France’s Sequence Mania Pageant is teaming with Taiwan Inventive Content material Company (TAICCA) to launch a workshop, Serial Bridges, in France and Taiwan subsequent 12 months that’s geared toward East Asian screenwriters and producers.
The workshop will probably be run by Sequence Mania Institute, the training and coaching division of the annual Lille-based competition, and is a part of an on-going partnership with Taiwanese authorities company TAICCA.
Laurence Herszberg, Managing Director of Sequence Mania, introduced the workshop right now on the Taiwan Inventive Content material Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. It’s going to start subsequent 12 months at Sequence Mania Pageant, which is scheduled for March 15-21, and conclude on the TCCF in November 2024.
The 2 companions mentioned the workshop is geared toward growing worldwide serial co-productions between Europe and Taiwan and strengthening Taiwan’s place as a inventive hub for audio-visual manufacturing.
It’s open to 6 author/producer groups with a collection mission. Of the 12 members chosen, half will come from Taiwan and the opposite half from different East Asian nations. Taking part duos will work on their initiatives with acknowledged professionals from the serial trade.
They may work in 4 periods between March and November 2024 and current their collection initiatives at TCCF 2024.
“The launch of a workshop geared toward East Asian professionals is in keeping with the continuity of our industrial and cultural cooperation with TAICCA, with the target to strengthen Taiwan’s place as a world inventive hub,” mentioned Herszberg.
“We’re delighted to have the ability to put our faculty’s experience on the service of the event of worldwide co-productions, which is an actual recognition of our know-how.”
Serial Bridges will supply collection professionals experience in areas together with dramaturgical expertise, the understanding of worldwide financing techniques and the power to seek out co-production alternatives for his or her initiatives – between Taiwan and Europe, but in addition inside East Asian nations.
Sequence Mania Institute additionally runs a world workshop in Rio de Janeiro, in partnership with RioFilme, Projeto Paradiso, Rio Movie Pageant, SICAV, FIRJAN, Institut Français de Paris and the French Embassy in Brazil.