After outstanding participation in recent markets, Unifrance continues its international journey supporting French audiovisuals that will participate in the 2023 edition of Series Mania in the eighth edition of Coming Next from France will show 5 new series.
The event will take place on Tuesday, March 21 at 3:45 pm, at Lille Grand Palais, Auditorium Pasteur and will expose why French audiovisual program exports is on the rise. According to the organization, the figures from the latest study conducted by the CNC and Unifrance show increasing activity.
‘In fact, exports of French audiovisual programs in 2021 (sales, pre-sales, and co-production contributions) reached a new record with a total of €375.9 million (+6% compared to 2020). In particular, international sales of French dramas recorded a historic increase of 21.8% to €57.3m, representing 30.8% of total sales’, reported from Unifrance.
The Coming Next from France event, organized as part of the Series Mania Forum – the «industry» component of the Séries Mania festival, will present five French series available or soon to be available on the international market to a panel of decision-makers and foreign buyers. This will be an opportunity for five distributor/producer pairs to increase awareness of their programs on the international market.
The five series presented in 2023:
Love is all, distributed by Wild Bunch TV
9/12, distributed by MediawanRights
Sambre, distributed by Federation Studios
Sex (re)Education, distributed by Have A Good One
French Roulette – A Mother’s Ordeal, distributed by France tv distribution
These five series offer a wide range of writing styles, worlds, and genres (true crime, detective, comedy, romance…) and are bolstered by strong casts of established actors alongside new faces, who are as equally talented. Each of these series explores a part of French society or its history from its brightest to darkest aspects.
