SND Swoops on Toronto-Bound Bérénice Bejo Starrer  ‘Alice: Pioneer of Cinema’ Ahead of Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Le Havre (EXCLUSIVE)

Sep 1, 2026 2:02am PT SND Swoops on Toronto-Bound Bérénice Bejo Starrer  ‘Alice: Pioneer of Cinema’ Ahead of Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Le Havre (EXCLUSIVE)

The HBO Max and France Télévisions series will have its world premiere in Toronto’s Primetime section

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Bérénice Bejo stars in 'Alice: Pioneer of Cinema' Credit: Caroline Dubois/SND/Wildbunch/France Télévisions

Paris-based film and television studio SND, part of French media group M6, has picked up world sales on the high-end period drama “Alice: Pioneer of Cinema,” in which Oscar-nominee Bérénice Bejo (“The Artist”) stars as Alice Guy, the very first female fiction filmmaker.  The six-parter, ordered by HBO Max and France Télévisions, is due to world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival‘s Primetime section on Sept. 14, ahead of its airing in December. 

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