After one cancellation and two postponements due to the pandemic, Séries Mania is making its comeback from August 26 to September 2 in the capital of Flanders! “It’s finally reunion! The Series Mania Festival will allow us to meet again, all together in Lille and Hauts-de-France, ”said the president of the region,
Xavier Bertrand before the announcement of the guests and the program during a press conference this Wednesday in Lille.
Edouard Philippe will talk about series and politics
After Uma Thurman and Julianna Margulies, singer and actress Audra McDonald, seen in Private Practice and The Good Fight, will present the post-pandemic series of Michelle and Robert King broadcast on Spectrum Originals, and will be the first recipient of the Séries Mania Etoile Award, an award given each year to an international personality in the world of the series.
Clyde Philipps, the showrunner on the playoffs Nurse Jackie, Parker Lewis never lose, Get Real will be present to talk about the highly anticipated season 9 of Dexter aired this fall in the United States, where he has already signed the first four seasons, considered the best by fans.
Chris Brancato, president of the festival’s 2018 international competition jury, is back in Lille. He wrote and produced more than 200 hours of series, among which X-files, New York, judicial police and Hannibal. He is also one of the co-creators of a Netflix hit, Narcos and the creator of Godfather of Harlem, the series prequel to the film American Gangster worn by Forest Whitaker and available on Starzplay.
Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, editorial director of the magazine Tenou’a and author, will take her first steps on the red carpet alongside journalist and novelist Tania de Montaigne.
Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will meet festival-goers at a conference entitled “Politics and series”.
Hagai Levi, president of the jury
The jury for the international competition will be chaired by screenwriter, director and producer Hagai Levi, the creator of BeTipul, the Israeli series on which is based In Therapy, Golden Globe winner for co-creating and co-producing the television drama The Affair.
The jury of the international panorama will be chaired by the French journalist and author Florence Aubenas.
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“Germinal” in international competition
Séries Mania will offer more than 50 new series, including more than 25 world premieres, series from five continents and more than 20 countries. “Séries Mania continues its meticulous work of international clearing and welcomes more than 20 countries in its programming, with newcomers such as Serbia, Croatia, Turkey, Colombia and Taiwan”, congratulate Rodolphe Belmer. , president of Séries Mania and Laurence Herszberg, general manager of Séries Mania.
The international competition thus welcomes the German-Norwegian series Furia, Icelandic Blackport, turkish Hamlet, the Israelis Jerusalem and The Echo Of Your Voice and the Danish Kamikase. France will be represented with the adaptation of Emile Zola’s novel, Germinal. After Il Miracolo, special jury prize and the male interpretation prize at the Lille international series festival in May 2018, the Italian novelist Niccolò Ammaniti returns to compete with Anna, a new series for Arte.
The red thread stand-up
The new OCS signature series on the stand up, Young and golri directed by Fanny Sidney (Aka Camille in Ten percent) and carried in particular by Agnès Hurstel and Jonathan Lambert will be in French competition.
Séries Mania has also chosen the series stand-up as a common thread this year. In the wake of Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm, the stand-uppers seized the series to stage fictional versions of themselves, as in Atlanta, Ramy or This Way Up, while the series that tell the story behind the scenes of the stand-up scene are multiplying The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, I’m Dying up Here Passing by Crashing.
The cream of the French stand-up (Fadily Camara, Nora Hamzawi, Agnès Hurstel, Kyan Khojandi, Alex Ramirès and Thomas VDB) will come to show on the big screen two of their favorite stand-up series.
Young and golri will compete against five other French novelties: Nona and her daughters by Valérie Donzelli for Arte, Rebecca, adaptation of the British series Marcella for TF1, The code, the new creation of the team behind Cherif for France 2, and Gold from him, the comedy of France TV carried by Ramzy Bedia.
During special screenings, festival-goers will be able to discover Franco-Belgians The rope and Opera, the series by Julie Delpy On The Verge, and meet Fanny Herrero, the showrunner of Ten percent, who will present his new series Funny.
They will also enjoy the nuggets of the short format.
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The actors of the daily soap operas of Tomorrow Belongs To Us, Everything Begins Here and Such a big sun will come to meet their fans at the festival village. Marie Papillon will present her short series Mary and Things.
Festival-goers will also be able to discover the first part of the last season of La Casa de Papel, season 2 of Mytho, an unprecedented Small murders of Agatha christie 70’s and the world premiere of Engaged: XAOC. On a night of comedies, finally, they will watch over Bloods, Mobile Brigade, Fisk, Frank Of Ireland, Hacks, Les Tribulations de Georges et Fernand and Starstruck. A reunion in Lille placed under the sign of good humor!