Ugc, the long-running French film studio whose biggest hits include “Amelie Poulain,” has successful branched into TV series by acquiring stakes in a flurry of talent-driven production companies such as Itineraire Productions (“Hpi”) and Headline Pictures (“Call My Agent!’s” British remake) in the U.K.
Opting for a different approach to Gaumont’s or large media groups like Mediawan, the company has been building its label Ugc Series as a coalition of independently-ran production companies under the leadership of Laurence Lenica, a veteran Ugc executive, and Franck Calderon, a well-known writer, producer and former boss of TF1 Productions.
So far, Ugc Series comprises six banners. Along with Headline Pictures and Itineraire Productions, these include Henri Debeurne’s Next Episode whose credits take in “Christmas Flow” for Netflix and “J’ai tué mon mari” for NBCU; Ugc Fiction, which Calderon is leading with Karine Evrard and Sophie Exbrayat, and which...
Opting for a different approach to Gaumont’s or large media groups like Mediawan, the company has been building its label Ugc Series as a coalition of independently-ran production companies under the leadership of Laurence Lenica, a veteran Ugc executive, and Franck Calderon, a well-known writer, producer and former boss of TF1 Productions.
So far, Ugc Series comprises six banners. Along with Headline Pictures and Itineraire Productions, these include Henri Debeurne’s Next Episode whose credits take in “Christmas Flow” for Netflix and “J’ai tué mon mari” for NBCU; Ugc Fiction, which Calderon is leading with Karine Evrard and Sophie Exbrayat, and which...
- 3/24/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — André and Maria Jacquemetton, the Emmy and WGA Award-winning writer-producers of AMC’s “Mad Men” and consulting producers on Amazon Studios’ “The Romanoffs,” will serve as Guests of Honor at Series Mania’s Ugc Writers Campus, a workshop whose participants include Denmark’s Christina Miller-Harris and Israel’s Noy Carmel.
The Jacquemettons will deliver a masterclass and help steer workshops. Lorraine Sullivan, the former director of the Berlin Film School’s Serial Eyes, serves as head of studies, Nicola Lusuardi, a story editor and creative producer for Sky Italy, and Christian Rank, head of drama at Denmark’s Dr, serve as tutors. Trainers are Donna Sharpe, a screenwriter on Zdf/Svt’s ambitious English-Language espionage thriller “West of Liberty,” which received a Berlin Drama Series Days Market Screening, and Michaela Sabo.
Made by France’s Series Mania and Ugc Series, the TV production arm of the Ugc Group, the...
The Jacquemettons will deliver a masterclass and help steer workshops. Lorraine Sullivan, the former director of the Berlin Film School’s Serial Eyes, serves as head of studies, Nicola Lusuardi, a story editor and creative producer for Sky Italy, and Christian Rank, head of drama at Denmark’s Dr, serve as tutors. Trainers are Donna Sharpe, a screenwriter on Zdf/Svt’s ambitious English-Language espionage thriller “West of Liberty,” which received a Berlin Drama Series Days Market Screening, and Michaela Sabo.
Made by France’s Series Mania and Ugc Series, the TV production arm of the Ugc Group, the...
- 2/18/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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