Finland’s ‘Yours, Margot’ And Belgium-Uruguay Co-Pro ‘The Invisible Ink’ Win Beta And Series Mania Seriesmakers Initiative
deadline.comA project from Finland and a Belgium-Uruguay co-production have won the Seriesmaker initiative here at Series Mania. The projects, Yours, Margot and The Invisible Ink, both bag €50,000 ($54,000) each after winning the Beta Development Awards.
They were announced minutes ago at Lille’s Series Mania Forum event, which is into its second day. Yours, Margot is an eight-part drama from Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen and producer Jussi Rantamäki.
The logline is: “After discovering her father’s letters to an unknown lover, Vilja unearths her family’s traumatic past in 1980s East Berlin.” Kuosmanen’s 2021 road movie Compartment No 6 won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival official competition, and his biographical film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki won Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival.
The Invisible Ink comes from director César Díaz and producer Fernando Epstein, and also runs to eight parts. It follows a former Uruguayan revolutionary leading a peaceful life in Belgium who is forced back to confront his past in his home country after he receives a visit from his old torturer, who threatens to kill his wife and daughter if he doesn’t hand him a hidden loot.
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