TELEVISION

Manatea

South Sea Perls

MANATEA: SOUTH SEA PEARLS is a TV series produced by Gaumont and TF1 in 1999, centering on the story of two friends who operate a pearl farm on a remote atoll lost in the Pacific Ocean. In search of the perfect pearl, they are drowning in debts and are increasingly threatened by the owner of an luxury resort who covets their atoll.

Production 
Gaumont Télévision
TF1

Série TV
1999-2005

Réalisation 4 x 52′

FRANCE

Créée par
Annabelle Perrichon
François-Emmanuel Porché
Claude Scasso

Avec
Arnaud Binard
Sophie Michard
Yannick Soulier

The show was entirely shot on location in Tahiti and in various islands of French Polynesia, with a crew of locals and French technicians and actors.