Marta Balaga Danish helmer Lone Scherfig is already developing the second season of “The Shift”, she revealed on Monday during an online Berlinale Series Market talk “From Film to Series.”Set in a maternity ward and starring Sofie Gråbøl and Pål Sverre Hagen, it’s the first series as a showrunner for Scherfig, who in 2019 opened Berlinale with “The Kindness of Strangers” and won a Silver Bear for “Italian for Beginners.”“It’s a tribute to the people who work in the healthcare system under extreme pressure, to the care and the love they show, even despite tough working conditions,” she said. “The Shift” is produced by Creative Alliance, with Beta Film handling the sales.
Scherfig was joined by another Silver Bear winner, Argentine director Daniel Burman, back in Berlin with Amazon Prime Video’s “Yosi, the Regretful Spy” – the story of a secret agent infiltrating the Jewish community in Buenos Aires, based on true events and featuring Gustavo Bassani and Natalia Oreiro.“He was infiltrating this community for over 20 years, so much so that he started to feel Jewish and arrived at a big identity crisis,” said Burman. “The hero’s journey is so long and stretched out, it would be harder to think of it in terms of just one film.”This sentiment was shared by Scherfig, who wanted “The Shift” – with its multiple protagonists and interweaving storylines – to be “in favor of unpredictability.”“In a way, a series has more in common with a novel.
You don’t have such strict structural demands. Most of the other TV series I’ve worked on as a director have been quite traditional – they were like small feature films.
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