For Lazuri Film founder Cumali Varer , everything flows back to the sea.

Once a political prisoner and later a self-made seafarer, the Turkish-born Varer arrived in France as an exile in the late 1980s. Splitting his time between Paris, Istanbul and Cannes, he transformed the passions first sparked while fishing on the Black Sea into a life that carried him from sailor to one of the Mediterranean’s leading organizers of international regattas, and ultimately to producer, making a splash at Mipcom with “Korsan,” a nautical adventure series inspired as much by history as by the saltwater coursing through his own story.

“I’ve spent my life on the sea, sailing and learning its rhythms,” Varer says. “Now I want to bring that world to the screen, telling stories that are universal but ro

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