Germany’s Pixable Studios has boarded coming of age “Finisterra,” one of the TV series projects which Portuguese outfit Take It Easy is promoting at this year’s Conecta Fiction & Entertainment edition.
Lisbon-based Take It Easy produced Oscar-shortlisted LGBTQ+ live action short “An Avocado Pit,” executive produced by Elliot Page.
“Finisterra” has just entered into post-production and will be ready for delivery by January.
A Portugal-Luxembourg-Germany co-production, “Finisterra is also produced by Luxembourg’s Wild Fang Films.
The TV series’ producers are Frederico Serra at Take It Easy, Pixable’s Frank Lenhard and Will Fang’s Christian Neuman. Production is set up at Portuguese pubcaster Rtp.
Created and directed by emerging talents Guilherme Branquinho and Leone Niel, the TV drama is inspired by real events set at the height of World War II.
The 7-episode, 45-minute TV production follows Celeste, a young orphan girl, accused of conjuring the devil in the isolated town of Aljezur,...
Lisbon-based Take It Easy produced Oscar-shortlisted LGBTQ+ live action short “An Avocado Pit,” executive produced by Elliot Page.
“Finisterra” has just entered into post-production and will be ready for delivery by January.
A Portugal-Luxembourg-Germany co-production, “Finisterra is also produced by Luxembourg’s Wild Fang Films.
The TV series’ producers are Frederico Serra at Take It Easy, Pixable’s Frank Lenhard and Will Fang’s Christian Neuman. Production is set up at Portuguese pubcaster Rtp.
Created and directed by emerging talents Guilherme Branquinho and Leone Niel, the TV drama is inspired by real events set at the height of World War II.
The 7-episode, 45-minute TV production follows Celeste, a young orphan girl, accused of conjuring the devil in the isolated town of Aljezur,...
- 6/19/2024
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Toledo, Spain — Less than a decade ago, the number of international premium series, beyond its telenovelas, coming out of Portugal each year could be counted on one hand. Following, 20 titles from Portugal being moved at this week’s Conecta Fiction & Entertainment where Portugal is one of its Focus Countries. Wide raging and ambitious, the titles confirm Portugal’s TV revolution.
“Aquarium,” (West Coast, Portugal)
From the Azores-based doc producer West Coast, driving into fiction from 2023, a social dramedy inspired by the 2003 best-seller “Tomorrow at the Same Time, Diary of a Portuguese Stripper).” Leila, 30, abandons days as a marine biologist for nights as the first Portuguese stripper at the prestigious Medusa Club. Written by Brazil’s Marina Schneider, “‘Aquarium’ questions what it is to be a woman today, through the critical and oneiric eyes of two young Brazilian authors,” say directors Stella Carneiro, writer of comedy “Golden Shower,” and Portugal’s Saul Neves and Virgílio Ferreira.
“Aquarium,” (West Coast, Portugal)
From the Azores-based doc producer West Coast, driving into fiction from 2023, a social dramedy inspired by the 2003 best-seller “Tomorrow at the Same Time, Diary of a Portuguese Stripper).” Leila, 30, abandons days as a marine biologist for nights as the first Portuguese stripper at the prestigious Medusa Club. Written by Brazil’s Marina Schneider, “‘Aquarium’ questions what it is to be a woman today, through the critical and oneiric eyes of two young Brazilian authors,” say directors Stella Carneiro, writer of comedy “Golden Shower,” and Portugal’s Saul Neves and Virgílio Ferreira.
- 6/18/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Dda Spotlight awards for Sarah Polley, Ali Abbasi.
Finisterra, a series about the Nazi presence in Portugal during World War II, has won the ‘most promising project’ prize at the TV Beats co-financing market at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
The series receives a €3,000 prize, and was selected by a jury consisting of Morgane Bruna from Wild Bunch TV, Richard Pommerat from N9ne Studio and Joachim Friedman from the Internationale Filmschule Koln.
The jury noted a “visually strong and artistically challenging series” that “tells a universal, yet poetic story about the oppression of women, the abuse of power, and...
Finisterra, a series about the Nazi presence in Portugal during World War II, has won the ‘most promising project’ prize at the TV Beats co-financing market at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
The series receives a €3,000 prize, and was selected by a jury consisting of Morgane Bruna from Wild Bunch TV, Richard Pommerat from N9ne Studio and Joachim Friedman from the Internationale Filmschule Koln.
The jury noted a “visually strong and artistically challenging series” that “tells a universal, yet poetic story about the oppression of women, the abuse of power, and...
- 11/23/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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