Hervé Michel, Vice President of Unifrance, and Sarah Hemar, Director of Audiovisual, announced the 19th Unifrance TV Export Awards at the Trianon and L'Élysée Montmartre on December 13, 2022.
Presented at the opening of the PROCIREP French Television Producer Awards ceremony, of which Unifrance is a partner, these awards recognize the French television programs that have achieved the most sales internationally.
The Unifrance TV Export Awards single out the international appeal of French audiovisual creation in the fields of animation, documentary, and fiction. This year, once again, they highlight the professionalism and expertise of French distribution companies.
THE RECIPIENTS 2022
Unifrance TV Export Award — Animation
Xilam Animation for Where's Chicky? – Season 2 (104x1')
Chicky is an adorable, irresistible little chick who finds a new place and an unknown object in each of his adventures. In the second season, two characters make their entrance: Bekky, Chicky's best friend, and Poyo, a young playmate. Many funny situations twists and turns are in store for our three sidekicks!
The other nominees
- Anna & Friends — Superights — 78x7'
- Hello Kitty : Super Style ! — Kids First Distribution — 52x11'
Unifrance TV Export Award — Documentary
CALT Distribution for Legacy (90')
Ten years after Home, Yann Arthus-Bertrand returns with Legacy, a powerful cry from the heart. He shares a sensitive and radical vision of our world, which he has seen deteriorate over the course of a generation, and reveals a suffering planet, a disoriented humanity incapable of taking seriously the threat that weighs upon it and on all living beings. For the director, the matter is urgent: everyone can and must join together to take action for the planet and the future of our children...
The other nominees
- Vikings: The Lost Kingdom — ZED — 52’ and 90’
- Wagner, Putin's Shadow Army — Newen Connect — 52'
Unifrance TV Export Awards — Fiction
Newen Connect for Women at War (8x52')
September 1914. For several weeks, fighting has been raging. In a small village in eastern France, a few kilometers from the German zone, four women find themselves thrown into the maelstrom of the horror: Marguerite (Audrey Fleurot), a Parisian prostitute as mysterious as she is flamboyant, who is suspected of being a spy; Caroline (Sofia Essaïdi), wife of Victor Dewitt, owner of a car factory, who has left for the front, thereby propelling her to the head of the family business, a colossal and unprecedented challenge for a woman at the beginning of the century; Agnes (Julie de Bona), mother superior of a convent requisitioned and transformed into a military hospital, where she is overwhelmed by the influx of wounded and increasingly tormented as she questions her life choices; and Suzanne (Camille Lou), a young feminist nurse wanted for murder... They are the Women at War: four exceptional women who, over the course of eight episodes, live through a tragic moment in French history.
The other nominees
- About Sasha — France tv distribution — 10x22'
- The Rope — Wild Bunch TV — 3x52'
ABOUT THE SELECTION OF NOMINEES FOR THE UNIFRANCE AUDIOVISUAL EXPORT AWARDS
Nominated programs are determined by the program's sales per hour of program time over an 18-month period. For this edition, revenues take into account sales and pre-sales deals, all rights and territories, signed by the applicant between April 1, 2021 and September 30, 2022.
The winners of each category of the Unifrance TV Export Awards are then determined by the vote of international buyers invited to the Unifrance Rendez-vous in Biarritz 2022, the list of which has been determined in collaboration with the SEDPA.
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