Beta-Backed Anca Makes First Investment in French Production Outfit Perpetual Soup (EXCLUSIVE)

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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentHigh-profile French creators and showrunners, David Elkaïm, Vincent Poymiro, and producer Jeremy Sahel, are joining forces with Anca, a banner which is backed by German powerhouse Beta Group, to develop and produce ambitious TV series.Anca was created in 2021 by Rose Brandford Griffith and Christophe Thoral, two former bosses of Lagardere Studios, to invest in production banners.Elkaïm, Poymiro and Sahel’s production company Perpetual Soup marks Anca’s first investment with a minority stake.

Poymiro and Elkaïm are known for having written a pair of top-rated drama series ordered by Arte, “Ainsi soient-ils” and “En Thérapie,” the French adaptation of Hagai Levi’s series “BeTipul” (“In Treatment”).

The Paris-based outfit is at Series Mania with “Le monde de demain,” a show about the birth of France’s hip-hop movement in the 1980s which will soon launch on Arte in France and Netflix globally.

A critically acclaimed screenwriter involved in both movies and series, Poymiro just won this year’s César Award for best original screenplay for “Onoda, 10,000 Nights in the Jungle” which world premiered at Cannes.“We are known as screenwriters and this association consolidates Perpetual Soup and makes us grow as producers,” said Poymiro and Elkaïm for whom “the experience, the financial support and the back-office brought by Anca will allow us to carry out more premium productions.”Sahel said the company will “continue to co-produce series, as well as produce projects in-house at Perpetual Soup,” and “will also support talented writers and directors with whom (they) have developed a trusted relationship.”Brandford Griffith said Anca will help Perpetual Soup with much more than back-office,.