Leading US, UK and European writer/producers discuss their different approaches to creativity and production. What have been their different experiences of developing hit shows Hatufim/Homeland, Eyewitness, Deutschland83 and Fortitude and what have they learned from both their successes and mistakes? In this immersive session we aim to understand the creative vision and process behind their respective global drama hits.
Produced in association with EMC
MODERATOR: Romy Kraus, Creative director, Entertainment Masterclass (EMC)

Adi Hasak
Creator/ Executive Producer/Showrunner

Anna Winger
Screenwriter and novelist

Patrick Spence
Managing director
Fifty Fathoms Productions

Ran Tellem
Head of international content development
MEDIAPRO Group

30 MINUTE SESSION
Founded in 2006, today STAR MEDIA is a leading television and film company in Russia and Ukraine, producing content both locally and internationally, offering options for partnerships in co-production. With production facilities and state-of-the-art equipment in Moscow and Kiev, Star Media offers production services across the entire CIS region. This session will give producers an understanding of advantages of filming in the region, as well as presenting the highlights of Star Media shows both produced and in development.

What do the world's leading drama commissioners have in the pipeline and how are they adapting their approach to drama in a fast changing market? What are they looking to coproduce with the international market and which projects are open to collaboration?
MODERATOR: Ed Waller, Editorial director, C21Media

Antony Root
EVP of original programming and production
HBO Europe

Helen Asimakis
Senior Director, Drama
CBC Scripted Content

Josefine Tengblad
Head of drama
TV4

Lars Hermann
Deputy head of drama
DR, Denmark

Philipp Steffens
Head of Fiction
RTL Television

Leading showrunners compare and contrast different approaches to running a writers room, showcasing the dos and don’t of how to get it right. What are the strategies showrunners employ to ensure the most effective script development and how is that translated into the very best drama series possible?
MODERATOR: Carrie Stein, EVP global production, Entertainment One Television

Anna Winger
Screenwriter and novelist

Jed Mercurio
Script writer

Marnie Dickens
Writer

Tom Basden
Writer

Tony Jordan
CEO
Red Planet Pictures

From Antoine Fuqua, Director of the Academy Award-winning film Training Day and The Magnificent Seven and Emmy Award-winning writer James Manos, Jr. (The Sopranos, Dexter) comes ICE, a high-impact drama series that follows the Green family as they plunge into the criminal underbelly of the Los Angeles diamond trade. Featuring a stellar cast that includes Golden Globe-winner Donald Sutherland (The Hunger Games), Ray Winstone (The Departed), Jeremy Sisto (Six Feet Under) and Cam Gigandet (Twilight), ICE takes audiences from the gritty streets of LA to the great diamond houses of Antwerp, Belgium and the blood diamonds of Africa.

We go behind the scenes of The Crown, Netflix’s first ever UK original. Showrunner and writer of The Crown, Peter Morgan, and executive producers Andy Harries and Suzanne Mackie talk about the making of this epic drama series.
MODERATOR: Benji Wilson, TV critic, The Telegraph & freelance writer

Andy Harries
Chief executive
Left Bank Pictures

Peter Morgan
Screenwriter

Suzanne Mackie
Creative director
Left Bank Pictures

A dive into anti-terrorism warfare like never before. A military action drama inspired by real missions and recent historical events of the Special Forces Seal Team Six, the unit bestknown for killing Osama Bin Laden. SIX invites viewers into the covert operations and dangerous lives of the SEALs and their conflicted loyalties between war and family.

What do US networks need in the current market and how do you package a show to ensure it gets their attention? What do drama suppliers need to know about the US marketplace and how do you get your show on air in this most lucrative territory.
Opening presentation by Chris Rice, Partner, WME/IMG
MODERATOR: David Jenkinson, Editor-in-chief & managing director, C21Media

Chris Rice
Partner
WME

Matt Forde
EVP, content production, sales and distribution
BBC Worldwide North America

Nina Lederman
EVP of scripted programming
All3Media America

Pancho Mansfield
President of global scripted programming
Entertainment One Television

Peter Traugott
President of scripted
Keshet Studios

Russell Schwartz
SVP, business & legal affairs
Starz

A deep dive into the latest generation of OTT players halting the global/sticking with local. Where is the market heading and what’s the long term vision for future growth when competing against the big American SVOD players?
MODERATOR: Gary Woolfe, EVP business development, digital and insight, All3Media International

Hugh Williams
Founder
Cirkus

Jack Davison
Director of global trends & insights
3Vision

Pascal Breton
Founder and CEO
Federation Entertainment

Wendy Bernfeld
Managing director
Right Stuff

What does the international coproduction landscape look like as the UK leaves the EU. What are the implications for partners with UK companies and for the UK drama sector as a whole?
MODERATOR: Adrian Wootton, CEO, Film London

Kate Harwood
Managing Director
Euston Films

Martyn Whistler
Lead analyst, media & entertainment
EY

Patrick Irwin
Director/Exec producer
Far Moor Media & Artists Studio

Peter Carlton
Joint CEO
Warp Films

The new original drama Wasteland (8 x one hour) by HBO Europe comes from the team behind Agnieszka Holland's success series “Burning Bush” and focusses on a village on the verge of disappearance. The intense psychological drama and riveting mystery is set in the Rust Belt of the Czech/Polish border, where the underground reserves are big and mining companies offer large sums in exchange for land, and the evacuation of the village.
Beta Film presents this visually powerful, grippingly atmospheric, and deeply moving series, which ran as official entry at the Toronto International Film Festival and celebrated its national premiere at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

Sky's head of drama and senior commissioning editor discuss new and forthcoming programming on the original production slate including The Young Pope, Hooten & The Lady, Guerrilla, Tin Star, Delicious, Riviera, Jamestown, The Last Dragonslayer and The Four, and what they are looking for from the international market.
MODERATOR: Michael Pickard, Editor, Drama Quarterly

Anne Mensah
Head of drama
Sky

Cameron Roach
Commissioning editor
Sky

Spotlight on ITV Global Entertainment

Get an exclusive look at the upcoming drama slate from ITV Studios Global Entertainment for 2017. Be the first to know what exciting projects are in development across their award-winning stable of producers.

The first part of the session will shine a spotlight on the Oscar-nominated and BAFTA award-winning team from Monumental Pictures. They will be joined on stage by the creators of Harlots, where they will delve behind the scenes into the bold, vibrant and booming world of their upcoming show; which features an all star cast including Samantha Morton, Lesley Manville and Jessica Brown-Findlay.

The second half of the session will give an exclusive insight into two upcoming shows from leading drama producers Mammoth Screen (Poldark, Victoria); including an exclusive clip from Fearless, a political crime thriller from Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbison. Following this will be a live panel with the team behind the gripping contemporary family thriller Next of Kin, a six-part series written and created by husband and wife team Paul Rutman (Indian Summers, Vera) and Natasha Narayan.

Leading producers, commissioners and distributors discuss the resurgence in big budget TV series production in Germany following the international success of Generation War, Deutschland 83 and a raft of high-end projects set to debut in 2017.
MODERATOR: Christoph Fey, Founding partner, Entertainment Master Class (EMC)

Al Munteanu
Chief executive
Square One Entertainment

Jan Mojto
Managing partner
Beta Film

Joerg Winger
MD
UFA Fiction

Robert Franke
Vice President Drama
ZDF Enterprises

Could Australia’s distinctiveness be its secret weapon in today’s television landscape? AMC/Sundance’s SVP International Programming and Red Arrow’s SVP Scripted Acquisitions and Co-productions discuss their experience in working with Australia and why it has been an untapped resource for international collaboration. They will be joined by ABC’s Head of Scripted Production and Screen Australia’s Head of Business and Audience to discuss the benefits of international partners and why diversity pays off.
MODERATOR: Michael Pickard, Editor, Drama Quarterly

Amelie von Kienlin
SVP scripted acquisitions and co-productions
Red Arrow

Kristin Jones
SVP, International programming and co-productions
AMC/Sundance

Richard Harris
Head of business and audience
Screen Australia

Sally Riley
Head of scripted production
ABC TV

Followed by Taboo after party (invitation only) - BBC Television

Outlining their current coproduction and investment strategy, a cross section of international drama financiers discuss the future and how they are changing their approach as the drama business evolves.
MODERATOR: Peter McInerney, Partner, Sheridans

Cathy Payne 
CEO
Endemol Shine International

Georgia Brown
EVP of global scripted and factual content
FremantleMedia

Henrik Pabst
Managing director
Red Arrow International

Jessica K Scott
Development executive
Hulu Originals

Moritz Polter
Executive producer international television series
Bavaria Fernsehproduktion

Leading writers discuss their work and their different approaches to creating world class drama.
MODERATOR: John Yorke, Producer, writer, consultant & managing director, Angel Station

Bill Gallagher
Screenwriter
Jamestown, The Paradise, Lark Rise to Candleford

Sarah Phelps
Writer
The Casual Vacancy, The Crimson Field, And Then There Were None

Victoria Madden
Screenwriter
The Kettering Incident

In the second drama controllers session we get up close and personal with five more leading players to dig deep into their drama ambitions and uncover the new projects they are looking to acquire, develop and coproduce with the international market.
MODERATOR: Ed Waller, Editorial director, C21Media

Alexandre Piel
Deputy head of drama, International acquisitions and coproductions
Arte France

Dermot Horan
Director of production and acquisitions
RTE

Jakob Mejlhede Andersen
EVP, group head of programming
MTG

Katrine Vogelsang
Director of the fiction department
TV 2

Oriana Kujawska
Head of series development
TVN

The 21st Century is struggling with a series of crises affecting all countries, all sectors of society, to varying degrees. Faced with these new worldwide realities that promote the emergence of social, political, economic, cultural or religious issues, the question of responsibility arises, whether individual or collective. It allows international fiction to account more and more for a state of the world, to provide a social and cultural representation and to offer a unique perspective on contemporary society in motion. This analysis by Eurodata TV is highlighted by clips and ratings defining what tomorrow will bring.

Estelle Chandeze
International TV research manager
Eurodata TV Worldwide

Vincent, a 20-year old geology student from Paris, goes to French Guyana to do an internship at a gold mining company. Taken under the wing of local gold lord Antoine Serra, Vincent quickly falls into the much more lucrative – and more dangerous – world of gold trafficking.

President of Original Programming, FX
FX's President of original programming, Eric Schrier provides a one on one interview on the state of the market in the US and Internationally and outlines what's next for the network behind the multi award winning Fargo, The Americans and The People vs OJ Simpson.
MODERATOR: Stephen Armstrong, Freelance journalist

Behind the scenes at some of the next wave of scripted indies. What are these producers doing differently and what is on their development slates? How do they plan to compete in a crowded drama market and with superindies?
MODERATOR: Lilla Hurst, Joint managing director, Drive

Joel Wilson
Creative director
Eleven

John Giwa-Amu
Owner
Red and Black Films

Libby Durdy
Executive producer/ founder
Duck Soup Films

Tendeka Matatu
Founder & MD
Ten10 Films

all3media International brings you a session full of laughs, loves and tears, with lunch to sustain you. Two leading lights of contemporary comedy, Fleabag Producer Lydia Hampson and Charlotte Lewis, Producer of Game Face and Witless , showcase and discuss hilarious and hurtful ways of producing in the genre. Featuring Fleabag and Game Face episodes.

The reliance on existing IP was one of the major trends coming out of the LA Screenings and has continued through 2016. At the expense of scripted formats, the raft of new dramas are either film remakes or reboots of former hit series). Is this just a safe bet for studios' vertical integration strategies and network brand recognition? How are these new franchises best executed?
MODERATOR: Ed Waller, Editorial director, C21Media

Kenton Allen
CEO
Big Talk Productions

Patrick Nebout
CEO
Dramacorp

Todd Lituchy
CEO
New Media Vision

Legion, inspired by the character from Marvel’s X-Men comics, is the story of David Haller (Dan Stevens), a troubled young man who may be more than human.

Noah Hawley serves as Executive Producer, along with Lauren Shuler Donner, Bryan Singer, Simon Kinberg, Jeph Loeb, Jim Chory, and John Cameron. Legion is the latest project from Hawley and Cameron, two of the executive producers of the Emmy® and Golden Globe®-winning FX anthology series Fargo.

By invitation only

Some of the world's top television producers discuss the increased pressure to find new stories in a saturated market, what is on their development slates, why they have recently gone independent and why it is important to produce on both sides of the Atlantic.
MODERATOR: John Yorke, Producer, writer, consultant & managing director, Angel Station

Jane Featherstone
Chief executive
Sister Pictures

Jane Tranter
Founder
Bad Wolf

Liza Marshall
Founder
Hera Pictures

French drama is making its mark on the international business. In this session we hear from those responsible for developing the next raft of French drama productions how they expect French drama to evolve in coming years.
MODERATOR: Mathieu Béjot, Executive director, TV France International
Produced in association with TV France

Fanny Rondeau
Head of Drama
France 2

Marie Guillaumond
Head of French TV drama
TF1

Olivier Wotling
Head of drama department
ARTE France

Véra Peltekian
Manager, French drama and co-productions “Original Programing”
Canal Plus

The growing trend for TV borrowing films' A-list 'talent packaging’ model on and off screen shows no sign of waning and continues to fuel the straight to series model. While fully funded, A- list helmed drama packages have put more power in the hands of creatives and producers, and avoided costly pilots, is this a double–edged sword for the networks? Is there anything lost in the lack of editorial development and input from the broadcaster? How is this model developing internationally?
MODERATOR: Holly Hines, SVP content, Dynamic Television

Andrew Marcus
President and chief operating officer
Critical Content

Christian Vesper
EVP and creative director of global drama
Fremantle Media

Kristin Jones
SVP, International programming and co-productions
AMC/Sundance

Lorenzo De Maio
Agent
WME Global Television

Critically acclaimed award-winning writer Paula Milne (The Politician’s Wife, The Virgin Queen, Small Island) talks to Lookout Point’s joint CEO, Faith Penhale about the craft of creating drama that resonates around the world, and her latest project The Same Sky. The Same Sky is a drama about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary times. Set in 1974 East and West Berlin it tells the story of a family divided by the Berlin Wall. It is is a UFA FICTION/Beta Film production for ZDF in co-production with Mia film in association with Rainmark Films.

Faith Penhale
Joint CEO
Lookout Point

Paula Milne
Screenwriter

ZDF Enterprises - a subsidiary of the German pub-caster ZDF - has been co-producing and developing high-class drama programming for decades. Here ZDFE presents its full-service offering, from development to production to marketing of TV content rights. Come and see premieres of the content from tomorrow...

The premium world drama streaming service Walter Presents unveils the unique Nordic Noir thriller, Valkyrien, which will launch on Channel 4 next year and is predicted to be the hottest foreign language acquisition of 2017. This exclusive world premiere screening will be preceded by a short Q&A with Walter Iuzzolino, the curator for Walter Presents, who will be joined on stage by actor Pål Sverre Hagen who plays 'Leif' and series creator and director, Erik Richter Strand.
MODERATOR: Dominic Schreiber, Drama consultant & executive producer, GroupM Entertainment

Erik Richter Strand
Creator & director
Valkyrien

Pål Sverre Hagen
Actor
Valkyrien

Walter Iuzzolino
Curator
Walter Presents

Channels and producers discuss the country’s burgeoning premium TV output, which is increasingly raising the bar to match the country’s cherished screen craft and film heritage. Latest hits include Gomorrah, ZeroZeroZero, The Medici, The Young Pope, Montalbano, Suburra and Non Uccider.
MODERATOR: Michael Pickard, Editor, Drama Quarterly

Eleonora Andreatta
Director
Rai Fiction

Giovanni Altieri
Director of business affairs content and product placement
RTI Mediaset Group

Lorenzo Mieli
President
Wildside

Luca Bernabei
Chief Executive Officer
Lux Vide

Marco Chimenz
President
Cattleya

Nils Hartmann
Director of original productions
Sky Italia

From bankers and financiers to brands and advertisers, many new players are now moving into the TV space. We talk to a selection of these about alternative financing models for independent TV drama.
MODERATOR: Jeremy Gawade, Lawyer, Lee & Thompson

Christian Wikander
Co-Production director
Pinewood Television

Harry Eastwood
Investment director
Ingenious Media

Jenna Seguin
Managing director
Aver Media

Norman Merry
Financial director
LipSync

Television is traditionally a writers medium, yet the directors' role is growing with many hired to work across a season rather than one episode. How is this move affecting authorship and how are directors adapting to film-making for the small screen? A panel of leading directors discuss these changes and their approach to the craft.
MODERATOR: Michael Pickard, Editor, Drama Quarterly

Ed Bazalgette
Director
Poldark, Houdini & Doyle

Jessica Hobbs
Director
Appletree Yard, River, Broadchurch

Kari Skogland
Director
The Walking Dead, House of Cards, Vikings

Tom Shankland
Director
The Fades, Ripper Street, The Missing

Whether buying into a show or a company some of the world's leading drama investors outline their future strategy to ensure they build progressive businesses equipped to cope for the next generation of international scripted entertainment.
MODERATOR: Sara Curran, Managing director, Industry Media

Elizabeth Dreyer
Head of international coproduction
Gaumont Television

Greg Phillips
President of distribution
Content Media Corporation

Louise Pedersen
Chief Executive Officer
All3Media International

Ruth Berry
Managing director
ITV Studios Global Entertainment

Stuart Baxter
President
Entertainment One Television International

Produced with Film London
We catch up with some of the most prolific drama producers on America's East Coast to see what they are developing and how they intend to work more closely with the international market.
MODERATOR: Adrian Wootton, CEO, Film London

Alysse Bezahler
SVP head of production/original programming
Sundance TV and BBC America, AMC Studios

Anne Carey
President of production
Archer Gray

Christina O’Shea-Daly
President
Dandelion Productions

Kathy Ciric
Television producer

Peter Saraf
Co-founder
Big Beach

Why not join us and discover the ground-breaking scene of Korean dramas? All invited audience are able to explore titles such as Descendants of the Sun and Signal which are highly-rated across Asian territories as well as locally. Engage in discussions supported by a prominent line-up of drama producers.
Speakers:
Baek, Sang Hoon – Producer (KBS)
Kim, Eun Hee - Screenwriter
Kim, Won Suk - Director and Producer (CJ E&M/Studio Dragon)
Screen 3

US screenwriters Bryan Fuller and Michael Green helm a behind the scenes look at Neil Gaiman’s much - awaited adaptation American Gods discussing the project from script to screen. The series, slated to air in 2017 will air on Starz in the US and Amazon Prime in UK, Germany, Austria and Japan. American Gods stars The Fall’s Gillian Anderson, Deadwood’s Ian Mcshane and Hollyoaks’ Ricky Whittle.
MODERATOR: Gareth McLean, Freelance journalist

Bryan Fuller
Screenwriter

Craig Cegielski
Co-CEO
FremantleMedia North America

Michael Green
Executive producer and co-showrunner

President, original programming and development, AMC and SundanceTV
AMC/Sundance's President of original programming and development provides a one on one interview on the state of the market in the US and internationally and outlines what's next for the iconic network behind Mad Men, Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead.
MODERATOR: Gareth McLean, Freelance journalist

Behind the scenes on Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein's (Bron/The Bridge) Midnight Sun, billed as the first French/Swedish coproduction for Canal Plus and SVT. The duo will discuss the creative process behind the new series, with a wider panel discussing making series for the European market. The 8×60’ thriller stars French actress Leïla Bekhti (The Prophet, All that Glitters) and Gustaf Hammarsten (Bruno, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo).
MODERATOR: Dominic Schreiber, Drama consultant & executive producer, GroupM Entertainment

Björn Stein
Björn Stein, Director, Midnight Sun

Christian Wikander
Co-Production director
Pinewood Television

Katrina Neylon
EVP of international sales and marketing
STUDIOCANAL

Måns Mårlind
Creator and director

Olivier Bibas
Executive producer/ co-managing director
Atlantique Productions

Stefan Baron
Exec producer
Nice Drama

Véra Peltekian
Manager, French drama and co-productions “Original Programing”
Canal Plus

Exclusive screening of the first episode of Team Chocolate. Jasper Vloemans works in a small chocolate factory that employs mentally challenged workers to package its products. He falls in love with one of his colleagues: Tina, a girl from Kosovo. When Tina is suddenly deported to her home country, Jasper and his friends set out on a road trip to find her. Written and directed by Marc Bryssinck and Filip Lenaert, the miniseries (7x52min) is being produced by deMENSEN, VRT and Proximus.

ITV’s recently appointed head of drama discusses strategy and programming at the network, including her first commissions Mike Bartlett’s Trauma; Kay Mellor’s Girlfriends; White Dragon, from Harry and Jack Williams’ indie Two Brothers and penned by Mark Denton and Jonny Stockwood and Next of Kin from husband and wife team Paul Rutman and Natasha Narayan.
MODERATOR: Michael Pickard, Editor, Drama Quarterly

Polly Hill
Head of drama
ITV

Sharon Tal Yguado, EVP of Fox Networks Global Programming discusses the group's global development, commissioning and pre buy strategy. With shows like The Walking Dead, Outcast, Wayward Pines and the upcoming Legion, Fox outside of the US has been able to position itself as a destination for global tentpole series. In a quickly evolving environment, Fox is looking to expand its global commissioning strategy to include original international productions. Sara Johnson, VP of scripted drama for Fox Europe will join the second half of the session to speak about European commissions.
Moderator: Nico Franks, Senior reporter & editor of C21Kids, C21Media

Sharon Tal Yguado
Executive vice president of global programming
Fox Networks Group