Split Lot is a premium series that explores the hidden world behind film and television production, where ambition, creativity, power and reputation collide behind the scenes.
Every season moves to a new country and follows two new women producers, with different characters, personalities and lives. Different women, in different cultures, locked in different rivalries.
Season One · Paris
Two nearly identical projects cannot coexist. One must disappear.
Paris. An auteur feature film moving from development to pre-financing. Two producers chase the same subject, the same money, the same decision-makers and the same promise of recognition.
Theme: prestige, legitimacy, symbolic domination. Dominant power: institutional and cultural.
Each season then creates its own principle, born from its two lead producers, their projects and what they stand to lose.
Every season
- A new country
- A new cultural and economic system
- A new project, film or series
- Two producers in competition
- A central mystery tied to how the project was born
- A final industry event: a pitch, a market or a festival
The series uses a tight ensemble narrative, centered on the project’s progress and its human consequences.
The central idea
The entertainment industry doesn’t punish bad behavior. It rewards it.
Split Lot doesn’t denounce or moralize. It observes, and lets the structures appear: power without visible violence, decisions made off-screen, “reasonable” compromises, success built on silence. Globalization standardizes the balance of power, each territory adapts the same system to its own culture, and the human price is always paid somewhere else.
Season map
Two nearly identical projects cannot coexist. One must disappear.
Stage: Development → pre-financing
Theme: Prestige, legitimacy, symbolic domination
Dominant power: Institutional and cultural
Stage: Production
Theme: Optimization, diluted responsibility, human exhaustion
Dominant power: Administrative and procedural
Stage: Pre-production → financing
Theme: Influence, luxury, quiet corruption
Dominant power: Relational and informal
Stage: Development → greenlight
Theme: Algorithms, celebrity, standardization
Dominant power: Algorithmic
Stage: Shoot → post-production
Theme: Exploitation, real danger, cultural hypocrisy
Dominant power: Extractive
Stage: Post-production → distribution
Theme: Silence, hierarchy, erasure
Dominant power: Silent hierarchy
Six movements per season
Every episode ends on a psychological or structural cliffhanger. Never spectacular, always systemic.
Tone
Elegant. Cynical. Satirical without caricature. Grounded in reality. There are no heroes or villains in the classic sense, only people caught in systems bigger than themselves.
Production details
Split Lot is not a series about cinema. It is a series about power: what success costs, and who pays the price without ever being named.
Teaser poster
Support the series
Chicas Productions has launched a limited-edition collection with proceeds directly funding writing, visual development, and early production materials for Split Lot.