We’re happy to announce that Seri­al Eyes, the DFFB’s post­gradu­ate train­ing pro­gramme for writers of tele­vi­sion series, is cel­eb­rat­ing its tenth year! With the achieve­ment of this mile­stone, we have taken fur­ther steps to secure the program´s suc­cess­ful future: a freshly appoin­ted new head of stud­ies, a new industry part­ner, a new advis­ory board, and …

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On May 12 the ninth edi­tion of Seri­al Eyes came to a close a suc­cess­ful Final Pitch at Soho House Ber­lin in front of a full house of inter­na­tion­al pro­du­cers, com­mis­sion­ers and agents. The pitches kicked off with Will Buckinham’s com­edy Trista Tol­stoy about a scan­dal­ised nov­el­ist search­ing for a second chance. Louise Sil­veri­o’s drama …

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Frank Spotnitz’s Big Light Pro­duc­tions has selec­ted Romani­an screen­writer and dir­ect­or Geo Doba as the recip­i­ent of its annu­al writers’ appren­tice­ship, which is now in its fifth year. As part of the appren­tice­ship, Doba will now take part in a place­ment work­ing along­side Spot­nitz, cre­at­ive dir­ect­or Emily Feller and oth­er mem­bers of Big Light Pro­duc­tions, …

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Every year Big Light Pro­duc­tions (BLP), the pro­duc­tion com­pany headed by Frank Spot­nitz that is behind hit shows includ­ing The Man in the High Castle, Medici: Mas­ters of Florence, and most recently Leonardo, offers a three-month appren­tice­ship to one Seri­al Eyes par­ti­cipant. Since 2017 four lucky gradu­ates joined Frank and his team in Lon­don: Ruddy …

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Seri­al Eyes now offers a webin­ar on how to cre­ate crime series. This webin­ar is inten­ded for both begin­ning and advanced writers. In reg­u­lar weekly install­ments the Seri­al Eyes fac­ulty dis­cusses the fas­cin­a­tion of writ­ing crime and explains the main dram­at­ur­gic­al ele­ments that make up a good crime series. Epis­ode #1: Why We Watch Crime …

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Seri­al Eyes and DETECt are look­ing for the next great European crime series! We are look­ing for pro­pos­als for TV series in the crime genre for either broad­cast or stream­ing ser­vices. The pro­posed show should push the genre in unex­pec­ted ways, using crime nar­rat­ives to explore the rich­ness and com­plex­ity of European soci­ety. An inter­na­tion­al …

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Big Light Pro­duc­tions, the inde­pend­ent pro­duc­tion com­pany behind high-end dra­mas The Man in the High Castle and the forth­com­ing Leonardo and led by showrun­ner Frank Spot­nitz, has announced the recip­i­ent of their annu­al writers’ appren­tice­ship.  Seri­al Eyes alumna Nadya Todorova from Bul­garia will join Big Light Pro­duc­tions for a paid two-month place­ment in the com­pany, …

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Kurt Wal­lander is one of the most icon­ic char­ac­ters in con­tem­por­ary crime fic­tion. Hen­ning Mankell’s cre­ation has come to life in nov­els, fea­ture films and on tele­vi­sion and gathered a world­wide fan fol­low­ing. In Septem­ber 2020 the new TV series “Young Wal­lander” launched on Net­flix and reima­gined the Swedish detect­ive as a young police officer …

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We are happy to announce the con­clu­sion of the 2019–2020 train­ing edi­tion with a livestreamed final pitch. The livestream will take place on June 25, 15:00 – 17:30 CEST and will be hos­ted by Ger­man TV authors and Seri­al Eyes alumni Jana Burbach (Bad Bank, Die Hei­l­and – Wir sind Anwalt) and Alex­an­der Lindh (Ger­man …

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