Broadcasting),
Fauda (Yes) and more. Prior to
founding Tender, Maria produced award winning features,
documentaries and TV series,
among them Intimate Grammar
by Nir Bergman and Gay Days
by Yair Qedar.
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I have throughout my career worked in television
production in virtually all functions with emphasis on
production, script and concept development. Both
as a freelancer and on sta� at SVT. My production
experience is ranging from sitcoms as Svensson/
Svensson, for the company Tre Vänner/SVT, the thriller
series The Bridge for Filmlance/SVT, Real Humans
for Matador Film/SVT and most recently as a SVT
producer on the drama thriller series Blue Eyes for
Strix Drama/SVT and Jordskott for Palladium Film/SVT.
Since four years I am back at SVT Drama in Stockholm
as producer and head of development.
Ben Harris
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Kristian Hoberstorfer
Ben Harris is a writer and
producer with over ten years
experience in the industry. Ben
began his career on Sky One’s
award-winning cult drama
Dream Team where, after three
seasons as a writer, he was
appointed Series Producer and
set up a writers’ room system.
His writing jobs include BBC
One dramas The Musketeers,
Hunted and The Paradise,
alongside European productions
Transporter and Crossing Lines.
He just completed work on ITV’s
new crime drama Marcella.
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Wim Janssen
Since 2015, Wim is working as
content manager for één �VRT�,
mainly focusing on drama series.
Wim has worked as an executive producer for the daily soap,
Thuis. Wim came from an independent production company,
Sylvester Productions, where he
worked first as an event manager
of mainly big public events for
VRT. Later he became production assist and producer of the
weekly drama series Kinderen
van Dewindt. Wim is mainly
interested in new – e�ective –
ways of producing, and branding
your show. He is looking for best
practices on how you can keep a
daily returning show at
a high level and up to date;
make it & keep it a fresh brand
in a cost-e�ective way without
losing – or even improving – the
production value. Besides that,
Wim is convinced that our job is
about storytelling and wants to
learn from practices from all over
the world how you can translate to or tell your story on any
kind of media. All this to move
people and let them experience
the story.
Carl Joos
Anders Landström
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After a linguistics master and
5 years in advertising, Belgian
screenwriter Carl Joos gave in to
his passion and started writing
fiction. For 20-odd years now,
he has been successful in both
adaptations and original content,
for television and feature film
alike. With the Oscar-nominated
and César-awarded film The
Broken Circle Breakdown and
the remakes of his drama series
Cordon in France and the US
(a.k.a. Containment), his work is
getting international exposure.
Anders Landström has worked
with film and TV production
since 1985. He started his work
as a producer at Filmlance
International AB in august 2000
and has worked with a mix of
feature films and TV series. His
recent works includes all three
seasons of the acclaimed and
multi-award winning TV series
Bron/Broen, and the award winning feature films Glowing Stars
and Elina.
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Ian Macdonald
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Karianne Lund
Vincent Lannoo
Vincent Lannoo is a Belgian
director, producer and screenwriter
born in Brussels in 1970. In 2001,
after his film studies at the Institut
des Arts de Di�usion, Lannoo is
noticed for his first feature film
Strass. Strass is a mockumentary
shot on video, famous to be the
first ‘Dogma’ film, a movement
initiated by Lars von Trier. In his
next films Vincent Lannoo keeps
showing a taste for eclectism but
also a great sense of humour.
With Ordinary Man, Vampires,
Little Glory (his first Englishspeaking film) and In the Name
of the Son, he becomes one of
the most prolific filmmakers of
his generation. His work has been
travelling all around the globe.
Trepalium is his first experience
in the field of TV series.
Karianne Lund (b. 1974) is a Norwegian screenwriter.
She has written two seasons of the TV�series AF1,
a Hip hop-musical for children, for which she was
awarded the Gullruten-award for most innovative
new content. Gullruten is the Norwegian equivalent
to the Emmys. She is the headwriter and creator of
the drama-serie Occupied, produced for Yellowbird
AS. Karianne studied literature and media before
being accepted into the screenwriting program
at The Norwegian National Film School. Currently
she is writing the second season of Occupied.
Karianne Lund lives and writes in Oslo.
Dr. Ian W. Macdonald worked for the BBC, Independent
Broadcasting Authority, London Weekend Television,
and the British Film Institute before joining Leeds
Metropolitan University as Head of the Northern Film
School in 1992. He moved to Leeds University in 2006.
He is founder of the Screenwriting Research Network,
and was the founding co-Editor of the book series
Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting. He is a founding
co-Editor of the Journal of Screenwriting, and was also
appointed Docent in Screenwriting Research at Aalto
University in 2013. His book Screenwriting Poetics and
the Screen Idea was published by Palgrave Macmillan
in 2013.
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Lucia Recalde
Spanish born Lucia Recalde is
Head of the “Media Support
Programmes” unit in the
Directorate General �DG� for
Communications Networks,
Content and Technology
�CNECT� of the European
Commission. Prior to that, she
was a part of the management
of the DG for Education and
Culture �EAC� as Head of Unit
for Higher Education, Innovation,
Entrepreneurship and the EIT
(the European Institute for
Innovation and Technology).
Ms Recalde joined the European
Commission in 1995 and
until 2006 served the DG for
Employment and Social A�airs
in various positions. She started
her career as policy o�cer at the
Directorate of European A�airs
of the Basque Government.
Matteo Solaro
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Matteo Solaro is Head of Sector
in charge of TV Programming,
Audience and Innovative
approaches within the
MEDIA unit of the Education,
Audiovisual and Culture
Executive Agency �EACEA�. The
sector is managing the calls for
proposals for TV Programming,
Online distribution, Audience
Development and International
Co-production funds. He works
for the MEDIA Programme
since 2002 and has been
in charge among others
of the distribution, i2i and
television support schemes.
He has acquired a wide
expertise in the European
market of creative television
productions, as well as in the
legal and financial aspects of
co-productions.
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The European Film Forum provides
a space for a structured dialogue
between the European Commission
and the audiovisual sector including,
of course the television industry. The
aim is to develop a strategic policy
agenda opening up new perspectives
and contributing to changing minds in
the European audiovisual sector on the
challenges and opportunities brought
about by the digital revolution. The
European Film Forum was launched in
2015 at the Berlinale and events have
already been held at industry gatherings
such as the Festival de Cannes, Sarajevo
Film Festival, Vienale, San Sebastian
Film Festival, Tallin Black Nights
and MIPCOM.
Creative Europe MEDIA is a subprogramme of the EU’s Creative Europe
Programme (2014-2020).
Our event at BOZAR in the context of
‘Are You Series?’ focuses exclusively on
content produced for linear and non
linear TV.
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The MEDIA sub-programme supports
the European television industry via
the following schemes:
Development support with the Single
projects or Slate Funding or production
support via the TV Programming
scheme. The TV Programming support
is the main action line for the television
industry as it supports productions
destined exclusively for the television
market involving the participation of
at least three European broadcasters
with grants of up to € 1 M for high
budget drama series. The MEDIA
sub-programme also supports coproduction markets for television
content (animation, documentaries,
drama series) via the Market Access
scheme and the MIP�COM and MIP�TV
umbrella stands, as well as several
training initiatives for professionals of
the TV industry via the Training support.
The Calls for proposals of the Creative
Europe MEDIA sub-programme
are managed by the Education,
Audiovisual and Culture Executive
Agency under the supervision of
the European Commission.
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The Cultural and Creative Sectors
Guarantee Facility �CCIGF� to
be launched in 2016, will make
it easier for Small and Medium
Sized Enterprises, including
those in the television industry
to access bank loans. Creative
Europe has allocated around
€ 120 M to fund the CCIGF
between 2016-2020, which is
expected to yield more than
€ 600 M in a�ordable loans for
companies active in the creative
and cultural sectors. The CCIGF
wil be managed, on behalf of the
European Commission, by the
European Investment Fund.
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There are Creative Europe Desks
in each country which has
joined Creative Europe. These
Desks are one stop shops for
information on the various types
of financial suypport available.
The Desks provide advice and
technical assistance for those
applying for funds from the
EU. A full list of contacts at the
Creative Europe Desks can be
found at http://ec.europa.eu/
programmes/creative-europe/
tools/creative-desks_en.htm.
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