Concept :

June 2025. Faced with the inaction of those in power against climate change, Mathias, his sister Éloïse, and their friends form the Phœnix group. Their bold plan: to kidnap the children of Europe’s biggest polluters in order to force their parents, leaders of oil, chemical, and financial corporations,to take real ecological action. As an unprecedented heatwave grips France, the Phœnix hide out in an abandoned summer camp. Between fear, solidarity, doubt, and life in hiding, they soon confront the limits of their commitment. But a devastating wildfire, the direct result of the drought, will put their convictions, and their future,to the ultimate test.

The series was selected for the Drama Pitching Forum at Mia in Rome in 2022. The series was also selected for the European Writers Club Boosting Concept in 2022. This enabled the writers and producers to strengthen the series' European potential through two residencies, surrounded by European broadcasters and seasoned scriptwriters.

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TV Show -  6x52' - France
by Matthieu Bernard & Louis Aubert
In coproduction with Storia TV
Stage of the project : Development
Broadcasters : France Télévisions Slash International & ZDF

Partners: France Télévisions, ZDF, CNC, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, CNC

Main team :
Production Manager: Stéphane Bouchard
Chief Operator: Magali Silvestre de Sacy
Sound engineer: Vincent Goujon
Decoration Manager: Franck Pompier  
Original music :  Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen and Hugo Gonzalez-Pioli with the support of SACEM

Main cast : Léo Legrand, Marie Colomb, Catalina Del Rosario, Will Attenborough, Alva Schäfer, Mattéo Salamone, Pauline Pollman, Matéo Paitel, Jules Porier, Cateleya Richard, François Berléand

With the participation of France Télévisions
In co-production with Maze Pictures
In co-production with ZDF German Television and New 8 Partners
In co-production with Maze Pictures, Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, Sequel Prod
With the participation of the CNC and the Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes Region
With the support of ANGOA and PROCIREP – Société des Producteurs
Produced with the support of the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government via BESIDE Tax Shelter
International sales: Mediawan Rights

Matthieu Bernard :

After studying history, Matthieu Bernard turned to the press (Le Monde) and marketing analysis. Self-taught, he set up an IT services company to develop online script projects, then joined a documentary production company (Gaïa) in 1999 to launch a web communication department.

After 8 years in documentary and the writing of a feature film (Le Bureau) and a play (La Folle aventure - Le Lucernaire), he fully invested himself in the accompaniment of authors as a literary director (K'ien Production, Delante, Easy Movie, Day For Night, Les Films du Cygne, ...) while publishing a novel (Les Gardiens de l'Obscur). For the last 2 years he has been writing series.

Louis Aubert :

Louis Aubert was born in Lyon in the middle of bottles of Beaujolais, pike quenelles and the 80s. As a curious little boy and a bit of a nutcracker, Louis has always asked a lot of questions. How does a toaster work? How do cats purr? Why does uranium turn into lead when it decays?
The problem is that once he got past the "toaster" level, his parents were quickly overwhelmed and directed Louis to what would quickly become his best friends: books. There he found many answers, even to questions he had never asked himself. "To be or not to be" for example, even if he is still looking for that one.
As time went by, and despite the fact that books are not too demanding friends, Louis finally realized that they were not the best way to have a balanced social life... He then left the family library and tried to make friends. And then, surprise: human beings turned out to be just as exciting as cats, toasters and uranium decay. Even more so, because they could play soccer.
With this new knowledge, Louis continued to grow inexorably. And even if they had calmed down a bit, the questions continued to swirl in his head until the ultimate and agonizing question that everyone asks one day to all the poor kids who didn't ask for anything: and you, what do you want to do later on? This question, we can say that Louis repeated it a thousand and one times, because it must be said that despite his scientific baccalaureate, the problem seemed insoluble: how to become a rock star, a soccer player and a knight, all in one life, without knowing how to align three notes on the guitar, having two left feet and being afraid of horses? Even Einstein would have struggled with this.
Yet, one day, in the darkness of a movie theater, he was struck by an epiphany - you'll note the paradox - Louis suddenly saw the opportunity to live 500 lives where most people only have one: movies. And once the worm was in the fruit, it was hard to turn back. Not knowing where to start, Louis infiltrated through the back door by becoming a stage manager and assistant director before clarifying his goal and finding his way - and so much the worse if it meant giving up the BN chocos on the control room table - he would be a screenwriter.
After a few years spent writing in his room and an Author's Forum in 2010 where he met a number of Indelible people a little before their time, Louis tried the CEEA competition and... bingo, he was accepted. From then on, everything happened very, very, very quickly: two years of intense effort, the job begins, the projects blossom, the Indelible welcome him and the desire to tell stories is still there, intact. So yes, Louis hasn't stopped asking himself questions, he still doesn't know why cats purr and the Wikipedia page on uranium transformation has left him more than a little perplexed, but after all these adventures there is one thing he is sure of: he is doing the most beautiful job in the world.

Development :

Drama Pitching Forum - Mia, Rome (2022)
Boosting Concept - European Writers Club (2022): cycle of support and residencies to strengthen the European potential of series, accompanied by European broadcasters and seasoned scriptwriters.