Series Mania Institute, Europe's leading institution entirely dedicated to series, is continuing the international development of its Serial Bridges workshop.
Organized from November 13 to 17, 2025, in Tallinn, Estonia, during Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event, the new session, Serial Bridges Baltics brought together six screenwriter-producer duos from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, each with a series project with strong international potential in several genres: espionage, thriller, horror, and comedy.
Aimed at professionals, screenwriters, and series producers, Serial Bridges programme takes place around the world and opens up new perspectives for participants in the international audiovisual industry with each session.
Designed to connect series creators from the Baltic countries to the European market, Serial Bridges Baltics aims to help them find co-production and distribution partners, while strengthening their understanding of trends and mechanisms in the European series market.
Serial Bridges Baltic Best Project Award
Therapies
Written and directed by Birute Kapustinskaite
Produced by Dagne Vildziunaite
Production companies Smart Casual and Just a moment.
The award includes an invitation to participate in the Series Mania Forum 2026 in Lille.
Jury comment: “The story tackles universal themes that sadly probably affect everybody even in this room right now. But this story is told as a drama-comedy and we believe the tone is just right for this subject. We believe that the all female ensemble, offering drama and chaos but finally support and friendship, will be a pleasure to watch. The play has already travelled the world – now it’s time for the series to do the same. The winner is (maybe you already guessed it), Therapies!”
The jury included Dominika Erhart-Braná, Industry Programme Coordinator at Serial Killer Festival, Czechia Erik Pack, SVP of Global Co-Productions at Boat Rocker Studios, UK, Anna Ruohonen, Screenwriter of the 2025 Co-Production Development Award-winning project “The Women That I Think of at Night,” Finland.
The project Therapies also received the Serial Bridges Baltics Public Favourite Award. Altogether 297 votes were given to the category’s projects.
The selected projects are:
Serial Bridges Baltics is organized in partnership with the Institut français and Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, with the support of the Estonian Ministry of Culture, Elisa Eesti, Latvian Television, LRT, and the Estonian Film Institute. This project is supported by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Institut français, as part of the strategy to promote French Cultural and Creative Industries internationally.