SAINT-TRPOEZ: With foreign attendance on the rise, business was brisk at TV France International’s ninth edition of Le Rendez-Vous, the French TV Screenings held in Saint-Tropez, from 9-11 September.
164 buyers from 45 countries attended the event, up by 10 per cent compared to the previous year. The number of screenings increased by 15 per cent over 2001 and
totalled 3,316 during the three-day event.
For a majority of exhibitors, sales done at Le Rendez-Vous 2003 increased significantly compared to last year and all the participants deemed the market to be satisfactory. Le Rendez-Vous heralded a business recovery after sagging sales of French programs abroad in 2002.
Various documentaries were among the most successful productions presented in Saint-Tropez: The Junction (Point du Jour) was the most widely screened program, while they filmed the War in colour (2001 Audiovisual) and Wings of nature (France Télévisions Distribution), sold to many territories, along with CIA Secret Wars (Capa) and Death squadrons the French school (Idéale Audience).
Likewise, fiction generated strong interest with Danderous liaisons (AB/TF1 International), sold to Australia and Scandinavia in particular, Franck Riva France Televisions Distribution), as well as the first excerpts of Colette (Europe Images International).
Animation is still the leading genre in terms of international sales and Alice, through the looking glass (Dargaud Marina) came on top of the screenings in that genre.
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Business recovers at ninth French TV screenings
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TV France Intl set for 9th ‘Le Rendez-Vous’ 8-12 September
MUMBAI: TV France International will showcase the latest TV content offerings to global buyers through its annual trade event Le Rendez-Vous .
The ninth edition of Rendez-Vous. held from 8-12 September in Saint-Tropez, will bring together 173 buyers from 114 foreign television channels from more than 48 countries and 44 French production and distribution companies.
A press release claims that Le Rendez-Vous 2003 will witness a strong attendance from Middle East buyers in the wake of the Beirut Showcase organised by TV France International in April. For the first time, some of the programmes in the video library will be digitised for enhanced screening conditions, say the release.
The release adds that 116 titles will be available in the digital video library out of the 675 programmes (around 70 per cent of which are brand new) that are presented. The release says that the timing is apt – introducing these programmes to the international market a month ahead of MIPCOM gives French distributors a competitive edge.
The 2002 results of the annual report on ‘The international components of the French production’ carried out with INA (Institute National de l’Audiovisuel), CNC and DDM (Direction du Développement des Médias) will once again be unveiled at Le Rendez-Vous. The press conference will take place on 9 September.
The total amount of sales, pre-sales and revenue in co-production reached 3,355 million euros in 2000, says the release.
On 13 September, three press meetings will be held. Three companies – France Television Distribution, MK2 and Article Z – will be presenting the most recent and exciting programmes to be launched on the international market at Le Rendez-Vous 2003.
Some of the recent examples of French programme sales are – Fellini, sono un gran bugiardo feature film, 100, and Chaplin Today series, 1OX 26′ and have been sold to 20 countries.