We are delighted to inform you that TVP’s latest production – TV drama series BODO directed by Michał Kwieciński and Michał Rosa, has been selected to be presented at the MIPDrama Screenings. This event, designed to meet the growing international demand for high-end drama series, especially originating from Europe, as well as other major drama-producing territories, will be held on the Sunday 3 April 2016 (9.00-18.30), just ahead of MIPTV, at the JW Marriott Hotel in Cannes, France. Some 350 leading acquisition executives from around the world will be invited to take part in a day dedicated to the global scripted entertainment market, featuring exclusive previews of the hottest new dramas being launched at MIPTV.
Reed Midem’s TV Division, which stages international TV events MIPTV and MIPCOM, brought together six leading international acquisition executives to sit on Drama Buyers Advisory Board. The international creators and showrunners make up the all-star Selection Jury:
Chris Long, Director & Executive Producer of The Americans and The Mentalist (USA)
Søren Sveistrup, Creator & Writer of Forbrydelsen/The Killing (Denmark)
Anna Winger, Writer & Co-Creator of Deutschland 83 (Germany)
Teresa Fernández-Valdés & Ramón Campos Sáez, showrunners for The Refugees, Velvet,
and Gran Hotel (Spain)
Sarah Phelps, Writer & Executive Producer for And Then There Were None, whose credits
also include Casual Vacancy and Great Expectations (UK)
TVP production BODO will be competing with dramas from Finland (
Bordertown),Spain (
I know who you are), Germany (
Ku’Damm 56- Rebel with a cause), Russia (
Mathilde), Italy (
Medici: Masters of Florence), Belgium (
Public Enenmy), Chile (
Ramona), France (
Section Zero), and the UK with three productions (
The A Word), (
The Secret) and (
Victoria).
The MIPDrama Buyers Advisory Board will present an Award to the best programme at the end of screenings. We strongly believe that our series has great chances to win this prestigious award.
BODO is a series depicting life of Eugene Bodo - a man of many talents. The artist was a major star of Europe between wars. He was an actor, director, producer, businessman, the central figure of numerous gossip and scandals. Women went crazy for him, men wanted to be like him. The biography of the cabaret and movie star would be enough for a bunch of people.
The story presents Bodo’s way to success, which was not always ‘a bed of roses’. Viewers will have a chance to follow the man’s difficult decisions and life choices, running away from home, early steps on stage in a provincial theatre but also his relationship with possessive mother and love affairs with a number of women including Nora Ney. The 13-episode drama series will bring back the times of early movie sets and the heyday of cabaret stages. Glitter, scandals, roaring twenties music of the era combined with astonishing performances of dancers and actors all that and much more are bound to amaze the audience.
