'Witness 36' (The Mediapro Studio), winner of the Series Mania award at the Berlinale

The Co-Pro Series competition of the Berlinale Series Market business meeting held within the framework of the Berlin Festival has recognized the new series of The Mediapro Studio, 'Witness 36', with the Series Mania award.

Witness 36, a spy thriller in development produced by Oficina Burman (The Mediapro Studio) and directed by Daniel Burman, which will be distributed worldwide by The Mediapro Studio Distribution, with this award ensures its presence in the Co-Pro Pitch of the contest to be held next March in the French city of Lille.

La ficción es, en palabras de sus creadores, “una reflexión sobre en qué lugar queda la verdad en la era digital realizada a través de la exploración de la identidad, la justicia y las segundas oportunidades. Ambientada en el mundo del espionaje, es una historia que trasciende su género. Una historia sobre el amor prohibido, la traición y la dificultad de empezar de nuevo”.

La producción está escrita por Natacha Caravia (Iosi, the repentant spy), Juan Matías Carballo (El Amor Después del Amor, El Grito de Las Mariposas), responsable de Contenido de Oficina Burman, y por el propio Daniel Burman (El Abrazo partido, Iosi, el espía arrepentido), y cuenta con la participación del productor norteamericano Michael Nozik, who has joined the Burman Office team) on this project.

Oscar nominated for Quiz Show (The Dilemma) and winner of a Bafta award from the British Film Academy for best foreign language film for motorcycle diaries, Nozik is also the producer of films such as Syriana, The Legend of Bagger Vance o Love in the time of cholera, among others.

In the series, a coalition formed by the main international intelligence agencies has decided to create an extraterritorial witness protection program to safeguard those individuals whose revelations could put global stability at risk. Its code name: Tzadik program. Given its geopolitical isolation and historical neutrality, Argentina will be the country chosen to implement the program in its pilot phase and this is where the English writer Laura MacGill comes into play. Without maintaining any personal contact with them, she will be in charge of designing the new identities that the witnesses who are part of the program must assume. Her life will fall apart when she meets a man whose profile turns out to be an exact reflection of one of the false identities she created herself.