Programme / Speakers 2022

Manuel Alduy has a long experience and expertise in the cinema industry. In 22 years with the CANAL group, he has held various responsibilities, including the management of thematic channels. He was in particular responsible for cinema and foreign series acquisitions at Canal+ (from 2008 to 2014), before becoming director of Canal OTT (2014-2016) in charge of SVOD, websites and short program production. Manuel joined The Walt Disney Company in 2019 through the acquisition of Twentieth Century Fox where he was in charge of the distribution of Twentieth Century Fox and Searchlight films and series, FX series and rights to pay and free, linear and non-linear (SVOD) audiovisual services in various European countries (France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland). In February 2021, Manuel Alduy joined France Télévisions as Director of Cinema and International Development. He steers France Télévisions Group's cinema strategy in terms of editorial, communication, acquisitions and co-productions. In May 2022, he was appointed Director of Digital and International Cinema and Fiction and became President of the subsidiaries France 2 Cinéma and France 3 Cinéma.

After 8 years at Paris Première as Head of programme acquisitions, Catherine Gaucher joined France Télévisions in 2005 for the creation and launch of the digital TV channel France 4, as Deputy head of acquisitions. After 5 years there, she extended her scope to France 2, France 3 and France 5, holding editorial positions in international fiction and cinema. She is currently in charge of purchasing and pre-purchasing international fiction within the Film, Digital and International Fiction Department.

After 11 years at M6 as Director of Institutional Relations, Hélène Saillon joined the SACD in 2004 as Director of Audiovisual. She joined France Télévisions in 2007 as Deputy Director of Fiction at France 2, and has successively held editorial positions in International Coproductions and Digital Fiction. She is currently Head of Programmes in charge of International Coproductions, within the Film, Digital and International Fiction Department.

Graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Lyon and holder of a postgraduate diploma in audiovisual communication law from the Université Paris-Sorbonne, Morad Koufane began his career at the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel in 1994. In 1995, he joined the cultural services of the French Embassy in New York as Deputy Audiovisual Attaché for three years before becoming Audiovisual Attaché in Lisbon in 2000. He then became a freelancer as a strategic and artistic consultant for major media and consulting groups (EY, Orange, Ubisoft, Publicis Consultants, Lagardère), notably in Qatar from 2006 to 2009 (working on the design of an international event on innovation in education - "World Innovation Summit for Education" - and author of a five-episode series of pan-Arab educational reality TV on innovation - "Stars of Science" - broadcast in 17 countries. He joined France Télévisions' Research Department at the end of 2010, specialising in trend and social research. In 2017, he took over the management of the group's strategic planning. At the beginning of 2020, he became project director in the Transformation Department. Since September 2020, Morad Koufane has been Advisor to the Director of Programmes and Broadcasting. In January 2022, he became Head of International Series, in charge of acquisitions and co-productions.