What Trio Orange does

Trio Orange inc. is a privately held Canadian television and digital content production company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. Founded in 2008, the company operates as a content production studio rather than a software or technology platform, producing original series, documentaries, films, and digital programming across six genre verticals: scripted drama, documentary and factual, kids and youth, entertainment and game shows, factual entertainment and lifestyle, and feature films. The company distributes its productions through major Canadian broadcasters and international streaming platforms, including Netflix, Bell Media's Crave/Club illico, CANAL+, Radio-Canada, Télé-Québec, Noovo, and Vrai, with festival-circuit presence at Canneseries, Berlinale, Séries Mania, the Seoul International Drama Awards, and Hot Docs. The company holds two operating subsidiaries — La maison de prod and Andicha Media — which extend its production footprint under the Trio Orange parent brand.

The business model is project-based production for hire (or co-production) with broadcasters and streaming platforms, rather than direct-to-consumer sales. Trio Orange develops, produces, and delivers content to its buyer clients, who then fund, license, and distribute the programming. Revenue is generated through production fees, broadcaster license fees, and international co-production financing, with no disclosed pricing model, no software subscription, and no direct consumer products. The company maintains a headcount of 11-50 employees and operates from a single headquarters at 3250 rue Ontario Est, Montréal.

Ownership is concentrated among six named partners, with five women — Marie-Claude Brunelle, Shaney-Kim Carufel, Julia Langlois, Julie Lavallée, and Annie Sirois (co-president) — having become majority shareholders in September 2024, following a 2020 succession plan that first brought them into the shareholder base. Co-founder Carlos Soldevila and Nicola Morel (Head of Non-Fiction Development) remain as co-presidents and shareholders. No institutional investors, private equity ownership, or parent company has been disclosed. The company has remained privately held since founding, with no IPO or external funding rounds identified.

Name

Trio Orange

Legal name

Trio Orange inc.

Website

https://trioorange.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Trio Orange is a Montreal-based independent television and digital content production company founded in 2008, producing fiction, documentary, youth, and lifestyle programming for major Canadian broadcasters and international streaming platforms including Netflix, CANAL+, and Radio-Canada.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Montréal

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Trio Orange is an independent Montreal-based production studio that creates, develops, and produces original television series, documentaries, youth programming, factual entertainment, lifestyle shows, and feature films. The company licenses these productions to Canadian broadcasters (Radio-Canada, Télé-Québec, Noovo, Vrai) and international streaming platforms (Netflix, CANAL+, Crave). Its portfolio spans drama, documentary, kids' content, entertainment formats, and lifestyle programming, with a focus on bold, authentic, and inclusive Quebec-rooted storytelling.

Product overview

Trio Orange is a Canadian television and digital production company founded in 2008, based in Montreal, Quebec. The company operates as a content production studio rather than a software platform, producing television series, documentaries, and films across multiple genres. The portfolio includes Scripted/Drama Productions (M'entends-tu?, Le temps des framboises, Bellefleur), Documentary & Factual Productions (Lac-Mégantic, Psychopathes), Kids & Youth content (Les Millimus, Nomades), Entertainment/Game Shows, Factual Entertainment & Lifestyle programming, and Feature Films. The company has subsidiaries including La maison de prod and Andicha Media. Trio Orange distributes content through major Canadian and international platforms including Netflix, Crave, Canal+, Télé-Québec, Radio-Canada, and Amazon Prime Video.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• La maison de prod: Television and digital content production subsidiary/brand.
• Andicha Media

Products and services

• Scripted/Drama Productions Dramatic fictional series produced by Trio Orange for broadcasters and streaming platforms.
• Documentary & Factual Productions Documentary series covering real-world topics, acquired by Canadian broadcasters and streaming platforms.
• Kids & Youth Productions Youth-focused content produced for educational broadcasters and streaming platforms.
• Entertainment & Game Shows Game shows and entertainment programming for broadcasters and streaming platforms.
• Factual Entertainment & Lifestyle Lifestyle and factual entertainment content including cooking, renovation, and travel programming.
• Feature Films Feature-length film productions including fiction and documentary features.
• Pa t'mentir (Ain't Lying) Magazine series that deconstructs stereotypes and demystifies taboos within Black and multiethnic Quebec communities, hosted by Schelby Jean-Baptiste.
• Woody: Learn or Win (Woody: Apprendre ou gagner) Documentary series following Woody Belfort, who has spastic diplegia, as he prepares to compete against professional wheelchair bodybuilders at Mr. Olympia.
• Who Almost Killed Melody? (Qui a poussé Mélodie dès le 6 janvier) Dramedy series where parents must prove their children's innocence after an educator is pushed down stairs at a daycare.
• Empathy (Empathie) Drama series set at Institut psychiatrique Mont-Royal featuring psychiatrist Suzanne and intervention agent Mortimer; broadcast as CANAL+ Original Creation.

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Fremantle: Global production and distribution major (part of RTL Group) producing scripted drama, documentaries, and entertainment formats worldwide; competes for the same international co-production financing and streamer commissions as Trio Orange.
• ITV Studios: UK-based global production and distribution arm of ITV, with a large scripted and unscripted catalog sold to streamers and broadcasters worldwide; the kind of broad incumbent Trio Orange competes against for premium drama commissions.
• Banijay Group: Paris-headquartered global production giant and the largest independent content producer worldwide, owning dozens of production labels across scripted, unscripted, and documentary; sets the competitive ceiling Trio Orange benchmarks against for international co-production and distribution reach.

Direct peers

• Boat Rocker Media: Toronto-headquartered independent entertainment company producing scripted, unscripted, and kids content for global platforms including Netflix; a like-for-like Canadian independent with similar multi-genre strategy and platform dependencies.
• WildBrain: Halifax/Toronto-based kids and family content producer and licensor (formerly DHX Media); overlaps with Trio Orange's youth programming and provides a Canadian benchmark for kids-content IP ownership and distribution economics.
• 9 Story Media Group: Toronto-based independent production and distribution company focused on kids and family content with international reach including Brown Bag Films; directly comparable to Trio Orange's Nomades and Les Millimus youth slates.
• Pixcom: Montreal-headquartered independent production house producing scripted dramas, documentaries, lifestyle, and factual entertainment for Canadian and international buyers; directly comparable in catalog breadth and Quebec market focus.
• Sphere Media: Montreal-based production company producing scripted, documentary, and lifestyle programming with strong international distribution — including ownership by Entertainment One — making it a tightly comparable peer in genre mix and export strategy.
• Attraction Images: Montreal-based French-language production company producing scripted, unscripted, and documentary content for Canadian broadcasters and international streamers; the closest comparable independent Quebec production house to Trio Orange in scale and genre mix.
• Cinéflix: Montreal-headquartered production and distribution company producing and licensing scripted and factual series globally; operates a similar producer-plus-distributor model that delivers Trio Orange's catalog to international platforms.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/trio_orange
• Facebookfacebook.com/501725256520805
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/trioorange

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Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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