Yes Studios provides Lifeline in Cannes with new factual series and format

Lifeline uses access to Israel’s ERAN Association

Yes Studios, the Israeli producer and distributor known for drama series such as Fauda, Your Honor and Shtisel, will launch its second factual title at Mipcom next month.

Available as a four-hour or eight half-hour series and 1×74′ feature – plus a format – Lifeline goes behind the scenes at a helpline centre that receives calls on subjects from family violence and heartbreak to loneliness and suicidal thoughts.

With exclusive first-time access to the ERAN Association (Emotional First Aid) in Israel, the single-camera series follows the volunteers who receive the calls, while actors (to preserve anonymity) improvise based on notes from selected real cases.

Lifeline is produced by Yes Docu and Endemol Shine Israel for Yes TV and directed by Golan Rise and Sharon Yaish. The executive producers are Guy Lavie and Keren Gleicher. Yes Studios represents the completed series, feature and format worldwide.