With Historical Docs and Blockbuster Series, France’s Normandy Takes the Stage
variety.comBen Croll Dotted with history and marked by weathered beauty, the Normandy coast will stay carved into the TV landscape long after buyers depart this week’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Le Havre.
With this year marking the 80th anniversary Operation Overlord, the coast will play an evident starring role in historical docs from across the globe, all while local and international productions continue to embark with an eye on rugged locations.
Produced by Mediawan shingle CC&C and sold by France TV Distribution, the long-running “Apocalypse” doc brand marked this 80-year occasion with “Apocalypse: D-Day,” a two-part series that brought archival material to life in vivid color.
The production outfit used tools developed in-house to colorize and remaster black and white footage, mixing manual processing with AI assistance to lend the footage an awesome impact. “You can’t just put pretty colors everywhere,” says France TV Distribution’s Julia Schulte. “Everything was linked to historical research, to knowing the exact color of the uniforms, the precise color of the tanks.
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