The Co-Pro pitching Sessions – the founding premise and most anticipated event of Series Mania Forum, will highlight 15 series seeking international funding. The best project will be awarded a 50,000€ prize to help develop the series, as determined by a professional jury of leading industry executives.
The Forum has been the launchpad for the release of such series as Unspoken (Ukraine), Off Season (Switzerland / France), No Man’s Land (France), Banking District (Switzerland), Eden (France), Keeping Faith (Great Britain), Manor House (Czech Republic), Stella Blomkvist (Iceland), Tabula Rasa (Belgium), Trepalium (France), Warrior (Denmark), Devils (Italy), The Head (Spain), Ever After (Italy), The Last Socialist Artefact (Slovenia, Finland) and We Got This (Sweden).
For this 2025 edition, 406 series projects were submitted, from 72 different countries, including new territories such as New Zealand, The Philippines, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Uganda and Eswatini.
One series will also be presented out of competition as part of a partnership with the Berlinale’s Co-Pro Series.
the 2025 jury
- Jury president : M-K Kennedy, Executive Managing Director of TV Series, Studiocanal (United Kingdom)
- André Béraud, Head of Scripted, Programs and Feature Films, ICI Radio-Canada Télé (Canada)
- Henriette Marienlund, Head of Drama, DR Drama (Denmark)
- José Pastor, Head Of Drama And Fiction, RTVE (Spain)
- Frank Seyberth, Head of Coproduction, International Fiction, ZDF (Germany)
The selected projects
Series Mania Forum Best Project Award given to the France/Japan comedy romance “Tokyo Crush”
