Odile McDonald

Wildcats Productions

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Canadian-born Odile McDonald began her career in France, co-founding PM in 1992. There, she developed a solid expertise in the various registers of French fiction, producing event series such as the three seasons of Frank Riva with Alain Delon, the Greco series, which borrowed from fantasy codes, and Le Commissaire Moulin with Yves Rénier. Her filmography includes numerous successful unitaries and mini-series, romantic comedies such as Un Divorce de Chien, with Elie Semoun and Julie Ferrier, and psychological dramas such as La balade de Lucie with Sandrine Bonnaire or Ange de Feu with Frédéric Diefenthal. From 2010, she diversified PM's activities into the production of feature films, notably Fonzy, an adaptation of the Quebec hit Starbuck starring José Garcia and Audrey Fleurot. In 2015, Odile McDonald founded Madame Films in Canada, and its subsidiary in France: Wildcats Productions, with the ambition of taking advantage of her dual North American and European culture to extend her field of action to international series. Ransom, a series based on the experiences of crisis negotiators Laurent Combalbert and Marwan Mery, co-produced with Frank Spotnitz and eOne, broadcast on TF1, RTL, CBS and Global, shot between Nice, Toronto and Budapest. The latest production, Lucas a disparu, starring Laetitia Millot and Assad Bouab, is currently shooting for M6,