Elizabeth d’Arvier, CEO of Mediawan. “I had two kids in a row at 30, the age when you want to accelerate.”

Wake up time? The real truth… 7:45?

The height of your position.
to manage Mediavan’s film activities in France; and abroad, coordinating a network of thirty international subsidiaries.

Need to give numbers here and now?
Annual production of fifteen to twenty films, one hundred and fifty episodes of series and animation, eighteen hundred hours of streaming. Presence in eleven countries through seventy labels, half of which are located in France. And two thousand five hundred creative talents (literary directors, authors, directors, actors, screenwriters, etc.) recently we produced. The Three Musketeers Bac Nord, Life Ahead, and also series Ten percent Or HPI:among others.

If we return to the origin.
In Paris, with his father, a commercial director of a haute couture house, his mother, a French teacher for undocumented women, his brother and sister. Siblings were important.

Is there always a career mentor?

Elizabeth d’Arvier

The device that started it all.
My mother is passionate about cinema. I have spent my life in dark rooms since I was 12 years old. He took me to the ones in the Latin Quarter. I saw with him the films of Howard Hawks, John Huston, Billy Wilder, all the American cinema of those years.

Mentor?
Not really. Nice meetings, yes. Is there always a career mentor?

Your course accelerators.
In 2004, I had the opportunity to be the CFO of Angel Productions, which was a producer We are not angels, daily Canal+ program. Holding this position in a small organization is like a Swiss army knife: you learn everything.

Who trusted you?
Pierre-Antoine Capton, president of Mediawan, who contacted me five years ago. I could not join him for personal reasons. It might have been a missed date, but when I called him back a few months later, he was there.

Obstacles on the way.
A moment of slowing down. I had two kids in quick succession in my 30s, the age when you want to speed up. We should have patience to wait. It didn’t stop me from speeding up again afterwards.

Opportunities always present themselves

Elizabeth d’Arvier

What do you still have to learn?
I regret that I only speak English. I’m starting to learn Italian or Spanish this summer.

What would you like to convey?
Those opportunities always appear. when I was a teenager, I dreamed about cinema. After undergraduate, not having enough self-confidence, I went to mathematics, where I was strong, and financial studies. Then I got there.

Digital addiction?
My work is screens. I watch a lot of movies, ours, others’. So yes, I spend time there, but not on TikTok.

When are you offline?
When everyone can be, August and Christmas. You can’t disappear when you’re managing teams that aren’t working at the same time as you.

Defining your influence.
When people keep your word. You need to be well prepared for that.

What makes you fit?
Racing blows my mind. At my level of responsibility, I need an air lock, a healthier fatigue.

Weekend getaway.
LeCap-Ferret. I arrive, I walk through the pine forest, I feel better. My children e. they learned to walk on oyster shells in the pool.

In the video: François Civil and Lina Khoudry, the couple on screen The Three Musketeers