Serielizados Prizes: Hagai Levi’s ‘Etty’ and ‘Astonishing’ ‘Killing a Bear’ Win Big as ‘El Observatorio’ Bags the Mind the Gap Pitch Prize

Influential Israeli creator Hagai Levi (“The Affair,” “Scenes From a Marriage”) and prominent Spanish TV-making duo Jorge and Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo (“La Zona”) won best international and national series at Barcelona’s Serielizados for “Etty” and “Killing a Bear” respectively.

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The prizes for Serielizados two competitive sections were announced Saturday night at a Serielizados awards ceremony.

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Both series in six-parts reflect the boldness of their respective creators, who broke new ground within traditional genres.

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In the French-Dutch-German show “Etty,” based on Dutch Jewish author Etty Hillesum’s diaries, Levi deliberately opted for a modern spin to the period piece in which we follow the passionate 27-year-old Etty as she embarks on a spiritual and emotional journey in a Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.

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In the Spanish show “Killing a Bear” (“Matar a un oso”) the Sánchez-Cabezudo brothers brought innovation to the crime genre, making a bear the victim, relating the crime from the POV of multiple characters, and expanding the number of prime suspects to a tight community of 262 Anti-Bears chat room in Spain’s idyllic high-Pyrenean Val d’Arán.

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“With this series, we felt really lucky to have been invited into a world so fully realised, so distinctly Catalan but portrayed with a confidence and a…

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