Streaming online via video presentations from March 25, Series Mania’s experimental Digital Forum will make or break on the quality of its centerpiece, its Co-Pro Pitching Sessions.
This year’s lineup, at least on paper, looks particularly strong. Following, a break-down on the 16 originally selected projects: “The Abduction of Yossele Shuchmacher” (Israel) Co-created and to be directed by celebrated Israeli cineaste Eran Riklis (“Lemon Tree,” “The Syrian Bride,” “Dancing Arabs”), based on a notorious true case in 1961 and co-created by “Fauda” writer Moshe Zonder.-Backed by veteran producer Michael Sharfshtein, the title “blends an intimate, painful drama within a powerful social-political set up, wrapped as a psychological thriller,”
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