2024 Juries
Fiction Jury
David BOREANAZ
Jury President
Producer, Actor (USA)David Boreanaz is a charismatic actor who shines both on the big screen, TV and stage. He is currently starring in CBS's hit drama series SEAL Team in a leading role. In addition he is also a producer and often pulls triple duty as director, and earn rave reviews for his work. The series wrapped its fourth season at CBS in 2021 and is going into its seventh and final season on Paramount+.
Prior to joining the CBS family, Boreanaz was seen for 12 seasons on FOX’s “Bones.” During his time on the series, he also served as a producer and director (directing the series finale, the 100th and 200th episodes, and several season-ending cliffhangers).
David Boreanaz was exposed to the TV business at a young age. After graduating from college, he moved to Los Angeles to try his luck in Hollywood. He got his first break with a guest spot on the show Married with Children, as the biker boyfriend of Kelly Bundy (Christina Applegate). While relatively new to acting, he landed a guest-starring role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which vaulted him to stardom as the mysterious and tortured Angel, a role he then continued in his own series, Angel. It was during his time on the series that he made his directing debut.
On the big screen, he has appeared in The Mighty Macs, opposite Carla Gugino, Officer Down, Valentine, The Hard Easy, with Bruce Dern and Vera Farmiga, Mr. Fix It, and I'm with Lucy. He also lent his voice to the role of "Hal Jordan" (aka "The Green Lantern") for the animated feature Justice League: The New Frontier..
On stage, he has starred in the Off-Broadway production of Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, Hat Full of Rain, Italian-American Reconciliation, Fool for Love, and Cowboy Mouth.
Piv BERNTH
CEO, Creative & Executive Producer – APPLE TREE PRODUCTION (Denmark)Piv Bernth is behind some of the biggest Danish TV series successes in the past 15 years.
She worked as a producer at DR and received international recognition – an iEMMY for Nikolaj and Julie, the Golden Nymph as Best European Producer for The Killing II, BAFTA for The Killing I,
and three iEMMY nominations for The Killing I and II. She also received numerous Danish awards for the series she produced.
Moreover, Piv was an executive producer of the original version of The Bridge.
In 2012, she was appointed Head of Drama and commissioned Borgen, Ride Upon The Storm and Liberty, and various others.
In December 2017, Piv left DR and started Apple Tree Productions with Lars Hermann, a producer.
The company is part of the ITVS group. Series such as Equinox and Baby Fever for Netflix,
Blackwater for SVT, Chorus Girls for TV 2 DK, and indeed One of the Boys for Viaplay are produced by their company.
Teresa FERNÁNDEZ-VALDÉS
Producer – TE ESPERO EN MARTE (Spain)Teresa Fernández-Valdés founded the production company Bambú Producciones in 2008, alongside with Ramón Campos.
Both managed to stand out prominently in the fiction scene and produced different series that achieved national and international success: Grand Hotel, Velvet, The Cable Girls, The Cocaine Coast, among others.
After these successes, in 2014 Bambú became the first Spanish production company to coproduce a series with BBC Worldwide,
entitled The Refugees, and the first Spanish company to work for Movistar, Netflix and Apple in Spain.
During these years, she was listed as one of the most powerful showrunners of European and world television,
by the international magazine The Hollywood Reporter.
On April 2018, Teresa got the Médaille d ́Honneur, in Cannes, being the first Spanish woman to receive it, for her significant contribution to the world of television and the development of the international TV community through her talent, leadership and passion.
Recently, in March 2023, Teresa decided to make a big change in her career and left her company to rewrite her story like an independent producer once again.
Claire MUNDELL
CEO, Creative Director, Executive Producer & Showrun – Synchronicity Films (United-Kingdom)Claire Mundell is an award-winning Producer and Founder and Creative Director of Synchronicity Films, a scripted production company based in Scotland, UK.
Claire most recently launched The Tattooist Of Auschwitz, a major 6-part adaptation of The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller for Sky Atlantic, Peacock, Stan, All3Media International and NBCU.
The series follows the true-story of Lali (Jonah Hauer-King), who arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942, where he was made one of the tattooists charged to ink identification numbers onto fellow prisoners’ arms. The show also stars Anna Próchniak, Jonas Nay, Harvey Keitel, and Melanie Lynskey. Two-time Oscar winner Hans Zimmer and KaraTalve composed the score, and Barbara Streisand released her first song in six years, “Love Will Survive,” on behalf of the series.
In 2023, Claire won a BAFTA for Best Scripted at the BAFTA Scotland 2023 Awards for the adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s acclaimed novel Mayflies, produced for BBC One
With Synchronicity, Claire has aimed to establish a scripted indie in Scotland with a reputation for critically acclaimed IP. The company has established a track record in high-end scripted adaptations, including the BAFTA and RTS-winning BBC One/ABC series The Cry, a psychological thriller starring Jenna Coleman.
Current projects include Graeme Armstrong’s debut The Young Team, Hanif Kureishi’s The Body, and Graeme Macrae Burnett’s His Bloody Project.
Claire’s film credits include Karen Gillan's directorial debut, The Party’s Just Beginning, Kill by Rodger Griffiths, the BIFA-nominated Only You, starring Laia Costa and Josh O'Connor and the BIFA winning Weekend, Andrew Haigh’s debut feature.
Claire is also a PACT Council Member and PACT’s national Rep for Scotland. Prior to Synchronicity, she enjoyed a career at the BBC in senior management as Head of Children’s’ BBC in Scotland for the network, and Executive Producer in BBC Drama.
Noor SADAR
Producer – White Lion Films (France)Founder of several production companies, Noor Sadar began his career by producing dramas for OCS Signature, the first being FranceKbek in 2014.
Over the years, he has worked with most of the historical broadcasters - TF1, France Télévisions, Arte - as well as with platforms gradually entering the market. Maroni, Kidnapping and Caïd for Netflix are just a few examples.
In 2020, he created WHITE LION FILMS, a new production company subsidiary of Mediawan Studio. Driven by the desire to defend authorial visions, WHITE LION FILMS develops and produces ambitious, original projects with an international scope, in particular coproductions and “glocal” dramas for platforms. Its first productions include: Darknet-sur-Mer, Drone Games for Prime Video, Machine for Arte as well as coproductions of Anthracite for Netflix, and Crooks for Netflix Germany, for which he oversees the French part.
In 2025, Malditos will be released, a thriller with a modern western vibe, set in Camargue, which he produces for HBO-Max. Also focusing on the genre of horror, Noor Sadar produces 4 films under the BLACK SWAN TALES label created in 2021: Deep Fear, Nightman, #No Filter, and The Hunted.
Ulrich THOMSEN
Actor & Producer (Denmark)Ulrich Thomsen is an internationally award-winning Danish actor and director who graduated from the National Theatre School of Copenhagen in 1993.
He has appeared in several famous leading Danish feature films, such as Festen (1998), Adams Apples (2005), The Good Traitor (2020), and The Marco Effect (2021).
Additionally, Ulrich has also made his mark internationally with roles such as the James Bond villain in The World is Not Enough (1999), the former Amish crime lord in the HBO’s series Banshee (2013-2016), and The New Pope (2019–2020). His first feature film, In Embryo, had its world premiere in the main competition at the prestigious Shanghai International Film Festival in 2016.
His second feature film, Gutterbee (AKA. American Sausage Standoff) opened the main competition at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in 2019. He has also been invited to festivals around the world.
In 2022, Ulrich won the Nymph for Best Actor for his role in the series TROM a the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.
News Jury
Steve ANDERSON
Jury President
Journalist, Executive Producer & Controller of News and Current Affairs (United-Kingdom)Steve Anderson has more than 45 years’ experience of TV journalism, with roles such as Network Controller of News and Current Affairs at ITV, the Editor of prime-time programmes on BBC One and a leading independent producer, making topical documentaries for UK and international broadcasters.
He was Controller of News & Current Affairs at ITV, from 1998 to 2004. He oversaw live coverage of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, and the Gulf War of 2003, including the ‘Shock and Awe’ campaign that started the war, and the fall of Baghdad.
He launched the prime-time current affairs series Tonight with Trevor McDonald, which the Royal Television Society Journalism Awards voted as Programme of the Year three times in its first five years.
After ITV, Steve was Creative Director at Mentorn Media, one of Britain’s biggest suppliers of factual programmes.
From 2006-2013, he was Executive Producer of more than 250 editions of the BBC’s flagship political debate series, Question Time, produced by Mentorn. He was also a regular producer and executive producer of programmes for Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky, AETN and National Geographic.
Previously, at the BBC, Steve was a Senior Producer on Newsnight. He produced special editions from Berlin in November 1989 as the wall came down, and from Red Square in July 1990, during the last ever Soviet Party Congress. He was field producer in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain for the 1991 Gulf War and one of the first journalists into the newly-liberated Kuwait City. For BBC News and Panorama, he produced live coverage and documentaries from Sarajevo during the Bosnian civil war, winning RTS Journalism awards. He went on to become Editor of BBC One’s consumer series Watchdog, leading an expansion of consumer journalism across the BBC.
From 2013-16, Steve was UK Managing Director of NBC News’ Peacock Productions, making topical documentaries for the BBC, ITV, Channel 5, Discovery and AETN.
Today, he is an independent producer whose recent credits include Panorama (BBC One), JFK: The Home Movie That Changed The World (ITV), One Bullet in Belize (Discovery+) and the returning crime series Faking It (Warner Bros Discovery).
Steve trained as a newspaper reporter, before joining the newsroom at Granada TV in Manchester, where he subsequently became an investigative journalist on the award-winning current affairs series, World In Action.
Chiara AVESANI
Director, Journalist – Rai 3 (Italy)Chiara has worked both in investigative and reportage journalism programs for RAI 3, for who she worked since 12 years, such as “Presa Diretta” and “Fattore Umano”.
As a freelancer, she collaborated with Al Jazeera America on the foreign policy program "Compass" and on "America Tonight”.
She also worked as a correspondent from Iraq in the areas of Mosul and Shingal for Sky News.
Which enabled her to win the World Press Photo in the Short Digital Storytelling category with the short documentary "Ghadeer".
Together with Matteo Delbò, Chiara Avesani co-directed the award-winning documentary “ERASMUS IN GAZA” the story of the first exchange student of the Western world in the Gaza Strip.
The film won the Best Documentary Golden Nymph Award at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival 2022 (Monaco), they also co-directed the award-winning documentary “DON’T COME BACK” (Rai-Artè) a film that won the Special Commendation at Prix Europa 2023 for Best TV/Video Documentary of The Year (Germany), three awards at Prix Med and "Best documentary" at Docs Barcellona.
André CARVALHO RAMOS
Journalist, Presenter – CNN Portugal (Portugal)André Carvalho Ramos is a journalist who has received over a dozen national and international awards and distinctions.
He won the Golden Nymph Award in 2021 for Best News Documentary at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival and the award for the Best News Coverage at the Venice Television Festival.
André covered different migration routes in Europe and conflict zones, such as Ukraine and Palestine, and published the book "The Last Border", about European policies towards refugees.
Currently, André Carvalho Ramos is working as news anchor at CNN Portugal.
Yann-Antony NOGHÈS
Producer – Check Productions (Monaco)
Yann-Antony is a director and producer.
His most recent productions include political documentaries such as the series Sommets,
a behind-the-scenes look at negotiations between European heads of state (France 2, RTBF, ZFD, TVE), but also historical documentaries such as Rainier III par lui-même,
narrated by Fanny Ardant (Canal+ and HBO).
He has also produced sports documentaries such as Grand Prix de Monaco, la légende narrated by H.S.H. Prince Albert II (TF1) or Accélère, accélère (Canal+). Yann-Antony is the co-director of Check Productions, with Alexandre Rougier, a company based in Monaco, Paris and Brussels since 2015.
Martina ŠANTAVÁ
Creative Producer – Ceska Televise (Czech Republic)Since 1997, Martina Šantavá has held various production positions for feature films, documentaries, and other cultural events.
In the early 2000s, she worked as a script editor for AQS and was part of the development team focusing on the selection of foreign series, documentaries, and children's programmes.
She also worked as an editor at the Mladá Fronta publishing house. In 2007, she joined HBO Czech Republic, where she launched the production of the channel's original programming.
Since 2012, she has been working at Czech Television as a creative producer, mainly for social documentaries, public affairs topics, and children's programmes.
Throughout her career, she has produced several award-winning documentaries such as Czechs to the Rescue, awarded
with the Festival President's Award in 2019, How I Became a Partisan with the Federal Foreign Ministry
Award for Cultural Diversity (goEast 2021) and the Best Film Award (Romani Film Festival) in 2021.
And most recently, You
Will Never See It Again with the Best World Debut Award in 2023.
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