Boosting Impact
From facts to fiction
Boosting and accelerating stories for scripted TV series based on true events. Stories with impact.
Facilitated by
Le Groupe Ouest
Our initiative, Boosting Impact, is designed together with Le Groupe Ouest, who will be the facilitator for both camps.
In collaboration with
La Cité Européenne des Scénaristes
6 TV series projects from 6 different countries will be selected and will follow a common and collective process especially designed for Boosting Impact.
We have built a framework providing a creative environment maximizing the quality of exchanges between writers, producers and broadcasters in the perspective of generating the most consistent path for your TV series. In addition, the researchers (scientists, journalists etc.), who provided the original source material for your story, will be part of the initial process.
Through a sharing space based on trust, the teams will contribute to each other’s projects.
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The camps are primarily focused on practice. Your team will explore your project's original material from different angles and perspectives. The potential of your project will be broadened and strengthened through varied creative methods, based on knowledge from cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and pre-writing tools.
Thus, the camps will be your forum for testing and further exploring your ideas, storylines, arenas and characters in a collective creative atmosphere, conducted by the “sparing partners” (tutors) working closely with le Groupe Ouest.
Our Goal
We ensure a highly collaborative, creative safe space with the goal of boosting each story's international TV series potential.
The goal is for your TV series concept to become a strong European series ready for commission. (IP to be shared in good faith).
Program
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6x teams of established writers, journalists/documentarists/scientists, producers and broadcasters.
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6x documented and investigative stories, in development, for scripted TV series.
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2x one-week camps.
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2x months in-between the camps where you are expected to further develop your project with deliveries prior to the 2nd camp.
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1x concluding two-day pitch conference where broadcasters and other industry decision makers will be invited.
Camp no. 1
08 - 12 April
Hamburg / Germany**
Camp no. 2
10 - 14 June
Galicia / Spain
Camp no. 3
25 - 27 September
Copenhagen / Denmark
FIRST CAMP OF BOOSTING IMPACT ENDS WITH GREAT SUCCESS
Throughout the first week, teams explored the universes of their stories through varied creative methods and pre-writing tools facilitated by Le Groupe Ouest. This collaborative effort, supported by broadcasters, sales agents, and emerging writers from across Europe, filled the projects with fresh storylines, opening up new perspectives and possibilities for each universe to grow.
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Boosting Impact's Second Camp in Santiago de Compostela!
Boosting Impact will host its second camp from June 10th to 14th, hosted by AGADIC - Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais
Meet the projects and the teams
We are proud to introduce you to the 6 selected teams and projects for Boosting Impact: from Facts to Fiction.
Jesper Fink
Denmark
DEADLINE
by Jesper Fink
DEADLINE unfolds in the world of football. It is not the ball that drives the plot, but the money and the kingpins' willingness to cross boundaries to enrich themselves, by “legal” human trafficking of under aged African football players to the EU. It is a thriller about organized crime in sports with a young female sports journalist as the investigating hero - and it takes place during the real Euro2020 in Copenhagen.
Michael Noer
Content provider
Director and creator
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Denmark
Sille Sterll
Producer at Nordisk Film
Denmark
Mehdi Ouahab
France
WHITE GOLD
by Mehdi Ouahab
WHITE GOLD is an international thriller series set against the backdrop of glass-eel trafficking. From the coasts of France to the markets of Asia, glass-eel trafficking is an unknown but lucrative criminal business that illustrates the gap between the short-termism of our consumer societies and the urgency of the environmental crisis.
Nicolas Legendre
Content provider
Journalist, writer and photographer
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France
Jean-François Le Corre
Producer at Vivement Lundi !
France
Sophie Linnenbaum
Germany
THE CLOUD
by Sophie Linnenbaum
A father trying to upload his daughter’s pain, a couple deleting their memories to forget about their grief and a young man hosting other people’s emotions: In the very near future, the Emopod, a small device developed and distributed by the global tech giant Emofair, enables you to upload, store or even outsource your feelings, physical sensations or memories. With the human brain completely decoded, emotional healing is now as easy as fixing broken bones. But is this new technology the Holy Grail it promises to be – or a fatal turn away from everything that makes us human?
Michele Farisco
Content provider
Researcher
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Italy
Britta Strampe
Producer at Bandenfilm
Germany
Jochen Laube
Producer at Sommerhaus Serien
Germany
Anna Bache-Wiig
Norway
Siv Rajendram Eliassen
Norway
STRICLY CONFIDENTIAL
by Anna Bache-Wiig & Siv Rajendram Eliassen
In 2011, as the international community prepares to bomb Libya’s dictator out of power, a secret team from Norway races against time to mediate between rebels and the regime, in a true tale of courage and clandestine diplomacy.
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Only Anna Bache-Wiig will be present for Camp 1 and 2.
Henrik Thune
Content provider
Acadmic, writer, politician and diplomat
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Norway
Rebecca Mathisen
Producer at Paradox Film
Norway
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Rodrigo Martín Antoranz
Spain
THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE CONDOR
by Rodrigo Martín Antoranz
On a vacation trip to London in 1998, Augusto Pinochet was arrested and accused by a Spanish judge of crimes against Humanity. Valentina, a victim of the dictator’s regime, infiltrates his inner circle for the 503 days that the trial for extradition to Spain lasts to achieve her revenge.
Mario Amorós
Content provider
journalist, writer and researcher
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Spain
Alberto Rull
Producer at Vertice360
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Spain
Christian Wehrlin
Switzerland
Pascal Glatz
Switzerland
GOLD
by Christian Wehrlin and Pascal Glatz
GOLD reveals one of the best-kept secrets: neutral Switzerland is a central hub of the illegal international gold trade. Two thirds of the global gold is secretly refined in the heart of Europe and then sold on the world market with the label of clean “Swiss Gold”. GOLD follows the bloody path of the dangerous trade, telling the true stories of the miners and smugglers, refiners and traders, right up to the big profiteers at the end of the line.
Only Christian Wehrlin will be present for Camp 1 and 2.
Muriel Côte
Content provider
Researcher and senior lecturer
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France
Stefan Eichenberger
Producer at Contrast Film
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Switzerland
Meet the selected Emerging Writers
Six emerging writers from all over Europe have been selected to join, shadow and collaborate with the established teams and their projects. This is the result of a collaboration between EWC and La Cité Européenne des Scénaristes (CES).
Meet our broadcasters
Alongside Boosting Impact, 10 broadcasters will be participating in Boosting Broadcasters.
Tereza Polachová
International Fiction
Head of co-production
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Ceska Televize, Czech Republic
Morad Koufane
Head of International Scripted Series
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France Télévisions, France
Margrét Jónasdóttir
Deputy Head of TV
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Rúv, Iceland
Malin Nevander
Head of Development
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SVT, Sweden
Pernille Bech Christensen
Senior Executive Producer in
the Fiction Department
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TV2, Denmark
Dr. Simone Emmelius
SVP International Fiction
Co-production and Acquisition
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ZDF, Germany
Marianne Furevold-Boland
Head of Drama
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NRK, Norway
Bettina Alber
Head of Series
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Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF, Switzerland
Jennifer Green
Executive Producer
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TV2, Denmark
Frank Seyberth
International Fiction
Head of co-production
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ZDF, Germany
Ales Ree
Executive Producer
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NRK, Norway
Toomas Luhats
Head of Drama
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ERR, Estonia
Steven van Roosmalen
Commissioning Editor Scripted
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Videoland, Holland
Anna Croneman
Head of Drama
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SVT, Sweden
Our sales
For the first time in an EWC Boosting Session, the participants will get to directly collaborate with Sales Agents.
Meet our facilitators
These are the people behind the innovative tailor-made Boosting Impact methodology.
Our special advisory group & selection committee
EWC has surrounded itself with the best advisors within the world of investigative journalism to develop its Boosting Impact session. These eight advisors are our jury members for the selection of the Boosting Impact projects.
