Prime Video France used a lavish dinner in Paris to unveil an agreement with several local entertainment unions and several new original films, shows and channels.
The agreement with interprofessional organizations AnimFrance, Satev, Sedpa, Spi, Uspa and Sacd will be for an initial four years and, according to Prime Video France Country Manager Brigitte Ricou-Bellan, reflects “the parties’ shared vision of promoting the diversity, renewal and influence of French audiovisual creation.”
Prime Video has already signed up to spend 20 of its French revenues on French content, alongside Apple TV+, Disney+ and Netflix, and today’s agreement brings the streamer closer to the local production sector, with the guilds representing sectors ranging from animation through to docs.
Also unveiled at the event, which was held at the Lutetia Hotel and attended by many French actors and creatives, were the greenlight of Prime Video Original movies Sentinelle, Drone Games and La Graine,...
The agreement with interprofessional organizations AnimFrance, Satev, Sedpa, Spi, Uspa and Sacd will be for an initial four years and, according to Prime Video France Country Manager Brigitte Ricou-Bellan, reflects “the parties’ shared vision of promoting the diversity, renewal and influence of French audiovisual creation.”
Prime Video has already signed up to spend 20 of its French revenues on French content, alongside Apple TV+, Disney+ and Netflix, and today’s agreement brings the streamer closer to the local production sector, with the guilds representing sectors ranging from animation through to docs.
Also unveiled at the event, which was held at the Lutetia Hotel and attended by many French actors and creatives, were the greenlight of Prime Video Original movies Sentinelle, Drone Games and La Graine,...
- 12/1/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Amazon Prime Video has come a long way since launching in France in 2016. The streamer, whose first French film original, “The Mad Women’s Ball,” recently picked up an International Emmy Award, unveiled a landmark deal with French guilds during a posh dinner with industry players and talent in Paris on Wednesday evening (Nov. 30).
On the guest list at the chic Lutetia Hotel was a laundry list of talent that’s in business with Prime Video, including Philippe Lacheau (“Lol”), Franck Gastambide (“Medellin”), Eloise Lang (“La Graine”), Melha Bedia (“Miskina”), Ziad Doueiri (“Coeurs Noirs”), as well as producers Alain Goldman, Pathé Films’ Ardavan Safaee, Mandarin’s Eric Altmayer, CG Cinema’s Charles Gillibert, Metropolitan FilmExport’s Victor Hadida, Newen’s Romain Bessi, and Asasha Group’s Gaspard de Chavagnac, among many others.
Announced by Brigitte Ricou-Bellan, Prime Video’s country manager in France, the four-year deal was signed with the guilds AnimFrance,...
On the guest list at the chic Lutetia Hotel was a laundry list of talent that’s in business with Prime Video, including Philippe Lacheau (“Lol”), Franck Gastambide (“Medellin”), Eloise Lang (“La Graine”), Melha Bedia (“Miskina”), Ziad Doueiri (“Coeurs Noirs”), as well as producers Alain Goldman, Pathé Films’ Ardavan Safaee, Mandarin’s Eric Altmayer, CG Cinema’s Charles Gillibert, Metropolitan FilmExport’s Victor Hadida, Newen’s Romain Bessi, and Asasha Group’s Gaspard de Chavagnac, among many others.
Announced by Brigitte Ricou-Bellan, Prime Video’s country manager in France, the four-year deal was signed with the guilds AnimFrance,...
- 12/1/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The series is about an intersex teen dealing with a new high school.
Disney+ Emea has signed a deal with France TV Distribution to distribute the French high school drama series About Sasha throughout Europe (excluding France), the UK, the Middle East and Africa in 2023.
The French-language series about an intersex youth struggling with questions of identity recently aired on France TV’s online Gen Z-oriented platform Slash.
About Sasha follows its eponymous intersex title character who must navigate the turmoil of starting a new high school and dealing with embracing her feminine side after being born and raised a boy.
Disney+ Emea has signed a deal with France TV Distribution to distribute the French high school drama series About Sasha throughout Europe (excluding France), the UK, the Middle East and Africa in 2023.
The French-language series about an intersex youth struggling with questions of identity recently aired on France TV’s online Gen Z-oriented platform Slash.
About Sasha follows its eponymous intersex title character who must navigate the turmoil of starting a new high school and dealing with embracing her feminine side after being born and raised a boy.
- 10/17/2022
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
“I am neither a girl nor a boy. I’m neither of the two, I’m a little of both”: in a world that insists on putting people in boxes, that decided there were only two genders, the heroine of the series “About Sasha” (Chair tendre) feels invisible.
Sasha (played by Angèle Metzger) is 17 and has just discovered that she was born intersex. She has decided to live as a girl from now on, after being raised as a boy. In her childhood, she went through hell having to undergo numerous forced operations, including a hysterectomy, to conform to the gender assigned by doctors.
To allow her to start a new life under her new identity, the whole family moves away from Paris. In her new school, Sasha wants no one to know her secret.
Presented to buyers at Unifrance Rendez-vous in Biarritz this week by France TV Distribution,...
Sasha (played by Angèle Metzger) is 17 and has just discovered that she was born intersex. She has decided to live as a girl from now on, after being raised as a boy. In her childhood, she went through hell having to undergo numerous forced operations, including a hysterectomy, to conform to the gender assigned by doctors.
To allow her to start a new life under her new identity, the whole family moves away from Paris. In her new school, Sasha wants no one to know her secret.
Presented to buyers at Unifrance Rendez-vous in Biarritz this week by France TV Distribution,...
- 9/9/2022
- by Trinidad Barleycorn
- Variety Film + TV
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