Cornet Vincent Ségurel assists CCI Nice Côte d’Azur and Digital District in the creation of a centre of excellence dedicated to film and audiovisual production and special effects

Public Law & Environment

News — 30 April 2024

A consortium made up of the Nice Côte d'Azur Chamber of Commerce and Industry and COLOR, a subsidiary of Digital District Entertainment, has won the City of Nice's tender to modernise and develop the historic Victorine studios.

In June 2022, the city of Nice launched a call for tenders with the aim of modernising the iconic Studios de la Victorine. Located in the Saint-Augustin district of Nice, these studios cover a huge surface area and have been used to shoot a large number of films, particularly between the 1920s and 1960s (Le passé ne meurt pas, Les enfants du Paradis, Et Dieu créa… la femme, etc.).

With this refurbishment, the City of Nice aims to put these studios back at the heart of the global film and audiovisual industry. It has decided to award a concession for the development and operation of the site, with the aim of creating a centre of excellence incorporating cutting-edge technologies such as AI, robotics and real-time virtual production.

To meet this challenge, Digital District, via its subsidiary COLOR, and the Nice Côte d’Azur Chamber of Commerce and Industry decided to form a consortium, which has just won the tender.

Digital District is an international company founded in 2014 and specialising in visual effects, post-production and colour grading. With offices in France, Belgium and India, the group offers a full range of technical services and creative solutions while accessing a variety of incentives. For its part, CCI Nice Côte d’Azur is a public player at the service of the Côte d’Azur economy and its development.

A team from the law firm Cornet Vincent Ségurel comprising Frédéric Marchand, associate lawyer, Olivier Greffard, associate lawyer, and Clément Gourdain, managing lawyer, assisted the consortium with the call for tenders and the public service concession.

Stakeholders:

COLOR: David Danesi

CCI Nice Côte d’Azur: Jessica Bovis and Myriam Prieur

Advisors:

Attorneys COLOR / Nice Côte d’Azur Chamber of Commerce and Industry: Cornet Vincent Ségurel (Frédéric Marchand, Olivier Greffard and Clément Gourdain)

City of Nice Attorneys : Taylor Wessing (Sophie Pignon, Marcos Portela-Barreto, Claire Desjardins and Damien Kebdani)