Contact My Agentcreator Fanny Herrero has been unveiled as President of this year’s Canneseries Jury.
Herrero will be joined by Anne Marivin – star of the French Netflix sensation – on the six-person Jury, alongside Dallas Buyers Club’sDenis O’Hare, Sex Education’s Sami Outalbali True Detective’s Ólafur Darri Ólafsson and composer Daniel Pemberton.
They will be judging a distinguished list of Long Form Competition finalists, including shows by Academy Award-winners Oliver HirschbiegelJean-Xavier De LestradeThe Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen,Along with dramas from Israel and Canada, Spain, Spain, and Belgium.
Anthony Horowitz (acclaimed author-screenwriter), Marc Ruchmann (french actor-director) and Chinenye Udu (another) will oversee the Short Form Competition.Sex Education star.
Herrero is the inventor ofCall my Agent!The critically-acclaimed Netflix series that revolutionized non-English language progaming on the platform. She spoke at last week’s Series Mania of the show’s success, having started life in development hell, and a fifth series and feature are being prepared.
The fifth Canneseries takes place simultaneously with Mip TV, April 1 – April 6.