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MIPCOM CANNES and Fremantle today announced that the international premiere of Alice & Jack, the highly anticipated original drama series created and written by award-winning writer and film director Victor Levin (Mad Men, Mad About You), and starring Academy Award-nominated actress and producer Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie, Birdman) alongside actor, director and screenwriter Domhnall Gleeson (Brooklyn, The Revenant) will be staged on the first night of the forthcoming 39th International Co-Production & Entertainment Content Market (16-19 Oct) in Cannes.

Alice & Jack is an independent production from Fremantle in partnership with the BAFTA and Emmy award-winning company Me + You Productions (I Am Ruth, Close to You), Academy award-nominated Groundswell Productions (Snowfall, Milk), De Maio Entertainment, and MASTERPIECE in collaboration with Channel 4 which will air the series exclusively in the UK. Fremantle is handling global sales of the series.

The special screening will take place on Monday 16 October at 18.00 in the world-famous Grand Auditorium in Cannes’ Palais des Festivals. Open to all market delegates, it will be followed by a Q&A session with the team behind the project.