Series Mania Forum started yesterday at the Lille Grand Palais with great affluence on the exhibitor’s stands, the market and the keynotes during the day. It is a year affected by a substantial slowdown in production, generated mainly by the strikes in the United States, but also by the shift in the industry to seek a more sustainable production model, with co-productions being the main focus and also companies’ consolidation.
The market itself began on Monday 18th, by the end of the day, at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Lille, where Unifrance organized the welcome cocktail, with the presence of the heads of Series Mania and Jérémie Kessler of the CNC. Francesco Capurro, director of the Series Mania Forum said: ‘We are happy that the market continues to grow, and above all that France continues to increase its audiovisual industry and can count on international players to enhance it’. To inaugurate the market conferences yesterday, the European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) organized the keynote “Key Trends in TV”, with the official speakers Gilles Fontaine, Lucia Recalde, Susanne Nikoltchev and Pandora Gagnon da Cunha Teles, who focused on four key trends, warning signs of a slowing down of production, countries winners and losers in the content production, in how strong the industry is at the moment and how much co-productions there is in Europe.
