Nord-Ouest was founded in 1999. It is owned by 2 associates, Christophe Rossignon and Philip Boeffard and is willing to produce feature films and more recently documentaries.

In 1984, Jean Cazès created his first company, Initial Groupe, which produced feature films and television series particularly in animation. It took over France-Animation, which became the European leader in the sector within a few years. With the support of the Caisse des Dépôts, another company, IDA (Investissements en Droits Audiovisuelles) was created in 1987 and built up a large film catalogue. In 1992, after purchasing the Thorn-EMI-Weintraub library, representing about 35% of all the British films produced since the silent era, Initial and IDA merged to form Lumière, chaired by Jean Cazès.

Lumière expanded in the USA, Brazil, Spain, the UK, Australia and Japan. Investing in ten to fifteen films per year, it became one of the leading financiers/distributors in the European cinema sector. Lumière was sold in March 1996 to UGC-DA and this group was immediately sold to Canal Plus to form the heart of what is now Studio Canal.

Since 2001, Jean Cazès has revitalized his film production activities and advises companies in the European entertainment sector with regards to financing and in the areas of mergers and acquisitions.

During his career, Jean Cazès has produced or co-produced nearly forty films, mostly French or American, some of which have been very successful both critically and in the marketplace.

After serving as an advisor to French Prime Minister Raymond Barre, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre was nominated in January 1979 as Chairman of Sociéte de Production (SFP), a company managing all the studios and facilities of French public television.

He left SFP in July of 1981 to become Chairman of Editions Mondiales, one of the largest magazine publishers in France. There he diversified the company’s activities in the field of film and television, creating REVCOM in 1984 and acquiring Films Ariane in 1986. In January of 1992, he and his wife, Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre, created their own production company, MACT productions.

Among his credits as producer or co-producer are the following: for Société Française de Production, The Return of Martin Guerre by Daniel Vigne. For Films Ariane, as Producer: Réunion by Jerry Schatzberg, The Favor, The Watch and The Very Big Fish by Ben Lewin, The French Révolution by Robert Enrico and Richard Heffron and Vanille Fraise by Gérard Oury. And as Co-Producer, Cinéma Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore which won the Special Jury prize at Cannes for Best Foreign Film, Stanno Tutti Bene, also by Giuseppe Tornatore, La Familia by Ettore Scola.

Antoine de Clermont Tonnerre was elected as Unifrance President in January 2009.

After studying management, she entered the film industry, and worked actively as a publicist. She worked especially to introduce films from Eastern Europe and the former USSR around the time when the Perestroika was beginning. In 1992, she founded a film production company called CDP. She has produced an array of short films, features, documentaries and television programs that won a host of prizes at international film festivals.

Studiocanal, the movie company of Canal, is actively involved in the production, co-production, acquisition and theatrical distribution of European features films. Studiocanal distributes its products to worldwide Tv broadcasters and is also active in distribution of Video and DVD outlets, in the exploitation of ancillary products as well as in the records production.

Alain Goldman created LEGENDE in 1992 in order to produce “1492 – Conquest of Paradise” (Christopher Colombus) directed by Ridley Scott.

Légende has always chosen to produce its films paying especial attention to the artistic qualities that will touch an international audience. The films economy is therefore built on international sales, an advantage we consider being essential to financing.

To this day, in Europe, “1492, Christopher Colombus” directed by Ridley Scott, is by far the most important independent production ever made. Légende has chosen to expand towards European and international film markets, as we did with “Casino” directed by Martin Scorsese and “Vatel” by Roland Joffé.

Alain Goldman was the first producer in France to create a sequel franchise with “The Crimson Rivers” (“Les Rivières Pourpres”). The first film was directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, the second one by Olivier Dahan. The two first seasons of ”The Crimson Rivers” tv series will be in production in the near future. Alain Goldman is also developing many other projects for television.

Alain Goldman is a very active French producer on the international level: in 2007, « La Môme » (« La Vie en Rose ») has been released in more than 45 countries and has grossed over US$ 100.000.000. During the summer of 2008, « Babylon AD », directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh and Gérard Depardieu, was released worlwide and grossed over US$. 80.000.000

Last year, Légende released “The Round Up” (“La Rafle”) about the French collaboration with the Germans. Rose Bosch wrote and directed it, starring Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent and Gad Elmaleh. “The Round Up” (“La Rafle”) was a big hit in France, it rated 3rd at the box office in 2010. The film has been sold in more than 40 countries.

2007 Managing Director for Pathé Production – Managing Director for Pathé Entertainment Ltd

2006 Executive Vice President for Pathé – Managing Director for Pathé Distribution

1997 Development Director for Pathé

UGC operates a European network of around 600 cinemas in France, Belgium, Spain and Italy and has performed more than 40 million admissions in 2009.

UGC is also present in the production and distribution French and European films in cinemas worldwide through the sales of its audiovisual rights.

Marc Missonnier and Olivier Delbosc met in filmschool in 1992 and have been partners since then. They have produced more than 40 features films, with audience and critic successes like Little Nicholas by Laurent Tirard, or the films by François Ozon (8 Women or Swimming Pool).

These last years, they have decided to expand their scope of activity. They now produce TV series for prime time on French Television. But most of all, they are definitively turned towards internationals projects. They have produced Emir Kusturica’s films (Promise Me and Maradonna by Kusturica), Gaspar Noé’s Enter The Void, Gilles Bourdos’s Afterwards starring Evangeline Lilly and John Malkovitch.

In 2009, they have produced Neds, by Peter Mullan in Scotland and The Next Three Days (with Paul Haggis and Michael Nozik), by Paul Haggis and starring Russel Crowe, the remake of their film Pour Elle.