Alain Modot

Partner

After starting his career teaching economics, Alain Modot went on to direct the French broadcasting piracy protection association (ALPA) from 1986 to 1988. From 1988 to 1995, he developed and headed the French federation of independent audiovisual producers (USPA) and simultaneously organised European level lobbying by creating and chairing the European Coordinating Committee of Independent Producers (CEPI). In October 1994, he launched the professional association tasked with supporting the promotion and export of French television programmes, TV France International, serving as its chief representative until 1997. He was Director for Institutional Relations at Canal Plus from 1997 to 1999 and joined the consulting firm IMCA in late 1999 as a partner, where he set up the Europe division. In 2002, Alain Modot and Paul Hervé Vintrou created Media Consulting Group. Since 2001, Alain Modot has coordinated many evaluations and studies of the audiovisual and film market on behalf of the European Commission and European Parliament. Within Media Consulting Group, he directs the division for institutional relations, lobbying and European affairs and in 2008 launched its programme distribution activity by signing the distribution mandate for the catalogue of Italian public TV, RAI. In 2011, in partnership with the firm Martika in Côte d’Ivoire, he launched DIFFA, the first 100% African film and fiction catalogue, which is gradually becoming a benchmark for the promotion and sale of African fiction on the international regional market.