DFFB Session with Michal Aviram – Working on FAUDA Join us for a screening of the first episode of FAUDA, the succesful Netflix Series written by Michal Aviram. After the screening, Michal will join the host of the night, Serial Eyes tutor and mentor Donna Sharpe, for a chat about the collaboration with Netflix and …

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If you’ve missed the two last DFFB Sessions “A Complete Guide to the Web Series Phenomenon with Meredith Burkholder” and “Creating Skylines with alumnus Dennis Schanz” you can listen to the talks thanks to IndieFilmTalk ! In the public lecture, A Complete Guide to the Web Series Phenomenon, web series expert and WebFest Berlin presented …

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This year we are racking up the body count! Since 2018 Serial Eyes has been part of the pan-European “Detecting Transcultural Identity in European Popular Crime Narratives” (DETECt) Project, a three-year research project that brings together universities and educational institutions from France, Belgium, Italy, Greece, Romania, Denmark, and Germany. Serial Eyes will design an online …

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16 October 2019, 6pm @ DFFB Cinema The web series phenomenon first gained attention with an historic spontaneous movement of independent production between 2008 and 2012. This boom resulted in the birth of a new format and a new medium for serialized fiction. Find out where this format has been and where it is going as Meredith Burkholder …

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We are pleased to announce that Serial Eyes graduate Dennis Schanz has taken on the roles of head writer and producer to realise his series idea SKYLINES with Netflix. SKYLINES is the first project developed within Serial Eyes that will be screened on the largest internet entertainment service. The series is about a talented hip-hop …

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Ready, set, go! On September 2 our new twelve participants arrived at the DFFB for their nine-month training. This year’s class hails from Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Serbia, Slovakia, and the UK and boasts impressive working credits with many European broadcasters. During their tenure , the participants will work on the story ideas …

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On May 10, the sixth edition of Serial Eyes finished with another successful Final Pitch. The event took place at Soho House Berlin with a full house of international producers, commissioners and agents. After a warm welcome from DFFB director Ben Gibon, Ms. Amandine Maudet of Vivendi Content held the opening keynote address and wished …

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Serial Eyes, the Filmnetzwerk Berlin, DFFB and the Polish Cultural Institute Berlin (FilmPOLSKA) are delighted to invite you to a two-day focus on new TV-series from Poland. Fans of serialized storytelling have started looking all over Europe for new stories to binge-watch. And they have been rewarded handsomely. Recently, Poland has produced some of the …

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We are happy to announce that Serial Eyes is part of the “Detecting European Identity in Crime Fiction” (DETECt) Project, a pan-European research project that studies how crime fictions shape a transnational identity of Europe. This project involves universities, non-academic research institutions and industry partners from all over Europe, including University of Bologna, Catholic University …

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