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DIRECT TO SERIES is an event co-organized by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in
the United States and the Ile-de-France Film Commission.
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States are intended to promote
French culture in all its diversity. The French Cultural Services provides a platform for exchange
and innovation between French and American artists, intellectuals, educators, students, the
tech community, and the general public. Based in New York City, Washington D.C., and eight
other cities across the US, the Cultural Services develops the cultural economy by focusing on
six principal fields of action: the arts, literature, cinema, the digital sphere, French language
and higher education. The French Cultural Services is interested in new and challenging
ideas that will bring French and American people together in creative collaboration.
The Ile-de-France Film Commission, a public establishment for Cultural Cooperation was
established in 2004 at the initiative of the Ile-de-France in the framework of its cultural policy
for the recovery of the film and audiovisual sector. Its main duties are to facilitate filming in
the region by offering French and foreign film crews the best possible work conditions and
production framework and to facilitate the setting up of French and foreign co-productions so
as to make the Ile-de-France region a prime location for international productions.
The Ile-de-France Region provides a yearly financial help of 15M€ for Film and Audiovisual
Technical Industries. Among the recent French series supported by the Ile-de-France region :
“The Bureau”, “The Returned”, “Trepalium”, “Versailles”.
French series:
a global opportunity
One of the major players of the American and international scene said one day: “I consider
French opportunities as global opportunities”. And that is exactly the purpose of “Direct to
Series”: to bring French contribution to the global market’s very heart of creation.
In the global industry of programming, TV series are the cornerstone and the theater of a fierce
competition where innovation is the key factor. Innovation is unpredictable but always comes
from a strong culture of narration. Balzac and Dumas invented the serial novel in the mid-19th
century and the first film serials were produced by Léon Gaumont in the early 20th century.
The creative potential of French producers inherits today this long tradition in a new context
designed by the open international competition. “Direct to series” is the creative link between the
remarkable capacity of innovation of the American industry and this emerging renewed capacity
in France due to the high level of competition introduced by the excellence of American shows.
The ambition of “Direct to Series” is to bring these innovative series to Los Angeles, to open a
fertile debate with the creators of American series and contribute to the reinvention of the
French model through this exciting confrontation. The Cultural Services of the French Embassy
and the Ile-de-France Film Commission have to thank for their time and dedication their brilliant
editorial committees in France and the US.
French Committee
American Committee
• Caroline Benjo • Producer • Haut et Court
• Virginie Brac • Writer (Spiral - Paris)
• Vassili Clert • Producer - Son et Lumière
• Jérôme Cornuau • Director, Writer (The Passenger - Chic)
• Jimmy Desmarais • Producer - Haut et Court
• Stéphane Drouet • Producer - Making Prod
• David Elkaïm • Writer (The Churchmen)
• Frédérique Massart • Director of audiovisual
•Patrice Courtaban • TV5 Monde USA
• Carlton Cuse • Showrunner - Scriptwriter (Bates Motel - Lost)
• Vince Gilligan • Showrunner - Scriptwriter (Breaking Bad)
• Dan Halsted • Man Agement - Agent
• Neil Landau • UCLA - Head of Writing for TV Program
• Brian Lowry • Variety - TV Critic
• Steve McPherson • Wonder Monkey TV - Producer
• Philippe Maigret • ITV Studios America - President,
rights - Editions Gallimard
• Nora Melhli • Producer - Shine France Films
• Franck Philippon • Writer (No Limit - Tunnel S2)
• François-Pier Pélinard-Lambert • Le Film Français
• Laetitia Recayte • Director of Business Development,
France Télévisions
• Fabienne Servan-Schreiber • Producer -
Scripted Programming
• Katie O’Connell
• Naren Shankar • Scriptwriter, Producer, Director
(Almost Human - C.S.I.)
• Diego Suarez • SVP International Film&TV Production, Sony
• Matthew Weiner • Showrunner - Scriptwriter
(Mad men - Sopranos)
Cinétévé
• Matthieu Viala • Producer - Makever
• Olivier Wötling • Director of Fiction - ARTE France
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy
in the United States
Bénédicte de Montlaur
Mathieu Fournet
Consulate General of France in Los Angeles
Christophe Lemoine
Séverine Madinier
The Ile-de-France Film Commission
Olivier-René Veillon
Cécile Petit-Vallaud
Yann Marchet
Joanna Gallardo
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Schedule
27
28
oct
All Day
6:00 pm
ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS
FOR SELECTED PROJECTS
Individual meetings with American
professionals for 10 French projects
in development seeking for American
partners
Screening: THE BUREAU followed
by a Q&A with producer Alex Berger
& writer Raphaël Chevènement
oct
9:00 am
WELCOME COFFEE
9:45 am
Screening show reels program
SUCCESS STORIES
10:20 am
Screening :
NO SECOND CHANCE Followed
by a Q&A with director François Velle
and producer Sydney Gallonde
11:30 am
Conversation with Douglas Kennedy
12:30 am
LUNCH BREAK
2:00 pm
Screening show reels program
NOUVELLE VAGUE
2:30 pm
PANEL
«Some good reasons to shoot
series in France»
4:00 pm
Screening :
IRRESPONSIBLE
4:30 pm
PANEL
«USA-France, How to create
together?»
5:30 pm
Screening :
TREPALIUM followed
by a Q&A with producer Katia Raïs
and director Vincent Lannoo
7:45 pm
Screening :
VERSAILLES followed by a Q&A
with showrunners Simon Mirren
& David Wolstencroft
Pacific Design Center • 750 N. San Vicente Blvd, str. 1600 • West Hollywood, CA 900 69
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CONVERSATION WITH DOUGLAS KENNEDY
28 Oct - 11:30 am Douglas Kennedy is an internationally renowned and bestselling novelist. His 11 novels have
been translated in 22 countries.
Born in Manhattan in 1955, he graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1976.
“I was a history major,” Kennedy explained. “Retrospectively, I think the history major provides
much better training for a novelist. So much of what I do in my own fiction is observational; is
looking at behavior. By studying human history you really see how human folly endlessly repeats
itself. In my work—in whatever form it takes—I am very much grappling with what it means to be
American in this way.” In 1977, he returned to Dublin, a city where he lived for one year when he
was a student, and started a co-operative theatre company with a friend. He was later hired to
run the Abbey Theatre’s second house, The Peacock.
At the age of 28, he resigned from The Peacock to write full time. After several radio plays for
the BBC and one stage play, he decided to switch directions and wrote his first book, a narrative
account of his travels in Egypt called Beyond the Pyramids, which published in 1988. Kennedy
and his wife moved to London that year, where Kennedy expanded his journalistic work, and
wrote for The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Listener, The New Statesman, and the
British editions of Esquire and GQ.
Kennedy’s novels are often written in European landscapes, and have been particularly
acclaimed and beloved in France, where Kennedy was awarded the French decoration, The
Chevalier de l‘Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2007.
Douglas Kennedy is actually working on the adaptation for television of two of his most famous
novels with French producer Sydney Gallonde - VAB Productions: A Special Relationship
(broadcaster TF1) and The Pursuit of Happiness.
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© 2015-2016 Le Bureau des légendes TOP - The Oligarchs Productions
THE BUREAU
(LE BUREAU DES LÉGENDES)
SYNOPSIS
Within the French secret service, known as the DGSE, operates a clandestine
branch of undercover agents. Dispatched to key locations all around the world
and living under false identities for years at a time, their mission is to seek out and
identify potential sources.
In order to fulfill their mission, their false identities must be totally undetectable
and highly elaborate. These fabricated identities are called legends, creating
them takes months of work, maintaining them, takes discipline. All this and more
lies deep in the heart of the most confidential branch of the secret service: The
Office of Legends a.k.a The Bureau.
The series kicks off with the return to the DGSE headquarters in Paris of GUILLAUME
DEBAILLY, after a six-year mission in Syria. All too soon, the department gets hit
with a major crisis: CYCLONE, a secret agent operating in Algeria has completely
vanished off the grid.
DUFLOT, head of the BUREAU, needs to quickly track and lock down Cyclone’s
whereabouts., all resources are dedicated to this case. Questions start to clutter
and pile up: was an error made during the making of Cyclone’s legend? Did he
turn on the DGSE and become a double agent? Is he still alive? Duflot decides to
call on Dr. BALMES, a recently enrolled psychiatrist whose task is to observe and
draw up surveillance reports on each member of the force. In the midst of locating
Cyclone, The Bureau must also maintain a close eye on a promising new recruit:
MARINA. Once her training completed, she will be sent on a difficult mission:
infiltrate Iranian nuclear activity. But before being sent off, she has to complete
a full test of her abilities: eluding pursuers, resisting violent interrogation tactics,
staying undercover at all time and of course manipulating people.
Guillaume manages to make progress on the Cyclone case, but his personal and
“normal” life in Paris is proving difficult especially when he is informed that Nadia,
a woman he was madly in love with during his last mission in Syria is actually in
Paris. For love, he is willing to take risks…for him and the Bureau.
attending
Alex Berger
Raphaël Chevènement
(writer)
Writers Eric Rochant, Camille De Castelnau, Emmanuel Bourdieu, Cecile Ducrocq,
Elena Hassan, Corinne Garfin, Duong Dang-Thai, Juliette Senik
Production Companies TOP - The Oligarchs Productions, Federation Entertainment (FEDENT)
Producers Alex Berger, Eric Rochant, Pascal Breton
Directors Eric Rochant, Jean-Marc Moutout, Helier Cisterne, Mathieu Demy, Laila Marrakchi
Cast Mathieu Kassovitz, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Léa Drucker, Sara Giraudeau,
Florence Loiret-Caille, Jonathan Zaccai, Gilles Cohen, Alexandre Brasseur,
Michael Abiteboul, Zineb Triki, Atmen Kelif, Medhi Nebbou, Elodie Navarre
Broadcaster Canal+
International sales Federation Entertainment (FEDENT)
Filmed in Paris, Ile-de-France and Maroc
Support of Ile-de-France Region
Format 10 x 60’
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TREPALIUM
SYNOPSIS
In this dystopian thriller, the economic situation is a nightmare: only 20% of
the population is actively employed. Everybody else is jobless. The Actives live
secluded within the city limits. On the fringes, in the Zone, live the Jobless. Two
opposing territories in a dehumanized society, separated by a fortified wall.
attending
Katia Raïs
Vincent Lannoo
Emmanuelle Bouilhaguet
CREATORS Sophie Hiet and Antarès Bassis
WRITERS Antarès Bassis, Thomas Cailley, Sophie Hiet and Sébastien Mounier
Production CompanY Kelija
Producer Katia Raïs
Director Vincent Lannoo
Cast Pierre Deladonchamps (Ruben), Léonie Simaga (Izia), Ronit Elkabetz (Nadia), Aurélien Recoing
(Silas), Olivier Rabourdin (Sol), Charles Berling (Bartholomé), Lubna Azabal (Lisbeth)
Broadcaster Arte
International sales Lagardère Studios Distribution
Support of Ile-de-France
Format 6x52’
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© Tibo & Anouchka Capa Drama Zodiak Fiction Incendo Canal+
VERSAILLES
SYNOPSIS
Welcome to Versailles – a world of power, betrayal, love, lust and declarations
of war. King Louis XIV of France is a 17th century rock star, an extraordinary
strategist and an utterly ruthless ruler.
The year is 1667. Louis is 28 and finally in sole command of his kingdom. Haunted
by childhood memories of a bitter coup against his father, he commissions the
most beautiful palace in Europe, Versailles.
The nobles crave entry to this lavish château, not realising that its purpose is to
imprison and control them. One of Louis’ prime targets is his younger brother,
Monsieur, an effeminate dandy and formidable warrior. The court is also a
battleground for love as Louis’ queen, Marie Therese, fights to tame his wandering
eye. Can she win back his heart from his mistress, the sister of the King of England?
This epic drama takes us on a thrilling journey into the most glamourous period
in history, where the cult of celebrity was born. A world of power, betrayal, love,
lust and declarations of war, where courtiers battle for the King’s favour. This is
Versailles in all its brutal glory.
attending
Simon Mirren
David Wolstencroft
Gaspard de Chavagnac
(President, Zodiak France)
SHOWRUNNERS Simon Mirren & David Wolstencroft
WRITERS Simon Mirren & David Wolstencroft, André Jacquemetton & Maria Jacquemetton,
Sasha Hails, Andrew Bampfield
PRODUCTION COMPANY Zodiak Fiction, Capa Drama, Incendo
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Claude Chelli, Jean Bureau, Anne Thomopoulos, Simon Mirren
& David Wolstencroft
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Aude Albano
DIRECTORS Jalil Lespert, Christoph Schrewe, Thomas Vincent, Daniel Roby
CAST George Blagden, Alexander Vlahos, Tygh Runyan, Stuart Bowman, Amira Casar,
Noémie Schmidt, Anna Brewster, Sarah Winter, Evan Williams , Anatole Taubman, Steve Cumyn,
Lizzie Brochere, Elisa Lasowski, Dominique Blanc
BROADCASTER Canal+, Super Channel
INTERNATIONAL SALES Zodiak Rights except Canada
FILMED IN Ile-de-France
SUPPORT OF CNC, Telefilm Canada, Ile-de-France Region
FORMAT 10 x 52’
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NO SECOND CHANCE
(UNE CHANCE DE TROP)
created by Harlan Coben
SYNOPSIS
“How far will you go to save your child?”
Alice has no choice. She will go as far as it takes. But as she descends into her own
private hell, dark secrets about the past begin to surface…
Early one morning, Dr. Alice Lambert gets up early to fix a bottle for Tara, her
six-month old daughter. Suddenly, two gunshots ring out. Everything goes black.
When Alice emerges from a coma a week later, a nightmarish reality awaits. Her
husband was murdered and her baby is missing.
Suspected by the police and hunted by ruthless hitmen, Alice refuses to give up. She
can feel it, she knows her daughter is alive out there somewhere, waiting for her.
Alone in her search for Tara, Alice turns to Richard her first love and a former
criminal investigator. And more importantly, the only person she can really trust.
attending
Sydney Gallonde
François Velle
WRITERS Delinda Jacobs, Patrick Renault, Olivier Kohn, Sébastien Vitoux, Kristel Mudry, Mehdi
Ouahab, Frédérique Chansel, Emilie Clamart-Marsollat
SHOWRUNNER Harlan Coben
PRODUCTION COMPANY VAB Productions
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Sydney Gallonde
DIRECTOR François Velle
CAST Alexandra Lamy, Pascal Elbe, Hippolyte Girardot, Charlotte Des Georges, Fanny Valette,
Françis Renaud, Lionel Abelanski, Lionnel Astier, Caroline Santini, Dana Delany, Lorant Deutsch,
Frédérique Tirmont, Didier Flamand, Samira Lachhab, Arièle Semenoff, Benjamin Baroche,
Marie-Julie Baup, Sébastien Libessart, Leslie Medina, Darko Bulatovic, Claire Tran, Paul Velle
BROADCASTER TF1
INTERNATIONAL SALES TF1 D.A
FILMED IN Ile-de-France
FORMAT 6 x 52’
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© Nathalie Guyon / FTV / France 5
© Serge Gauvin
Series
Lifestyle Cinema
TV5MONDE, America’s only 24/7 French language entertainment channel,
offers recent series and films, international news, lifestyle shows, sports,
documentaries and more with English subtitles!
TV5MONDE is available through cable and satellite in the U.S.
To learn more, visit www.tv5mondeusa.com
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Series Selection
© E. Chognard - CCSP / Quad Télévision / Studio FTV
@ Photo by Aurélien Faidy / Visual created by Samie Schmelck
SUCCESS STORIES
THE DISAPPEARANCE (DISPARUE)
CAPTAIN SHARIF S3 (CHERIF)
Synopsis
Synopsis
It’s the night of the Music Fest in the city of Lyon, the perfect evening for Lea to go
out and celebrate her seventeenth birthday with her cousin Chris.
But when morning comes and Lea still hasn’t come home, her parents are
distraught. Her father, Julien, sick with anxiety and frustrated by the lengthy delays
of police procedures, takes the case into his own hands. Meanwhile, his wife,
Florence, struggles to cope and keep her family from falling to pieces.
Detective Molina, a newcomer to Lyon, takes charge of the case while doing his best
to adapt to his new surroundings and his younger police partner, Camille Guérin.
With them we plunge deep into the lives of the tightly knit Morel family circle, where
each member seems to be hiding his own personal secret. As the case unravels we
discover that Lea was in fact a much more mature and complexe woman than she
led to believe.
“THERE’S A NEW SHARIF IN TOWN!”
IS DESTINY IN A NAME?
It would seem so for Kader Sharif, who, like the sheriff in an old western, dreamed of
serving his country in the National Police Force since childhood. Son of North African
immigrants from a tough suburb of Lyon, this cop TV show fanatic’s dream came true:
he solves crime with his own methods, like his TV heroes. Sharif knows the streets, and
has that mix of instinct and psychology. He is humorous, charming and an “out of the
box” thinker. His collaborator is everything he is not: a highly organized, by the books,
professional female: Captain Adeline Briard. Sharif is apparently the opposite of
Captain Briard, but her natural complement as well. Sparks will fly as they fight crime
and as they get to know each other.
CREATORS Lionel Olenga, Laurent Scalese & Stéphane Drouet
WRITERS Lionel Olenga, Marine Gacem, Laure De Colbert, Baptiste Filleul, Yannick Hervieu,
Pascal Perbet, Tristan Petitgirard, Cécile Leclere, Mehdi Ouahab, Virginie Schwartz
PRODUCTION COMPANY MakingProd
PRODUCER MakingProd, Stéphane Drouet
DIRECTORS Vincent Giovanni, Akim Isker, Julien Zidi
CAST Abdelhafid Metalsi, Carole Bianic, Mélèze Bouzid, Elodie Hesme, François Bureloup,
Nathalie Blanc, Greg Germain, Vincent Primault, Arnaud Binard, Frédéric Gorny
GUESTS Soren Prevost, Cyrielle Debreuil, Patrick Descamps, Annelise Hesme, Philippe Herisson,
Delphine Chaneac, Sam Karmann, Alexandre Brasseur, Chloé Lambert, Blandine Bellavoir,
Evelyne Buyle, Hammou Graïa, Virginie Caliari, Philippe Resimont, Bruno Lochet, Jean Dell
BROADCASTER France 2
INTERNATIONAL SALES 100% DISTRIBUTION, Cécilia Rossignol
FILMED IN Lyon and Rhône-Alpes region
SUPPORT of France Télévisions, Rhône-Alpes Region, CNC, TV5 Monde
FORMAT 28x52’
ATTENDING Stéphane Drouet
© Philippe Leroux
© Calt/Christophe Charzat • Création:Benjamin Seznec/ Troïka
WRITERS Marie Deshaires and Catherine Touzet
PRODUCTION COMPANY Quad Télévision - Iris Bucher
in coproduction with AT-Production / R.T.B.F. (Télévision belge)
DIRECTOR Charlotte Brändström
CAST François-Xavier Demaison, Pierre François Martin-Laval, Alix Poisson,
Alice Pol, Laurent Bateau
BROADCASTER France 2
INTERNATIONAL SALES Zodiak Rights
FILMED IN Rhône-Alpes Region
SUPPORT OF Rhône-Alpes region
FORMAT 8x52’
ATTENDING Iris Bucher
CHEFS S1
CANDICE RENOIR S3
Synopsis
Synopsis
CREATORS Arnaud Malherbe and Marion Festraëts
WRITERS Arnaud Malherbe and Marion Festraëts with Yann Le Nivet
PRODUCTION COMPANY CALT Production
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Jean-Yves Robin
PRODUCER Xavier Matthieu
DIRECTOR Arnaud Malherbe
CAST Clovis Cornillac, Hugo Becker, Anne Charrier, Nicolas Gob, Robin Renucci,
Joyce Bibring, Annie Cordy, Zinedine Soualem, Etienne Chicot, Anthony Pho, Jean Bediebe,
Laurent Menoret, Juliette.
BROADCASTER France 2
INTERNATIONAL SALES CALT Distribution
FILMED IN Paris and Ile-de-France
SUPPORT OF Ile-de-France
FORMAT 6 x 52’
WRITERS Solen Roy-Pagenault, Ivan Piettre, Alexandra Julhiet, Eric Eider, Marie-Alice
Gadea, Anne Rambach, Jean-Marie Chavent, Marine Rambach
PRODUCTION COMPANIES Boxeur de Lune
Producer Caroline Lassa
DIRECTORS Nicolas Picard-Dreyfuss, Stéphane Malhuret, Olivier Barma
CAST Cécile Bois, Raphaël Lenglet, Gaya Verneuil, Stéphane Blancafort
BROADCASTER France 2
INTERNATIONAL SALES NeweN Distribution
FORMAT 38 x 52’
ATTENDING Christophe Nobileau (President, NeweN Distribution),
Julien Leroux (SVP International Sales)
Romain, a 25 year-old locksmith imprisoned for fraud, gets his sentence reduced.
His probation officer has found him a job in the kitchen of a famous restaurant.
The Chef, a monster of French gastronomy, saves a spot every year in his staff for
an ex-convict, in fond memory of his own youth’s mistakes. This is the beginning
of Romain’s awakening to the world; to the art of food, to love, but it’s also a story
about his struggle to belong. This rite of passage, though at first difficult, will
precede his lightening rise to success.
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A police lieutenant, divorced, 4 kids…and a blonde bombshell! Candice Renoir had
put her career on standby for 10 years. When she returns from Singapore to resume
service in a port town in the south of France, she feels a bit “rusty”. Despite the
obvious defiance of her unit and a cynical superior who doesn’t make her job any
easier, she is determined to turn her so-called weaknesses into strengths, solving
the most complex cases with her common sense, her acute observation and her
practical nature seasoned by a busy daily routine. Only Candice can catch a killer
because she knows the chemical composition of a window-cleaning product or
determine the hour of a murder from the cooking-time of kebabs… Candice is only
naive on the outside, and nobody can resist her!
NINA
THE RETURNED S2 (LES REVENANTS)
Synopsis
Synopsis
© Jean-Claude Lother
© Laurent Denis FTV
SUCCESS STORIES
Six months have gone by since the Returned gathered one night, before
disappearing into the mountains, taking with them Simon, Camille and her mother,
and Julie, along with the mysterious boy Victor. Since then, nothing has been heard
of them. There’s no sign of the gendarmes who came to protect the residents of
the Helping Hand shelter. Now, Adèle is about to give birth to Simon’s child. Part of
the town is still flooded. The dam has been put under surveillance, and the army
is providing logistical support to the inhabitants who decided to stay. Rumours are
circulating about the return of the dead, but the authorities don’t take this seriously.
The few witnesses end up keeping their mouths shut. Among them are Léna and her
father Jérôme, who have not given up on finding Camille and Claire. A stranger
arrives in town; his name is Berg, and he seems to know much more than he lets on.
What the living don’t know is that the Returned have not gone away. Unable to leave
the Valley, they sought refuge in an estate abandoned by its inhabitants, an area on
the edge of town which has been made inaccessible by the flooding. They are still
holding Julie, Victor, Camille and Claire, who have had to get used to this refugee
lifestyle. That is when a new wave of resurrections occurs…
Nina, 39 years old, trainee nurse and a mother with a kid! Forced to interrupt her studies
in medicine for 10 years to raise her daughter Lily, who was stricken with cancer, Nina
put her career on hold. Now that Lily is cured, 39-yearold Nina intends to take life back
into her own hands by becoming a nurse at the Madeleine Brès Hospital.There’s never
a moment’s rest on the Internal Medicine ward; plus Nina has to cope with the defiance
of her superiors, who merely see her as the ex-wife of their own boss, Dr Costa, and
who are perturbed when she diagnoses patients as well as she cares for them. But
Nina is passionate about her work and refuses to bow down before her seniors. Every
day, she has to deal with the moods of Dr Proust, who dreams of becoming Head of
Department, with constant questioning from young intern Kevin, with Léo, her mentor
and roommate, and with the need to identify the sometimes misleading symptoms of
the patients on her ward. Each episode of NINA features two solved medical intrigues
on an Internal Medicine ward. High in emotion, NINA successfully blends hospital plots
and love stories, human relations and issues of society with a touch of humor.
CREATORS Alain Robillard et Thalia Rebinsky
WRITERS Alain Robillard, Thalia Rebinsky, Maïté Simoncini, Antonin Martin Hilbert
PRODUCTION COMPANY Barjac Production, Groupe Telfrance
PRODUCER Laurence Bachman
DIRECTORS Nicolas Picard Dreyfuss & Eric Le Roux
CAST Annelise Hesme, Thomas Jouannet, Léa Lopez, Marie-Christine Adam,
Jean-François Garreaud, Grégoire Bonnet, Nina Melo, Farid Elouardi, Alix Benezech,
Clément Moreau, Alexia Barlier, Marie Vincent, Stéphane Fourreau
BROADCASTER France 2
INTERNATIONAL SALES NeweN Distribution
FILMED IN Ile-de-France
FORMAT 8 x 52’
ATTENDING Christophe Nobileau (President, NeweN Distribution),
Julien Leroux (International Sales)
© Cinétévé – Pictanovo
CREATOR Fabrice Gobert (Based on “They Came Back”, a film by Robin Campillo)
WRITERS Fabrice Gobert and Audrey Fouché, with Coline Abert and Fabien Adda
PRODUCTION COMPANY Haut et Court TV
PRODUCERS Caroline Benjo, Jimmy Desmarais and Barbara Letellier for Haut et Court TV
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS Carole Scotta and Simon Arnal
DIRECTORs Fabrice Gobert, Frédéric Goupil
CAST Anne Consigny, Clotilde Hesme, Céline Sallette, Frédéric Pierrot, Laurent Lucas, Grégory
Gadebois, Guillaume Gouix, Pierre Perrier, Ana Girardot, Yara Pilartz, Jenna Thiam, Swann
Nambotin, Jean-François Sivadier, Michaël Abiteboul, Constance Dollé,
Jérôme Kircher, Brune Martin, Laetitia De Fombelle, Armande Boulanger, Ernst Umhauer,
Guillaume Marquet, Alice Butaud, Laurent Capelluto, Pauline Parigot, Thomas Doret,
Isabelle Sadoyan, Matila Malliarakis, Nicolas Wanczycki, Aurélien Recoing
BROADCASTERs Canal+, Cine+, BeTV
INTERNATIONAL SALES Zodiak Rights
SUPPORT OF Ile-de-France Regional Fund, Rhône-Alpes Regional Fund, with the
participation of the CNC (COSIP and Aide aux Nouvelles Technologies en Production),
Creative Europe- MEDIA a European Union’s Program, in association with Cofinova 11
and B Media 2013 – Backup Media, Zodiak Rights and Studiocanal.
FORMAT 8x52’
TAKE THREE GIRLS (La Vie Devant ElleS)
Synopsis
The story begins in Chambries, a mining village in the north of France, in the early
1970s, when France’s coal reserves are starting to run out. A laconic, muttered
exchange between three coal-miners, Paul, Henri and José tells us that one of the
galleries of the mine is about to be closed. The three miners hurry back down the
shaft. At Micheline’s café, opposite the pithead, Micheline’s daughter Caroline
and her friend Solana are showing clothes they have made. Their ambition is to
become stylists in Paris. Fashion is all they think about. But their lives are about to
take a very different turn.
Suddenly, a blast rings out. There has been an explosion in the pit, and three men
are missing. But what were Paul, Henri and José doing in the abandoned gallery,
nowhere near where they were supposed to be working?
WRITERS /CREATORS Dan Franck and Stéphane Osmont
PRODUCTION COMPANY Cinétévé COPRODUCER Pictanovo
PRODUCERS Fabienne Servan-Schreiber and Jean-Pierre Fayer
DIRECTOR Gabriel Aghion
CAST Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, Stéphane Caillard, Alma Jodorowsky
BROADCASTER France 3
INTERNATIONAL SALES France Télévisions distributions
FILMED IN Nord-Pas de Calais, Ile-de-France
SUPPORT OF CNC, PROCIREP, Nord-Pas de Calais (via Pictanovo), France Télévisions, TV5 Monde
FORMAT 6 x 52 min
ATTENDING Fabienne Servan-Schreiber
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WITNESSES (Les Témoins)
TUNNEL S2
Synopsis
Synopsis
Stephen Dillane returns in his International Emmy award-winning role as Karl
Roebuck, alongside Clémence Poésy as Elise Wassermann, for the second season
of Ben Richards’ multi-award winning ‘The Tunnel’. The series is being made by
two of the world’s leading production companies, Kudos and Shine France. It is a
flagship series for Sky Atlantic and Canal+.
Mystery is everywhere and nobody will be spared by revenge...
Desecrated graves, dead bodies dug up and left in model homes... Every time, the
same ritual: a woman, a man, a teenager, who weren’t related but who form a
new family. Amid the bodies, one photo: the one of Paul Maisonneuve, a Crime
Squad legend in the North of France, now retired but forced to return to duty. Who
is digging up the bodies? Who is leaving them in model homes and why? Young
female detective Sandra Winckler who is in charge of the case, must work with Paul
Maisonneuve to find out just who is behind these macabre stage settings. During
her investigation, she will have to delve into Paul’s past, believing him to know more
than he lets on. Because that’s where the truth must lie: somewhere in Paul’s past.
For the detective and the ex-cop, life will never be the same... For in the shadows, is
a man who will stop at nothing to gain his revenge – a long planned out revenge...
The Tunnel: Sabotage is a high-volume, geo-political, bilingual thriller moving
through the Eurotunnel and along the coastlines of Calais and Kent. This intricately
plotted series reveals how the vulnerable and powerless become mere commodities
in an underworld of personal predators, corrupted appetites and Machiavellian
machinations.
Our investigative duo – pragmatic Commander Elise Wassermann of the French
police and wry DCI Karl Roebuck from the UK – reunite to investigate the case of a
French couple who are abducted from the Eurotunnel, leaving their small daughter
alone and terrified. But the case is complicated when a plane crashes into the
Channel killing all on board. Suddenly they are faced with far bigger questions,
and the eyes of the world are waiting for answers...
A number of clues and trails swiftly emerge from the vast debris field left by
the crash. Karl and Elise discover that the plane was hacked and intentionally
sabotaged. It turns out that the perpetrator is one half of the kidnapped couple
– Robert Fournier.
Robert is the leader of Defence – a group of anti-establishment political vigilantes.
The crash is the precursor to a brutal campaign which leads to their capture and
destruction half way through the series.
Defence, however, are only one piece of the puzzle. As Karl and Elise delve deeper
into the case they discover that a far more sinister force is at work. Locating the
guilty and demonstrating that guilt is one thing. Achieving justice is entirely another.
Finding themselves at the heart of a complex political dogfight, Karl and Elise are
challenged on the deepest and most personal of levels….
© Mathieu Lacote
WRITERS Marc Herpoux and Hervé Hadmar
PRODUCTION COMPANY Cinétévé
CO-PRODUCTION Pictanovo
PRODUCER Fabienne Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Pierre Fayer
DIRECTOR Hervé Hadmar
CAST Thierry Lhermitte, Marie Dompnier, Laurent Lucas, Jan Hammenecker,
Catherine Mouchet
BROADCASTER France 2
INTERNATIONAL SALES NeweN Distribution
FILMED IN Nord-Pas de Calais and Haute –Normandie
SUPPORT OF France Télévisions, Nord-Pas de Calais and Haute-Normandie Regions
(via Pictanovo), CNC
FORMAT 6x52’
ATTENDING Fabienne Servan-Schreiber
THE CHURCHMEN S3 (Ainsi Soient-Ils)
Synopsis
5 years have passed. Our seminarists now have their own parishes. Yann is in
Brittany with Father Valliers, and has to deal with a drama that shocks the entire
community when Father Valliers is accused of child-molesting. José is in Toulouse,
warmly welcomed by the faithful to a middle-class parish, although, being used to
an edgier environment, he would prefer to be helping people in need. Guillaume is
living a double life, the week in his rectory, and the weekend in his appartment with
Emmanuel - a complicated situation which leaves him anxious and unsatisfied. But
then he finds a project to occupy him when he falls for a small abandoned church.
Monseigneur Poileaux is coming to the end of his term as head of the Priests of
France, and Father Fromenger, back from China, tries to convince him to go and
assist the Pope in Rome.
WRITERS Vincent Poymiro, David Elkaïm, Claudia Bottino, Jean Denizot and Claude Le Pape
PRODUCTION COMPANY Zadig Productions / Arte
PRODUCER Bruno Nahon
DIRECTOR Rodolphe Tissot
CAST Jean-Luc Bideau, Thierry Gimenez, Jacques Bonnaffé, Julien Bouanich, Samuel Jouy,
Clément Manuel, David Baiot, Clément Roussier
BROADCASTER Arte, TV5 Monde
INTERNATIONAL SALES Film & Picture - Marie-Laure Hébrard, ml@filmandpicture.com
FILMED IN Charente Maritime et Poitou
FORMAT 8x 52’
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WRITERS Ben Richards, Louise Ironside, Yann Le Nivet and Franck Philippon
PRODUCTION COMPANY Shine France Films / Kudos
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Nora Melhli
DIRECTORS Mike Barker, Gilles Bannier, Tim Mielants and Carl Tibbetts
CAST Stéphane Dillane, Clémence Poésy, Thibault de Montalembert,
Johan Heldenbergh, Angel Coulby, Juliette Navis, Cédric Vieira, Clarke Peters,
Marie Dompnier, Olivier Rabourdin…
BROADCASTER Canal+ (FR) / Sky Atlantic (UK)
INTERNATIONAL SALES Endemol Shine International
FILMED IN France / UK
FORMAT 8x46’30
ATTENDING Nora Melhli
© Justin Downing/BSkyB
© Hervé Hadmar
SUCCESS STORIES
SERIES MANIA EUROPEAN
CO-PRODUCTION FORUM
WHERE CREATIVITY MEETS INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
• Pitching session of 16 High-quality TV Series projects
from all over Europe and abroad
• One-to-one meeting sessions
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• Conferences, key-notes, case studies…
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© Luc Roux
©Anouchka de Williencourt - EuropaCorp Television - France 2
NOUVELLE VAGUE
A VERY SECRET SERVICE (Au Service de la France)
THE PASSENGER (Le Passager)
Synopsis
Synopsis
The Passenger is a TV series composed of 6 episodes, somewhere in between thriller
and initiatory film. This story features Mathias Freire, a psychiatrist, played by
Jean-Hugues Anglade, and Anaïs Chatelet, a homicide squad captain, played by
Raphaëlle Agogué. These two characters are connected to each other by memory
and death. A series of crimes inspired by the Greek Mythology unites them in an
investigation that will lead to face themselves and their own demons. The plot is
constructed by a succession of mises en abîme (story within a story) and fragmented
images that gnaw them. A two-path composition, in which each character plays its
own partition in counterpoint with each other. Mathias and Anaïs are opponents,
inseparable, fighting and always brought towards each other. An investigation
fragmented with cliffhangers from one subjectivity to the other, until the key to
the mystery gradually emerges... This story reveals the inner depths of the main
characters with their contradictions and their affinities. As often in Jean-Christophe
Grange’s work, the decorum occupies a prominent and very significant place: the
sets are carefully described in expressionist ways and participate in the inner self of
the characters. They evolve in response to events in communion with the characters
and their evolution over the story.
1960. The world stage is dominated by a superpower, the very symbol of freedom,
the great victor of Word War II, the nation the entire planet entrusts to keep the Cold
War from spiraling into World War III — la belle France. Young André Merlaux is
thrilled when he’s accepted into the French secret service, obviously the crème de la
crème in intelligence. Under the tutelage of three elite agents, André is charged with
the most difficult of missions, like figuring out America’s fixation with communism
and making friends with the Germans. He’ll soon discover that France’s superiority
lies in its complex administrative minutiae, and that failing to get the right stamp on
the right form can result in war. André learns fast and may just become the finest of
the finest secret agents. But he falls in love with the wrong girl…
“A Very Secret Service” is a chauvinistic comedy show — the French missing link
between James Bond and “The Office.”
WRITERS Jean-François Halin, Claire Lemaréchal, Jean-André Yerlès
PRODUCTION COMPANY Mandarin Télévision – Gilles de Verdière
DIRECTOR Alexandre Courtès
CAST Hugo Becker, Wilfred Benaïche, Christophe Kourotchkine, Bruno Paviot,
Karim Barras, Jean-Edouard Bodziak, Mathilde Warnier, Joséphine de la Baume, Marie-Julie
Baup, Antoine Gouy
BROADCASTER ARTE France
INTERNATIONAL SALES About Premium Content – +33 1 85 08 70 22
Laurent Boissel (Joint CEO & Founder): laurent.boissel@aboutpremiumcontent.com;
Emmanuelle Guilbart (Joint CEO & Founder): emmanuelle.guilbart@aboutpremiumcontent.com;
Julia Pillet (International Sales): julia.pillet@aboutpremiumcontent.com;
FILMED IN Paris - Morocco
SUPPORT OF Ile-de-France
FORMAT 12X26’
© FTV/Bernard Barbereau
© Angela Rossi / FTV/ Shine France Films
CREATOR/WRITER Jean-Christophe Grangé
PRODUCTION COMPANY EuropaCorp Television
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Thomas Anargyros and Edouard de Vésinne
CO-PRODUCTION Euro Media France
DIRECTOR Jérôme Cornuau
CAST Jean-Hugues Anglade, Raphaëlle Agogué, Michaël Cohen, Hocine Choutri, Didier
Flamand, Serge Riaboukine, Jean-Claude Dauphin and Jacques Weber.
BROADCASTER France 2
INTERNATIONAL SALES France Télévisions Distribution
FILMED IN Aquitaine, Ile-de-France, Provence-Alpes-Côtes d’Azur
FORMAT 6x52’
ATTENDING Thomas Anargyros (Co-CEO / Executive Producer of EuropaCorp Television),
Matthew Gross (CEO of EuropaCorp Television USA)
MALATERRA
LEBOWITZ VS LEBOWITZ
Synopsis
Synopsis
Malaterra. To the locals, the town is a haven of peace, a sanctuary.
Until a child is found dead. The seemingly close-knit community and its climate of
trust begin to break apart. Who killed little Nathan? And why?… In Corsica, the “Isle
of Beauty”, Gendarmerie Captain Thomas Rotman is a stranger. Yet it is he who is
given the thankless task of finding who did it.
Soon, Rotman is convinced the killer is hidden amongst the residents of Malaterra
— unlike his partner, Chief Warrant Officer Karine Marchetti, who refuses to believe
the town she grew up in could produce such evil. With each passing day, the case
begins to eat away at the soul of the town and the lives of locals. Until finding the
killer becomes the only chance of saving what little is left.
WRITERS Stéphane Kaminka, Yann Le Nivet, Nathalie Hertzberg and Akima Seghir
PRODUCTION COMPANY Shine France Films
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Nora Melhli
DIRECTORS Jean Xavier de Lestrade (4 episodes) and Laurent Herbiet (4 episodes)
CAST Simon Abkarian, Constance Dollé, Louise Monot, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Béatrice Dalle…
BROADCASTER France2 (FR)
INTERNATIONAL SALES Endemol Shine International
FILMED IN France
SUPPORT OF Corsica fund
FORMAT 8 x 52’
ATTENDING Nora Melhli
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Paule is a beautiful and sexy 50-year-old successful lawyer who dedicated her
life to the law firm she founded with her ex-husband, Simon Lebowitz. But Paule
Lebowitz‘s life falls apart when she discovers that Simon got secretly married to
Irene, a 30-year-old Junior Associate, that she hired herself, a couple of years
ago. And when Simon dies from a heart attack, Paule and Irene find themselves
unfailingly bound to manage the Lebowitz law firm. Two rival women, with their age
and position difference; a fierce fight to claim Simon’s legacy!
WRITERS Laurent Burtin, Nathalie Suhard, Jacques Bastier, Pascal Perbet,
Isabel Sebastian, Lucile Brandi
PRODUCTION COMPANY Chabraque Productions, Ryoan
PRODUCERS Clémentine Dabadie, Thomas Viguier
DIRECTORS Frédéric Berthe, Christophe Barraud
CAST Clémentine Célarié, Caroline Anglade, Michel Jonasz, Cécile Rebboah,
Nicolas Grandhomme, Michèle Moretti
BROADCASTER France 2
INTERNATIONAL SALES NeweN Distribution
FILMED IN Ile-de-France
FORMAT 8x52’
ATTENDING Clémentine Dabadie, Thomas Viguier, Christophe Nobileau (President,
NeweN Distribution), Julien Leroux (SVP International Sales)
@ Romain Staros
© E. Chognard - CCSP / Quad Télévision / TF1
NOUVELLE VAGUE
THE SECRET OF ELISE (Le Secret D’Elise)
THE LAST PANTHERS (PANTHERS)
Synopsis
Synopsis
Three families, three eras, one mystery.
Julie and Yanis are a young couple who have just moved into “Bellerive” a beautiful
house in the South of France, in the town where Yanis grew up, and had his first great
love affair. As Julie is about to give birth to their first child, she starts hearing things,
senses a presence nearby, and even spots small wet footprints on the ground. Is that
pregnancy having a strange effect on her? And why does she have the feeling that
her partner is not telling her everything about his past?
It is 1986 now. In “Bellerive” lives a cheerful family, with teenage son Remi and 9 yearold daughter Valentine, who befriends a girl her age. But this friend Elise doesn’t
really exist. Is Valentine seeing a ghost? Her parents, Françoise and Philippe Marsy
disagree on how to deal with their daughter’s strange behavior.
In 1969, a young couple, Ariane and Jean-Pierre, lives in “Bellerive”, with Jean-Pierre’s
parents. The family is mourning the loss of 9 year-old Elise, who drowned in the marsh
out by the back of the house. The circumstances of the girl’s death remain unclear and
Ariane cannot bring herself to believe that it was simply an accident.
Based on real events, « The Last Panthers » opens with a daring diamond heist
bearing all the hallmarks of a gang known as the Pink Panthers. But the tragic death
of a little girl during the raid sets on a collision course a British insurance agent, a
French-Algerian cop and a Serbian diamond thief. “The Last Panthers” plunges the
audience into a modern day Europe gripped by new forms of crime on an epic
scale. The interplay between traffickers in jewels and drugs, European officials,
war criminals and City bankers impact every one of us in ways we cannot foresee.
CREATORS Jack Thorne in collaboration with Jérôme Pierrat based on an original idea by
Jean-Alain Laban & Jérôme Pierrat
WRITER Jack Thorne
PRODUCTION COMPANY Haut et Court TV & Warp Films
DIRECTOR Johan Renck
CASTING Samantha Morton, Tahar Rahim, Goran Bogdan & John Hurt
BROADCASTER Canal + / Sky Atlantic
INTERNATIONAL SALES StudioCanal TV & Sky Vision
FILMED IN Région Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, Serbia, UK, Montenegro
SUPPORT OF Creative Europe – MEDIA programme of the European Union with the
participation of CNC, Studiocanal, Ciné +; with the support of Région Provence Alpes Côte
d’Azur in association with CNC
FORMAT 6 x 48’
WRITERS Elsa Marpeau and Marie Vinoy, in collaboration with Marie Deshaires and Catherine
Touzet. Based on the original US program « The Oaks » created by David Schulner, written for
English Television by Stephen Greenhorn. A Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Format.
PRODUCTION COPMANY Quad Télévision – Iris Bucher
DIRECTOR Alexandre Laurent
CAST Bruno Benabar, Julia Piaton, Hélène De Fougerolles, Bruno Salomone, Julie De Bona,
Samir Boitard, Stéphane Freiss, Sophie Mounicot, Armelle Deutsch, Mathieu Simonet,
Valérie Kaprisky, Marie-Christine Adam, Stéphan Guerin-Tillie, Jacques Perrin
BROADCASTER TF1
INTERNATIONAL SALES Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
FILMED IN Languedoc-Roussillon
SUPPORT OF Région Languedoc Roussillon
FORMAT 6 x 52’
ATTENDING Iris Bucher
BEYOND THE WALLS (Au-delà des murs)
Synopsis
Lisa is a young speech therapist who moves into a townhouse she has mysteriously
inherited. She discovers hallways and rooms that suddenly appear then disappear,
filling her with terror. Her ever-shifting house is also manipulating other occupants,
interweaving space-time continuums that lead Lisa on an initiatory journey into the
deepest recesses of her psyche.
CREATORS/WRITERS Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux
DIRECTOR Hervé Hadmar
PRODUCTION COMPANY Lincoln TV
co-producteurs Arte, Scope
CAST Veerle Baetens, Géraldine Chaplin, François Debloch
BROADCASTER Arte / 2016
INTERNATIONAL SALES NeweN Distribution
FORMAT 3x52’
ATENDING Christophe Nobileau (President, NeweN Distribution), Julien Leroux
(SVP International Sales)
@La Femis
@ Thibault Grabherr- Lincoln TV
SPECIAL SCREENING
IRRESPONSIBLE
Synopsis
Irresponsible is a 26 minutes comedy, about an immature young adult,
who discovers that he is the father of a 14 years old teenager.
Julien is 30 years old, and he is a loser: he has no money and no job, and he
needs to come back to his mother’s house. Back to his hometown, he steps into
Marie, his first great love as a teenager. At the time, she left without notice.Marie
explains that she has a son, Jacques, a 14 years old boy. Julien is the father!
Julien is shocked, however, he decides to commit into Jacques’s education. But
becoming a father is not easy when you act like a regular teenager…
The pilot of Irresponsible has been developed and produced during
the first session of TV series creation department at la Femis. The
production company Tetra Media Fiction is now producing 10 episodes
for broadcaster OCS (shooting October 2015).
CREATOR/WRITER Frédéric Rosset
DIRECTOR Emilie Noblet
PRODUCTION COMPANY La Femis / Laurence Farenc
CAST Sébastien Chassagne, Florence Janas, Marin Orcand-Tourres
FILMED IN Hauts de Seine (Paris Region)
ATTENDING Franck Philippon (Head of TV Department – La Fémis)
Frédéric Rosset (writer)
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PITCHING SESSION
SELECTED PROJECTS
27
oct
2025
HSE - HUMAN STOCK EXCHANGE
Gaspard de Chavagnac, Marc Nowak,
Floriane Cortes
ATTENDING Allan S. Tirloy, Gaspard de Chavagnac
CONTACT Floriane.Cortes@ZodiakMedia.com
Thomas Bourguignon, Stéphanie Carrère
ATTENDING Xavier Dorison, Olivier Kohn,
Stéphanie Carrère
CONTACT stephanie@kwai.tv, kwai@kwai.tv
CANNABIS
LE JINGLE
FORMAT 8x52’
WRITER Allan S. Tirloy
PRODUCTION COMPANY Zodiak Fiction -
FORMAT 6x52 ‘
WRITERS Hamid Hlioua, Clara Bourreau,
Virginie Brac
PRODUCTION COMPANY Tabo Tabo Films Véronique Zerdoun, Tonie Marshall
ATTENDING Emmanuelle Bouilhaguet,
Hamid Hlioua
CONTACT
emmanuelle.bouilhaguet@lagardere-studios.com
FAKE
FORMAT 8x50’
WRITER Vincent Ravalec
PRODUCTION COMPANY Macondo Productions
/Films du Garage - Charline de Lépine
ATTENDING Vincent Ravalec
CONTACT vravalec@wanadoo.fr
FLIGHT ¹6¹8 (VOL ¹6¹8)
Stéphane Drouet
ATTENDING Bertrand Puard, Stéphane Drouet
CONTACT stephane.drouet@makingprod.com
FORMAT half hour
WRITERS Tom Saunders, Catherine Monroy
PRODUCTION COMPANY Senorita Films-
Rita Dagher, Alain Kappauf
ATTENDING Tom Saunders,
Catherine Monroy, Rita Dagher
CONTACT rita@senorita-films.com
FORMAT 10x26’
WRITER Emmanuelle Schick Garcia
PRODUCTION COMPANY Joparige Films -
Marianne Lère
ATTENDING Marianne Lère
CONTACT marianne@joparigefilms.com
MARSEILLE RUN
FORMAT 10x15’ or 10x30’
WRITERS Larbi Naceri & Jacques Kluger
PRODUCTION COMPANY Telfrance -
Jacques Kluger
ATTENDING Larbi Naceri, Jacques Kluger
CONTACT kluger@telfrance.fr
THE LIST (La Liste)
FORMAT 6x52’
WRITERS Gérard Davet, Fabrice Lhomme
and Philippe Lyon
FORMAT 8x52’
WRITER Bertrand Puard
PRODUCTION COMPANY MakingProd -
FRENCHED
FORMAT 8x52’
WRITERS Xavier Dorison, Olivier Kohn
PRODUCTION COMPANY Kwaï-
PRODUCTION COMPANY Chabraque
Productions - Clémentine Dabadie
ATTENDING Clémentine Dabadie, Philippe Lyon
CONTACT chabraque@gmail.com
THE OTHER SIDE (De l’Autre Côté)
FORMAT 8x52’
WRITERS Catherine Touzet, Marie Deshaires,
Josselyn Bossennec
PRODUCTION COMPANY Delante - Caroline Adrian
ATTENDING Marie Deshaires, Caroline Adrian,
Catherine Touzet, Josselyn Bossennec
CONTACT c.adrian@delante.fr
In partnership with
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Panel discussions
28
oct
11:30am-12:30am
CONVERSATION WITH
Douglas Kennedy
What means the art of the novelist to series? The singular experience of a writer
to the collective process of creating series.
Moderated by Béatrice Thomas-Wachsberger
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Some good reasons to shoot series in France
From the unique and inspiring locations to the new tax rebate (30%) creative crews,
writers and producers offer great opportunities to bring new high end series
to the international market.
•Thomas Anargyros – Co-CEO / Executive Producer EuropaCorp Television /
President of USPA
•Garry A. Brown – Co-Executive Producer – ABC Studios / Marvel Television /
Agents of Shield
•Mélanie Chebance – Head of producers’ liaison - Film France
•James Middleton – Executive producer Heroes reborn (NBC)
•Franck Philippon – writer
•Xavier Roy – Line producer - Froggie Production
•Brigitte Segal – President – Studios de Paris
Moderated by: Olivier-René Veillon (Ile-de-France Film Commission)
4:30pm-5:30pm
USA-France, How to create together?
The key factor for an international success are the talents involved.
Are American and French talents ready to work together?
•Alex Berger – Producer – TOP-The Oligarchs Productions
•Iris Bucher – Producer – Quad Television
•Kate Erickson – writer
•Audrey Fouché – writer
•Neil Landau – Head of Writing for TV Program at UCLA
•Franck Philippon - writer
•Diego Suarez - SVP International Film & TV Production (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
Moderated by: François-Pier Pélinard-Lambert (Le Film Français)
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The partners’ club
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CREDITS
DIRECT TO SERIES 2015
THE CULTURAL SERVICES OF THE FRENCH EMBASSY IN THE UNITED STATES
Bénédicte de Montlaur (Cultural Counselor)
Thomas Michelon (Deputy Cultural Counselor)
Mathieu Fournet (Head Film, TV and New Media Department)
Séverine Madinier (Executive director of the French Film & TV Office in Los Angeles)
Lise de Sablet (Deputy)
THE ILE DE FRANCE FILM COMMISSION
Olivier-René Veillon (CEO)
Cécile Petit-Vallaud (Administrator & Co-production Adviser)
Yann Marchet (Director of Marketing & Communications)
Joanna Gallardo (Co-production Assistant)
Hélène Dugragne (Web & Community Management)
Anahit Ordyan (Assistant)
Béatrice Thomas Wachsberger (Q&A Moderator)
With special thanks to Christophe Lemoine, Consul General of France in Los Angeles
CONTACT
info@direct2series.com
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