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Unifrance’s New President Gilles Pelisson Weighs in on Opportunities for the Independent French Cinema, TV Sector
Unifrance's new president Gilles Pelisson discusses challenges and opportunities for the French film and TV sector.
After keeping a fairly low profile as president of France’s leading commercial network TF1 Group for seven years, Gilles Pelisson, the discreet Harvard-educated executive, is ready for showtime. Although his role at Unifrance is meant to be non-operational, Pelisson said he will be working alongside Unifrance’s managing director Daniela Elstner on pressing issues that are facing the entertainment industry, such as AI, the need for greater transparency over viewing figures from streaming services, and the necessity to preserve the geo-blocking of rights across Europe to maintain a healthy indie film industry. The Unifrance Rendez-Vous, which has traditionally been focused on European buyers, welcomed for the first time this year a delegation of South American distributors, and Pelisson says the org will look to expand its scope more and more going forward.
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