QUEEN ELIZABETH II & DONALD TRUMP ZED TO PORTRAY TWO FIGURES OF POWER

ZED is handling international distribution on two event-documentaries: The history documentary God Save the Queen: Elizabeth II!, and the investigation Trump, the Art of the Deal and the FBI

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN: ELIZABETH II!

Scandals, break-up and Brexit: Queen Elizabeth has faced many challenges. Today, she is ready for the next round, to manage the successful passing of the Crown.

Thanks to archive footage and a few dramatized scenes, together with interviews of those who know the Royal Family best (Olivia Colman, Dickie Arbiter, Robert Lacey, Tony Blair…), this history documentary takes a look back at the key milestones ofthe Queen of the past 10 years.

Directed by history-specialized talented filmmaker Pierre Hurel, this 1×90’ & 1×52’ is produced by Elephant and Chrysalide Productions for France 5, and is slated for completion in November 2020.

“We’re extremely proud to bring this project on the international market, says Chloé Persyn-Preljocaj, Head of Distribution at ZED. With the roaring success of The Crown, Queen Elizabeth has become a figure of rare modernity – an icon. With this film, we want to pick up where the fiction ends, to recount the end of the Queen’s reign and her final struggles.“

TRUMP, THE ART OF THE DEAL AND THE FBI

Using privileged access to FBI officials, this film is set to explore the complex relationship between the United StatesIntelligence Community and its businessman-turned President, who plays a double game with the mafia and the bureau.

In the run-up to the next presidential election, this exclusive investigation proposes to lay out the inside story of Trump’spotentially compromised presidency, examined by key people who have crossed his path. Among others, Myron Fuller – the firstFBI agent who met Trump back in the 80’s – will embark with us on a journey across the United States to help us shed light onTrump’s secret ties to the FBI.

This investigation will be directed by Fabrizio Calvi (specialist in US intelligence and author of many books including The Mafiaand the FBI) and David Carr-Brown, who spent many years investigating on the FBI. Among their previous work, they directedtogether a 5-part series FBI Series for France Télévisions.

Produced by award-winning producer Pumpernickel Films (One Child Nation, 2019 Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize forDocumentary) and Allumage for France Télévisions, this 1×86’ & 1×52’ documentary will be delivered in July 2020.

“Despite being implicated in well-documented suspect deals, Trump was never charged, says Chloé Persyn-Preljocaj. Today, Fabrizio Calvi and David Carr-Brown’s special access promise to give way to a strong and bold investigation on Trump’s secret ties to the FBI.”

This two programmes are now available for presales.

ABOUT THE PRODUCERS OF TRUMP, THE ART OF THE DEAL AND THE FBI

Pumpernickel Films

Christoph Jörg is a documentary producer based in Paris and New York. From 1994 to 2008 he was Senior Commissioning Editor for Documentaries at ARTE, before founding Pumpernickel Films in 2009. Christoph recently produced the criticallyacclaimed documentary One Child Nation (Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang), which was awarded Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019. He also produced Winnie (Pascale Lamche) which won the prize for Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017.

Allumage

After graduating from Paris’s Louis Lumière film school, Alexandra CarrBrown and Maximilien Colcy started their career in Manchester, UK in the mid 2000’s. They met Julie Pouillon-Terranova at oscar-winning company Maha productions in 2009 and worked together on many documentary series french broadcasters (ARTE, France 5, Planète+). In 2014, the three of them founded Allumage to work on projects they liked with people they liked. Specialized in ambitious sound postproduction projects (Back To The Moon, Juger Pétain), they went on to produce heartfelt documentary films like Troisième Nage, 2017 and Les Débatteurs, 2018.

ABOUT THE PRODUCERS OF GOD SAVE THE QUEEN, ELIZABETH II!

Since it was founded, Elephant has produced documentaries combining rigorous investigation with a creative narrative approach to make sense of our world. Its films are ambitious and resonate with the times, whether aimed for the big or small screen, for audiences in France or abroad. For the cinema, they produced the feature-length documentary Maria by Callas, directed by Tom Volf (longlisted for the best

documentary Oscar in 2018). Their portrait of Usain Bolt: The Fastest Man Alive, for which they had exclusive access to the athlete’s private life and followed him from the peak of his career to defeat, was broadcast in 25 countries and released on Netflix.

In association with Béatrice Schönberg’s company, Chrysalide Productions, Elephant coproduces documentaries on society and culture. In two exclusive documentaries, they followed Emmanuel Macron’s campaign to become president. They have just completed a project on the creative process of choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, who teaches long-term inmates to dance in a Marseille prison. The film won the national documentary grand prix at FIPADOC 2020.

Source:ZED