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Banijay Entertainment’s Steve Matthews Drills Down on Europe’s Crime Boom, ‘Local for Local,’ Genre as a ‘Scalpel to Cut Into Society’
Banijay brings ‘Carême,’ ‘A Life’s Worth,’ ‘Weiss & Morales’ to Series Mani, underscoring its range in scripted.
Playing Series Mania in International Panorama, “A Life’s Worth,” from Banijay Nordics’ Yellowbird, follows the challenges faced by the first Swedish U.N. battalion, made up of volunteers, sent to Bosnia in 1993. What Matthews does do, however, as in his days at HBO Europe from 2014, before joining Banijay in 2023, is offering often young or emerging screenwriters help at a key sweet spot for some series: honing the international potential of stories grounded in local context. But looking at Spain’s Pokeepsie Films, headed by Alex de la Iglesia and Carolina Bang, and its huge hit with “Mea Culpa,” romance seems to be quite a big area at the moment.
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