TORONTO – Groupe Média TFO will see its French educational content distributed across France via a new strategic partnership with Paris-based Beneylu, the company that operates the school platform Beneylu Spot.
Beginning this month, five series (totaling 150 episodes) produced in TFO's Toronto production studios will become available to over a million teachers and students the 34,000 French classrooms connected to Beneylu, publisher of the digital elementary school classroom Beneylu School, and Beneylu Spot’s catalogue of 500 digital resources for elementary schools. The programming is geared towards learners aged five to 12.
"Groupe Média TFO is pursuing a commercial process focused on new collaborative partnerships in digital learning in Canada, the United States, France and elsewhere internationally to reinforce its capacities and fully meet the potential of its educational mandate in Ontario”, said Groupe Média TFO president and CEO Glenn O’Farrell, in the news release. “The growing presence of our Ontarian educational productions on the international scene confirms Ontario's strong potential as an actor in the Organisation internationale de la francophonie following its recent admission as an observer member of the OIF."
The agreement could paves the way for future collaborations between Canadian producers and new markets in the Francophonie, added the release.
