C’è anche la serie italiana Fort Apache action crime prodotto da Indiana Production fra i progetti che prenderanno parte al Co-Pro Pitching Sessions di Series Mania, in programma il 21 marzo durante il Forum (21-23 marzo): 15 dei 16 progetti che si contenderanno il Best Project Award del valore di €50,000 sono stati annunciati oggi da Laurence Herszberg, fondatrice e direttrice del Festival delle serie di Lille, che si svolgerà dal 17 al 24 marzo.

A decretare il vincitore, una giuria internazionale presieduta da Caroline Hollick, Head of Drama di Channel 4, e di cui fa parte anche Michele Zatta, Commissioning Editor della RAI.

I thriller, come anche i drama storici (con predilezione per gli anni ’90) sono i generi più presenti nella selezione, che sarà completata da un 16° progetto, che sarà presentato il 21 febbraio in partnership con il  Berlinale Co-Production Market.

Fort Apache, 8 puntate da 50 minuti, è scritto da Ivano Fachin, Giovanni Galassi and Tommaso Matano, prodotto. da Fabrizio Donvito, Marco Cohen, Benedetto Habib, Daniel Campos Pavoncelli per Indiana Production. Produttrice esecutiva è Kim Gualino

• ASMA – 8 x 52’ – France
  Genre : Biopic
  Produced by Patricia Boutinard Rouelle for Nilaya Productions
  Written by Antoine Vitkine

• COOPER – 8 x 45’ – Australia, South Africa
  Genre : Crime drama
  Produced by Kylie du Fresne for Goalpost Pictures and Nimrod Geva for Quizzical Pictures 
  Written by James McNamara, Amy Jephta and Malla Nunn, based on Malla Nunn Books

• DUST AND COAL – 8 x 52’ – Israël, France
  Genre : Psychological thriller
  Produced by Ronen Ben Tal for Bental Productions Ltd and Morgane Le Moine for First Love
  Written by Ronen Ben Tal, Ron Ninio, Ofer Seker and Eleanor Sela

• EXECUTIONERS – 6 x 60’ – Spain
  Genre : Coming of age, Thriller
  Produced by Alberto Rull for Vertice 360
  Written by Pedro Garcia Rios and Rodrigo Martin

• FORT APACHE – 8 x 50’ – Italy
  Genre: Action, Crime
  Produced by Fabrizio Donvito, Marco Cohen, Benedetto Habib, Daniel Campos Pavoncelli for Indiana Production Company
  Executive Producer: Kim Gualino
  Written by Ivano Fachin, Giovanni Galassi and Tommaso Matano

• HIJACKING PARADISE – 6 x 52’ – Belgium
  Genre : Geopolitical hostage thriller
  Produced by Dimitri Verbeeck for Caviar 
  Created by Stijn Deconinck
  Written by Stijn Deconinck & Nathalie Teirlinck

• YOP- 8 x 45’ – Sweden
  Genre: Drama
  Produced by Moa Westeson, Cindy Hanson and Anni Faurbye Fernandez for Nevis Productions
  Written by David Jassy

• LETTERS TO LEONARD – 5 x 50’ – Greece
  Genre : Drama, LGBTQIA+
  Produced by George Linardakis for Stefi Productions
  Written by Fotis Dousos and John Samaras on an idea of Pierros Andrakakos

• MONITOR – 6 x 60’ – Germany
  Genre : High-Tech Thriller
  Produced by Fabian Massah & Marc Malze for Endorphine Production 
  Created by Nikolai Müllerschön

• OUR FATHER – 8 x 55’ – Ireland, Canada
  Genre : Comedy
  Produced by Aaron Farrell for ShinAwiL and Dominic Scheiber for Reel One Entertainment
  Written by John Cairns and Michael McCartney

• THE BRONTE GIRLS – 6 x 60’ – UK
  Genre : Historical, Coming of age
  Developed by Parsonage Productions Ltd. with ZDF Studios
  Written by Caroline Kelly Franklin

• THE SALVATORE MUNDI CASE – 6 x 52’ – France
  Genre : Thriller
  Produced by Florent Gellie for Incognita and Nathanaël La Combe for Wonder Films
  Written by Angela Soupe and Antoine Vitkine

• THE UNQUIET DEAD – 6 x 60’ – Canada
  Genre : Serialized Crime drama
  Produced by Shaftesbury
  Written by Abdul Malik, based on the book series created by Ausma Zehanat Khan
• UNSPOKEN – 6 x 30’ – Ukraine, Poland
  Genre: War thriller
  Produced by Anna Rozalska, Dmytro Sukhanov and Natalia Liber for Match&Spark (Poland), Toy Cinema (Ukraine) and 2Brave Productions (Ukraine).
  Written by Zhanna Ozirna and Filip Syczyński
• VANISHED – 6 x 45’ – Germany, Iceland
  Genre : Crime, Historical
  Written by Mikael Torfason 
  Produced by Britta Hansen and Franziska Lindner for RED PONY PICTURES and Ragnheidur Erlingsdottir for Zik Zak Filmworks
  Exec. Producers: Sven Sund (RPP), Thor S. Sigurjónsson (ZZ) and Wolfgang Feindt (ZDF)