Belgian public television starts filming on Baraki, its first 26’ format series, Coyotes and Pandore, as post-production on Unseen is wrapping up. The Rtbf and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation continue their joint program of TV series production, hoping to find successors to La Trêve, Unité 42 or Ennemi Public. The Covid-19 crisis has interrupted the filming of Unseen only a few days before wrapping (the last takes were finally shot in June and the show should be broadcast some time in Autumn), and has delayed that of Pandore. But this Summer saw the return to film sets in order to guarantee new content to broadcast in 2021. The first production to get started is Baraki, a series by Julien Vargas, Peter Ninane and Fred de Loof, which follows the trials and tribulations of a working-class family. It will be...
The new series will premiere in Belgium on Vier and will be available on Netflix worldwide six months after the air date of the last episode. Netflix has announced in a press release that production has commenced on a new Belgian drama series entitled Soil. The eight-episode project, based on a script penned by Zouzou Ben Chikha, Dries Heyneman and Wannes Capelle, is set to be directed by writer-directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, alongside Mathieu Mortelmans. The plot of Soil revolves around a question that may easily arise in a Muslim family when one of its members dies in Belgium: “Do we bury them here, or do we honour their last wishes and take them back to where they were born?” Young Ishmael “Smile” Boulasmoum, who, together with his sister, inherits his father’s repatriation business, comes...
Ventana Sur’s Blood Window sidebar for projects and films in progress has been a standout event on the Latin horror calendar since its launch in 2013, and is one of the Buenos Aires market’s most popular sections.
In the following years, it has become a key two-way conduit between Latin American and international festivals and box offices.
To that end, one of coordinator Javier Fernández’s primary focuses for this year’s seventh edition is to “continue promoting our collaboration with fantastic international film festivals and industry events,” he explained to Variety ahead of the December event.
This year’s Blood Window Spotlight on International Projects includes five works brought to Buenos Aires by the Bucheon Korea International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan), Sitges Catalunya Fantastic Film Festival and Bif-Market from the Brussels Fantastic Film Festival and Nordic Genre Invasion.
Three of the selected projects are features: Norway’s “Alpha...
In the following years, it has become a key two-way conduit between Latin American and international festivals and box offices.
To that end, one of coordinator Javier Fernández’s primary focuses for this year’s seventh edition is to “continue promoting our collaboration with fantastic international film festivals and industry events,” he explained to Variety ahead of the December event.
This year’s Blood Window Spotlight on International Projects includes five works brought to Buenos Aires by the Bucheon Korea International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan), Sitges Catalunya Fantastic Film Festival and Bif-Market from the Brussels Fantastic Film Festival and Nordic Genre Invasion.
Three of the selected projects are features: Norway’s “Alpha...
- 11/11/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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