A comedy web series.

Expats: Paris - A comedy web series about expat life in Paris.

Expats search for friendship, success, love and pickles in this off-beat exposé on the everyday life adventures as a foreigner living in Paris.

Series Overview

Shot on location, Expats: Paris chronicles a group of unlikely friends as they zig zag through the difficulties that await foreigners living in the City of Light. From long distance relationships to driving a manual shift car. From learning the proper way to cut French cheeses to resisting sexual temptation. From performing stand up comedy in another language to converting the French population to pickle consumption.

Visiting Paris is easy. Staying in Paris is hard.

Expats: Paris focuses on seven core characters:

• Harris (American): A project manager who reluctantly came to Paris to open a new branch for a Chicago-based company. His stay is prolonged indefinitely just as he hopes to get back home.

• Vlad (Romanian): Moved to Paris as an anesthesiologist but gave it up to focus on his true passion: pickling. His hope is to conquer the French food habits with his pickles.

• Clémence (Franco-American): A mysterious yoga instructor and bio-militant, she’s Harris’ tempting neighbor who’s convinced of his “positive energy” and wants to “align his chakra”.

• Jean-Roger aka JR (French): A public transportation employee who considers himself American at heart since he spent a month in high school in the US...

• Stéphanie (French): JR’s twin sister, an ambitious fashion designer who likes Harris.

• Magnus (Swedish): A chef and occasional bartender, Magnus came to Paris in search of food, fun and sex, not necessarily in that order.

• Becky (American): Harris’ longtime fiancée who seeks to maintain her control from afar.

The first 10-episode season follows each of the core characters on the path of their personal challenges in interwoven story arcs (accepting life in Paris for Harris, struggle for recognition for Vlad, finding a companion for Magnus,

and becoming an American for Jean-Roger. It also places them in specific situations triggered by a different understanding of the everyday realities of Parisian life. Living in a Parisian

apartment building is

never easy, but what happens when one of your neighbors leaves a pair of underwear in your mailbox? All arts have their place in Paris, but strange things

happen when a performance artist gets inspiration from a jar of pickles.

Pitching a new type of food to French buyers can be tricky if you don’t appreciate the infamous andouillette. The hardships and hidden advantages of the gastro infection constitute a true French initiation ritual for a newbie.

And lastly, festive moments such as Fireman’s Ball and Bastille Day are the perfect backdrop for dreams to either dissipate or soar as couples reevaluate their feelings and reform.

The first two episodes were shot and are available for private viewing.

Project Description

The scripts for an entire ten-episode season (6’ each) have been written.

Expats: Paris will premiere in 2013 on the website www.expatsparis.com along with promotional efforts through international social media and entertainment channels (Facebook, Twitter,

Youtube, Meetup, Vimeo, Dailymotion, etc.).

In addition to the series, the website will be constantly refreshed with new content including in-character mockumentary-style tours of real-life Parisian neighborhoods, restaurants, bars, sites and attractions.

Plans are in place to roll out the series concept

to additional European cities using the website www.expatsin.com as a platform.

Target audience

The primary audience for Expats: Paris is urban 18-34-year old college-educated professionals from all around the world interested in expat living, travel, Paris, different cultures, languages and comedy.

The secondary audience is 35-55-year old college-educated individuals interested in living in Paris, romance, French culture and the Parisian lifestyle.

Corneliu Dragomirescu

Corneliu worked as writer, director and actor in Romania, France and the United States in the past decade. In 2004 he co-wrote the feature film Orient Express which represented Romania at the Oscars competition in 2005. As a graduate student at the prestigious University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) he studied with such figures as Martin Landau (acting), Mark Rydell (directing), Richard Walter (screenwriting) or John Bailey (cinematography).

Currently living in Paris, he aims to give his view of expat life in Expats: Paris, a project that he is also co-producing. When he’s not working in film Corneliu is involved in improv, standup and, of course, pickles.

Alan Slavik

Alan is an American writer, director, producer and improv performer living in Paris. He is a co-creator, co-director, screenwriter and producer of Expats: Paris.  He has lived abroad for nearly ten years and is thrilled to be making his first web series about life as an expat in Paris. In addition to this project, Alan has made seven short films and is a board member of Groundswell Educational Films of Chicago (http://groundswellfilms.org/).

Sebastian Marx

Sebastian is an American expat and stand up comedian living in Paris who performs his complete One Man Show in both French and English. He also does a weekly radio segment on the French national radio station RTL. His stand up comedy performances can be regularly seen on popular French television programs such as the “Jamel Comedy Club” on Canal plus and “Stand Up TV” on Comedie. Check out his website for more info: www.sebmarx.com

A New Yorker at heart, Sebastian decided to come to France soon after graduating from Boston University’s film program in order to find himself and great cheeses. So, as you can imagine, Sebastian is a bit lost in Paris. Therefore, he is delighted to perform in Expats: Paris.

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Twitter: @Expats_Paris

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