Ms. Laurence Herszberg, founder and general director of Series Mania, and professional jury president Meghan Lyvers, SVP Co-Production & Development, CBS Studios International, announced this evening the winning project of Series Mania Forum’s annual Co-Pro Pitching Sessions.

Of the 16 projects selected and pitched on the first day of Series Mania Forum, the industry arm of the Series Mania Festival, the jury team selected the French drama series Purple as winner of the Series Mania Forum Best Project Award.

Along with Lyvers, the jury included Nathalie Biancolli, Director of Acquisitions & International Fiction, France Télévisions; Anne Croneman, Head of Programme Film & TV Drama, SVT; Caroline Torrance, Head of Scripted, Banijay Rights; and Christian Vesper, EVP & Creative Director for Global Drama, Fremantle. Together they had the honor of presenting a check for €50,000 to Harold Valentin, Aurélien Larger, and Simon Trouilloud from Mother Production, who are teaming with Judith Nora and Priscilla Bertin of Silex Films and writer-creators Judith Havas and Noémie de Lapparent to produce Purple, a drama set at a ‘90s Paris lesbian nightclub.