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French sales companies are getting behind Mia’s film and TV market in Rome this week.

French sales companies will be out in force at Rome’s Mia film and TV market (October 13-17) as the global film and TV market circuit continues to shift due to the pandemic Covid-19.

French sellers have been busy networking at the Venice and San Sebastian film festivals this autumn, but Mia represents the first physical market since Cannes in July for most after only a handful of European professionals made the trip to Toronto in September.

Mia will also be the last opportunity...

Karin Viard, Darren Muselet and Samir Guesmi stand out among the cast of this feature debut, produced by Tripode and Incognita, and sold by France TV Distribution. After kicking off on 18 February, the shoot for An Ordinary Mother, the feature-length directorial debut by actress Sylvie Audcoeur, is due to wrap today. The feature is toplined by Karin Viard, rising star Darren Muselet (who turned heads in The Specials and was popular in Bro) and Samir Guesmi. This trio is flanked by such names as Oscar Kopp and Farida Ouchani.The story, written by the director...

Social drama revolves around an 11-year-old boy living in a mobile home with his mother on the edge of the woods.

France tv distribution has boarded sales on French director Fabienne Berthaud’s upcoming social drama Little Man Tom and Sylvie Audcoeur’s psychological thriller An Ordinary Mother, starring Karin Viard.

The film and TV sales division of French state broadcaster will introduce both titles to the market at the upcoming EFM (March 1-5).

Little Man Tom is the fifth feature of writer and director Berthaud and follows her 2019 Mongolia-set drama A Bigger World.

It is adapted from the 2017 novel...