Directed and written by Beatriz Seigner and Maíra Bühler, “Friends” was one of the three awarded projects at the first edition of “Seriesmakers”, a Series Mania initiative with the aim of encouraging film directors to explore the TV universe. The Brazilian filmmakers took home a financial incentive of €20,000, provided by the Kirch Foundation, in collaboration with the Beta Group and the HFF (University of TV and Cinema of Munich). The three winning series were announced this week during a festival forum.
Based in Lilie, France, Europe’s biggest television event received over 170 entries from 54 different countries. Among the registered directors were several important names, with passages in the main film festivals, including Juho Kuosmanen – winner of the Cannes Grand Prix – and César Díaz – winner of the Caméra D’Or. Of the 170 projects, only 10 were selected for a 4-month mentorship program, with the directors of series such as Game of Thrones, The Crown, House of Cards, In Treatmeant, The Girl from Oslo, Berlin Babilon, Spencer, among others. others. To close “Seriesmakers”, three series were chosen as the highlights of the edition, yielding an award to the Brazilians Beatriz Seigner and Maíra Bühler for “Amigas”.
“AMIGAS” – Directed by Beatriz Seigner and Maíra Bühler
Synopsis: Five friends meet again at the 25th anniversary party for high school graduates. Now 40 years old, life is far from what they imagined. The meeting triggers a traumatic experience that they lived together in adolescence and that they will have to face in order to free themselves in the present.
About director and screenwriter BEATRIZ SEIGNER:
Beatriz Seigner is the director, screenwriter and producer of the acclaimed film “Los Silencios” (Brazil, Colombia, France) which premiered at the Quinzaine des Realizateurs at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, having been distributed in more than 40 countries around the globe and with the which won numerous awards, including the CICAE Award from European distributors, the Impact Award by Ai Weiwei, from the Stockholm festival, the Best Direction and Critics Award at the 2018 Brasilia Festival, Best Direction at the Cartagena de las Indias festival, Best Artistic Contribution at the Havana Festival, Best Spanish Cooperation Film at the San Sebastian Festival, Best Film at the Nuremberg Festival, Best Screenplay and Direction at the Lima Festival, as well as an Honorable Mention from UNESCO, among others.
She is also the director, screenwriter and producer of the films: “Among Us, A Secret (2021)”, a documentary filmed in Mali with storytellers and mediators of traditional West African conflicts; From the short “A Familia de Olga (2019)” that makes up the feature film “Neigbours” (China, Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa), produced by renowned Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-Ke; From the fiction feature film “Bollywood Dream – O Sonho Bollywoodiano (2009)”, which premiered with great success in Brazilian cinemas in 2011, after having been awarded at more than 20 festivals around the world.
In addition to these films that raised Beatriz as a director of international prestige, Beatriz also worked as a screenwriter for Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas, Sérgio Machado, Vinicius Reis, Heloisa Passos, Katia Lund and Marilia Rocha, having also written series for HBO, GNT, and SescTV, with which he received the TAL award for best series script in Latin America in 2013.
About the director and screenwriter of MAÍRA BÜHLER:
Maíra Bühler is a director and screenwriter. His latest film, “Diz a Ela Que Me Viu Chorar” (2019) won the Best Film Award at the international competitive screening of the Olhar de Cinema festival, the Special Jury Prize at the Havana Film Festival and the Best Ibero American Film at the International festival from Uruguay, was awarded at the Cinéma Du Réel, in France, among others. She is also one of the directors of the film “A Vida Privada dos Hipopótamos” (2014) which premiered at FiD – Festival de Marseille and won the Best Editing Award at the Festival do Rio and the documentary Elevado 3.5, winner of Best Brazilian Film at É Tudo Verdade in 2007. He is currently developing the script for his next film, “Um Casamento”, awarded by the Hubert Bals Fund. She is also a series scriptwriter and has lately been working on international co-productions with Gaumont.
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