By Emilio Mayorga
LLEIDA – One of the two major winners at Mexico's 2015 Guadalajara Festival, Celso García's debut "The Thin Yellow Line" scooped both Best Feature and the Audience Award at the 22nd Lleida Catalonia…
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PARIS– Israel's Drama Team bring their eight-part foodie drama to Series Mania's Co-Production Forum with a serious warning: "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." It should not be…
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By Damon Wise
PARIS — French TV festival Series Mania has chosen 16 projects from over 200 submissions and 33 countries to be presented from this morning at a strongly-attended three-day Co-Production Forum, its…
By Debra Kamin
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By John Hopewell
PARIS – Three high-profile Gallic series – "Section Zero," "The Frozen Dead" and "Contact" – feature at Coming Next From France, a Series Mania/TVFI showcase which captures the French TV in…
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By Elsa Keslassy and Peter Debruge
PARIS — Cannes' Directors' Fortnight sidebar announced the selection for its 48th annual edition today, unveiling an impressive, if slightly smaller-than-usual lineup — 18 features in all — that…
By Nick Vivarelli
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Beyond lauding the pilot, Variety's initial review of "Supergirl" posed several questions, the most pointed (or at least pragmatic) being whether this sort of unabashed superhero series – having…
By Brian Steinberg
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By Peter Debruge
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By Katie Van Syckle
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