THE AEROBICS PROJECT
(TOUTOUYOUTOU)
Season 1
MELVILLE THEATRE
TV SERIES / COMEDY, SPY
- Tuesday, October 11 – 3:00 pm
(Screening ends at 4:45 pm) - Wednesday, October 12 – 10:15 pm
- Friday, October 14 – 9:00 am
(screening ends at 10:45 am) - Saturday, October 15 – 7:30 pm
(Screening ends at 9:15 pm) - Sunday, October 16 – 3:50 pm
(Screening ends at 5:35 pm)
Presented in Association with:
France TV Distribution
Women in Film
International Premiere | TV Series |France | 2022 | Comedy, Spy | 10 x 26 min | Episodes 1,2,3 & 4 | In French with English subtitles
Directed by: Julien Patry
Written by: Maxime Donzel, Géraldine de Margerie, Benjamin Adam, Julien Patry
Produced by: David Coujard (Agat Films / Ex Nihilo)
Cinematography: Laetitia de Montalembert
Film Editing: Léo Gatelier, Stéphanie Pélissier
Original Score: Clément Doumic, Antoine Wilson, Sébastien Wolf (Feu! Chatterton)
Cast: Claire Dumas (Karine), Alexia Barlier (Jane), Sophie Cattani (Mapi), Jérôme Pouly (Didier), Apollonia Louisetti (Violette), Souad Arsane (Naïma)
International Sales: France TV Distribution
Original Broadcast: OCS Max, Fall 2022
The deliciously upbeat Aerobics Project brings together a delightful concoction of disco music, female empowerment… and spies! The feel-good series swoops us back to the early ’80s, when the French aeronautics industry was just getting off the ground. A buff American Jane-Fonda type (who’s actually named Jane) moves into a sleepy Toulouse suburb and turns the community upside down by introducing a handful of local women to aerobics. First and foremost among them is her clever next-door neighbor, Karine, the frustrated wife of a local aeronautics engineer. Jane’s aerobics class is soon the talk of the town, changing attitudes and knitting together a sense of mutual support and female bonding. There may be more to the beguiling American than originally meets the eye… but the lives of all these women will never be the same again.
Director of numerous commercials and music videos, Julien Patry began his career with the short film Prktrnic (2013), which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Meudon Humorous Short Film Festival. His second short, Un Entretien (2016) won the Best Short Film Award at the Alpe d’Huez International Comedy Film Festival. That short was developed into the Un Entretien series (2018-2021) on Canal+, for which Patry wrote and directed all 30 four-to-eight-minute episodes of the show’s three seasons. The Aerobics Project deservedly earned its talented composers, the French pop group Feu! Chatterton, the Best Original Music award at this year’s Series Mania Festival in Lille.
