EXCLUSIVE: Sky Italia and CBC are among the many worldwide consumers swooping for Gallic content material following final week’s inaugural French TV Screenings.
Native distributors are calling the occasion successful and are hopeful it is going to turn into a fixture within the worldwide calendar.
9 French gross sales homes held screenings occasions over two days as a part of Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris on the Membership de l’Etoile. With 106 consumers on the town, offers have been all the time doubtless. Deadline has discovered Newen Join and France TV Distribution have been amongst these to strike worldwide gross sales.
France TV Distribution offered library title Agatha Christie’s Prison Video games to Sky Italia Seasons 1 and a pair of. First airing in France in 2009, the sunshine crime drama is a French adaptation of novelist Agatha Christie’s homicide thriller tales.
“The Rendez-Vous Unifrance in Paris has been a terrific event for our full gross sales group to begin the yr with pitching our new drama collection, documentary titles and animation collection,” mentioned Julia Schulte, SVP, Worldwide Gross sales at France TV Distribution. “Our foremost European fiction and factual consumers from linear networks have been current.”
TF1-owned Newen Join secured a number of offers, which emerged throughout the occasion. On the drama entrance, Syndrome E, Promethea and Addict all secured worldwide properties, whereas doc collection Paris: The Thriller of the Misplaced Palace pre-sold to SBS in Australia and RTVS in Slovakia.
Syndrome E will air on LRT in Lithuania, Québecor in French-Canada and RTP in Portugal. The present stars Vincent Elbaz, Jennifer Decker, Kool Shen and Emmanuelle Beart and follows a brooding, loner cop investigating a case of lacking kids and a disturbing Nineteen Sixties film that spurs individuals who watch it to commit weird and harmful acts. A single mother detective joins forces with him after realising that occasions in her personal previous might be tied to his case.
Addict, which is from the writers of Face au Diable and Rebecca, has offered to Radio Canada/CBC. The present may even air on Switzerland’s RTS and French-speaking Belgium’s TVI, though these offers have been struck instantly by producer Morgane Manufacturing.
The home thriller collection follows a household whose lives begin to disintegrate after shifting home. Directed by Didier le Pecheur, it stars Cecile Bois, Sagamore Stevenin, Cecile Rebboah and Medi Sadoun.
French streamer Salto has additionally secured offers for Syndrome E and UGC Fiction’s coming-of-age fantasy drama collection Promethea. Nevertheless, the standing of these agreements is unclear with Salto reportedly shutting on the finish of the week.
Mediawan Rights, whose dad or mum firm made information by buying Brad Pitt’s Plan B Leisure, screened exhibits such Haven of Grace and Begin Over, and is in comply with up discussions with consumers.
Randall Broman, Head of Worldwide Distribution, Scripted Content material at Mediawan Rights, mentioned: “The French TV screenings have been little question a very good and profitable initiative, as displayed by the very optimistic suggestions we acquired from purchasers within the days following. And with the success of this primary version, we belief – and hope – Unifrance will make it a yearly fixture going ahead.”
Alix Lebrat, COO of TV Collection for Studiocanal mentioned she was “very happy to begin the yr attending this insightful market in Paris, and it was a terrific alternative to showcase our factual slate, which has been extremely nicely acquired.
“Paris was the right venue to display screen our extremely anticipated collection Air Cocaine and to broaden on the three editorial pillars we might be specializing in for our non-scripted pipeline: true crime, sports activities and spotlights on Europe.”
Unifrance created the French TV Screenings to present the nation an opportunity to trip the wave of curiosity in Gallic content material that has adopted streaming collection Name My Agent! and Lupin. The UK, Germany and Nordics are amongst European territories that already maintain annual screenings occasions.
