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  • We are happy to welcome Florence Sala: the new Head of ARTE DISTRIBUTION and MARKETING at ARTE France DEVELOPPEMENT since April 26th, 2021. 

    She began her career at ARTE France in 1998 as a project manager for international thematic channels. She then joined the Canal+ Group in 1999 where she worked for 18 years in various fields such international content acquisition et coproduction (feature films, series and documentaries), marketing, international business development, and international distribution at STUDIOCANAL.

    Before joining ARTE Development, she worked 3 years as a CEO and producer for the French-German production company Bleu Kobalt, where she produced international prime time feature documentaries, among which “Titanic, into the heart of the wreck” and “In search of Orient express”, sold in more than 80 countries to History Channel, Channel 4, ZDF, SBS…

  • We are really happy to announce that THE GOSPEL OF WEALTH - A STORY OF CAPITALISM (1870-2020) will be premiered at the Digital MIPTV’s Factual & Documentary Showcase

    In this series of 3 episodes covering 140 years of economic, political and cultural history, Cédric Tourbe and Romain Huret dissect the capitalist storytelling that has succeeded in perpetuating the American dream – from Rockefeller to the Koch family, or from Carnegie to Bezos, asking why such an injust system has not collapsed yet.

  • We are happy to announce that our team is going to pitch BRAVING THE TIDES at Le Rendez-Vous Docs 2021 on thursday, March 18th. 

    To the rhythm of the tides and for 24 hours, we will sneak into the secret and tumultuous life of the strange creatures of the shorelines, to discover their incredible way of life.

  • Our documentary "STALIN'S EXECUTIONERS - THE KATYN MASSACRE" is selected at the Lauriers de l'Audiovisuel

    This film tells for the first time the story of the Katyn massacre seen from both sides: That of the victims and that of the perpetrators. It reveals how this crime, attributed to the Nazis for 50 years, was in fact carried out by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD.

    Les Lauriers de l'Audiovisuel

  • Our documentary "THE UNGEMACH EXPERIMENT, A STORY OF EUGENICS" is selected at the festival FIPADOC 2021. 

    In 1924, a garden city, called “Ungemach”, was inaugurated in Strasbourg; it was restricted to couples who bore “healthy and fertile strains”. This officially eugenicist experience was endorsed by both political and scientific authorities, and the selection system lasted until the 1980s!