Speed Meetings in Series Mania
Lille 26.03.2025
Early morning, on the second day of Series mania Forum we had a fabulous networking breakfast with women in the series industry. The exclusive event took place at the Majestic Barriere, organised by EWA Network, PFDM (Pour les Femmes dans les Médias) fostered by Series Mania Forum. This was the second year with such dedicated event to enhance women's visibility and provide a safe space to access some renowned women in the series industry.
The Speed Meetings was exclusively for women attending the SERIES MANIA forum, in Lille. The event aimed at bringing seasoned French and International women, professionals of the series industry and members of PFDM and EWA Network together with other women of the audiovisual sector wishing to meet themselves and exchange. It started with welcoming breakfast where the participants could mingle
Sylvie de la Rochefoucauld and Alexia Muiños Ruiz opened the session introducing the French and International experts and thanked Series Mania's Cyrielle Gendrey for her support.
The international participants adn EWA members joined in a conversation with the experts Rebecca Ransley, BBC Studios, Senior Vice President Scripted, Content Sales Markets EMEA, BBC Studios; Marike Muselaers, Nordisk Film Production management team (Denmark/Sweden/Norway) as Head of International Financing and Coproductions and Pandora da Cunha Telles, CEO and founder of Ukbar Filmes.
The French experts in the meeting were Isabelle Degeorges, President of Gaumont TV, who received the Woman in Series Award 2025. Léonor Grandsire, Directrice Générale Production France de STUDIO TF1, Hélène Etzi, Senior Vice President Direct-To-Consumer and Networks and Country Manager for The Walt Disney Company France; Béatrice Pacotte, General Direcotr of Shine Fiction and Sophie Leveaux, TF1's Artistic Director of Acquisitions.
We were delighted to meet up with Julie-Jeanne Régnault, newly appointed European Producers Club Managing Director.