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Léo Mattéï

« The Downside »

Léo Mattéï confronts David, the man who kidnapped his daughter Eloïse, in a heated media trial. When David is murdered, everything accuses Mattéï. Once arrested, he is unable to give an alibi and presents, moreover, a suspicious wound. But a trace of DNA found on David’s corpse accuses another person: Eloise…

Production
Big Band Story, Papillonnons Productions, TF1

TV Serie
2013-2019

Director  S06E05/E06  « Le Revers de la Médaille» (2×52 minutes)

FRANCE

Created by
Jean-Luc Reichmann
Michel Alexandre
Nathalie Lecoultre

Staring
Jean-Luc Reichmann
Mathilde Lebrequier
Catherine Marchal
Véronique Jeannot

Consolidated audiences 1st broadcast on TF1 (February 28, 2019): 5.3 million viewers.

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Cassandre 2019

In Annecy, a customs officer is found dead in a smuggling truck. It is against her ex-husband, in shock, that Commissioner Cassandre begins her investigation. But who is the real victim, Thomas Vanier, who arrived at the customs just a year ago?How did he end up in that truck? And why doesn’t anyone seem to know that he came back to Annecy? A perilous and intense investigation is expected for Cassandra, who mixes the intimate and the professional. Keeping a cool head won’t be easy …

Production
Abrafilms, Barjac Productions, Groupe Telfrance, NEWEN, France 3

TV Serie
2015-2019

Director  S03E02  « Sans Condition » (93 minutes)

FRANCE

Created by
Bruno Lecigne
Mathieu Masmondet

Staring
Gwendoline Hamon
Alexandre Varga
Dominique Pinon
Anny Duperey
Sara Mortensen

Audience 1st broadcast FRANCE 3 (February 09, 2019): 4.6 million viewers.

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Léo Mattéï

In Marseille, Louis, 5 years old, is kidnapped on the beach of the Prado under the eyes of his mother. The kidnapper runs away in a van. Léo Mattéï and his team of the BPM follow up the trail of the vehicle. The investigation takes them to a social centre for young people rehabilitation. During the centre’s radio show, a mysterious listener makes a statement: he has the child and his revenge will be terrible…

Production
Big Band Story, Papillonnons Productions, TF1

TV Serie
2013-2019

Director  S06E03  « Au Bout du Fil » (52 minutes)

FRANCE

Created by
Jean-Luc Reichmann
Michel Alexandre
Nathalie Lecoultre

Staring
Jean-Luc Reichmann
Mathilde Lebrequier
Xavier Mathieu
Bruno Wolkowitch

Consolidated audiences 1st broadcast (February 21 , 2019): 5.2 million viewers.

This film was selected for the opening film of the Luchon Festival of Television Creations.

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Cassandre

Spectacular murder in a castle during its restoration on the Lake of Annecy. Cassandre, former head of the famous Parisian Major Crimes Unit, will go to extremes to expose the truth.

Production
Barjac Production

Série TV
2015-2018

Director of  S03E01, « Retour de Flamme/Backfire”  (90 min.)

FRANCE

Créée par
Bruno Lecigne
Mathieu Masmondet

Avec
Gwendoline Hamon
Alexandre Varga
Dominique Pinon

My 2018 television cop show, a feature-length episode of FR3’s popular “CASSANDRE” series, won the Grand Prize Award for “Best French TV series” at the 2017 Cognac Film Festival .

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The Rally

A rally in the desert… Suspens.

Production
Adrénaline Productions

TV Serie
in development

Direction Pilot

FRANCE

Created by
Christian Lachenal
Hervé Renoh

Staring
–

An ambitious adventure for television series currently in development by ADRENALINE PRODUCTIONS.

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Research Unit

(excerpt)

A stag party turns to race against the clock when the bridegroom disappears … in a coffin.

Production
Les Auteurs Associés
Dragons Films
RTBF

TV Serie
2006-2017

Direction Saison 10 Épisode 6 « Nuit d’ivresse »

FRANCE

Created by
Steven Bawol
Dominique Lancelot
Yann Le Nivet

Staring
Xavier Deluc
Chrystelle Labaude
Virginie Caliari

In 2016, “Nuit d’Ivresse” (“Stag Party”) was the peak of the french cop show SECTION DE RECHERCHES’s new season when it aired on France’s leading channel TF1, to the series highest ratings in five years, with an audience of over 7,3 million viewers.

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Jack of Diamonds

A young tennis pro (John Bregar) teaching at an exclusive Country Club in the Hamptons crosses paths with a jewel thief (Jean-Yves Berteloot) and fate determines their future together.

Production
Gaumont, France 2, ZDF
Muse Entertainment Enterprises

TV Film
2011

Direction Pilot Episode

FRANCE / CANADA / GERMANY

Showrunner
Peter Hume

Cast
Jean-Yves Berteloot
John Bregar
Charlotte Legault

Jack of Diamonds was shot in Canada, in English, with American, Canadian, British and French actors. This international coproduction was created by Los Angeles based showrunner Peter Hume, and produced by Muse Entertainment in Montreal, Gaumont in France and ZDF in Germany.

It was aired in Canada on Showcase, in France on France Television and in Germany on ZDF.

Peter Hume’s script was nominated at the 2011 Gemini Awards (Canadian “Emmy Awards”) for Best Screenplay in a Television Series. Jack of Diamonds was also nominated at the  ACTRA Awards 2013.

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R.I.S.

The French response to the world-reknowned “C.S.I.” is a series based on the real-life Scientific Investigations Department of the Parisian Police, composed of highly qualified personnel in the analysis of drugs, interventions in crime scene and defusing explosives. The Group also carries out inspection and evidence collection on crime scenes. This subject matter allows for character studies both in the team and their suspects.

Production
Alma Productions (TF1 Production)
SAGA Film
RTL-TVi

TV Series
2006-2014

Direction  Season 04, Episode 1 « A Fleur de peau / Naked Skin»  (1h)

FRANCE

Created by
Barbara Petronio
Leonardo Valenti
Daniele Cesarano

Cast
Stéphane Metzger
Laurent Olmedo
Coraly Zahonero

This episode of R.I.S. Scientific Police  was the pilot for the 4th season as it introduced a new format and a new team of characters. It was broadcasted in France, Switzerland and Belgium.

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Women of law

Season 8

Two very different women, one a smart prosecutor, the other a tough police lieutenant, must join forces to solve complex crimes. Despite their opposing temperaments, they lead dynamic investigations together while remaining always sexy and fun.

This season 8 presente a new heroine, with Noémie Elbaz taking over after Aylin Prandi’s part as tough-as-nails lieutenant Emilie Janson, new partner of prosecutor Elizabeth Brochène (Natacha Amal).

Production
Alizés Films
TF1
Télévision Suisse-Romande (TSR)

TV Serie
2000-2009

Direction Season 8, E01 to E04 (4x1h)

FRANCE

Created by
Benoît Valère

Staring
Natacha Amal
Noémie Elbaz

WOMEN OF LAW is a prime-time detective series broadcast in France on TF1, in Belgium on RTL-TVI and in Switzerland on TSR from 2002 to 2010. The show won the Audience Award at the 2002 Saint-Tropez French TV Fiction Festival.

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Women of law

Saison 7

This season of Women of law introduces at the same time a new format 52 ‘ and a new heroine, Lieutenant Elena Cortes (Aylin Prandi), a hothead of the field unit brigade who is going to have to become an allied to by-the-book deputy public prosecutor Elizabeth Brochène (Natacha Amal).

Production 
Alizés Films
TF1
Télévision Suisse-Romande (TSR)

TV Serie
2000-2009

Direction Season 7, 4 Episodes 52’

FRANCE

Created by
Benoît Valère

Staring
Natacha Amal
Aylin Prandi

In 2006, the once successful show faced a 7th season with its lowest ratings and needed a fresh take. I was brought aboard  to modernize the series.

I introduced a new format, following the wave of 90 minutes shows being converted in 1 hour shows, in the wake of the hugely successful R.I.S. SCIENTIFIC POLICE that I initiated the previous year for TF1, and cast a new, younger female cop.

This pilot “The Girl of the Air” of the new “series formula” contains spectacular action scenes. With a new actress, a  new format and a new creative team at the helm, the show was a major hit and the series was renewed for 3 more seasons.