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2021 Awards

WIDE ME AWAY – CANADA

Best Series adapted from a literary work Award / Audience Choice Award
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

SHOWRUNNER: Babel Films

SCREENWRITERS: Florence Lafond and Éric Piccoli from the novel by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

DIRECTOR: Éric Piccoli

RIDLEY ROAD – UNITED KINGDOM

Best Performance Award for Agnes O-Casey
Adapted from Ridley Road by Jo Bloom

SHOWRUNNER AND SCREENWRITER: Sarah Solemani

DIRECTOR: Lisa Mulcahy

FRENCH BROADCAST: CANAL+

ALGIERS CONFIDENTIAL – FRANCE/GERMANY

Best Director Award
Adapted from the novel Ein Paar Tage Licht by Oliver Bottini

SHOWRUNNER: Abdel Raouf Dafri

SCREENWRITERS: Abdel Raouf Dafri with the collaboration of Oliver Bottini

DIRECTOR: Frédéric Jardin

FRENCH BROADCAST: ARTE

THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF JERUSALEM – ISRAEL

Special Mention from the Jury
Adapted from the novel The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem by Sarit Yishai Levi

SHOWRUNNERS: Shlomo Mashiach, Ester Namdar Tamam & Oded Davidoff

SCREENWRITER: Shlomo Mashiach

DIRECTOR: Oded Davidoff

FRENCH BROADCAST: NETFLIX

Jury 2021

AVA CAHEN

Ava Cahen co-founded the magazine “CLAP!” in 2014, followed by “FrenchMania” in 2017, as well as the Woody Club, a film club she created in 2016. She has been a television columnist for “Le Cercle” on Canal+ since 2014 and on the radio France Inter in the program “Une heure en séries” since 2019.
She has published several books on movies and series, “Woody Allen: Profession Cynique” (2015), “Cheforama” (2017) and “Game of Thrones Décodé” (2019). In addition to teaching at the University of Nanterre Paris X, Ava Cahen worked for five years on the feature film committee of International Critics’ Week under the direction of Charles Tesson before directing it herself.

Photo credits: ©Clémence Besset

THIERRY GODARD

Actor Thierry Godard moves between cinema, theater and especially television where he has played Gilou in the series “Engrenages” on Canal +, Raymond Schwartz in the series “Un Village Français” on France 3 and Commissioner Martin in the series “Les Dames” on France 2.
Recently, he played the character of Jacques Corazzi in the series “Une Affaire Française” on TF1 and he is currently on France 2 in the mini-series “Germinal” whose first episode was broadcast on October 27, 2021.

Photo credits: ©Christophe Navarre

JUDITH LOUIS

After studying history, Judith Louis turned to storytelling. Her professional experience in fiction runs the gamut: first as a producer at Telfrance and then at Alma Productions (a subsidiary of the TF1 group), scriptwriter, trainer (CEEA, Master SCEDIL Sorbonne, FEMIS), broadcaster in charge of programming at France 2 and later Director of the Fiction Unit at Arte France.
She created her company L’ILE CLAVEL in 2017 in which she works as a producer and consultant.
She co-produced the mini-series “Laëtitia” for France Télévisions (6x52mn) directed by Jean Xavier de Lestrade based on the story by Ivan Jablonka, broadcast last year.

Photo credits: ©Éric Garault

JOSEPH SAFIEDDINE

Joseph Safieddine is a French-Lebanese screenwriter who has published more than a dozen graphic novels with publishers such as Le Lombard, Dargaud and Casterman. He also works regularly with the magazine “Fluide Glacial”. In 2017, he worked with Thomas Cadène to create and script the series “Été”, a digital graphic novel developed as a “summer soap opera” and distributed on Instagram. The series was renewed for a third season in the summer of 2019. He also develops series for television, including “Fluide”, broadcast in 2021 on Arte.

Photo credits: @Rita Scaglia

LÉONIE SIMAGA

The 520th member of the Comédie Française, Léonie Simaga decided to leave the national theatre company in 2016 to diversify her professional activity. She has since pursued her career as an actor and director on stage, on the silver screen and on television, and teaches public speaking at Sciences Po Paris.
These past few years she could be seen notably on: “Alice et le Maire” by Nicolas Pariser (2019), “Les Chatouilles” by Andrea Bescond and Eric Metayer (2018), “Jeune Femme” de Léonor Serraille (2017), “Les Limiers” by Alain DesRochers (2013, France 2), “Que d’amour!” by Valérie Donzelli (2014, Arte), “Trepalium” by Vincent Lannoo (2015, Arte), “Les Impatientes” (2018, France 2), “The Eddy” (2020, Netflix), “La Flamme” (2020, Canal+), “Je te promets” by Arnaud Sélignac and “Renaud Bertrand” (2021, TF1). In early December she can be found on Arte in “Nona et ses filles” by Valérie Donzelli.
Born in Marseille, she is a Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters.

Photo credits: ©DR

The 2021 trailer

2021 Selection

CLOSE TO ME – UNITED KINGDOM/SCANDINAVIA

In competition
Adapted from the novel Close to me BY Amanda Reynolds

SHOWRUNNER AND SCREENWRITER: written by Angela Pell, adapted from the novel of the same name by Amanda Reynolds

DIRECTOR: Michel Samuels

THE ROPE – FRANCE/BELGIUM

In competition
Based on the novel The Rope (Das Seil) by Stefan aus dem Siepen

SHOWRUNNER: Dominique Rocher

SCREENWRITER: Éric Forestier & Dominique Rocher

DIRECTOR: Dominique Rocher

FRENCH BROADCAST: ARTE

AMERICAN RUST – U.S.A.

In competition
Adapted from the novel American Rust by Philipp Meyer

SHOWRUNNER AND SCREENWRITER: Dan Futterman

DIRECTOR: John Dahl

FRENCH BROADCAST: CANAL+

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS – FRANCE/UNITED KINGDOM

Opening Ceremony
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Jules Verne

SHOWRUNNERS: Ashley Pharoah, Caleb Ranson

SCREENWRITERS: Ashley Pharoah, Caleb Ranson, Peter McKenna, Stephen Greenhorn, Claire Downes, Ian Jarvis, Stuart Lane, Jessica Ruston, Debbie O’Malley

DIRECTORS: Steve Barron, Brian Kelly, Charles Beeson

FRENCH BROADCAST: FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS

CRIMINAL GAMES - THE 70’S – FRANCE

Closing Ceremony
Inspired by the works of Agatha Christie

SHOWRUNNER: Sophie Révil

SCREENWRITERS: Eliane Montane and Thomas Mansuy

DIRECTOR: Nicolas Picard-Dreyfuss

FRENCH BROADCAST: FRANCE 2

THE ADVENTURES OF PADDINGGTON – UNITED KINGDOM/FRANCE

Screening for children
Based on The adventures of Paddington by Michael Bond

SHOWRUNNERS AND SCREENWRITERS: Jon Foster, James Lamont

DIRECTORS: Adam Shaw and Chris Drew

FRENCH BROADCAST: GULLI

Professional meetings

THE MARSEILLE SERIES STORIES SURVEY
PLACE AND DIVERSITY OF SERIES ADAPTED FROM LITERARY WORKS

Survey presentation by Aliette de Villeneuve, with the support of NPA Conseil

The survey analyses the quantity and repartition of adaptations amongst the most watched series inf France, on TV and SVoD, for the 2020/21 season.

ADAPTING LITERARY WORKS TO TV SERIES: FINANCIAL STAKES AND CREATIVE AMBITIONS

Roundtable animated by Xavier Leherpeur
PARTICIPANTS:

• Thomas Anargyros President of USPA, President of Mediawan Studio France

• Véra Peltekian Head of HBO Max Original Productions

• Hélène Saillon Head of International Co-productions, Film and International Development Department at France Télévisions

PUBLISHER’S VIEWS

Roundtable animated by Xavier Leherpeur
PARTICIPANTS:

• Alexandra Buchman Head of Audiovisual Rights, Éditis

• Laurent Duvault Head of Audiovisual Development, Media-Participations

• Adélaïde Quiblier Head of Diversification, Auzou Éditions

PUBLISHER’S MARKET

BtoB meetings with French publishers

Masterclasses and workshops

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS: MASTERCLASS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS

Masterclass presented by Joris Charpentier

Two hours of masterclass to explore the various facets of how H.G. Well’s novel was adapted into a TV series through the versions of Howard Overman for CANAL+ and Peter Harness for the BBC.

GERMINAL: BEHIND THE SCENES

Moderation : Ava Cahen

Julien Lilti, the series’ showrunner, producer Carole Della Valle, and actor Thierry Godard look back at the shooting, share their experience and answer questions from the audience.

AGATHA CHRISTIE, FROM PAGE TO SCREEN

Moderation: Ava Cahen and Xavier Leherpeur

A one-hour talk and discussion on adapting Agatha Christie into series, with the participation of Eliane Montane and Thomas Mansuy, scriptwriters, Sophie Révil, producer of Agatha Christie’s Little Murders and And Then There Were None, and Sonia Feertchak, author of La vérité tue : Agatha Christie et la famille (Truth kills : Agatha Christie and the family).

CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP, 7-8/9-11 YEARS OLD – IN THE SHOES OF A SERIES WRITER!

Workshop held with the participation of animation students from the Lycée Marie Curie – Marseille

Archives

THE 2020 SELECTION

BRAVE NEW WORLD – season 1 - U.S.A - Opening ceremony screening

Based on the dystopian, sci-fi novel of the same name, written by Aldous Huxley

Showrunners and screenwriters: Grant Morrison, Brian Taylor and David Wiener

French broadcast: Starzplay

THEY WERE TEN – miniseries - France - Closing ceremony screening

Based on the novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Bruno Dega, Jeanne Le Guillou

DIRECTOR: On the TV platform SALTO and M6 TV Channel

CANAL+

THE GOOD LORD BIRD – U.S.A

Adapted from the James McBride’s novel

Creation: Mark Richard et Ethan Hawke

Script: M.Richard et E.Hawke (ep. 1), M. Richard et Erika L. Johnson (ep. 2)

DIRECTOR: CANAL+

FRENCH BROADCAST: ARTE

BAGHDAD CENTRAL – season 1 - United Kingdom

Based on Elliott Colla's novel of the same name

SHOWRUNNERS: Stephen Butchard

SCREENWRITER: ARTE

DIRECTOR:

PATRIA – season 1 - Spain

From the novel Patria written by Fernando Aramburu

THE ALIENIST: ANGEL OF DARKNESS - U.S.A

Based on Caleb Carr's best-selling novel The Angel of Darkness, a sequel to The Alienist

MRS WILSON - miniseries - United Kingdom

Based on Alison Wilson's memoirs Before & After

EN EL CORREDOR DE LA MUERTE – season 1 – Spain

Based on the novel En el corredor de la muerte written by Nacho Carretero

LES SAUVAGES - the complete series - France - Special screening

ZEVEN KLEINE CRIMINELEN (SEVEN LITTLE CRIMINALS) – season 1 - Netherlands - Special screening – young people’s screening for associations

Based on the youth novel Seven Little Criminals by Italian writer Christian Frascella

The 2020 trailer