Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event

MIDPOINT Series Launch, an "idea-to-market" drama series project development program, is a project-based training targeting and tailoring its content for the creative teams of emerging professionals coming from the Central and Eastern European region and the only program of this kind working with both limited and ongoing series. Spanning over eight months, it also offers a training for junior/aspiring development executives.

Collaborating with a wide spectrum of tutors from both Western and Eastern Europe, who bring their expertise in the fields of writing, directing, producing, financing, marketing, pitching and distribution, the program offers a thorough and effective development process. It also helps the projects to be built in a “bottom-up” manner: from a very early development stage, the creative teams of writers and producers are led to defining their series concept and theme and outlining their pilot scripts, to creating their season arc and season outlines, as well as pitching documents and a financing strategy, to marketing and pitching their project and expanding their network.

The entire development process is used as a platform to train the attending development executive participants, who are being prepared for their future role of commissioning editors and development producers on real, existing series projects, acquiring skills needed for developing a diverse range of projects.

Projects developed within MIDPOINT Series Launch are presented at the most established professional industry platforms, accepted to the leading international TV markets and festival, commissioned, and developed by significant European broadcasters and financiers and its graduates have proven to become an important element in both their local and the international audiovisual ecosystem.

MIDPOINT Series Launch 2023 is realized with the support of the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, and the Czech Film Fund. It runs in partnership with Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, Series Mania, MIA Market, Sofia Meetings, TIFF AGORA Series, TV Drama Vision, Czech Audiovisual Producers' Association, and Serial Eyes. MIDPOINT Institute operates under the auspices of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.