Ser­i­al Eyes

“Ser­i­al Eyes is utter­ly unique, pro­vid­ing a cru­cial bridge between the best work­ing meth­ods in Europe and in Hol­ly­wood. It gives work­ing writ­ers and pro­duc­ers the tools they need to learn how to bet­ter col­lab­o­rate and deliv­er world-class dra­ma series. I’m very excit­ed to be part of the pro­gramme.” Frank Spot­nitz

Ser­i­al Eyes is the first post­grad­u­ate train­ing pro­gramme for series writ­ers with a focus on the Euro­pean mar­ket. Over a peri­od of eight months (Sep­tem­ber-May), twelve par­tic­i­pants will deal inten­sive­ly with the spe­cif­ic work­ing meth­ods of ser­i­al devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion. The aim of the train­ing is to learn how to work togeth­er in the Writ­ers’ Room and devel­op inno­v­a­tive fic­tion­al series for­mats.

The pro­gramme con­sists of sem­i­nars and prac­ti­cal work­shops at the DFFB, the devel­op­ment of an indi­vid­ual series project and a group work as well as three excur­sions to Lon­don Stock­holm, and the Séries Mania Fes­ti­val in Lille. The entire train­ing takes place in Eng­lish.

Par­tic­i­pants will be taught by experts from the Euro­pean and US tele­vi­sion indus­try: estab­lished showrun­ners and head writ­ers, pro­duc­ers and edi­tors from var­i­ous Euro­pean tele­vi­sion com­pa­nies. The cost is €4,500 and cov­ers par­tic­i­pant fees as well as trav­el and accom­mo­da­tion costs dur­ing the trips.

The call for appli­ca­tions for Ser­i­al Eyes starts every year at the end of Feb­ru­ary and par­tic­i­pants are select­ed by June, start­ing in September/​October.

Ser­i­al Eyes is sup­port­ed by the MEDIA Cre­ative Europe Pro­gramme, Medi­en­board Berlin-Bran­den­burg and our part­ners ZDF, Audi­ble, Con­stan­tin Film, Dis­ney Ger­many, Atlan­tique, Dynam­ic Tele­vi­sion, Medi­awan, Real Film und Big Light Pro­duc­tions.