Series-Festival „die Seriale“ / Gießen

The oldest festival in Germany, dedicated to present and celebrate short form digital series.
Our goal is to connect, support and pay tribute to all talented creators from around the
world and to advertise their wonderful work.
Seriale Pro offers a comprehensive business platform for the digital series industry,
including the industry-related events, DIMA-Digital Market, Networking and the Pitch
Contest. Seriale Pro is a large-scale conference and networking event that takes
place for the sixth time as part of Seriale. DIMA Giessen took place for the first time three
years ago as the first German physical market to focus on short-format digital series.
DIMA-Digital Market Giessen is a Seriale collaboration with Bilbao Seriesland, Spain, and
Minnesota Web Fest, United States and the only market worldwide with a focus on Digital
Series. The DIMA online platform is available throughout the year for series creators
to present their projects to the industry. DIMA will be held during Seriale Pro. The Pitch
Contest will present 24 brand new concepts for Digital Series to the industry.
Pitch-Contest. The pitch contest took place on June 11, 2022 and consisted of four rounds total.
24 international series creators were given the opportunity to present their series
project in a three-minute pitch video.
Among them, some pitched their project for the first time.
In all four rounds, the pitchers had the opportunity to answer questions from the jury
and get constructive feedback.

Some series writers come from the environment of the Darmstadt University of
Applied Sciences, Department of Media and here explicitly from the Motion Pictures
course.
A graduate of the Media department won the pitch contest last year.
This year there were even two winners of the „Mediencampus Dieburg“.
Tajo Hurrle won first place in gold with the Series Rainbow Chameleon:

„Rainbow Chameleon“ by Tajo Hurrle
Country: Germany | Genre: Coming of Age | Format: 8 x 20 min
Lotte (15) wants one thing above all: to belong. That’s why she does everything she can to fit in with
her peers. But when Lotte meets Charlie (16), a confident non-binary person, Lotte starts to
question her gender identity. Unfortunately, her boyfriend Nick (15) can’t handle this change at all.
Torn between the fear of being rejected and the joy of discovering herself, Lotte must learn to own
her narrative.

Till Schadeck won second place in silver with the series Six Strings:

„Six Strings“ by Till Georg Schadeck
Country: Germany | Genre: Comedy, Drama | Format: 4 x 8-10 min
From the belly of a guitar we see honest stories of up-close people with real problems. They are
stories of abandoned dreams and of failure – of motivation, passion and a forgotten love for music.
Young, old, fat, thin, black, white. In each episode we find ourselves in a different guitar and
experience a new story of people and their relationship to music and the guitar.
The award ceremony took place at the Heyligenstaed on Sunday and was a
wonderful celebration.

The 24 Finalists:
Alison Burns (h_da, Mediencampus)
Allegra Celine Baumann
Aziz Alaca
Felix Münz & Stephanie Frohberg
Gabriela Cortés & Andrea Meneses
Gerald Birkenstock & Kaya Tina Büttner
Jennida Chase
Joschua Keßler & Josia Krug (h_da, Mediencampus)
Julia Maria Tilk
Mariia Eliseeva (h_da, Mediencampus)
Marvin Schumacher
Matthias Lawetzky
Maxine Rödiger, Julia Müller & Svenja Vanhoefer
Nathalie Marie Weiß (h_da, Mediencampus)
Niklas Bauer (h_da, Mediencampus)
Paul Balykin, Sebastian Simon & Kristian Wolff
Robert Jonathan Schäfer (h_da, Mediencampus)
Sophia Christine Stier & Phillip Harz
Steve Becker
Tajo Hurrle (h_da, Mediencampus)
Till Georg Schadeck (h_da, Mediencampus)
Victor Martini (h_da, Mediencampus)
Yvonne Abele & Melvin Lee Lewis
Zora Lewiz Link (h_da, Mediencampus)