Despite the health crisis, the year 2021 ended with a record number of film shoots on the Riviera. The far south-east hosted 510 teams (+35% compared to 2019), or 1,863 production days (+55%), according to a report released on Monday by the Côte d’Azur Film Commission – France.
And the organization is already planning “a promising dynamic” for 2022, with “between 5 and 15 filming requests per month” and prestigious headliners, including Diane Kruger, Camille Cottin and Tomer Sisley.
The German actress seen in Troy and Inglorious Bastards will turn there Visionsthe next film by Yann Gozlan (Black Box) with Mathieu Kassovitz and the Spaniard Marta Nieto. The star of Ten percent, she will box Tony with familythe new feature film by French Riviera director Nathan Ambrosioni (paper flags). Tomer Sisley should for his part be there for twenty-one days for a TF1 fiction: like a son.
Cannes, star of a series
These three shoots, scheduled for this summer, will be preceded by the production of two major series starting this spring. Ouijain six episodes directed by the producer of dark baron Thomas Bourguignon for France Télévisions will plunge viewers into a supernatural universe. In total, 67 days of filming are scheduled between March and July, in the hinterland of Nice, including Utelle, Lantosque and Sospel.
The city of festivals will also be the star of Canes Confidential, a series of first six episodes recorded in English for worldwide broadcast and produced by Drama Corp. Two months of filming are planned. She will stage “an improbable duet with an idealistic local policewoman allied with a former forger for investigations carried out in an unorthodox way”, according to the production.