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Scotland’s Kevin Macdonald, The Philippines’ Erik Matti and Austria’s Barbara Albert Take Top Seriesmakers Honors
Espionage drama "George Blake," crime thriller "The Squatter" and supernatural mystery "Sleeping Swans" win the second edition of Seriesmakers.
Produced by Femke Wolting, the U.K./Dutch series “George Blake” looks into the wilder-than-fiction tale of the most prolific double agent in British history, asking the question of what makes a working class, former resistance fighter turn against everything they ever stood for? After a winding career taking him from advertising to creature-features to the A-list festival circuit, Manila-based Erik Matti (“On the Job: The Missing 8”) will next focus on his east-meets-west crime series “The Squatter.” Produced by Ronald Monteverde, the eight-part thriller centers on a Filipino maid and a Ukrainian detective unraveling a mystery that begins with a dead body in small town and spans halfway across the globe. With pedigree from Venice, Toronto and Locarno — and an academic perch succeeding Michael Haneke as a professor of directing at the Vienna Film Academy — Barbara Albert turned to the scripted drama format because she felt less constrained when developing her supernatural saga “Sleeping Swans.” Written by Ulrike Tony Vahl and produced by Martina Haubrich, the German series follows an idyllic community torn asunder when its children fall prey to a mysterious malady.
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