Position
on the date of
his appointment to the Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies,
27 September 2004
A graduate from IEP Paris
and from ENA (Guernica class), Simone Halberstadt Harari started out at the Directorate
for Youth of the Ministry of National Education. In 1982 she became an advisor
to the chairman of Havas. In 1984 she set up and was appointed Chairwoman and
CEO of Télé Images, the audiovisual production company. Immediately
successful on the back of a strong fiction catalogue, particularly Maguy, the
first French sitcom in 1985, Télé Images has extensively diversified
in the last 20 years. Today, it owns more than ten production companies capable
of filling every need of the French television industry. In the fiction department,
Télé Images has produced an estimated 1,800 episodes and more than
70 prime time movies. It also produces many documentaries (animals, scientific,
historic), children's programmes (cartoons, series), news programmes and game
shows.
At the initiative of Simone Halberstadt Harari,
Télé Images has gradually taken on board a distribution business
for fiction, documentaries and children's programmes, building up significant
distribution expertise in both the French and international markets. Télé
Images is one of the leaders on the European audiovisual production and distribution
market and one of the few remaining independents in this sector.
Simone
Halberstadt Harari was elected producer of the year in December 2002.
In
January 2004 she became President of USPA, Union Syndicale de la Production Audiovisuelle,
the audiovisual production federation.
