Annika Pham AMC and Oble Studios’ Hungarian revenge period drama “Fata Morgana” executive produced by Bela Tarr, the Irish/Canadian spy thriller “The Reluctant Contact” from writer Stephen Burke, and the Estonian/ Swiss/Danish fantasy thriller “The Code of Thule” feature among the 10 series in development, selected for the TV Beats Co-financing Market in Tallinn Variety has learned in exclusivity.
Other possible standout dramas set to lure co-financiers take in the Icelandic/Danish crime “Norröna Murders,” the Finnish live-action/animation/doc hybrid “The Women I Think About at Night,” based on Mia Kankimäki’s best-selling novel, and Slovenian psycho-thriller “Bunker” starring “Triangle of Sadness”‘ Zlatko Burić.
The co-pro pitching showcase due to run Nov. 19-20 in the Estonia capital, is the centerpiece of TV Beats, the series strand of the five-day Industry @ Tallinn & Baltic Event, held parallel to the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Nov.
8 to 24), and run for the first time by the senior audiovisual executives Petri Kemppinen and Roosa Toivonen. “The industry side of the only A-festival in Northern Europe is renowned, and TV Beats has already established itself as an important meeting point.
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