TF1 Group will be hosting the opening ceremony of the 4th JNDJ (National Youth Day), featuring a private screening of "Les Heritiers", directed by Marie-Castille Mention Shaar and co-produced by TF1 Droits Audiovisuels - UGC. The film, which is based on real life, was shot in the Léon Blum secondary school in Créteil in the suburbs of Paris, and tells the story of a history teacher who decides to enter her poorest 5th-form class in a competition commemorating the French resistance and the deportation.

Nonce Paolini, Chairman and CEO of Group TF1, and Jean-Paul Delevoye, President of the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council, will open the morning’s events in front of 140 secondary school pupils.

After the film, Harry Roselmack will chair a debate on some essential questions (relations between teachers and pupils, clichés about young people, etc.) and on the importance of values, such as courage, commitment and respect, with school-goers, teachers, the actors in the film and other personalities.

In addition to the morning’s activities, some 50 secondary school pupils will find out what it’s like to work for TF1 in a presentation of TF1 Group, discussions with Antoine Guelaud, TF1’s Editor-in-Chief, and a tour of the studios and the Innovation showroom.

Cécile Monthiers, the Group’s Deputy Director of Relations with Schools / Diversity and Disability: "We have been supporting the initiatives of the "Journée Nationale des Jeunes" for 3 years, in an effort to encourage concrete and societal actions for young people in the world of work and elsewhere. This partnership reflects the company’s commitment to diversity."