Jamie Lang Lille’s Series Mania International Festival was one of the first major audiovisual industry events forced to go completely online in March as COVID-19 spread across Europe.
Now, it is once again at the forefront of festival innovation as one of the first to implement long-term, digital initiatives inspired by its 2020 online experience.Dates were also announced for the in-person 2021 edition of the festival which will run March 19-27, with the Series Mania Forum to be held in Lille’s Grand Palais March 23-25.“In recent years, we have seen a major evolution in the audiovisual fiction landscape.
First, is the significant increase in the volume of series. Second, iN the emergence of new working methods resulting from the COVID-19.
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