Head of THEMA & Geopolitics @ ARTE G.E.I.E.
Company profile: As a public service television channel, ARTE showcases Europe’s rich cultural diversity. Its purpose is “to conceive and produce television programmes which, in a broad sense, are cultural and international in character and conducive to promoting understanding and cooperation between European nations”. Its originality lays in the fact that it targets audiences from different cultural backgrounds, in particular French and German. Documentaries account for 40% of arte’s programming.
Job Description: coordination, versioning and coproduction.
Strand Profile: THEMA prime time slot (90’) investigates current political, socio-economic, environmental, and public health issues. The GEOPOLITICS-late night slot (52’) observes and analyses the accelerating changes in a world of globalization.
Themes: geopolitics, economics, society, environment.
Main activities: 80% of the documentaries are produced by ARTE France and the German public service channels ARD and ZDF. ARTE G.E.I.E. is coproducing 12 TV-hours per year for the geopolitical slot.
Last produced or co-produced titles:
- The Great European Disaster Movie, Annalisa Piras, ARTE, BBC, SVT (2014)
- Erdogan, Guillaume Perrier & Gilles Cayatte (2016)
- ISIS Deserters Speak Out, Thomas Dandois & François-Xavier Trégan (2017)
- Lion Cubs of the Caliphate, Thomas Dandois & François-Xavier Trégan (2017)
- Blood for Sale, Marie Maurisse & François Pilet (2017) ARTE/RTS
- Inkotanyi, Christophe Cotteret (2017) ARTE/RTBF
What I’m mainly looking for at MIA DOC: projects for coproduction and cooperation with RAI.
