Encore Television’s horror drama series Corbeaux (Crows) has been chosen as part of the European Film Market’s (EFM) Berlinale Series Market Selects.
The 6 x 43-minute series, written by Pierre-Louis Sanschagrin (Contre-offre), was released on Illico+ Dec. 5, 2024 and is directed by Stéphane Lapointe (Tout sur moi). Encore’s Jaime Alberto Tobon, Frédérique Traversy, Patrick Lowe and Julie Provençal are producers. Encore Television-Distribution is the series’ world sales agent.
Corbeaux stars Mylène Mackay (Nelly) Pascale Bussières (Chaos), Lou Thompson (Mea Culpa), Joanie Martel (Les beaux malaises), Mani Soleymanlou (Universal Language) Iannicko N’Doua (Nuit blanche) and Marie Tifo (Les bons débarras).
In the series, a veteran investigator must team up with a young rebellious peer when a gruesome murder shakes the city.
The series was filmed from April 27 to May 29, 2024 in the Greater Montreal Area and Lévis. Corbeaux received support from its commissioning broadcaster Illico+, the Quebecor Fund and the Canada Media Fund along with Quebec and federal tax credits.
Canadian-Pakistani filmmaker Zarrar Kahn (In Flames) will also be taking part in EFM through its Berlinale Co-Production Market. Kahn’s film Suffering Is Optional, produced by Lindsay Blair Goeldner’s (I Like Movies) LBG Films and Kahn’s CityLights Media, is looking to enter production, contingent on financing, near the end of 2025 or early 2026, Goeldner tells Playback Daily.
Anam Abbas and Karen Harnisch from Film Forge are executive producers.
Canadian series Lucy. Maud., produced by Story Girls Productions, will also be at the Berlinale Co-Production Market. The 8 x 60-minute series is directed by and stars Megan Follows as the author of Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery. Writers on the series include Susan Coyne and Rosa Laborde and it is produced by Megan Follows, Edwina Follows and Mary Young Leckie. Coyne is the creator and showrunner for the series.
The series delves into the passionate affairs, literary stardom and vivid imagination of Montgomery.
Lucy. Maud. will be heading to Berlin with the aim of securing financing, presales and international distribution, according to the film’s producers. The series aims to shoot in 2025.
EFM runs from Feb. 13 to 19.
Image courtesy of Encore Television; photo by Marlene Gelineau Payette