The team
at SCOPE Pictures is made up of film-making professionals with complementary and multidisciplinary skills.
at SCOPE Pictures is made up of film-making professionals with complementary and multidisciplinary skills.
Geneviève Lemal is a graduate in applied economics from the Institute of Administration and Management at the Université Catholique de Louvain. She also has a Master’s in Asian Studies and an MBA from Cornell University. Geneviève began her career by spending ten years as a financial analyst for a series of international business banks (Deutsche Bank, Crédit Agricole Indosuez and Dresdner Bank), first in Sydney, then in Hong Kong and finally in London. In 2002, she was selected to take part in the MEGA MEDIA programme, a training course specialising in the trades involved with audiovisual production and distribution, sponsored by the European Commission, for which she was awarded first prize. Geneviève then worked for a number of major independent producers in Paris and Brussels. In 2003, she created SCOPE Invest, an investment fund operating under the Tax Shelter system. This enabled her to invest in permit 9 films, including “L’Enfant” by the Dardenne brothers, which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival in 2005. In 2005, Geneviève founded her own production company, “SCOPE Pictures”, in order to host foreign productions in Belgium spending some of their production budget in Belgium. In 2007, she created the Fortis Film fund in collaboration with Fortis Bank, which is now part of the BNP Paribas group. She was a member of the investment committee until 2010. Since then, Geneviève has coproduced over 130 feature films that have gone on to commercial success and have won awards at various prestigious film festivals. Geneviève Lemal seeks to develop creative projects aimed at the international market and which focus on themes that make audiences laugh, dream, think and experience the world. Geneviève Lemal is a member of the UPFF and the Film Selection Commission of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.