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Blackspace
The psychological thriller, set in an Israeli high school, was also picked up by RTL for Germany and NPO for the Netherlands in a series of deals by Federation Entertainment.
Netflix has acquired
Blackspace, a new Israeli thriller series set during a high-school shooting, for most of the world.
The 8-part series, written by Anat Gafni and Sahar Shavit and directed by Ofir Lobel, follows the police investigation into a massacre of four students at an Israeli high school carried out by anonymous masked figures. Key to the investigation is an app, Blackspace, that the school s pupils use to communicate with one another, sharing their secrets out of view of their parents and the adult world.
Exhausting all possibilities to form a coalition Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called Blue and White’s Benny Gantz, Labor’s Merav Michaeli, and Meretz leader Nitzan Horovitz, Channel 12 news reports.
On Wednesday, Netanyahu called Mansour Abbas, chairman of Islamist party Ra’am, for the first time since the March election in a bid to get him to support direct elections, a proposal the incumbent prime minister has thrown his weight behind as his other attempts at forming a government after last month’s elections have so far fallen flat.
In his conversations with left-wing party heads, Netanyahu reportedly attempted to muster support for direct elections at a later stage, if the change bloc, guided by Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid, fails to form a government.
| 22 April 2021
Israeli independent studio Federation Entertainment has finalised several major global sales for its latest series Blackspace, described as a “riveting” psychological thriller that takes place in an Israeli high school.
The company says that its foundation heralds a new breed of independent studios, focusing on the creation, production, financing and distribution of high-quality original productions for the global marketplace.
Written by Anat Gafni and Sahar Shavit and directed by Ofir Lobel, Blackspace is co-produced by Drama Team (Chaim Sharir, Mosh Danon) and Federation Entertainment (Pascal Breton, Lionel Uzan) for Reshet 13.
The 8 x 60’ series begins with what looks like a normal morning at a small-town high school in Israel but turns into a nightmare when anonymous masked figures commit a massacre leaving four students dead. Chaos reigns between terrified parents as an investigation ensues. The lead detective knows this school well as he h
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