Carole Brin International Sales Manager Carrere Group France

Can you tell us about your experience of sales into Asia-Pacific Region?

In addition to successful co-productions with Asia ("Moby Dick", "Phantom Spirits", etc.), Carrere Group has developed since its creation in 1986 some strong collaborations with the national broadcasters, distributors, HV companies, etc. Our most important markets are South Korea and Japan (with recent sales of "Maigret", "Charley & Mimmo", "Milo", etc.) but we've also been developing our business in Indonesia and Malaysia with the signature of two output deals.

Cotoons

The rapid development of new technologies opens new platforms for sellers. Have you already ventured into new technologies (IPTV, VOD, mobile TV, etc) in Asia-Pacific?

Our main clients remain until now the major TV Broadcasters but we are conscious that the TV industry is at a turning point. The coming changes are to bring us some additional business opportunities and we are therefore very open to these new technologies. We have for example produced some HD programmes that we will be commercializing during this ATF: animation ("A Cow A Cat & the Ocean"), TV Movie ("Red on the Cross"), series ("Research Unit"), music concert (Mireille Mathieu), etc.

What programs will be in demand at ATF? Please give us your opinion.

We strongly believe in edutainment and we are optimistic with some additional sales of our programmes like "Cotoons" (to be shown in Asia on EBS in South Korea, on Momo TV in Taiwan, etc.), "Witness Genius" (shown in Asia on NHK in Japan, TV12 in Singapore, PTS in Taiwan ), etc.

We can also feel an increasing interest in lifestyle programming and we will therefore present our catalogue based on Carrere Group's newly launched (and already successful) channel: Du Côté de chez Vous - "No place like Home".