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Societal Indicators
Vivendi’s Four “Core” Issues Relating to Human Rights
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Digital cinematographic and audiovisual diversity
Committed to expanding the broadcasting of its content on the Internet,
Canal+ has created a Digital Creation hub offering talented individuals a
chance to build up their audience and receive assistance in producing and
promoting short formats and original productions developed specifically
for the web. The hub thus brings together affiliations of young digital
talents whose productions have included Le meufisme, Internet,
Lolywoods, La biscotte, Digital mum and Bonjour tristesse.
Canal+ also showcases short-film talent. In 2015, a call for projects
Dessine toujours! was launched with cartoonists and animators on
the theme of freedom of expression. The eight animated short features
selected were broadcast on the channel in late 2015. In addition,
Canalplay launched a section dedicated to short films on its VoD
interface. At the same time the platform continues to develop web series
belonging to very different spheres, as a reflection of the diversity that
the platform wishes to offer to its subscribers.
In 2015, Watchever, the subsidiary of Vivendi Village, renovated its SVoD
service to diversify its offer. Watchever introduced content coming from
independent productions through several dedicated channels, such as
the specialty channel Docusphère. Temporary channels marking cultural
events also appeared on the platform, such as Films français. This
channel was intended to highlight French film works, in partnership with
the French Embassy and the Berlin French Film Festival.
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Enhancing international audiovisual and cinematographic
influence and showcasing cultural heritage
INITIATIVES BY CANAL+ GROUP AIMED
AT ENHANCING INTERNATIONAL AUDIOVISUAL
AND CINEMATOGRAPHIC INFLUENCE AND
AT SHOWCASING CULTURAL HERITAGE
GRI
UNGC OECD Scope covered
DMA HR MSS
Cultural Rights aspect,
MSS M3
1, 2
II, IV Canal+ Group
Canal+ Group has developed a number of initiatives aimed at enhancing
the influence of audiovisual and cinematographic media abroad and
showcasing cultural heritage. In 2015, Vivendi along with Canal+ became
Grand Sponsor of the Paris-based film institute and archive Cinémathèque
française, a hotspot of cinematographic culture. In signing this major
partnership through 2020, Vivendi reaffirms its commitment to the film
industry and its many talented professionals.
Studiocanal, which operates subsidiaries in France, the United Kingdom
and Germany and is also active in Australia and in New Zealand, has
established itself as the leading European player in the production,
acquisition, and distribution of world-class movies and TV series.
During 2015, Studiocanal broadcast 47 new feature-length films from
12 different countries in the five territories in which it operates. It also
participated in the production of 19 feature-length films from filmmakers
of five different nationalities.
In 2015, the films produced or distributed by Studiocanal were again
selected at the major film festivals: the Academy Awards (17 nominations
for
The Imitation Game
,
Foxcatcher
,
Selma
,
Song of the Sea
and
The
Tale of Princess Kaguya
), the Golden Globes (16 nominations for the films
The Imitation Game
,
Selma
and
Foxcatcher
), the BAFTA (15 nominations
for
Paddington
,
71, The Imitation Game
,
Under the Skin
, all four in the
race in the Best British Film category), the BAFTA Children Awards
(
Shaun the Sheep
nominated and
Paddington
recognized as Best Film
2015), and the BIFA (13 nominations for
Macbeth
,
Room
,
High-Rise
,
Carol
and
Legend,
for which Tom Hardy won the prize for Best Actor).
At the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, films co-produced by Studiocanal were
also well represented with two films,
Macbeth
and
Mon Roi
, in the
official competition.
Studiocanal continued its particularly dynamic policy of promoting and
preserving cinematographic heritage. With over 5,000 titles, Studiocanal
holds one of the most important film catalogs in the world. In 2015,
€1.1 million was invested to restore in 4k or HD, digitize and modernize
36 titles from the catalog. Studiocanal restored major works, including
The Third Man,
one of Orson Welles’ greatest roles (it was also released
in theaters in several regions to mark the one-hundredth birthday of
the director and recorded the third-highest results for the year for a
film rerun in France).
Léon Morin Priest
, a drama starring Jean-Paul
Belmondo, or
Ran
, set in feudal Japan and directed by the legendary
filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, were also restored. The restored copies of
these films were shown at several international festivals (including the
Venezia Classici
section at the Venice Film Festival, Cannes Classics and
the Lyon Festival of Lights).
nc+, the Polish subsidiary of Canal+ Group, is also committed to local
productions. The film
Ida
, winner of the Academy Award and the BAFTA
award for Best Foreign Film in 2015, was co-produced by nc+, and
Belfer
, a new television series now in post-production, will be broadcast
in 2016. In Vietnam, K+, which wants to expand its audience to movie
fans, co-produced five Vietnamese films for the first time in 2015. The
partnerships established with the principal local production companies
are an opportunity for K+ to support the country’s film industry.
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