‘The Tale’s’ Jennifer Fox Unpacks ‘Ruth’s Ghosts,’ a ‘High-Stakes Supernatural Thriller’ Bound for Series Mania After Winning Selection at Berlin

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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Jennifer Fox, director of Sundance 2018 hit “The Tale” – “a landmark advance in the field of cinematic memoir,” said Variety– is bound for Series Mania in Lille with “Ruth’s Ghosts.” The title marks Fox’s first narrative fiction series and an early real-life grounded vision projected in a very near future of family and legal strife in the U.S.

as dictatorship. Selection will see Fox and “Ruth Ghosts’” fellow producers Tara Grace and Jana Lotze presenting the six-episode series project at the Series Mania Forum’s Co-Pro Pitching Sessions, its industry centerpiece, where it bids fair to be a conversation driver.

Hailed by Series Mania as “bold and necessary,” “Ruth’s Ghosts” joins 15 other projects at the Pitching Sessions as a sixteenth title presented out of competition in partnership with the Berlinale Co-Production Market.

Selection for Europe’s biggest TV festival came after “Ruth’s Ghosts” won a Series Mania berth among titles at Berlinale Series Market’s Co-Pro Series, one of Europe’s other key project series pitching events, which took place Feb.