Series Mania, Beta Group offer film-to-TV grants

Series Mania is being held this week in Lille, France

NEWS BRIEF: French drama event Series Mania Forum and German distributor Beta Group have joined forces on SeriesMakers, a creative initiative focusing on feature film directors who venture into the world of series.

The aim is to support talent working on new scripted series by offering two out of 10 selected projects a €50,000 (US$55,000) grant each to develop a pilot script and a full package. Eligible for the initiative are director-producer and/or director-writer teams who have a first or second feature film screened in an official selection at an A-list film festival.