Jean-Luc Azoulay
CEO

Jean-Luc Azoulay is behind many successful and iconic ‘90s TV shows (as producer and creator): Club Dorothée, Premiers Baisers, Hélène & les Garçons. In 1999, he purchased the production department of Groupe AB and founded JLA Groupe. Later, he produced prime time series hits like Navarro, L’Instit, Quai N°1, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Les Rois Maudits among others. In 2007, he founded the Parisian channel IDF1. In 2011, he revived the french TV saga Hélène et les Garçons with Les Mystères de l’Amour. By welcoming within JLA Groupe many talented producers, Jean-Luc Azoulay has constantly kept his leading position with very diverse daytime and primetime programs, along with movies, entertainment programs and cartoons.

Luigi-Théo Calabrese
Vice-CEO

Thanks to his important managerial experience, Luigi-Théo Calabrese is one of the most respected managers in the Entertainement Business. He started his career as CEO of Warner Music Italy, Warner Music France and Senior Vice-President of Warner Home Video International in Los Angeles. Then, he led the Disney Music and Disney Music Publishing worldwide. More recently, he was in charge of marketing, sales and business development of Paramount Home Video (USA), as well as Paramount Home Entertainment in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Worldwide Licensing. Before joining JLA Groupe, he was CEO of Paramount Home Media Distribution in Paris.

Richard Berkowitz
Producer

Richard Berkowitz started his collaboration with JLA Group as a producer on successful TV series: Navarro and Quai n°1. In 2003, he became  artistic manager  for TF1 and was in charge of prime time series: RIS, Section de Recherches,  Alice Nevers among others. In 2009, he came back to JLA Groupe producing Camping Paradis , Commissaire Magellan,  the mini series Jeu de Dames and various dramas. While working for JLA Groupe, Richard Berkowitz created Episode Productions with Jean-Luc Azoulay, his own subsidiary within JLA Groupe. He produced Meurtres à la Rochelle, Le Prix de la Vérité, Le Prix de la Loyauté, some currently filming episodes of the TV series Crimes Parfaits and the mini series Jugée Coupable.

Jean-Sébastien Bouilloux
Producer

Jean-Sébastien Bouilloux graduated from FEMIS and quickly followed as deputy director of the TV movies and series department at TF1, then a producer at PM Productions. In 2014, he joined JLA Groupe where he produced the successful prime time event La Vengeance aux Yeux Clairs, then Munch (co-produced with Exilene Films) starring Isabelle Nanty. Jean-Sébastien Bouilloux is also producing Astrid et Raphaëlle, the critically-acclaimed and rating-hit France 2 series.

After a stint at the Ministry of Culture, Françoise Bertheau-Guillet became a producer. In 1999, she founded Exilène Films and co-produced several international series: Force de Frappe, Fly by night, Voices in the Garden… She originated successful teens series like Seconde B and Nos Années Pension, produced prime time series such as Actions Spéciales Douanes, La Famille Guerin and also developed several miniseries. Françoise Bertheau-Guillet has produced the drama Au dessus des Nuages, the pilot of Le Remplaçant with JoeyStarr and co-produced with JLA Productions, the hit series Munch with Isabelle Nanty.

Christophe Carmona
Producer

After running the M6 fiction department then co-founding the producing company Little Big (Papillon Noir, La loi selon Bartoli…), Christophe Carmona founded in 2012, Carma Films in association with Jean Luc Azoulay. Since then, he has created and produced the series Contact, Imposture and the mini-series La Forêt, which won the Best Series award at the La Rochelle TV festival and was one of the ratings smashes of France 3 in 2017. The latest Carma Films success is Alexandra Ehle starring Julie Depardieu with over 4 millions faithful viewers.

Gala Vara-Eiriz
Producer

Of spanish citizenship, Gala Vara-Eiriz started her carreer as project manager for M6 Interactions. In 2002, she joined the cinema production company : Same Player, as associate producer. She worked closely on several movies including those directed by Eric Lavaine : Retour chez ma mère (2.2 million people in 2016) but also Mon chien stupide directed by Yvan Attal, Papy Sitter by Philippe Guillard, L’esprit de famille directed by Eric Besnard…

Mathieu Delarive
Producer

Actor since 1995, for television, cinema and theatre, screenwriter since 2012, especially for the series Nos Chers Voisins and Camping Paradis, Mathieu Delarive joined, in December 2019, in parallel with his primary activities, the JLA group as an artistic producer for the Camping Paradis series, in collaboration with Richard Berkowitz. Following his acquired experience, thanks to his eclectic and various background, he is now developing and producing new projects for JLA Group.

Denis Karvil
Producer

After working as an actor, notably in Italy, Denis Karvil founded the company Alizés Films and became a renowned producer of dramas for M6, creating the Vertiges collection, and the series Arianne Ferry and Eternelle. He also produced numerous TV films for public television, Arte and TF1, as well as the two police series Les Bœuf-carottes (Best Series Award at the Fiction Festival) and Femmes de Loi (Best Series Award at the Fiction Festival). In 2022, he joined forces with Jean-Luc Azoulay and Alexandra Cossu and created Kaaz Productions.

Alexandra Cossu
Producer

A graduate of ESRA and UCLA (Producing Certificate), Alexandra Cossu has worked on a range of production projects such as Stéphane Brizé’s Une vie, Antonin Baudry’s Le chant du loup and the series Engrenages and Mouche shown on Canal +. At the same time, Alexandra Cossu worked as a reader for M6. She currently works in association with Jean-Luc Azoulay and Denis Karvil and together they have created the company Kaaz Productions.

Ludovic Lestavel
Producer

Ludovic Lestavel joined JLA Groupe in 2002 and collaborated on various series and movies. From 2007 on, he produced several shows on IDF1. In 2010, he directed his first documentary Il était une fois Dorothée and in 2012 became artistic director of the series Les Mystères de l’Amour. In 2015, after several successes on various documentaries he produced and directed himself, he created within the JLA Groupe a subsidiary dedicated to the production of documentaries, Ludoc Prod. In 2017, he also took over the helm of the VAB imprint, dedicated to the production of TV movies.

Olivier Amiot
Producer

Olivier Amiot was in charge of various eventful contents in the TF1 entertainment department, then worked for some various production groups (JLA, Endemol, Be Aware). He joined Jean-Luc Azoulay in 2012 to create his own subsidiary: Cache Ta Joie Productions, dedicated to comedy specials, talent show and documentary. He produced the first TV shows of Jean Dujardin, Bruno Salomone, Alex Lutz, Gaspard Proust, Audrey Lamy, Ben, Kyan Khojandi, Arnaud Ducret among others, successful documentaries like France Gall par France Gall, Starmania or TV specials like Le Concert de Touche pas à mon Pote, Les 70 ans de carrière de Line Renaud.

Stéphane Joffre-Roméas studied business and communication then joined the artistic department of AB Productions in 1994, and later JLA Groupe. In October 2007, he became NRJ 12 head of programs and was then appointed head of programs for the NRJ Group TV division. Between 2014 and 2017, he was heading creation and the international division of Endemol Group. In 2018, he joined NRJ group as general director of programs. In 2019, he created J&A, a subsidiary of JLA Groupe. He produced with his associate Olivier Hallé, various shows such as Chasseurs d’Objets, Hypnose Thérapie, etc. and other programs in co-production like Baba en Laponie and Dorothée, Hélène et les garçons : Génération AB Productions.

Olivier Hallé
Producer

Olivier Hallé graduated from Paris-Dauphine University, since 1998, he executive-produced Cannes Festival Ceremony, Le Grand Journal, TPMP !, The Bachelor, Y’a pas Photo…  He’s a specialist in the production of big live events, talk-shows and documentaries. He created various formats such as Politique Undercover, Dans la Vie d’un Grand Chef, Dans la Peau d’un Handicapé and was in charge of the french adaptation of the show Oui Chef !

Martin Réa
Producer

Martin Rea is a French producer and screentwriter. He held several positions at Ellipsanime before setting up Studio REAZ with Jean-Luc Azoulay in 2015. He is the author of countless animated series broadcast all over the word such as The Garfield Show, Linkers and Yakari.