Emmanuel Macron will be at the heart of a documentary currently in preparation. A team follows the President of the Republic and the director Cédric Jimenez (North Bac) is part of the project, said Friday on France Info the CEO of the production company Mediawan Pierre-Antoine Capton. “We have two directors following him and we are working on a film,” the latter declared on public radio, confirming information from the newspaper La Tribune Sunday.
“We asked Cédric Jimenez for an artistic look, but it’s not him who realizes it,” he clarified about the director of North Bac And November. According to Pierre-Antoine Capton, this project should have remained “in secret” for the moment, but “there was a leak” (a leak) in La Tribune Sunday.
“Never before seen” sequences
After a first documentary on his 2017 campaign, the initial idea was to follow Emmanuel Macron “during his second campaign” in 2022. But “everything was impacted by Ukraine, by lots of subjects, and so we continued to shoot,” said the boss of Mediawan. According to La Tribune Sunday“filming will continue at least throughout 2024 which, from the Olympics to the ceremonies of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, will be rich in spectacular events”.
The terms of broadcast of this documentary have not yet been decided, assured Pierre-Antoine Capton. “Today we are leaving ourselves open to all the possibilities, perhaps internationally, perhaps in France on a platform, perhaps a series, we don’t know yet,” he said. . “All I know is that we have sequences that are incredible, never seen before,” he assured.
Founded in 2015 by Pierre-Antoine Capton, Xavier Niel and Matthieu Pigasse, the Mediawan group is a heavyweight in the production, distribution and broadcast of films, series and streaming programs. It brings together more than 70 production labels, gradually acquired in France, Europe, Africa and North America.