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ITV Studios has added another French scripted label to its ranks.

L/Intruse will sit within Tetra Media Studio, the French production subsidiary of UK network ITV’s production and sales arm.

Leading the unit is Léa Gabrié, a Tetra Media Fiction producer who produced a series that shares the name of her new venture. L’Intruse is a new psychological thriller miniseries for France 2 that launches on March 5.

L/Intruse will sit within a group at Tetra also comprising Tetra Media Fiction, Beaubourg Audiovisuel, GoodCop, Macondo, Colette Productions, Gramma Prod and Tangaro Productions.

“Launching this label today is a fairly natural outcome,” said Gabrié. My past experiences, far from being contradictory, feed my perspective and my ambition is to develop projects that are popular but that speak to the heart.”

Thierry Lachkar, President of Tetra Media Studio, added: “The creation of the L/Intruse label is part of our philosophy: That of supporting our talents.

French filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski, who’s just wrapped filming of “Vie Privée” starring Jodie Foster in Paris, received the French Cinema Award at a jam-packed ceremony held in an ornate room of the Ministry of Culture on Jan. 16.

The tribute, which is given by the film promotion body Unifrance, was introduced by Gaëtan Bruel, chief of staff of Rachida Dati, the minister of culture, as well as Unifrance president Gilles Pelisson and managing director Daniela Elstner.

Created in 2016, the French Cinema Award honors actors, filmmakers and producers who have contributed to making French cinema shine abroad. Past recipients include actors Juliette Binoche, Virginie Efira and Melvil Poupaud, director Olivier Assayas and producers Aton Soumache and Dimitri Rassam, among others.

Zlotowski, who is perfectly bilingual and has worked with a number of international talent, from Natalie Portman to Lily Rose-Depp and more recently Foster, has been actively promoting each movie she...

Prime Video France has unveiled its slate of new originals and co-production titles, ranging from series, movies and unscripted shows. These include some sexy, comedic and action-packed titles such as “Culte – 2be3,” Yael Langmann’s series about the famed 1990’s French boys band; “Glamsquad” by Rebecca Zlotowski; Gaumont’s thriller “Carjarkers;” and new comedy format “Liars Club.” The service has also boarded season 2 of “Escort Boys” and war thriller “Dark Hearts,” as well as picked up Nick Cassavetes’ “Marked Men.”

“Glamsquad” is being developed by French filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski whose latest film “Other People’s Children” competed at the Venice Film Festival in 2022. Co-written by Olivier Nicklaus and produced by Zlotowski’s regular partners at Paris-based Les Films Velvet, “Glamsquad” follows the flamboyant adventures of four young beauty experts with strong personalities who work closely with stars. Zlotowski will direct the series which will take place in Paris and other iconic locations,...

Anne Charrier (The Last Deadly Mission), Eriq Ebanouey (Fox Hunt), Laika Blanc Francard (My Night), Romain Levi (The Tunnel) and newcomer Louis Puech Scigliuzzi are set as series regulars opposite Norman Reedus, Clémence Poésy and Adam Nagaitis in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, AMC’s spinoff from its flagship drama. Filming is currently underway in France, with premiere set for later this year on AMC and AMC+.

Set after the series conclusion of Twd, the Reedus-led offshoot finds the zombie apocalypse fan favorite transported across the Atlantic to France and a whole new level of a world gone mad.

In the spinoff, Daryl (Reedus) washes ashore in France and struggles to piece together how he got there and why. The series tracks his journey across a broken but resilient France as he hopes to find a way back home. As he makes the journey, though, the connections he forms along...

U.S. streaming service Topic is expanding its roster of French content with such recent acquisitions as the Arte fantasy-thriller miniseries “The Rope,” picked up from Wild Bunch TV, and Season 2 of political satire “Parliament,” sold internationally by France TV Distribution.

Launched by First Look Media in 2019, Topic specializes in crime and thrillers, including top Nordic shows like “The Killing,” “The Bridge,” “Arctic Circle” and “The Bridge”-inspired German thriller “Pagan Peak.”

Jennifer Liang, Topic’s vice president of programming strategy, acquisitions and sales, is attending this year’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous TV programming market in Biarritz for the first time and on the lookout for titles that fit the niche streamer’s high standards.

“For over a year, Topic has been hyper-focused on elevated crime, true crime, thriller and suspense programming from all over the world,” Liang said. “We found that our subscribers appreciate how we bypass the standard crime...

After the edgy crime comedy “The World Is Yours,” Romain Gavras is back with thriller “Athena.” Produced by Paris-based Iconoclast for Netflix, the ambitious, €15 million film (15 million) unfolds in the aftermath of the tragic killing of a young boy in what appears to be an act of police brutality. An all-out war sparks in an imaginary community called Athena. It’s the first French movie that Netflix is presenting in competition at the Venice Film Festival.

“Athena” tells the story of the boy’s three siblings, who are responding to the tragedy in different ways and clashing with one another. French star Dali Benssalah plays the older brother, Abdel, a devoted French soldier. Faced with an impossible moral dilemma, Abdel is called back from the frontline to help diffuse the all-out war that has been sparked by his younger brother Karim (Sami Slimane), who wants revenge. Athena becomes the backdrop...

MK2 Films has unveiled a clip of Rachid Hami’s “For My Country,” a politically minded family drama which will world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in the Horizons section.

A personal movie, “For My Country” is based on the life of Hami, whose brother tragically died in a French military school during a hazing rite.

Produced by Mizar Films, the searing drama tells the story of Aissa, a brilliant young officer of Algerian origin who dies during a fresher initiation ritual at the prestigious French military academy of Saint-Cyr. Refusing to take responsibility for his death, the French army insists to have Aissa buried in the Muslim plot of a suburban cemetery instead of the military one. Appalled by the obvious discrimination, Aissa’s older brother, Ismael, brings the family together to reclaim justice for Aissa.

Hami wrote in his director’s statement that he grew up feeling...

Maël Rouin-Berrandou, Judith Chemla, Dali Benssalah and Sofian Khammes star in the director’s feature debut, produced by Single Man Productions. Shot between 3 August and 28 September, Mes frères, et moi, the feature debut from Yohan Manca is now at the editing stage. The film’s cast includes the young Maël Rouin-Berrandou (currently in French cinemas in The ABCs of love), Judith Chemla, Dali Benssalah, Sofian Khammes (revealed in Chouf, in French cinemas on 4 November in The Swarm, on 23 December in The Big Hit and next year...

Festival will focus on shows based on literary adaptations.

Marseille Series Stories, a new French TV festival focused on TV shows adapted from literary works, has unveiled the line-up for its inaugural edition running in the southern French city from November 19-22.

The new event joins a raft of TV festivals and industry events in France, including Canneseries in Cannes, Series Mania in Lille and Series Series in Fontainbleau, near Paris.

Aldous Huxley adaptation Brave New World, which premiered on NBCUniversal’s new streaming service Peacock in July and debuted on Sky One at the beginning of October, will open the event.

Arthouse platform Kabinett has snagged Argentine filmmaker Alejandro Fadel’s first purely experimental film, “The Enigmatic Element,” available since Oct. 10.

The genre is not quite a novelty to Fadel who is best known for his first two fiction films, “Los Salvajes” and “Murder Me, Monster,” both of which had their world premieres in Cannes. “While they had more conventional narrative plots, they had elements of experimental filmmaking in them,” Fadel asserted, adding: “‘The Enigmatic Element’ is more sensorial, more affecting.”

In this 40-minute fable, shot in the dead of winter in Southern Mendoza, three helmeted figures who either look like bikers or astronauts, wander around a stunning mountainside covered in snow. They communicate telepathically, their absurdist, existential dialogue extracted from the Argentine novel “La Libertad Total” (Total Freedom) by Pablo Katchadjian.

J. Crowe’s haunting electronic sound design, derived from the sounds of the frigid environment, complete the surreal, dystopian canvas.

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