1 What do we do at the TV fiction festival?
The 26the edition of the TV fiction festival has been held since Tuesday evening, and until Saturday, between the Dragon and La Coursive halls. For five days, television channels will be showing the best of their fictions that will be discovered during the year. In total, around fifty works from France but also from Europe (one-off films, series, 26-minute shorts, etc.) are in competition.
Then, just read the casting of the teams expected at the Vieux Port to get a little idea of the series that will be talked about. Cécile Bois, Odile Vuillemin and Bruno Solo will come to defend “Signalements”, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Guillaume Gouix, Grégory Fitoussi and Blandine Bellavoir will be there for “Fortune de France” (France Télévisions), a great historical fresco entirely filmed in Dordogne. Also confirmed: Doria Tillier, Laure Calamy, Noé Debré, Camille Lou, Constance Labbé, Claire Romain, Alex Lutz, Dominique Besnehard, Olivia Côte, Ovidie, Éric Cantona…
2 We see stars and audiovisual professionals there
While the general public primarily comes to meet the stars of the small screen, the TV fiction festival has also become a vast meeting place for the audiovisual industry. In total, nearly 3,000 professionals (screenwriters, directors, producers, broadcasters, etc.) come to exchange their ideas, projects and contacts. Throughout the week, breakfasts, dinners and round tables are organized, in order to connect the artisans of tomorrow’s TV films.
As every year, we remember the two major highlights that fill the grand theatre of La Coursive on Friday morning: the great artistic debate that will ask what the heroes of our series should look like, in the presence of Anne Didier, artistic director of French fiction at TF1, Emmanuel Garcia, director of French fiction at France Télévisions, Julie Gayet, director and producer, and Jean-Baptiste Delafon, screenwriter, and the great political debate on the theme “Public/private audiovisual: sacred union or fierce competition?” in the presence of the major channel bosses.
3 It’s a festival for everyone and free.
Last year, 15,000 spectators rushed into the theaters to discover in preview the first episodes of series that will be in the news during the year and hope to meet their idols of the small screen. And in general it goes well. Because here, in La Rochelle, the artists, who have a bit of the feeling of being on vacation, let themselves be approached easily and willingly lend themselves to a few portraits.
You can also take advantage of the “photocalls”, these photo sessions organized especially for the press and professional photographers, to sneak in. Finally, a little reminder, the screenings are free. But be careful, you have to create an account and reserve your place on site-fiction-tv.festicine.fr/fr
