Alumni
Serial Eyes Alumni Network – SEAN
The Serial Eyes Alumni Network (SEAN) was created in 2017 to promote its members’ shared vision on what makes great TV. SEAN wants to break away with the cliché of the lonely writer by encouraging its members to work in team.SEAN connects writers and producers through their respective networks and gives its members the visibility they need to start successful collaborations through their strong presence at all major TV markets and events. The network also aims at establishing itself as an international pole of TV series experts that contributes to conferences and workshops all around Europe.
So far, SEAN has been organizing one-on-one meetings between its members and producers, exclusive workshops for Serial Eyes alumni, special meetings with the industry and networking drinks.
For more information about SEAN, please contact: sean.serialeyes@gmail.com
Alumni 2021
Anna-Lena Theobald
Writer, Germany
Anna-Lena is a writer/producer based in Berlin. She holds an MA degree in Philosophy and a Diploma in Producing from the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb). She has worked on and written for film and TV productions from Germany, Canada, China and the US. Her first TV-show as a headwriter/showrunner is in development with …
Barbora Námerová
Writer, Slovakia
Barbora is a screenwriter and story editor based in Prague, where she graduated from FAMU (Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts). She is working on film and tv projects on various topics about history, new wave witchcraft, feminism and research with psychedelics. Her first feature Filthy (Tereza Nvotová), was screened in Rotterdam …
Hugo Apruzzese
Writer, France
Hugo first studied Jazz at Lyon’s music conservatory, Film at Lyon 2 University and then writing at UCLA. After an MFA program for producers at INA in Paris, Hugo worked for three years as a Servicing and Creative Manager for Federation Entertainment in Paris before fully getting into screenwriting. In the meantime, he worked on …
Ivana Sujová
Writer, Slovakia
Ivana is a writer and festival director. She graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts, SK with a master’s in TV and film scriptwriting. Since then she has worked for private broadcasters on several projects, including daily drama and comedy TV series. Apart from series writing, she wrote awarded animation shorts. Since 2018 Ivana is …
Kálmán Gasztonyi
Writer, Hungary
I was born in Budapest. After obtaining a Master´s degree in Political Sciences, I also graduated from the University of Theater and Film Arts of Budapest as a screenwriter. I work for RTL Hungary, I developed my own TV series with my friends and has been the head writer of the TV show ever since.
Kristina Peter
Writer, Germany
After some studying and some serious soul-searching, Kristina discovered creative writing for herself. Exciting jobs in advertising followed before Kristina switched to working in television as a writer at the German daily soap Sturm der Liebe and as a Development Producer at Warner Media. There, she worked on award-winning series such as 4 Blocks and …
Lola Faroux
Writer, France
I am a screenwriter from Paris, graduate from the 3iS school in the Paris region. I wrote for French television programs and I also worked on multiple personal fictional projects. I love to write dramatic series, thriller but also comedy and I prefer the long format to have the pleasure to develop my characters as …
Louise Silverio
Writer, France
Louise is a writer and producer based in Paris. She graduated in production from La Fémis with a final essay on the definition of showrunning in France and a comedy pilot telling the story of four seventy-year-old women on an ocean liner. Since then, she co-wrote Happiness a 15x5’ Iranian teen-drama series for Arte to …
Pavlo Voytovych
Writer, Ukraine
Pavlo is a Berlin-based TV writer, comedy author, and stand-up comedian. He comes from Ukraine where he has worked as an advertising copywriter, screenwriter, and journalist. When not working, Pavlo can be seen riding a bicycle, watching YouTube, or writing about himself in the third person.
Timothée Prudhomme
Writer, France
After studying law and political science in Paris, Timothée discovered the film and TV industry while working for very independent producers as well as large audiovisual groups. After three years of reading for an international sales company, he decided to focus on screenwriting. He currently develops a teen drama unfolding during an eloquence contest.
Will Buckingham
Writer, US/Germany
Will is an American writer living in Berlin. He earned an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts Asia in Singapore before hustling as a Hollywood assistant and script reader, finally settling in Germany in 2019. His made-for-TV movies have aired in over 8 countries, and he has worked as a lead …
Alumni 2020
Andrej Ilievski Volkashin
Writer, Macedonian
Andrey Volkashin has written and directed several short films in Macedonia, Bulgaria and Bosnia, that have premiered at Oscar, Bafta and EFA qualifying festivals around the world. He is currently in early pre-production of his debut feature film developed at the Torino Film Lab and supported by the North Macedonia Film Agency. Andrey is drawn …
Aoife Bradshaw
Writer, Irish
Aoife is a screenwriter from Dublin, Ireland. She studied English Literature and Film at Trinity College Dublin and went on to complete an MA in Screenwriting for Film and TV at the National Film School of Ireland. She won the Writers Guild Of Ireland Award for Screenwriting, has taken part in a number of writing …
George Kellock
Writer, UK
George Kellock is a screenwriter and script editor from the UK. A graduate of the London Film School’s screenwriting program, he currently works as a script editor for film and TV and has developed a variety of international projects in this role.
Georgiana Doba
Writer, Romanian
Geo is a filmmaker who has written and directed two short films, several comedy sketches, and is now working on her first TV series and her first graphic novel. She enjoys writing drama, comedy for both children and adults, as well as crime stories, and has several spec scripts available in English. She sometimes moonlights …
Helena Hofmann
Writer and Producer, German
Helena Hofmann is a writer/producer with production and development experience in Germany, London and Los Angeles. She graduated from Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2018 with a masters in drama series producing and development. Since 2018 she works as a freelance writer and producer for serveral German production companies including Xfilme, RatpackFilm, Ufa Fiction and Studio Hamburg.
Karolina Kot
Writer, Polish
Psychologist, prose writer, screenwriter. Author of short stories published, among others, in an anthology edited by Olga Tokarczuk. Screenwriter and head-writer of daily crime TV series, screenwriter of Wartime Girls, and co-writer of series pitched at various European series festivals.
Mandi Riggi
Writer, UK/USA
Mandi Riggi’s TV pilot, PeacexPiece was optioned and developed at the Showtime Network. Her feature debut Mercy starring F. Murray Abraham, was selected into Toronto Film Festival’s IFF program, participated at Film London’s PFM, and at the MIA Co-Production Market in Rome. Mandi’s TV series Alex in Wonderland, was one of 16 selected into MIA …
Nicholas Pierpan
Writer, UK
Nicholas is a screenwriter and playwright, who has won or been nominated for several awards in both forms. Originally from the United States, he has spent most of his adult life in Britain. He lectures in Creative Writing for Royal Holloway, University of London.
Rachel Sur
Writer, USA, Israel
Rachel has spent most of her life going between New York and Tel Aviv. She completed her MFA in writing at Columbia University in 2016. Her feature film screenplay, Shiloh, was a finalist for the Phosphate Prize at IFP in New York in 2015. She has written several short films on commission, and works as …
Randy Oost
Writer, Dutch
I was born and raised in the south of the Netherlands, in a rural region bordering Germany and Belgium. After some years of working odd jobs and travelling I landed in the screenwriting department of the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. Since then I have written for short films, TV series, and feature film projects, …
Stefano Romano
Writer, Italian
I graduated in Cinema and Television Studies at the University of Bologna and I took a degree in Scriptwriting at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, where I live and work as a scriptwriter.
Unnsteinn Manuel Stefánsson
Writer, Icelandic
For half is life Unnsteinn Manuel, has been a singer and composer, touring over 30 countries, as well as launching a record label and radio station. In 2014, Unnsteinn started his career as a documentary filmmaker and writer at RÚV, Iceland’s public broadcaster. As a film-maker he has received numerous nominations and two awards at …
Alumni 2019
Barry Thomson
Writer, British
Barry was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1975 and moved to Germany when he was nine. He has a Master’s Degree in Philosophy and received a scholarship for the screenwriting program Drehbuchwerkstatt 2006/2007 at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF). Since then, among other film and TV projects, he has written the motion …
Fabian Wallenfels
Writer, German
Fabian is a Cologne based writer-producer. He loves glamour and trash and as the good German he is, he’s obsessed with structure. Fabian has written more than 30 episodes for the popular reality soap Köln 50667. And as one half of the duo Hübner/Wallenfels, he created the award winning web series Lampenfieber, co-produced the Arte-documentary …
Georgia Fotou
Writer, Greek
Georgia studied Communications, Media and Culture and worked as a Senior Copywriter in Advertising for years before realising she likes writing screenplays of more than 30’’ length stories. She earned a Screenwriter’s Certificate from the American College of Greece, won a national short film screenplay contest and has developed one original comedy series and six adaptations …
Giordana Mari
Writer, Italian
Born in Naples, Giordana now works in Rome. After a past as a professional gymnast and university studies in Medicine, she graduated in Screenwriting at the Holden School, Turin. She has been part of several writing rooms, including the SKY series 1993 and 1994. She has also written numerous episodes of the RAI series Il …
Léa Lespagnol
Writer, French
After a master in screenwriting, Léa worked a few years as an event manager in the cultural world. In 2015, she co-created a web series for Studio 4 before working as a scriptwriter on different animation series, in French and English, broadcasted on Disney Channel, Canal+ and Cartoon Network amongst others. Animation corresponds to her …
Lukáš Sigmund
Writer, Slovakia
Lukáš was born in Bratislava, where he also graduated in Screenwriting at the Academy of Performing Arts. He has written screenplays for animated and documentary short films and is an author of pastiche plays for a local theatre. He worked as copy editor and programmer for Fest Anča International Animation Festival, where he also curated …
Marlene Melchior
Writer, British, German
Marlene Melchior is currently developing and writing with the producers of Deutschland 83’ and Unorthodox, as well as Endemol Shine’s Made For Films, Dynamic Television and Danish broadcaster Viaplay. She was head writer on the ZDFNeo adaptation of Dutch series ‘Anne +’ which will be released in 2021 as ‘Loving Her’. In 2020 she wrote …
Milica Živanović
Writer, Serbian
I was born and raised in Belgrade where I graduated in screenwriting at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. My work ranges from magical Christmas scripts for children, up to exploring war criminals for my gangster show. I have a weakness for stray dogs and my projects are often inspired by real-life stories and …
Nadya Todorova
Writer, Bulgarian
Nadya is a screenwriter & director with a love for the absurd. From undying headless chickens to grandmothers taking over the mafia, she likes putting her characters in situations that drive them to extremes, and all that with more than a pinch of dark humor. After working on a couple of TV projects in her …
Nir Berger
Writer, Israeli
Nir Berger is a screenwriter and director from Israel, graduate of TAU film school. In the last 5 years he has created, written and directed TV series, web series and short films in various genres – from animated comedy, through sketch shows and all the way to live-action, serialized drama. Some of his recent work: …
Serena Tateo
Writer, Italy
Serena Tateo was born and raised in Rome. Serena Dandini hired her as a staff writer for the prime-time TV program La tv delle ragazze. In addition to writing for La tv delle ragazze, she wrote and produced the all-female sketch comedy programSbratz, which was broadcasted RAI3. She’s currently developing feature films and series for …
Stephan Greitemeier
Writer, German
A self-taught screenwriter from the rough Ruhr Valley, Stephan is a renegade humanities major turned comedy writer. A born multimedia storyteller, he won awards for his stage plays, TV – and webshows… and video games. A veteran of both the Erich Pommer Insitute’s TV Drama Series Lab 2015 and the Digital Think Tank of IDM’s …
Alumni 2018
Andrea Frischholz
Writer, German
A Munich-based scriptwriter, Andrea originally studied International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and went on to work in development coöperation. She eventually left development coöperation to work as assistant to the producers at Walker+Worm Film. In 2014/15 she was a participant of the Drehbuchwerkstatt München where she developed her debut …
Anthony Khaseria
Writer, British
Anthony is UK born but of Indo-Irish heritage, something that is perhaps reflected in his eclectic taste in stories and for mixing genres and ideas within his work. He is drawn to narratives that contain playful elements, unexpected, sometimes subversive twists and particularly enjoys high-concept Comedy-Drama, the Absurd, Magic Realism and Sci-Fi. He has won …
Cyril Deydier
Writer, French
Cyril is a scriptwriter and novelist based in Paris. He studied in Canada, Holland, Germany and Ireland before completing a script writing Master’s degree in Paris. Cyril has published several books for young adults and has written for the animation sector (as a screenwriter and a story editor). He is also developing original animated TV …
Eleonora Veninova
Writer, director, Macedonian
Eleonora graduated from California State University Northridge with MA in Screenwriting. After her studies, she moved to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she worked as a writer for a local production company before returning to Macedonia. She is the co-creator, writer and director of the TV Series Prespav and a writer for several other Macedonian TV …
Felice Götze
Writer, director, German
Felice Götze is a storyteller and filmmaker focusing on crime and gritty drama. He started his professional career as a journalist in the booming electronic music scene of the nineties. A brief stint in investment banking followed, before Felice came back to his senses and pursued a career in the film & TV industry. After …
Giulio Rizzo
Writer, Italian
Giulio Rizzo was born and raised in Genova, Italy. In 2014 he graduated in screenwriting at the CSC – National Film School in Rome. Since then, he has been writing for both features and television. Many of the projects he worked on have been selected by prestigious Italian awards, such as the Vincenzoni Award (2017), …
Luisa Hardenberg
Writer, German
Luisa graduated as Producer from Filmuniversität Babelsberg. She then started working as a staff writer for Germany’s most watched daily drama series, Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten, where she became one of the story editors to run the writers’ room. Since then Luisa has worked in several writers’ rooms and she has written episodes for series …
Philipp Scherzer
Writer, German
Born in 1982, Philipp learned the nuts and bolts of TV production on the sets of various shows such as Die Rosenheim Cops and Doctor’s Diary. After completing his MA in Screenwriting at Bournemouth University, United Kingdom, in 2012, he became a writer for the award-winning German daily series Dahoam is Dahoam, for which he …
Rosy Deacon
Writer, British
Rosy is from Leeds in the north of England. She studied Film & Television Production at the University of York and her script Shards won the 2013 Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Competition at the International Emmys. She’s since worked in development at London-based Big Light Productions and as a script-reader for various initiatives, before …
Susannah Ward
Producer, director, writer, British
Susannah Ward is a producer-director of more than 40 hours of broadcast specialist factual television. She has made documentary films for all five terrestrial UK broadcasters as well as most major US networks. She specialises in drama documentary and is now developing more ambitious projects in this arena as well as pilot scripts for TV …
Valentina Shevyakhova
Writer, Russian
Valentina Shevyakhova has started her career in screenwriting at the age of 23 and since 2004 she has written for more than thirty TV shows for Russian and Ukrainian TV networks, many of them in the position of head writer. Her diverse experience embraces all variations of drama – including dramedy, family drama, crime and …
Yashar Alishenas
Writer, Swedish, Iranian
Yashar comes from a background in language teaching and writing/producing short films. His characters tend to become attached to goals they obsessively pursue to the detriment of everyone else, including themselves. Currently he also works as podcast dramaturg. Previously he studied philosophy, social sciences and literature in Heidelberg and Oxford.
Alumni 2017
Barbara Kronenberg
Writer, German
Barbara started her career as a software developer, holds a BA in Media Production and a screenwriting and directing diploma from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Barbara has written, directed and produced several shorts, which were screened internationally and received multiple awards and nominations. Besides series, she is currently developing a family entertainment comedy …
Béatrice Huber
Writer, Swiss
As a trained bookseller Béatrice always knew: it’s all about the story. She decided to combine her two passions, books and movies, and started writing for film. Béatrice holds a degree in screenwriting from the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF). She has written, directed and produced award winning short films and is currently …
Bernardo Pellegrini
Writer, Italian
Bernardo Pellegrini was born and raised in Pisa, Italy. He got his bachelor’s degree in Architecture at Florence University and studied media-dramaturgy at the National Film School in Rome, where he graduated in 2015. Since then he has co-developed a few tv projects for Italian production companies. In 2016 he joined the Non Uccidere writing room, …
Daniel Hendler
Writer, American
Daniel Hendler is an American writer based in Berlin. He recently wrote on Netflix’s drama Unorthodox from showrunner Anna Winger, and German comedy series MaPa for Joyn. Current projects include True Cross, a historical drama about the life of Caravaggio for Lucien Productions (FR); Exit Counsel, a procedural drama about cult deprogrammers for Endorphine Productions …
Dean Movshovitz
Writer, Israeli
Dean Movshovitz is a screenwriter and author, known for his #1 Amazon bestseller Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on Pixar’s Greatest Films, which is taught in campuses worldwide. He has written episodes for Limon & Oli (Mart Agency/Disney Junior), and for Blackpills’ Writers’ Room in Tel Aviv, where he co-developed First Love, winner …
Harry Ayiotis
Writer, Cypriot
Harry has written and directed short films before he moved into television development. In 2017, as part of the Midpoint TV Launch programme, he co-developed the series The Midnight Shift, which won the Best Series Concept HBO Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Harry graduated from Serial Eyes in 2018 and he is currently working …
Heidi Baletic
Writer, British
Heidi is a scriptwriter and a novelist based in the UK. She graduated in Dramaturgy at Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade and completed Text & Performance MA at King’s College & RADA, London. She was mentored by Nick Hornby on Guiding Lights film mentoring programme. Heidi has written for theatre, film &TV. She took …
Isaure Pisani-Ferry
Writer, French
Isaure studied Literature and History and wrote for Canal+ series (Kaboul Kitchen), before joining Serial Eyes in 2017–2018. Subsequently, she created a show for Netflix (Vampires, with co-creator Benjamin Dupas) and is now working on several projects.
Ivan Knezevic
Writer, Serbian
Born 1984 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Works as a screenwriter, editor and producer. Currently developing a number of series for HBO Europe, the Munich-based H&V Entertainment, and Belgrade-based Firefly Productions.
Janina Dahse
Writer, German
Janina is a writer, director and executive producer with a professional experience of almost 20 years. Her work as a writer and director of award-winning short films has brought her to many red carpets of international film festivals. And her work for unscripted television and shows has taken her to extraordinary places like run-down cookshops …
Samuel Jefferson
Writer, British
Freelance Emergency Medicine doctor turned Screenwriter. Graduate of MA Screenwriting at the London Film School, winner of the Bafta / Rocliffe Comedy Initiative 2015. TV series optioned and developed by ITV Studios, Zorba Group and H&V Entertainment. Several award-winning short films and two new projects in pre-production for filming in 2019.
Tali Barde
Writer, director, producer, German
Tali Barde is a writer, director and producer based in Cologne. His award-winning feature film debut For No Eyes Only, was released in German cinemas in late 2014. In 2016 Tali was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus. Next to developing several drama series in Writers’ Rooms, he produced and co-directed the docu-series Refugee Roads …
Alumni 2016
Anne-Marie Angelo
Writer, producer, American, Italian
Anne-Marie is a screenwriter and historian based in Berlin and Brighton, UK. Previously Anne-Marie worked with The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, studied comedy with The Second City, and appeared on BBC News and the History Channel. She holds a PhD in History from Duke University. Since Serial Eyes, she has been developing TV series …
Arne Ahrens
Writer, German
Arne Ahrens was born and raised in Hamburg, Germany. He studied media-dramaturgy at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and telecommunications at Ball State University in Muncie, USA. He has written, directed and edited almost a dozen award winning international short films before focusing on a screenwriting career in film and television. Several of his projects …
Camille Couasse
Writer, French
In 2012, Camille Couasse graduated with a Masters in Scriptwriting from the European Conservatory (CEEA, Paris). Since then, she’s written Fiction & Animation for TF1, France Television & M6: shows such as Nina, Season 3 & 4 (a one hour medical drama), Baskup, Robin Hood and 5&IT, amongst others. To date, Camille has had six …
Celine Decoox
Writer, French
Born and raised in Paris, Celine studied scriptwriting, directing and acting in Paris, London and Cologne. Since graduating from Serial Eyes, she has been part of the Writers’ Room of Belgian thriller An Ordinary Citizen, working with British and Italian scriptwriters. One of her series projects received an award at a French festival and another …
Davide Serino
Writer, Italian
Screenwriter based in Rome, Davide Serino began his professional experience with the Sky original period dramas 1992 and 1993. Among his latest projects: Esterno Notte, Marco Bellocchio’s first series presented at Festival de Cannes 2022, and the feature Ti mangio il cuore, premiering at the Festival di Venezia 2022. Upcoming: The Bad Guy, original Amazon show he co-created, and M, from the Premio …
Emily Rhodes
Writer /Producer, British
Emily is a UK-based writer, with a strong interest in international co-productions. Emily is presently co-writing a TV movie for Bavaria Fiction (Germany), an adaptation of a YA romance-fantasy novel for a streamer release. Emily is also working as a Staff Writer for Age of Queens, a series in development for Readymade Films (Germany) with …
Juan Manuel Ortiz V.
Writer, director, Colombian
Juan Manuel Ortiz studied Film and TV at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and received a master degree from the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln. He has been awarded grants by Filmstiftung NRW and Wim Wenders Foundation and was selected for the Séries Mania Writer’s Campus 2018. He has developed and written content for companies like …
Judit Anna Banhazi
Writer, Hungarian
A former storyliner on Hungary’s most watched TV series, by UFA Serial Drama, and stand-up comedian for Comedy Central Hungary, Judit attended Serial Eyes with a keen interest in both comedy and harder-to-digest genre shows, thrillers, horror, sci-fi, supernatural and young adult fiction. Having developed an extensive slate of over 15 projects during and after …
Marine Lachenaud
Writer, French
Marine graduated from the European Conservatory of Script Writing (CEEA, Paris). She has been working on a comedy series for French television and cartoons broadcast. She’s currently developing an animation picture with producers. The project was selected for the Cartoon Movie.
Paolo Bernardelli
Writer, Italian
Paolo is a journalist and in the past five years he wrote a novel titled If tomorrow doesn’t exist, several award-winning web series, and he was co-writer of the film Zeta. He is currently working on other film projects and an experimental series for VR/Oculus.
Ruddy-Williams Kabuiku
Writer, French
Ruddy is a French writer based in Paris. He studied screenwriting at Langara College. Back in France, Ruddy co-wrote and co-directed the documentary L’amour en Cité. At the end of the Serial Eyes programme, he was selected for a three-month TV-writing apprenticeship at Frank Spotnitz’s Big Light Production where he could experience the Writers’ Room …
Storm Sigal-Battesti
Writer, director, actor, French, American, Swiss
My name is Storm and I hold American, French and Swiss citizenship. My first short film X or Y won dozen of prizes and my first feature film script Snowfall in Gaza won the APCA Best Screenwriting Distinction and was nominated for the Sopadin Awards. In 2016, I was selected to take part of Serial …
Alumni 2015
Dennis Schanz
Writer and Producer, German
Born and raised in Berlin, Dennis studied film and American studies in Berlin, Zurich, Mainz, and Kansas (M.A.). He co-founded the Berlin-based production company StickUp Films. As a writer and director, he has made three short films.
Elena Lyubarskaya
Writer, creative producer, Russian
Elena Lyubarskaya is a TV screenwriter, based in Berlin, Germany. Elena writes in English and develops comedy shows and genre dramas. She has projects in development with German, Italian and French companies. Elena is a winner of VDD/ProSieben Development Award in 2016 and 2017, the CNC Writing grant for TV co-production and the Cannesseries Institute …
Gesa Schreibner
Writer, German
Gesa Scheibner is a screenwriter for TV and Cinema, based in Berlin. She studied Screenwriting at the dffb while working for German Daily Dramas. Her screenplay The Awakening of Sleeping Beauty won the prize for best screenplay at the Sehsüchte Filmvestival. Currently Gesa is working on movie projects for DCM Pictues and SamFlm GmbH and …
Julia Penner
Writer, German
After studying at the famed Acting School Ernst Busch in Berlin, Julia Penner worked as an actress internationally in France, Israel, Armenia and Chile. From 2012–2015 she studied screenwriting at the Dffb and was invited to Cannes in 2015 with the short movie Not Too Early Not Too Late with German films. Her debut script …
Kim Zimmermann
Writer, German
Kim Zimmermann studied screenwriting at the HFF Konrad-Wolf in Potsdam-Babelsberg from 2007 to 2012. During this time, she started working as a freelance screenwriter and script consultant. Besides writing several projects for the German television market, her focus is also on European projects. These include an EU-funded short film with European collaborators and work as …
Laura Grace
Writer, British
Laura is a Scottish writer based in Berlin. She currently has original drama series in development with Sky Atlantic, Sky Italia and Channel 4, and is part of the writers’ rooms for Sky Deutschland’s Das Boot (Seasons 1 & 2) and Sky Atlantic’s Intergalactic. Her script Darklands topped the inaugural TV Brit List in 2018. …
Maja Costa
Writer, Italian, German
Born and raised in Italy, Maja Costa is a multilingual writer/director based in Berlin. After studying Ancient Near Eastern Studies (MA) and Cello in Milan, she graduated in Screenwriting from the DFFB. Since then she has collaborated in various roles with numerous European film productions and has worked as a writer in many German and …
Oliver Karan
Writer, German
Oliver Karan worked in development for various production companies and as a script reader for Fox’s Event Series division in Los Angeles. His feature screenplay Tap Out is in development at L.A.-based Myriad Pictures. In Germany, Oliver most recently wrote for Grimme Prize-winning Netflix original series Skylines and is currently involved in projects with several production companies. Based in Hamburg, he …
Pierre Puget
Writer, director, French
Pierre is a French writer and director based in Berlin. He worked for years as a broadcast TV director in Brussels. Pierre currently develops movies and series for France (Studio Canal, Same Player, 24–25 films) and Germany (TV60, Network Movie). Pierre loves entertaining stories that can explore the exciting secret parts of our world. He …
Viktoria So Hee Alz
Writer, German
Born in South Korea and raised in Germany, Viktoria received her Master of Arts in Theater & Film Studies, English Literature and Musicology from the University of Cologne in 2011. In 2014, she graduated in Film Screenwriting from the ifs internationale filmschule köln/School of Media, Music and Performance, University of Salford/School of Arts and Media, …
Alumni 2014
Cécile Kiegel
Producer, French
Cécile began her career in documentary production. She moved to fiction in 2007 in the artistic production team of the soap Cinq Soeurs, broadcast on the first public channel in France. After initiating the fiction development department at Montparnasse Productions, she started working as a docu-fiction & fiction producer at Gedeon Programmes in 2012.
Daniela Baumgärtl
Writer, German
Daniela studied screenwriting at the HFF Konrad Wolf film school in Potsdam-Babelsberg and has worked as freelance scriptwriter since 2007. She has written and co-written feature films, TV series and short films that have screened at festivals (e.g. Berlinale) and won prizes such as the First Steps Award (for Dígame – Tell me) and nominations …
David Robert
Writer, French
After a career as a film editor, David Robert has been graduated from European Conservatory of Script Writing (CEEA, Paris). He wrote on TF1 series HPI, Coup de Foudre à Bangkok and Tomorrow is ours, and France Télévisions shows Ouija, Marianne, Looking for the Truth, Caïn and Chronicles of the Sun. In 2020, he benefited …
Jana Burbach
Writer, German
Jana Burbach was born in 1985 in Munich and raised in Bonn, London, and Berlin. She now lives and works in Berlin as a script writer in German and English. From 2004 to 2007, she completed a BA in Classics and English at the University of Oxford and from 2009 to 2011 an MA in …
Jasper Marlow
Writer, British, Australian
Jasper Marlow is an award-winning Australian screenwriter and online producer based in Berlin. His has written for shows such as Home and Away (Southern Star) Fair City (RTE) and most recently Just Push Abuba (LUPA FILM/ZDF). He currently has multiple original projects in development across Europe.
Katerina Gerothanasi
Writer, Greek
Katerina graduated from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Film Studies (BA) and University of Salford, Manchester (MA in Screenwriting). Since 2006 she has written and directed several short films which travelled to festivals and received awards, has participated in film workshops and has written three feature films, with a fourth one in progress jointly …
Korbinian Hamberger
Writer, German
Multiple years staff writer for award-winning TV series Dahoam is Dahoam; Hollywood experience through the Professional Program in Producing at University of California (UCLA); Twice ProSiebenSat.1 project competition winner out of over 800 competing submissions; 25,000 Euro script funding from Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung for a movie project; Fluent in German and English; Book lover, sport enthusiast …
Maja Pek
Producer, Croatian
Maja Pek worked for various independent production companies in Croatia as an AP, line producer, script supervisor and executive producer until 2009, when she co-founded Antitalent, a production company based in Zagreb. At Antitalent Maja works as development producer and writer on films, TV series and TV formats. She has produced three short films and …
Michaela Strnad
Writer, creative producer, Slovakian
Michaela studied theatre dramaturgy at VŠMU (Slovakia), DAMU (Czech Republic) and scriptwriting at UCLA (Los Angeles). In 2014 Michaela moved to Berlin to be part of the Serial Eyes programme. She works as a freelance writer and creative producer and currently has several projects in different stages (3 feature films in production and 3 TV …
Nikolaus Schulz-Dornburg
Writer, German
After studying in the UK (BA English Lit, Film & Theatre/Reading University and MA in Film/ TV production/ Bristol University) Nikolaus participated in several theatre productions at the Schauspielhaus Zürich and the Burgtheater Vienna. From 2010 on he worked in script development at the Berlin-based production company X Filme Creative Pool GmbH before enrolling in …
Wiedeke Brünjes
Producer, German
Wiedeke always wanted to become a producer. He started as an intern at the German telenovela Rote Rosen and worked his way up to become Assistant Director. After attending a producing course at the Filmhaus Babelsberg he worked for X‑Filme Creative Pool in the line production department.
Wiktor Piatkowski
Writer, producer, Polish
Wiktor Piątkowski created and co-wrote HBO’s first original series produced in Poland, Wataha and the first Polish romantic comedy produced by Netflix (Squared Love). Over the last 10 years he has worked as showrunner, head writer, screenwriter and producer on various shows (crime series, soap opera, scripted reality, sitcom – more than 600 hours of TV produced) …
Alumni 2013
Alexander Lindh
Writer, German, Finnish, Swedish
Alexander Lindh is half German, half Finland-Swede. After a BA in creative writing, cultural and media studies, Lindh began to work as a staff writer for the daily drama series Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten. In 2013 Lindh participated in the showrunner programme Serial Eyes at Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) and the London Film …
Alexandre Manneville
Writer, French
After graduating from the l’ESAV film school, Alexandre writes for many animated series (Kaeloo for Canal+ – Kidscreen Award 2011) and serves as a head writer as well (Teen Crumpets – Pulcinella Award 2018). In 2016, he received development money from CNC for the mystery-period drama series Black Times, developed at Serial Eyes. He’s been …
Anna-Katharina Brehm
Producer, German
Anna Katharina Brehm is a German producer based in Munich. She is alumna of the University of Television and Film Munich. With over 15 years of experience in the film and TV industry she has worked in various positions for broadcasters (ZDF) and production companies. As Content and Production Director at Seriencamp Conference and Programmer …
George Angelov
Writer, Bulgarian
Georgi is a Bulgarian writer/director. Prior to Serial Eyes, he created a teen drama series “ESCAPE” for the Bulgarian National Television (still in development). RIght now he’s working on various different projects at differents stages of development: a crime drama series, called “Black Files”, again for BNT, a feature film called “FROM MUD”, and (at …
Heather Imani
Writer, British
Heather Imani has written for the BBC children’s television series “The Dumping Ground”. She was co-writer of the feature film “Milo”, which won awards at Giffoni Film Festival (Italy, 2012), Cinekid (Netherlands, 2012), Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People (Greece, 2013), and three awards at the European Youth Film Festival (Antwerp, Belgium, …
Julia Széphelyi
Writer, Hungarian
Júlia Széphelyi graduated from the University of Drama and Film in Budapest as a screenwriter. She has worked for various production companies, including AZT-Média and Easy Explain as a writer and creative consultant, writing commercials and short animations. She developed web-series and a TV series concept for HBO as a co-author and writer.
Laurent Mercier
Writer, French
After graduating from the European Conservatory of Script Writing (Paris) in 2010, Laurent worked as a writer on various French TV shows before attending the first Serial Eyes programme in 2013–2014. Since then, he has worked for several international coproductions, such as Eden (2019, Arte, ARD) or the upcoming mini-series Flight MH370 for Banijay and …
Ludovico Purgatori
Writer, director, Italian
Ludovico is an Italian-German writer and director. After graduating from the German School of Rome, he worked as assistant director for films and series such as Gomorrah, Sense8 and Suburra. For the past three years he has been working as script advisor, assistant and Second Unit Director for Stefano Sollima on Soldado, Campari (short film), …
Matthias Schmidt
Writer, director, German
After his graduation from school Matthias worked in various jobs for film and TV productions and also made his own films, some of them with a nationwide reception. From 2004 to 2010 he studied at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy, receiving a diploma for both a feature length screenplay (as writer) and a half-hour short film …
Sabrina Amerell
Writer, German
Sabrina has a background in foreign language translation and interpreting (English, Spanish, Economics). Prior to Serial Eyes, she worked as a storyliner and script editor for an award-winning primetime daily. Today, she is developing and co-writing multiple TV formats for the German and international market and has won several prestigious grants. As co-founder of transformStory, …
Sullivan Le Postec
Writer, French
For more than ten years, Sullivan Le Postec wrote about TV series as a journalist. He then began the transition to become a TV writer himself, penning episodes for Dernier Recours and TF1’s Falco. After graduating from Serial Eyes, Sullivan created and wrote Les Engagés, a character drama produced for France Télévisions digital series platform. …
Wiebke Mercier
Producer, German
Wiebke holds a MA in Producing Film & TV from Bournemouth University. In the past she has worked for European independent productions in Berlin, Munich and London and as Coördinator for the Drama Series Days at the Berlinale Film Festival. Currently she is a producer at Sony Pictures Film und Fernsehproduktion in Cologne.