FormatBiz | Unifrance stood out the best French talents at Rendes-Vous Paris

Unifrance, the organization in charge of promoting and exporting French cinema and audiovisual content worldwide, highlighted the best French talents at the Rendez-vous Unifrance in Paris from 14th to 17th of January 2023. During 4 days, attendees had the opportunity to celebrate French audiovisual contents through fiction series, animation series, TV documentaries, most of which will be broadcast in 2023.

In fiction, production company JLA Productions features Bright Minds (8x52’- 4 seasons) starring by Lola Dewaere, Sara Mortensen and distributed by France TV distribution. Terence Film showed Pacific Criminal (76x52’ T- 3 seasons), with Yaëlle Trules, Antoine Stip, Nathan Dellemme, Marielle Karabeu, Hindra Armede and distributed by Film & Picture.
In the same genre, Tetra Media Fiction, AFPI presented Paris Police 1905 (6 x 1h -Season 2) statting by Cast: Jérémie Laheurte, Evelyne Brochu, Thibault Evrard, Marc Barbé, Eugénie Derouand, Alexandre Trocki and distributed by Studio Canal; Federation, in co pro with G-Films featured the series Bardot (6x52’- Biopic), with Federation as global distributor and Next Episode presented I killed my husband(6x45’) with HAGO in charge of the global sales.
In the animation section, producer and distributor Cyber Group Studios talked about 50/50 Heroes comedy series; and TeamTO presented two series Jade Armor and Behind the Beats.

Last but not least, INA talked about the documentary Philae, the last temples of Ancient Egypt distributed by INA and Little Big Story presented “Nicole Kidman, Eyes wide open with Arte as global distributor.

FRENCH TALENTS TO DISCOVER
During the Paris event, Unifrance honoured a new generation of directors and actors, who contribute so fully to the effervescence of French cinematographic creation, and to enhance the distribution of their works beyond French borders.
The 10 French selected talents were actors Dali Benssalah, Bastien Bouillon, Paul Kircher, actresses Lyna Khoudri; Annabelle Lengronne, Rebecca Marder, Nadia Tereszkiewicz and director & producer Davy Chou, as well as director Céline Devaux.