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Stephane Ferracci, born in 1971 in Grasse (France), is a French journalist, documentary filmmaker, television producer and artistic director.

Biography

Stephane Ferracci began his career at TF1 as a reporter. He covered for the 1st network in Europe major events such as the Tour de France (1997, 1998,1999), the Olympics of Nagano (1998), the World Soccer Cup (1998) ), the Kosovo war (1999), the economic crisis in Asia (1998). In September 2000, he was part of the first team of the new TF1 "News Show" entitled "7 à 8", presented by Laurence Ferrari and Thomas Hugues . In 2004, he worked for France Television for the weekly political show "Mots-Croises." In 2005, he became editor-in-chief and artistic director of the primetime program "Combien ça Coûte" hosted by Jean-Pierre Pernaut on TF1. He founded in 2006 an audiovisual production company "Alligator TV" in France which produced documentaries for most French TV networks (TF1, France 2, M6, Canal Plus, History Channel). Stephane Ferracci has directed a serie of three contemporary history documentaries for TF1 and the History Network: "The Mitterrand Years" , "The Chirac Years" and "April 21, 2002". These films have also been distributed commercially throughout France on DVD. With his production company, he also did the executive production of several TF1's infotainment Primetime show such as "Les 60 images qui ont marqué les Français" or "Les Rois du Système D". These shows reached audience records (almost 10 million viewers and 40% market share). He moved to Los Angeles in 2010 and founded "Reporters United", a collaborative online platform to sell news segments to TV networks worldwide. At this time, he is also the Senior News Correspondent for the French TV channel M6. He then decided to create an audiovisual production company in the United States in 2013 "Good News Media" to produce documentaries for several European Networks    (TF1, M6, Canal Plus, Eurosport, TSR, RTL-TVI, la Chaîne Histoire, Arte...).

Studies

From 1989 to 1993, he studied law at the University of Nice (France). He obtained a Master in Economic Law and Business Law in 1993. He then spent a year at Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge (England). In 1994, He passed the entrance examination of the Marseille School of Journalism. He graduated in 1996.

Distinctions

1995: Rouletabille Award: Winner with a documentary about the Yahuar Fiesta in Perou. 1996: He is the winner of the Francis Bouygues - TF1 Award for reporting.