APC Studios’ boutique distributor About Premium Content (APC) has signed a number of key international broadcast deals ahead of this year’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Le Havre on French-language scripted and unscripted series “Blue Gold,” “Seasons” and “An Artful Imbrolio.”
The eight-part crime drama and family saga “Blue Gold” has been licensed to Walter Presents for the U.K. and Ireland, RTP in Portugal and Blue Play in Switzerland, joining U.S. streamer MHz Choice.
Produced by Authentic Prod (“Sam,” “Montmartre”) for France Télévisions the series is written by Marie-Anne Le Pezennec (“Dolmen”) and Ludovix Lacroix and directed by Hippolyte Dard.
Barbara Probst stars in ‘Blue Gold’
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Set in the 1980s in Provence, “Blue Gold” chronicles the saga of three women from three generations, Marie, Alice and Flore, and one decades-old buried secret. When a body is found and murders start piling up, Flore will have to solve the family puzzle by revealing the truth. Barbara Probst, Sylvie Granotier and Déborah Krey star.
The four-part “Seasons,” a French-language drama series produced by Windy Production for Arte, has been picked up by RTP in Portugal and RTBF Auvio for French-speaking Belgium. It previously sold to Radio Canada’s Ici Tou.TV Extra for French-speaking Canada.
‘Seasons’
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Beginning in August 1991 at the seaside resort of Les-Sables-d’Olonne, it follows Camille, 15, as she first meets the two best friends Martin and Alexandre on the beach and crashes into their lives like a comet. Perpetually torn between the two men, Camille will live a crazy love story with them over more than 30 years.
Nicolas Maury (“Call My Agent”) directed, co-wrote and stars in the show, co-written by Hélène Duchateau (“The Forest,” “Unfaithful,” “The Eclipse”). The series’ stellar cast includes Stéphane Caillard (“Flo,” “Marseille”), Lucas Bravo (“Emily in Paris,” “Ticket to Paradise”), Abraham Wapler (“Andor,” “Colours of Time”), Géraldine Pailhas, Martine Chevallie and Marysole Fertard.
APC Stories’ three-part art investigation documentary “An Artful Imbroglio” went to Filmin in Spain and RTP in Portugal. Produced for Arte, the unscripted series, which is set in Paris, Rome, London and New York, sheds light on one of the art world’s greatest mysteries.
In the spring of 2014, a mysterious, anonymous letter triggered one of the biggest scandals in the art world: the alleged trafficking of fake old master paintings on an unprecedented scale. At the heart of this imbroglio unfolds a gallery of colorful characters, all revolving around an ultra-charismatic art dealer.