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Baltic TV Shows – and Locations – Are on the Rise: ‘Our Appetite Is Growing’
The Baltic States — Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania — are ready for a boom in local TV productions, and international partners are invited.
“Writer Raoul Suvi has delicately stitched together all the elements as the story unravels, keeping the viewer — and the characters — in the dark until the end.” When Elisa Estonia started producing dramas six years ago, Estonian series were “in a really bad shape,” he observes, due to “extremely low budgets and nonexistent production value. We’re looking outside to find like-minded production partners.” In Estonia, all eyes have been on the period crime drama “Von Fock,” the first local show to be co-produced “at a high scale” with Italy, Latvia and Germany, points out director Arun Tamm. “Its inclusion brings greater visibility to Estonia’s TV and film industry, opening doors to new opportunities,” she says, teasing a new “cutting-edge sound stage” in Tallinn, which should work “like a magnet” for international productions.
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