‘SEAL Team’ Star David Boreanaz to Head Fiction Jury at Monte-Carlo Television Festival
American actor and producer David Boreanaz, star of the hit series “Bones,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Angel” and “SEAL Team,” will head the fiction jury for the Golden Nymph Awards at the 63rd Monte-Carlo Television Festival, which runs from June 14 to 18.
He will join fellow fiction jury members Piv Bernth, CEO, creative and executive producer of Apple Tree Productions in Denmark; Teresa Fernandez Valdes, producer and CEO of Te Espero en Marte in Spain; Claire Mundell, producer, creative director and founder of Synchronicity Films in the United Kingdom; Danish actor Ulrich Thomsen and Noor Sadar, producer and CEO of White Lion Films, a subsidiary of Mediawan in France.
Steve Anderson, journalist, executive producer and former head of news and current affairs at ITV, is the chairman of the jury for the news and documentary category. The jury members include Chiara Avesani, director and journalist of Rai 3 in Italy; Martina Šantavá, creative producer at Ceska Televise in the Czech Republic; André Carvalho Ramos, journalist and presenter at CNN in Portugal and Yann-Anthony Noghès, producer at Check Productions in Monaco.
The Business Content programme for this year’s festival has also been announced.
Panel discussions will explore topics such as “A Conversation with a TV Mogul – Dan Cohen”, “The Rebirth of Content Creation and Production After the 2023 Strike”, “Bringing the World to Light Through Drama”, “New Formats, Genres and a Focus on Local TV Platforms”, “How AI Tools Can Help Creation and Distribution”, “New Narratives for Documentaries: The Blurring of Fact and Fiction”, “The Value of Marketing on TV”, “Being a Producer: How Do They Manage Growing Responsibilities?” and “What’s New with International Colleagues?”
Confirmed contributors include Dan Cohen, chief content licensing officer at Paramount and chairman of Republic Pictures; Lori McCreary, CEO and executive producer at Revelations Entertainment; Leslie Greif, CEO and Executive Producer, Big Dreams Entertainment and Remi Tereszkiewicz, CEO at Betaseries.
Festival Director Cécile Menoni said: “We are delighted to have so many respected contributors joining us this year. By attracting the highest calibre of creative talent to our jury and jury panel, our festival continues to be at the forefront of global entertainment.”
