The Primetime program also unveiled new series by Lulu Wang, Shawn Levy, Ron Leshem and Sasha Leigh Henry.
Primetime programmer Geoff Macnaughton toldthat North American TV audiences are following TIFF and other film festivals in increasingly embracing foreign language subtitles, thanks to the success of“In the last few years, audiences have become much more accepting of what they watch. It speaks to how the world rights are taken by streamers and international series likeare finding an audience.
TIFF is also expanding its Primetime sidebar for serialized storytelling this year just as the global drama bubble bursts and indie TV producers are chasing new financing models. Indie TV producers are also eyeing the Toronto Film Festival’s imprimatur of cinephiles and global star power by screening here before imminent broadcast or streaming releases.
In response to the popularity of prestige international series on streamers, TIFF has booked nine series into Primetime this year, up from seven last year. That also includes a North American premiere for Paramount+’sa Korean battle of survival from Korean hitmaker Byun Seung-min as innocent bystanders find themselves stuck in an underground auction house for human organ trafficking when an earthquake traps criminals and victims alike.
The Korean dystopian thriller, which earned the best screenplay prize at Canneseries, is a follow-up to the 2015 short filmby director Lee Chung-hyun that played in Toronto. “It’s a wild ride. It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen. it’s so much fun,” Macnaughton said of theBlack Life: Untold Stories,Telling Our Story,And there’s a world bow for the Crave streaming comedy
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