Paris-based boutique distribution outfit About Premium Content material (APC) has picked up international rights to the French crime household saga “Blue Gold,” produced by Banijay Entertaiment’s Genuine Prod for France Télévisions.
Toplining Barbara Probst (“The Beginner,” “Cette nuit-là”), the eight-part collection is debuting on the Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Le Havre, the most important marketplace for French TV applications, which kicks off Monday, Sept. 1.
Directed by Hippolyte Dard (“Sam,” “Astrid et Raphaëlle”) from a screenplay by Marie-Anne Le Pezennec (“Dolmen”) and Ludovix Lacroix, the cross generational household saga and crime drama is about in sun-drenched Southern France.
“When a devastating drought strikes the distant village of Vallouans in 2024, it uncovers greater than only a forgotten spring: It awakens a century-old buried secret, handed down by the generations,” reads the official synopsis. “Flore, a curious and decided younger lady, finds herself drawn into the shadows of her household’s previous. Her mom, Alice, carries recollections she will be able to’t clarify, and her grandmother holds the ultimate piece of the puzzle. Every lady is pulled again to Vallouans the place the thriller will lastly come to mild.”
Within the title roles subsequent to Probst are Samir Boitard, Sylvie Granotier, Déborah Krey, Eric Caravaca and Tom Leeb.
“Blue Gold” is a household saga and crime collection, mixing a gripping thriller with a curse tied to water. At its coronary heart, it’s about what we move down – good or unhealthy – from technology to technology,” mentioned APC’s head of worldwide gross sales Julie Mateille who underlines the “pure and natural” multi-layered storyline as one of many present’s promoting factors, along with its topical environmental footprint. “The collection contrasts the luxurious nature of the Nineteen Eighties with as we speak’s harsher actuality, underlining the affect of local weather change. “
“Blue Gold is an addictive drama with soapy components together with a basic investigation, which goes to resonate with audiences throughout generations worldwide,” mentioned the gross sales govt.
Shepherding the collection is seasoned producer Aline Panel of Banijay France’s banner Genuine Prod, which has delivered a raft of hit scripted reveals resembling “Sam,”” Le Temps murderer” and “Je te promets,” French model of “That is Us.” The present will likely be delivered later this 12 months, with a premiere on French pubcaster France Télévisions but to be introduced.
Different premium reveals toplining APC’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous slate embody “Seasons,” a love triangle by “Name My Agent”’s Nicolas Maury, produced by Windy Manufacturing for Arte, and the Nineteen Eighties’ flamboyant crime dramedy “The Large Fuck Up,” produced by Belgium’s Jonydepony for Streamz and Prime Video Netherlands.
For Mateille, the Unifrance showcase, unfolding within the run-up to Mipcom, gives a transparent benefit “for distributors like us to launch our upcoming French collection. The Rendez-Vous gives an excellent alternative to convey consumers collectively in a extra informal approach and encourage them to display screen our collection.”
Increasing on the present market, she mentioned: “The worldwide market stays difficult and saturated with content material vs. alternatives for pure acquisition. Following the disaster that began in 2022, conventional broadcasters and international platforms are likely to play it secure, investing much less and extra selectively, prioritizing established IPs with a transparent distinctive promoting level and recognizable expertise, making it more durable for different initiatives to seek out their place. On the similar time, international streamers have shifted to native content material, investing closely in their very own originals, which creates new alternatives for second runs infrequently.
Hopefully, yearly, well-crafted and extra authentic reveals are standing out and standard with the viewers.”
