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Federation Studios (Pascal Breton, Lionel Uzan, Marco Chimenz) has recently secured the international rights to DEAD END, a dark-comedy thrillerby acclaimed Flemish creator Malin-Sarah Gozin (Bad Sisters,Tabula Rasa, Clan).
The 6 X 52’ series is part of the official competition of CANNESERIES. The series will be presented on April 28th at 3.00 P.M. at Grand Auditorium Louis Lumière, in Cannes, in presence of creator, screenwriter and director Malin-Sarah Gozin, director Hans Vercauter, and actors Peter Van den Begin, Elise Schaap, Emilie De Roo, Marjan De Schutter and Ward Kerremans.
The series follows Ed Bex (the always magnetic Peter Van den Begin), who has a peculiar eating disorder: whenever he tastes something, he’s able to see flashes of what happened to it in the past. It’s a bizarre “gift” he uses in his unconventional job, running his one-man business “The Aftertaste”, where Ed helps grieving families cope by reconstructing the final moments of their loved ones. How does he do it? By “seeing” what only he can see – sucking on someone’s toothbrush or tasting their lipstick.
When Inspector Adams comes upon a corpse in an airtight bag, he turns to Ed for help catching the killer. Ed’s faced with a dilemma: should he use his unusual gift to solve the murder? If his freaky gift works on a carrot or a lamb chop, would it work on human flesh, too? As Ed “sinks his teeth” into the case, he finds himself caught in a whirlwind of bizarre events, family trouble and mid-life struggles.
The series was released in2025 on Play Media & Streamz in Belgium.
The ensemble cast includes Peter Van den Begin (Tabula Rasa, Good People…), Elise Schaap (Undercover, Amsterdam Empire…), Marjan De Schutter (Geldwolven), Emilie De Roo (Beau Séjour), Ward Kerremans (Soil) and Jesse Bo Gebruers (At Night We Fly).
DEAD END (original title: Dood Spoor) is created, written and directed by Malin-Sarah Gozin and co-directed by Hans Vercauter. Executive producers are Malin-Sarah Gozin, Brett Baer, Dave Finkel and Bert Hamelinck and Dimitri Verbeeck.
It is produced by Lompvis for Caviar, PlayMedia and Streamz and received the support from the Media Fund of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) of the Flemish minister of Media, Screen Flanders, BNP Paribas Fortis Film Finance & Caviar Film Financing.
DEAD END was released in 2025 on Play Media & Streamz in Belgium.
Federation Studios holds worldwide rights to the series.
About Malin-Sarah Gozin:
Malin-Sarah Gozin is an acclaimed Belgian television showrunner and creator. Her work has drawn international attention for its innovative storytelling and distinctive tone, as well as its genre-bending and blending approach. Malin-Sarah created the heralded series Clan, a dark-comedy thriller about four sisters who plot to murder their brother-in-law. The show was one of Belgium’s most successful television series, garnering multiple awards inside and outside Belgium and was later adapted to the international hit series Bad Sisters. Following Clan, she created Connie & Clyde, a two season comedy series featuring a woman who heads a matchmaking service while struggling with her own catastrophic marriage. Her subsequent signature drama was Tabula Rasa,a psychological thriller about a young woman who suffers from amnesia and who holds the key to a missing person’s case. Tabula Rasa enjoyed an impressive international festival tour and was broadcast in several territories, and appeared on Netflix.
Malin-Sarah is an Executive Producer and co-writer of the entire premiere season of Professor T, which launched on ITV, Britbox and PBS to great success. She also Executive Produced F*** You Very Very Much, which premiered on the Belgian streaming platform Streamz and aired on SBS’ Play4. She executive produced both critically acclaimed seasons of Bad Sisters for Apple TV+, based on her original series Clan, which received three BAFTA Awards, several Irish Film and TV Awards, a Peabody as well as four Emmy Nominations.
About Brett Baer & Dave Finkel:
Emmy Award-winning producer and writer Brett Baer began his career performing in the Groundlings’ Sunday Company and the ACME Comedy Theatre, where he met his longtime writing and producing partner, Dave Finkel. Emmy Award-winning producer and writer Dave Finkel is a Los Angeles native first made his way to the ACME Comedy Theater. There, he met his writing and producing partner, Brett Baer. Brett, Dave and Sharon Horgan adapted the successful Belgian format entitledClan as Bad Sisters for Apple and ABC Signature Studios. Brett and Dave served as showrunners for all seven seasons of New Girl,from pilot to finale. The pair started their writing careers on Steven Spielberg’s animated programs Animaniacs and Pinky and The Brain, for which they received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. In 2007, they won their first Emmy (along with a Writers Guild Award) serving as Co-Executive Producers on the comedy series 30 ROCK. Dave and Brett are currently Executive Producers on Brothers starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson for Skydance and Apple TV+. In addition, the team is developing a series based on the iconic and beloved film GALAXY QUEST for Paramount.
About Caviar:
Caviar is an Academy Award-nominated entertainment company with offices in Los Angeles, Brussels, London, Paris, and Amsterdam. Credits include the two-time Oscar winning film from Darius Marder, Sound of Metal, starring Riz Ahmed; the Sundance docu-feature Jawline; Chloé Zhao’s sophomore feature The Rider; The Diary of a Teenage Girlfrom writer/director Marielle Heller; Adil & Bilall’s latest film Rebel; and Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s directorial debut feature, War Pony. On the television side, Caviar won its first Emmy for Executive Producing the hit non-scripted cheerleader series for Netflix, Cheer; produced the AppleTV+ series Bad Sisters alongside Merman Films; and developed and produced the Peacock series Paul T. Goldman alongside Point Grey. Recently their critically acclaimed series Moresnet was released in Belgium and Caviar wrapped shooting Jody Hills’ Famous starring Zac Efron as well as Joey Powers’ Love Language starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Anthony Ramos and Manny Jacinto.
About Federation Studios:
Run by founder Pascal Breton and co-led by Lionel Uzan and Marco Chimenz, Federation Studios heralds a new breed of independent European studios, focusing on the creation, production, financing and distribution of high-quality original productions for the global marketplace. Federation Studios works with the best worldwide talents and partners on the scene today to create a strong distribution portfolio as well as an array of premium international productions.
The group federates 35 production companies located in Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Madrid, London, Berlin, Cologne and Tel-Aviv.
Active in the drama, kids & family, documentary and cinema space, Federation co-finances projects in the early stages and accompanies partners in their specific production needs throughout the entire creative process. The strong distribution arm of the company has been building up a rich lineup, mixing in-house and third-party premium content. Its portfolio includes major award-winning and international successes such as The Bureau, In Treatment, Around the World in 80 Days, Find me in Paris, Bardot, Mediterranean, Simon Super Rabbit…
