France Launches Selective Subsidy Scheme For Local Content Fully Financed by Non-European Platforms

Countries abroad have taken swift action to tighten rules and restrictions this week to protect against the Omicron variant.

PARIS -- The voice of Josephine Baker, speaking and singing, will resonate Tuesday in front of the Pantheon monument in Paris, where she is to symbolically be inducted — becoming the first Black woman to receive France’s highest honor.French President Emmanuel Macron made the decision in August to honor the “exceptional figure” who “embodies the French spirit,” making Baker also the first American-born citizen and the first performer to be immortalized into the Pantheon.

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. management and production house Anonymous Content is teaming up with Euro firm Federation Entertainment to launch France-based TV label Anonymous/Federation.

Jamie Lang U.K.-French sales, distribution and production company Alief has dealt Gonzalo Calzada’s award-winning Argentine thriller double bill “Nocturna” in France and Belgium to horror-centric streaming platform Freaks On.Freaks On plans to release the film early next year, day-and-date on its platform, in select theaters and in physical media.As envisioned by Argentine writer-director Gonzalo Calzada, “Nocturna: Side A…” turns on a nearly 100-year-old man who struggles to atone for the

One of the most anticipated films of the year was already seen earlier this year: “The Tragedy of Macbeth” by writer/director Joel Coen (going solo for the first time without Ethan Coen), made its world premiere at the New York Film Festival to much acclaim (read our review).

France has become the latest European nation to re-introduce restrictions in response to a new wave of Covid-19.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentIt’s mask time again in France. The country’s health minister has unveiled a set of familiar health measures as Europe faces a fifth wave of COVID-19 cases.

Home Secretary Priti Patel has argued that it is up to France to stop migrants crossing the Channel.

One of the most anticipated films of the year was already seen earlier this year: “The Tragedy of Macbeth” by writer/director Joel Coen (going solo for the first time without Ethan Coen), made its world premiere at the New York Film Festival to much acclaim.

Boris Johnson has called on France to agree to joint patrols across the Channel after a migrant boat capsized and 27 people died.

Boris Johnson has claimed that France must step up efforts to stem the number of migrants cross the Channel, after a boat capsized off the French coast with the loss of 31 lives.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentLeading French documentary production and distribution banner ZED has signed a deal with Curiosity, the U.S. non-fiction company headed by Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks, to deliver 10 exclusive programs by the end of 2022.They will premiere across Curiosity’s subscription-based platform, and its linear channel.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“Annette” producer Charles Gillibert is set to produce “Rodeo,” Lola Quivoron’s daring feature debut about a young woman who infiltrates an underground dirt bike community in France.Quivoron previously directed the short film “Au Loin Baltimore” which played at Locarno in 2016 and co-directed (with Antonia Buresi) “Headshot,” a documentary about today’s youth that aired on Franco-German network Arte.“Rodeo” shot entirely on the outskirts of Bordeaux,

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFrench female directors, crew members and film executives have gained ground in the last year, according to France’s National Film Board. The org said on Tuesday that a third of French film productions received a bonus subsidy for hiring female directors, cinematographers and/or heads of production in 2020 and 2021.

EXCLUSIVE: David M. Rosenthal (A Single Shot, Janie Jones) is directing an untitled thriller about freediving, which has been boarded by Netflix France.