HPI : 5 choses à savoir sur la cinquième et dernière saison de la série
14/05/2025
2025 Juries
Fiction Jury
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Judith LIGHT
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Eriq EBOUANEY
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Brendan FITZGERALD
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Rachel GRIFFITHS
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Gabrielle LAZURE
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Sarah RAFFERTY
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John REARDON
Judith LIGHT
President of the Jury
Actress (USA)
Judith Light is known for her extensive body of work onstage, as well as in television and film, recently receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of fame.
Her recent projects include Peter Hedge’s film The Same Storm, “Julia,” HBO Max’s drama series on Julia Child, Starz’ horror comedy “Shining Vale” and Searchlight’s dark comedy The Menu, alongside Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes. Second seasons of both “Shining Vale” and “Julia” are currently available for streaming. Light starred in The Young Wife and Down Low for FilmNation, both of which premiered at SXSW, and Out of My Mind for Disney+ which premiered at Sundance and can now be streamed on Disney+.
Her 2019 film Ms. White Light also premiered at SXSW.
She can also be seen in the second season of “American Horror Stories” and Rian Johnson’s series “Poker Face” for Peacock, for which she won the Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy.
Her latest project was the Apple TV+ series “Before” alongside Billy Crystal. The full season can now be streamed.
Next up, she stars in “The Terror: Devil in Silver” for AMC and Scott Free Productions.
Additionally, she is working on a series of producing projects with her production company and Brillstein Creative Partners.
Light also co-starred in Ryan Murphy’s “Impeachment: American Crime Story” on FX, appeared in Lin Manuel Miranda’s film, tick, tick…Boom! for Netflix as well as “The Accidental Wolf”, created by Arian Moyad and now streaming on Topic.
In addition to her current projects, Light starred in the anthology series “Manhunt: Deadly Games,” which can currently be found on Netflix, as well as Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series “The Politician,” and in the musical finale series of “Transparent,” Amazon Prime’s Golden Globe–winning show, created by Joey Soloway, for which Light received a Golden Globe nomination and multiple Emmy and Critics’ Choice nominations. Her role in Ryan Murphy’s “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” garnered her an Emmy nomination and Critics Choice nomination.
In 2012 and 2013, Light won two consecutive Tony and Drama Desk awards for her performances in Other Desert Cities and The Assembled Parties; these two performances made her the first actress in nearly two decades to win consecutive Tony Awards. Light also received the 2019 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for her extensive philanthropy work. She was also recently awarded the Excellence in Media Award from GLAAD in May 2022. Light sits on the board of directors of the MCC Theater in New York.
Eriq EBOUANEY
Actor (France)
Eriq Ebouaney was born in Angers, France, to Cameroonian parents. After studying international business, he pursued his passion for theater and cinema. He quickly began working professionally, first joining the company La Baignoire, and later performing in works by Euripides, Tennessee Williams, Valère Novarina, Chekhov, and Bernard-Marie Koltès.
In the private theater scene, he appeared alongside Michel Galabru, Marthe Mercadier, and Bernard Tapie in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. He is currently performing in Edmond by Alexis Michalik.
Ebouaney rose to public attention through his leading role in Lumumba by Raoul Peck and as the memorable "bad guy" inFemme Fatale by Brian De Palma.
Over the past twenty years, he has collaborated with internationally renowned directors and actors, including Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, John Malkovich, Antonio Banderas, Jean Dujardin, Jean Reno, Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Magimel, Alexandra Lamy, Sandrine Bonnaire, Ridley Scott, Brian De Palma, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Olivier Assayas, Park Chan-wook, and Jean-Jacques Annaud.
He has also appeared on Netflix in Earth and Blood by Julien Leclercq and Rogue City (Bronx) by Olivier Marchal, on Apple TV in the series Liaison, and on Paramount+/AMC in the The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon spin-off alongside Norman Reedus.
Brendan FITZGERALD
CEO of Secuoya Studios (Espagne)
Brendan Fitzgerald is an internationally renowned executive in the content industry, with a career spanning over two decades of experience in key markets such as the United States, Latin America, Spain, Germany, and Italy.
Throughout his distinguished career, he has played crucial roles in the creation and development of premium content, establishing himself as a key figure in the evolution and expansion of the global audiovisual sector.
Since January 2024, Brendan Fitzgerald has served as the CEO of Secuoya Studios, a leading Spanish studio committed to producing high-level content, aiming to become a global leader in creating premium projects for television, film, and OTT platforms.
Under his leadership, Secuoya Studios has launched an ambitious expansion strategy, seeking to diversify its catalog across various areas, including series, films, unscripted content, and long-form productions.
Before assuming his role at Secuoya Studios, Fitzgerald was Senior Vice President of English-language International Co-Productions at Sony Pictures Television, where he played a key role in managing co-productions and building business relationships between major studios and international networks. During his time at Sony Pictures, he helped establish key agreements that strengthened the company’s presence in international markets and contributed to the success of various productions.
Fitzgerald is also recognized for his contribution to the audiovisual sector in Spain, having been named Honorary Ambassador of the Spain Film Commission. This recognition highlights his impact on the global industry and his commitment to international collaboration in content creation and distribution.
Rachel GRIFFITHS
Actress (Australia)
One of Australia’s most prolific industry professionals, Rachel Griffiths is a multi-award-winning Australian actor and filmmaker.
After starting her career on the Australian stage,Rachel made her screen debut in the iconic Muriel’s Wedding.
Since her film debut she has worked in film in the Uk and Australia -and was nominated for an academy award for Hilary and Jackie.
Rachel acted on two land mark Americans Tv series Brothers and sisters and six feet under for which we won a golden globe award.
She continues to work across mediums recently starring in Will Gluck’s Anyone But You, and the award winning New Zealand series, Madam.
Rachel was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) for her contribution to the arts in 2021 and boasts significant achievements with her company
Magdalene Media, directing and producing the highest-grossing Australian feature of 2019, Ride Like A Girl.
Collaborating with Blackfella films She also co-created, executive produced, and starred in the internationally acclaimed 3 season political drama
Total Control.
She has several new series in development with Blackfella films and continues to work in factual television producing and staring the highly
acclaimed art series for the Australian national broadcaster.
Gabrielle LAZURE
Actress (Canada)
Born in Philadelphia, Gabrielle grew up in Montreal, where she studied psychology.
In 1978, she moved to Paris where she began her acting career.
Her career began in 1983 with Alain Robbe-Grillet's film La Belle Captive.
Since then, she has worked across theater, television, and film, appearing in numerous productions in France as well as internationally.
She plays Carmel Snow in the series about designer Cristobal Balenciaga. Gabrielle is also a singer and songwriter.
Alongside her acting career, she is involved in writing and developing personal projects.
Her first novel, À la recherche du plaisir perdu, was published in October 2024.
She is preparing for the 2025 Avignon Theatre Festival with the creation of “Elia, Généalogie d'un Faussaire”.
She will also appear in the next feature film by Quebecois director Denis Côté.
Sarah RAFFERTY
Emmy-nominated Actress (USA)
Sarah Rafferty is a Emmy-nominated actress best known for her starring role as the iconic Donna Paulson on the hit show SUITS.
She is currently starring as Katherine Walter on the Netflix series MY LIFE WITH THE WALTER BOYS .
Among her numerous TV credits, she has recently recurred on medical drama’s CHICAGO MED and GREY’S ANATOMY .
Sarah has worked at many American theatre companies including The Roundabout Theatre Company and Second Stage in New York, as well as The Old Globe, The Huntington Theatre Company, and Shakespeare and Co.
In addition to acting, Rafferty lends a hand to many causes dear to her heart. She is devoted to building awareness on the gender-based barriers that affect girls and women worldwide as an Ambassador for both WarChild and Plan Canada’s “Because I am Girl Campaign.” Sarah has traveled to Ghana with Plan to witness their work in the field.
For over a decade, Sarah has worked as an advocate for Alzheimer’s research, brain health and caregivers. As an ambassador for The Alzheimer's Association she has hosted several galas to benefit their support and research efforts. She has also joined Seth and Lauren Miller Rogen’s HFC as an ambassador to raise brain health awareness among the younger generation. She has advocated for Alzheimer’s on stages in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, and Jerusalem and recently met with U.S. Senators and the Second Gentleman in Washington, D.C.
Originally from the East Coast, Sarah received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama after graduating magna cum laude from Hamilton College with a double major in English and Theatre. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters.
John REARDON
Actor (Canada)
John Reardon is well known for his portrayal of Detective Charlie Hudson on the hit series Hudson and Rex - as well as previous projects likeTron Legacy, Disrepair and the Killing.
John studied theater at the Lir in Dublin Ireland and his future projects consist of leading roles on the feature films Again and Bounty - both slated to film in 2025.
John is also preparing to return to the stage in an upcoming production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.
News Jury
Mireille DUMAS
President of the Jury
Journalist, Director, Presenter and Producer (France)
Mireille Dumas is a journalist, director, presenter, and producer who has left a lasting mark on French television with her bold, intimate, and socially conscious programming. Her pioneering work has broken taboos and anticipated key societal debates, earning her national and international acclaim.
She began her career in print journalism before transitioning to television in the 1980s, directing numerous documentaries and investigative reports for major French networks. Her films have received multiple awards, including the ONDAS Prize for her documentary on incest (André et Jacqueline, 1985), a Special Mention from the SCAM-SGDL for Les trois familles d’Éric Robert (1988), and the Silver FIPA, Prix Italia, and a European Film Award mention for her trilogy Crimes et Passions (1990–1991). Her landmark 1992 series Prostitution was distributed in over 20 countries.
In 1991, she founded her production company, MD Productions, and created several groundbreaking programs for France Télévisions, including Bas les Masques, La Vie à l’Endroit, Vie Privée, Vie Publique, and Signé Mireille Dumas.
These shows offered a new, more human and empathetic form of interview, giving voice to both public figures and everyday people, and reshaping the relationship between the private and public spheres.
She is also known for her powerful portraits of artists and cultural icons, such as Hallyday, Mitchell, Dutronc: un trio de légende, Goldman, Balavoine, Berger, Polnareff, Delpech, Ferrer, Françoise Hardy, une icône, Brigitte Bardot, l’insoumise (Canal+), and most recently Hugues Aufray, l’éternel jeune homme and Paris en Chansons (France Télévisions, 2024).
In 2023, she launched the Mireille Dumas YouTube channel in partnership with INA, featuring four decades of iconic archives. Since 2024, the channel has included Mireille Dumas retrouve, a monthly original series in which she reconnects with past guests from her programs.
To mark her 40-year career in television, she created a two-part retrospective Les années télé de Mireille Dumas, broadcast by France Télévisions. In 2025, she was awarded the Laurier d’Honneur de l’Audiovisuel, recognizing her exceptional contribution to the medium.
Mireille Dumas has also produced a wide range of documentaries, special programs, and a fiction film (Une preuve d’amour, 2003), which won the Grand Prize at the Luchon International Festival. She is also the author of several published works.
Through her unique perspective and dedication, Mireille Dumas has transformed television into a space for dialogue, memory, and awareness — establishing herself as a vital storyteller of the human condition.
Mohammed Al-HAMADI
Manager of Documentaries, Aljazeera English (Qatar)
Mohammed AL-HAMADI is the Manager of Documentaries in Aljazeera English in charge of the strands Witness and Aljazeera World plus all the One-off documentaries and series.
Mohammeds department also is in charge of documentary acquisitions in the channel.
Prior to his post he was the Head of Programs Production in Aljazeera News Channel and made with them five new award winning program strands such as Breaking the Chains, About Cinema, and The Other side.
Mohammed has a BSC in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tulsa in the US and MA in Digital Humanities and Societies from Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, and now working on his Phd in Humanities and Social Science.
Mohammed was heavily involved in the développements of film making in Qatar since its early days in 2009 through Innovation Films building new talents and supporting young film makers in making their first and second films screening and winning in local, regional and international film festivals.
Gabi BIESINGER
Journalist, UK Correspondant ARD (Germany)
Since 2021 Dr. Gabi Biesinger has been based in London as UK-correspondent for national German Broadcaster ARD.
She held this position before, between 2012 and 2016.
After leaving London in 2016 she worked as US-correspondent for ARD in Washington DC, before taking up the position of Second Editor-in-Chief for SWR (Südwestrundfunk), one of the ARD-members.
As one of the heads of the crossmedia news department at SWR in Baden-Baden she helped implement the 50:50 challenge for gender equality on air and a re-organization of newsrooms.
She was involved in general strategic projects and change management work.
With documentaries about small boat refugees in the Channel and about the legacy of the “Kindertransporte” in the 1930s she has been nominated for the Foreign-Press-Award in London in 2022 and 2024 and for the Prix Franco-Allemande du Journalisme in Paris in 2022.
Gabi Biesinger joined SWR/ARD in 1999 after finishing her PhD in Psychology at the University of Münster/Germany, which followed her MSc degree obtained at the University of Kent at Canterbury/England. In the last twenty-five years she worked as editor, presenter and reporter in different departments within SWR.
Diego BUÑUEL
Journalist, Reporter, Director, Host (France)
Diego Buñuel is a French-American filmmaker and journalist known for his unique perspective on conflict zones and major contemporary issues.
The grandson of filmmaker Luis Buñuel, he studied journalism at Northwestern University in Chicago before beginning his career as a war correspondent, covering conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Congo for French media outlets such as Canal Plus and France 2.
His documentary series Don’t Tell My Mother, produced for National Geographic and Canal Plus, brought him international recognition thanks to its human, curious, and bold approach to exploring some of the world’s most dangerous places.
Throughout his career, Diego Buñuel has held key positions in the audiovisual industry, including Head of Documentaries at Canal Plus, Director of Programming at France Télévisions, and Director of Documentaries for Europe at Netflix.
He is currently Director of Development at France Télévisions Studio and hosts the program Thalassa on France 3.
Daniel KARSLAKE
Award-winning American film, theater, and television writer, director and producer (USA)
Daniel Karslake is an award-winning American film, theater, and television writer/director/producer whose latest feature, FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO, about four families of faith who discover they have a gay or trans child, premiered in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival.
The film has won numerous audience awards and jury prizes in festivals around the world and has been acquired by distributor First Run Features in New York.
FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO is a follow up to Karslake’s debut film, FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was short-listed for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Entertainment Weekly magazine listed the film as “one of five documentaries that has changed the world,” and it has been translated into more than 20 languages worldwide.
In addition to producing a feature doc called 13 DEMANDS, Karslake is currently working on an exploration of the shocking influence the Nazis had in 1930’s Hollywood called HITLER’S MAN IN HOLLYWOOD and a feature about the polarization of America called IT’S ALL THE RAGE.
Karslake also executive produced THE RADICAL, a feature chronicling the life and ministry of the world’s first openly gay imam, and 1946: THE MISTRANSLATION THAT SHIFTED CULTURE, an exploration of how the word “homosexual” first came to appear in the Bible in the year 1946.
That film celebrated its world premiere at DOC NYC and has since won 23 audience and jury awards in festival around the world.
Karslake is a proud member of the Director’s Guild of America. He received his B.A. in public policy from Duke University and has taught documentary filmmaking both at Duke and at Stanford University.
He has served as vice president of the Duke Alumni Association Board and is an active alumnus in Europe for Duke. He lives in Berlin, Germany with his husband Russ and their two cats, Rocky and Fred.
Ross KEMP
BAFTA award-winning Documentary Maker, Actor, Author (United-Kingdom)
Ross is a BAFTA award-winning documentary maker, actor, and author, who rose to prominence in the BBC1 soap Eastenders.
Since 2006 he has received international recognition for his award winning documentaries.
Ross began his acting career on stage with the likes of John Thaw and Richard Wilson. He is best known for his multi-award-winning portrayal of Grant Mitchell in EastEnders.
After leaving the show Ross signed to ITV to star in their big drama series, Ultimate Force. He made his return to acting after 16 years away in new Channel 5 drama, Blindspot, in 2023.
In recent years Ross has built a reputation as one of TV’s most exciting and hard-hitting documentary makers. After a brief meeting with a member of the infamous ‘Bloods’ gang in California, Ross went to Sky with the idea for a new series,Ross Kemp on Gangs, for which he won a BAFTA for Best Factual Series.
After making 27 programmes around the world, Ross moved on from Ross Kemp on Gangs to a new series: Ross Kemp in Afghanistan, where he spent time from 2007 to 2012 with army regiments: 1 Royal Anglian, 5 Scots, 1 Royal Irish, and twice with 45 Commando.
Ross and his team were nominated for a ‘Best Factual Series’ BAFTA, and won an AIB International Media Excellence Award for ‘International TV Personality’.
Ross Kemp’s Extreme World followed on Sky with documentaries in Gaza, Israel, the Amazon Rainforest, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, The Congo and Ukraine.
He has authored Ross Kemp on Gangs (Sunday Times Bestseller), as well as Gangs 2, Ross Kemp on Afghanistan, Ross Kemp on Pirates, Warriors & Raiders and A to Z of Hell. In 2023 he released Take Nothing For Granted, a selection of stories from Ross’s life.
More recent documentaries for ITV have included Ross Kemp: The Search for Michael Jackson’s Zoo, The Millennium Dome Heist with Ross Kemp, In the Line of Fire with Ross Kemp, Ross Kemp and the Armed Police, Hatton Garden: The Inside Story, HMP Belmarsh with Ross Kemp, Ross Kemp: On the NHS Frontline, Britain’s Tiger Kings: On The Trail with Ross Kemp and the Ross Kemp: Living With… series which included a heartfelt documentary about Dementia after his EastEnders on-screen mum Barbara Windsor passed away from the disease. For Sky History, Ross has filmed 2 seasons of Ross Kemp: Deep Sea Treasure Hunter where he deep dives off the coast of Britain and in 2024 he premiered Ross Kemp: Mafia and Britain which was accompanied by a brand new book. Ross is the host of the hit BBC1 quiz show Bridge of Lies & Celebrity Bridge of Lies.
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