Agence CAPA


CAPA is a French press agency and production company founded on August 1, 1989, by. It is the largest production company for television reports and documentaries in France. The firm, which is part of Studio TF1 since 2011, produces about 150 hours of documentaries and television reports every year. It has 3 subsidiaries: CAPA Presse, CAPA Corporate and CAPA Drama.

Activity

CAPA gained visibility in the 90's with the TV program 24 Heures, broadcast on Canal +. The show marks a new kind of offbeat journalism in France: as Hervé Chabalier explained it to Les Inrocks, in 2009 :"A channel had never delegated news gathering to an external company before".
Since then, CAPA notably produced L'Effet Papillon, from 2006 to 2018, and often collaborates to the direction and production of Envoyé Spécial, Spécial Investigation, Des Racines et des Ailes, Infrarouge, 66 minutes, and ''Pièces à conviction.''

History

Over the years, the group diversified, notably in fiction, with the creation of its subsidiary CAPA Drama. CAPA Drama produces Versailles, a TV show known as the most expensive French TV Show of all.
In 2007, the reporter Marc Garmirian is sent to Chad by CAPA Presse to investigate on the association L’Arche de Zoé and its controversial operation “Rescue Children”. Garmirian was arrested by the authorities and spent 11 days in prison with a few other humanitarians before getting back to France.
In June 2018, the two journalists, Sebastian Perez Pezzani and Didier Barral, who were making an investigation in Venezuela for “Caméléon”, a documentary series produced by CAPA Presse for the French channel 13ème Rue, got arrested by the venezuelan police. Both of them spent 10 days in prison before being released with the help of the French embassy.
In 2019, Netflix and CAPA Drama released Osmosis, the TV streaming’s second French original show.
CAPA notably received 3 Albert Londres Prize and 2 International Emmy Awards in fiction and documentary.

Executives

In February, 2010, Hervé Chabalier, CAPA main shareholder, sold 60% of his stakes to Newen.
In 2015, TF1 bought Newen.
In February 2016, Philippe Levasseur ex reporter and documentaries author is named chief executive of CAPA Presse.

Selective filmography

CAPA Presse

  • Boy Soldier
Best Documentary – International Emmy Awards – 1990
Albert Londres award – 1990
  • Shackled Children
Nominated for Best Documentary – International Emmy Awards 1993
Social and political documentary award – BANFF 1993
  • Organ Snatchers
Albert Londres award – 1993
  • Kidnap and Ransom: a secret war
Grand Prix – FIGRA – 2000
Best documentary award – BANFF – 2000
  • Missing Women
Albert Londres award – 2006
Grand Prix / Public Award – FIGRA – 2007
Best International Investigative Documentary – NYIFF – 2009
Jury Special Award – FIGRA – 2012
Jury Special Award – FIGRA – 2013
  • Terror Studios
Nomination Social Issues / Current Affairs – Realscreen Awards – 2017
Nomination Social & Investigative - BANFF Rockie Awards – 2017
Nomination Best Documentary - International Emmy Awards – 2017

CAPA Drama

  • Braquo
  • Souviens-toi
  • Versailles
  • Osmosis
  • ''Flic tout simplement''