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Taking a lead from Helvetica was the guiding goal and brief from the ZDF Marketing/Corporate design team. In 20, the Berlin-based Design Studio bBox Type founded by Anja Meiners and Ralph du Carrois, completely revamped and redesigned the corporate ZDF typeface, with Fontwerk responsible for the font production and mastering. Based on an idea by Sofia Bruschetta, Ivano Fachin, Giovanni Galassi and Tommaso Matano.More freedom, means more fonts. Survivors is an original story written by Viola Rispoli, Max Bacchini, Sofia Bruschetta, Ivano Fachin, Giovanni Galassi and Tommaso Matano. With its topics and its setting, it represents – and it targets a modern, cosmopolitan audience we primarily reach with our digital platforms ZDFneo and Mediathek'. Within the framework of the European Alliance with RAI and France Télévisions, it’s another proof of added value generated by talented Italian writers, gifted actors from France, Italy, and Germany, and the deeply committed production companies Rodeo Drive and Cinétévé.

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Simone Emmelius, SVP International Fiction, Coproduction and Acquisition, ZDF: ' Survivors is a thrilling series that brings together bright European talent in front and beyond the camera. Survivors series brings together critical aspect of our missions, the promotion of young writers and the highlight of our talents in the International Market'. Therefore, it’s a great pleasure for us to be part of this high-end project within the Alliance framework France Télévisions, RAI, ZDF and with two independent production companies Rodeo Drive and Cinétévé. Nathalie Biancolli, SVP International Fiction: ' For France Télévisions, Fictions come in all shades and are placed as close as possible to contemporary creation.

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We are proud to be starting this adventure along with our international partners plus Rodeo Drive and Cinétévé, another step on the path to internationalising Italian TV drama'. It looks deep into the human soul and its relationships to show what we are capable of doing to stay alive. It’s a universal story, a nostos, a homecoming, with the language and plot devices of a mystery drama. The concept and the plot lend themselves well to the natural collaboration between our three countries’ broadcasters. Four young authors – Giovanni Galassi, Tommaso Matano, Sofia Bruschetta and Ivano Fachin – came up with the series, all of them trained at RAI’s screenwriting school in Perugia. What happened to the others? What secret are the survivors hiding? Each episode follows the complex events related to the return of the survivors, alternating with the terrible time they spent drifting to reveal, step by step, the secret of their trip.įrancesco Nardella, Deputy Director, RAI Fiction: ' Survivors is another landmark achievement of the fecund collaboration between RAI, France Télévisions and ZDF. A year later, the wreck is found with only seven people onboard still alive. After a few days of sailing, after a violent storm, the boat disappears from the radar.

At the heart of the story is the Arianna, a sailboat with twelve passengers that sets out on an ocean crossing.

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