Crave and APTN lumi limited drama Little Bird will have its world premiere at the Series Mania television festival in March.

The 6 x 60-minute series will debut as part of the festival’s International Panorama competition. Series Mania is billed as the largest event dedicated to television in Europe, according to the festival website. The fifth edition of the festival will run from March 17 to 24 in the city of Lille in northern France.

Little Bird is co-created by showrunner Jennifer Podemski and head writer Hannah Moscovitch, both of whom also serve as executive producers. The drama portrays the impact of the Sixties Scoop, in which masses of Indigenous children were removed from their homes and placed into Canada’s child welfare system, through the perspective of a young woman.

The series is produced by Rezolution Pictures and OP Little Bird. Additional executive producers are Christina Fon, Ernest Webb, Catherine Bainbridge, Linda Ludwick of Rezolution Pictures, Nicholas Hirst and Kim Todd of Original Pictures, Christian Vesper and Dante Di Loreto of Fremantle, and Jeremy Podeswa. Directors on the series are Zoe Leigh Hopkins and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers.

Two French-language Canadian series will also have their international premieres at Series Mania.

Crave original Désobéir: Le choix de Chantale Daigle (Disobey) has also been selected for the International Panorama competition.

The series is produced by Montreal’s Also Productions and is a dramatization of the Supreme Court of Canada’s Tremblay v Daigle case, in which a woman’s right to a legal abortion was challenged by her former partner.

Désobéir: Le choix de Chantale Daigle was written by Daniel Thibault and Isabelle Pelletier based on a concept by documentary filmmaker Gaëlle d’Ynglemare. The series is scheduled to premiere on Crave on March 8.

Meanwhile, Télé-Québec mockumentary Nichole has been selected for the Short Forms Competition.

Produced by Jérémie Boucher and Gabriel Savignac of Inseparable Films, the six-episode series follows the fictional rise to fame of a Montreal singer. It was written by Guenièvre Sandré, who co-directed with Savignac. It premiered on Télé-Québec on Nov. 24.

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