EXCLUSIVE: Orange is the New Black and Weeds showrunner Jenji Kohan is to deliver a masterclass at Seriesly Berlin, the new TV festival launching in the German capital next week.
The storied creator-showrunner will “share insights into her writing process, developing and pitching shows, handling feedback, and maintaining a strong creative voice,” according to the fest. The first-come-first-served talk is encouraging screenwriters in particular to register and will take place Tuesday at 1 p.m. CET (4 a.m. PT).
Kohan is the creator and showrunner of Showtime smash Weeds and Netflix’s Orange is the New Black, one of the streamer’s biggest early hits. Other credits include Tough Trade, GLOW and, more recently, Netflix’s The Decameron, which is an adaptation of the famous Italian novel.
Kohan will speak from the panoramic view of Berlin at Fotografiska’s rooftop bar.
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She joins a growing linuep that includes Amazon Germany Country Director Christoph Schneider, who will appear in a fireside chat alongside a teaser of German Cocaine Cowboy from Beetz Brothers Film Production.
Other speakers include Mel Eslyn, the President of Duplass Brothers Productions, Becoming Karl Lagerfeld creator Isaure Pisani-Ferry, and Joachim Landau and Benjamin Hoffman, creators of Canal+-Showmax drama Spinners.
Panel subjects include co-productions, female leads and using IP to balance fact versus fiction.
Seriesly Berlin will run across two days at the Fotografiska Berlin from September 16 to 18. Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the German Senate Department for Economics, Energy, and Public Enterprises are both partners and financial sponsors of the event, which will be run by German industry vet Eike Faecks and his newly founded outfit Regime Media.