Danielle Panabaker & Candice Patton at 56th Monte-Carlo Television Festival

Interview with Aidan Turner from Poldark at the 2016 Monte-Carlo Television Festival

ORF – AUSTRIAN BROADCASTING – Austria

Austria, 1955. After his mother‘s death, 10-year-old Ben grows up with his grandparents.
He‘s never met his dad, a black American GI. He‘s discriminated against
at school and in the village because of his dark skin. Even his grandfather looks
down on him and beats him. One day at the movies, Ben sees a documentary
about Viennese choir boys in America. Hoping to find his father, he decides to
become a choir boy. Jewish choir leader Max is delighted with Ben‘s voice, and
makes sure he gets a place in the choir. Max and principal‘s assistant Elsa help
Ben out whenever his fellow students or teachers give him a hard time. After a
while, Ben finds friends among the choir boys. And then his dream comes true:
Singing a song his father composed for his mother at a concert, Ben actually
finds his dad…

Monaco Red Cross Prize Winner

La Cérémonie des Nymphes d’Or aura lieu le Jeudi 16 juin 2016 à Monaco

La Nymphes d’Or est décernée pour :
Le Meilleur Grand Reportage de Société
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The Golden Nymph Awards Ceremony will take place on Thursday 16 June 2016 in Monaco

The Golden Nymph is awarded for:
The Best Current Affairs Documentary

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Der Letzte Raubzug – A & O BUERO FILMPRODUKTION – Germany – Canada

GAMBLING ON EXTINCTION is a powerful documentary that takes you from the killing fields in Kenya and South Africa to the trading hubs of Vietnam and China with undercover investigators, rangers, ex-poachers, conservationists and buyers. Director Jakob Kneser exposes the lethal mechanisms of the global trade, the terrorist connection, explains who the customers are, what generates demand, and what can be done to stop the slaughter.
Special Prize Prince Rainier III Nominees

KUDOS – United Kingdom

John River is a brilliant police officer whose genius and faultline is the fragility of his mind – a man haunted by the murder victims whose secrets he must unlock, who walks a professional tightrope between a pathology so extreme he risks permanent dismissal, and a healthy state of mind that could cure him of his gift.

Adrift in a London full of other exiled souls, River’s own isolation helps him connect with the troubled victims who crash into his world. But his search for Stevie’s killer is going to challenge everything he thought he knew about her. As his long-held defences are eroded by love and loss. River is torn between the living and the dead; will he have to choose once and for all?
Drama TV Series Nominees
Nominated Actress: Nicola Walker
Nominated Actor: Stellan Skarsgård

Tannbach – Schicksal Eines Dorfes – ZDF GERMAN TELEVISION – Germany

A world cut in half by ideologies
A little German town located on the Bavarian and Thuringian border gets caught in the current of world history at the end of the Second World War. Family, friends and lovers are separated from each other, first by a wooden fence, later by a border with shoot‐to‐kill order.
Inspired by the true events spanning the years 1945 to 1961 « Line of Separation » is a German‐German story under the burning glass, exemplified by the fate of a small village community. Into play comes a roster of destinies – perpetrators, victims, opportunists, winners and losers – who emerged from Generation War only to find themselves trapped in a new and potentially more devastating conflict, the Cold War…
Long Fiction Programs Nominees
Nominated Actress: Henriette Confurius

NIMA FILM – Sweden

For the first time in history an International People’s Tribunal convenes in The Hague court of justice to investigate the mass executions of political prisoners in Iran during the 1980s. Iraj is one of the survivors who lead this fight for justice. Together with other survivors he testifies against a crime that has been kept secret from the world for over 25 years.

Current Affairs Documentary Nominees

La Lunga Marcia – RAI RADIOTELEVISIONE ITALIANA – Italy

International Comittee Red Cross Prize and AMADE Prize Winner
Special Prize

TV 2 NORWAY – Norway

Michael Haas has played war video games since he was 5. At 19 he is employed by the US AirForce as a drone pilot.This is the new warfare: Young gamers recruited to operate drones through their computers to kill real people 7000 miles away. This is not science fiction but today’s reality and the big investment of the future: Robot war. As technology expands at an unprecedented rate we are part of an experiment that changes our wars and possibly our world. DRONE gives crucial context and new perspectives that reveal crucial secrets of the CIA drone war and asks where we are headed.

News Documentary Nominees

CNN – USA

On April 12, 2015, Freddie Gray was arrested by Baltimore police for carrying a pocket knife. A week later, the 25-year-old Gray died as a result of the injuries he sustained while in police custody. His death was ruled a homicide by a medical examiner and sparked unrest across the city. His death had come during a time of heightened scrutiny of police conduct in regard to African-Americans. The worst of the violence in Baltimore erupted on April 27th, the day Freddie Gray was buried. CNN’s Miguel Marquez and his team were on the streets as vandals set a CVS drugstore on fire, and looters raided stores across a section of the city. Amidst the chaos, they interviewed residents who tried to make sense of the perplexing paradox of public anger at police and city officials taking the form of destruction of their own neighborhood.

24hours News Programs Nominees

Tannbach – Schicksal Eines Dorfes – ZDF GERMAN TELEVISION – Germany

A world cut in half by ideologies
A little German town located on the Bavarian and Thuringian border gets caught in the current of world history at the end of the Second World War. Family, friends and lovers are separated from each other, first by a wooden fence, later by a border with shoot‐to‐kill order.
Inspired by the true events spanning the years 1945 to 1961 « Line of Separation » is a German‐German story under the burning glass, exemplified by the fate of a small village community. Into play comes a roster of destinies – perpetrators, victims, opportunists, winners and losers – who emerged from Generation War only to find themselves trapped in a new and potentially more devastating conflict, the Cold War…
Long Fiction Programs Nominees
Nominated Actress: Henriette Confurius