Cyprus is the setting for a new “Med Noir” crime drama series, titled Farpoint, being pitched at the co-production forum during Rome’s MIA Market, Variety reported on October 15.
“An unsolved murder, a detective with a dark past, a bitterly divided island on the edge” are the elements “for a riveting ‘Med Noir’ series that marks the first stab at high-end international drama for the island nation of Cyprus,” Variety reported, adding that “the series is produced by the U.K.’s Three River Fiction and Cyprus-based Caretta Films and Splash Screen Entertainment, with ZDF Enterprises on board as a distributor.”
“It’s inspired by a real-life murder case in the 1990s that rattled an island nation best-known to millions of annual holidaymakers for its sun-soaked beaches and hedonistic nightlife,” Variety reported but remains divided after the illegal invasion of Turkey and the subsequent occupation of the north.
“Cyprus is a country that’s home to Greeks, Turks, British, and also a huge number of U.N. forces that are throughout the buffer zone that cuts the island in half,” said series co-creator and co-writer Andreas Kyriacou, Variety reported. “I wanted to use [the murder case] as the basis for a fictional story that will give me the opportunity to speak a little bit more about the island, and it’s a very unique place in Europe.”
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