ELIOT
NESS
CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS
Eliotness is a Paris-based production company focused on developing original IP. We move between formats: feature films, animated series, documentaries, hybrid fiction. Always with the same obsession: crafting meaning. We create fiction, but we’re after truth. Our films and series don’t fit in boxes. They combine sharp social insight with a deliberate attention to substance and craft. We’re drawn to rupture. To hybrid forms. To voices that don’t follow the script. To new shapes and strong currents. To what unsettles, what moves, what lasts. We develop, we produce, we support. We believe in the writer-director-producer trio, in the productive tension between vision and structure, in the intelligence of editing.
Eliotness is a creative studio. But also a space for method. Each project is approached as a prototype.
OUR CREW
James Hagger
Founder / CEO / Producer
James Hagger is the founder and producer of Eliotness, the long-format division of the Troublemakers group. He began his career in London in the late 1990s as an assistant director on feature films, working alongside Nick Love, Kevin Reynolds, Christian Volckman and Harmony Korine. Now based in Paris, he founded Troublemakers in 2008 and has since produced over a hundred films for brands, across live action and animation. In 2022, he launched Eliotness to explore a broader scope of storytelling — fiction, documentary, and animated series — while keeping the same core drive: telling stories with meaning, craft, and creative freedom. An active member of the industry, James has served on juries for the D&AD Awards, the Young Director Award, Club des D.A., Eurobest and Promax BDA, as well as for institutions like Gobelins and New3dge. He is a member of the CJD and SPI, and sits on the board of the UPC, where he chairs the Animation Commission. He was formerly Vice President of the EPA, the European advertising producers’ union, and represented France at the G20 YEA 2024 in Brazil. He is also a mentee at the Institut du Mentorat Entrepreneurial (IME), a program supporting fast-growing SME leaders.
Jean Mérange-Galtier
Producer
Jean Méranger-Galtier is a producer and head of script supervision at Eliotness. After studying screenwriting at Paris-Nanterre University, he joined the production company KABO Family as a literary assistant, where he contributed to the writing of the series L’Île aux trente cercueils. He went on to work as a script reader for several production companies and broadcasters, building strong expertise in narrative structure and story development. Based in Paris, he joined the Eliotness team in 2022, where he now oversees the development of long-format projects including documentaries, animated series, and fiction. He works closely with writers and directors at every stage of the creative process, with a focus on precision, empathy, and a strong taste for hybrid formats and offbeat narratives. In parallel, Jean is deeply engaged in media literacy and education. He leads workshops, designs pedagogical tools, and collaborates with institutions such as the CNC, Normandie Images, and Les Cahiers du Cinéma. He is also a writer for several animated children’s series broadcast in France and internationally, and continues to develop stories that are meaningful, accessible, and deeply anchored in their time.
Robin Noël
Producer
Robin Noël began his career in feature films alongside Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, assisting them at Quad Films on international hits such as Intouchables and Samba. Trained in screenwriting, he places narrative at the heart of his approach — for him, producing starts with understanding the deeper mechanics of a story: its structure, rhythm, and truth. He later moved into advertising and produced numerous campaigns for clients like LVMH, L’Oréal, Orange, and the Abbé Pierre Foundation, working within the creative agency Havas Paris. His journey took him to New York, London and Bangkok, where he refined his visual culture and developed a deep interest in 2D and 3D animation, hybrid storytelling, and experimental formats. In 2020, he joined Troublemakers with the desire to develop long-format projects at the intersection of genres — blending fiction, animation, and documentary. Today, he focuses on stories that explore grey zones, personal fractures, and imaginative reinventions. Robin shares with James Hagger a common ambition: to produce work that shifts boundaries, both in form and content, with the rigor of auteur cinema and the freedom of a narrative playground.
Salomé Teyssier
Creative AI R&D
Salomé is in her final year of a Creative Engineering program at Gustave Eiffel University in Paris-Est. She is pursuing a multidisciplinary curriculum that combines both scientific and artistic fields, including imaging, multimedia, audiovisual production, and communication. Passionate about visual creation, she has worked in video editing, audiovisual production, and 3D modeling. She joined the Jackflash team in 2025 for her final-year internship as a Creative AI R&D intern.
Lola Matthews-Matofsky
Production Assistant
Lola is in her third year studying Modern and Medieval French Literature at Oxford University. Having adapted her university curriculum to focus on art and theatre, Lola works as an artistic director for the competitive student dance team and has also worked as an editor for the student newspaper's cultures column alongside her studies. Currently based in Paris for her year abroad, Lola has joined the JACKFLASH team as a production assistant, eager to explore the industry from a new perspective.
Madeleine Baber
Production Assistant
Madeleine is a third-year Modern and Medieval Languages student at the University of Cambridge, majoring in French and Russian. She’s currently on her Year Abroad working as a Production Assistant with Eliotness, and has contributed as an editor to the student publication Gender Agenda, which recently earned ‘Best Newcomer’ and ‘Best Specialist Publication’ awards. Madeleine brings strong editorial insight and production experience to every project she undertakes.
ELIOTNESS
ELIOTNESS is a label of the TROUBLEMAKERS company
46, Rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin
75010 PARIS
Tel. : +33 1 48 05 35 35
hello@eliotness.tv