This year’s two-day Industry @ Tallinn & Baltic Event’s TV drama showcase TV Beats Forum which closed last night, was about celebrating togetherness and how to survive the changes in the industry. The top awards reflected Europe’s capacity to forefront heart-warming and entertaining stories from its past, as well as suspenseful myths, while rejigging co-production partnerships.
Three of the winning shows among seven contenders from the TV Beats Co-financing Market had garnered industry attention at earlier TV showcases.
“Wool,” winner of the coveted Council of Europe €50,000 Series Co-Production Development Award, was first pitched at this year’s Series Mania. Last night, the international jury consisting of Cia Edström (Göteborg TV Drama Vision) Marc Lorber (The Art of Coproduction), and Clementine Trolong-Baily (Series Co-Productions Pilot Program) praised “Wool” as a “true story that knits together fashion with female empowerment in a rural-meets-international setting, making it as relevant today as it was then,…