EXCLUSIVE: Former Berlinale Series Head Julia Fidel has been snapped up by Frank Doelger’s The Swarm and Concordia producer Intaglio Films.
Fidel will start working for the Beta Film and ZDF Enterprises joint venture in October as a Producer. She will join a team that has worked on the likes of pan-European thriller The Swarm as co-producer, upcoming spy thriller Doing Good and Concordia, the futuristic AI drama for ZDF, France Télévisions and streamer Hulu Japan that will launch pre-sales at Mipcom.
Fidel shepherded the Berlinale Series – the Berlin Film Festival’s TV sibling – over four years. Under her watch, the Series grew, issuing its first Award last year, launching a market-skewing Series Market Selects strand, working with top talent and expanding to showcase content from regions such as Latin America and China.
Shows in competition in recent years include HBO Max’s Lust, Netflix’s The Eddy and Jason Segel’s AMC series Dispatches From Elsewhere, while The Swarm played out of competition.
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