“The Fragile Colossus,” “Ten Pound Poms” and “The Seed” dominated the roost at this 12 months’s Monte-Carlo Tv Pageant, with the three applications amassing two prizes every at a small-screen showcase that ran June 16 – 20 within the Monaco capital.
Produced by Make It Occur Studio and Shoot Once more Productions in partnership with TF1 France, telefilm “The Fragile Colossus” took house Monte-Carlo’s Golden Nymph for greatest movie and the particular jury prize. The French drama follows a one-time rugby star (performed by soccer player-turned-actor Eric Cantona) confronting his historical past as a sufferer of childhood sexual abuse, and is predicated on the life and memoires of rugbyman Sébastien Boueilh.
Winner of Nymphs for greatest sequence and greatest actor for star Warren Brown, “Ten Pound Poms” tracks a bunch of newly arrived Brits trying to construct a greater life in Nineteen Fifties Australia. The six-part sequence was written by Danny Brocklehurst and produced by Eleven Movie (“Intercourse Schooling,” “Purple Rose”) and not too long ago aired to sturdy score on BBC One. The sequence streams on Stan in Australia.
European co-production “The Seed” claimed trophies for greatest creation and the BetaSeries public prize. Produced by Germany’s Odeon Fiction alongside Mia Movie, Rein Movie, ARD Degeto and Scandi public broadcaster NRK, the six-part police drama follows narrative tracks in Norway, Germany and Brussels, weaving them right into a geopolitical thriller with an ecological edge.
“The Fragile Colossus”
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Rounding out the fiction prizes, Danish star Marie Reuther (“The Kingdom”) was named greatest actress for her position in “Refrain Women,” a 70s set musical drama following eight younger girls working as back-up dancers at Denmark’s most celebrated revue. Reuther performs Pleasure – the youngest dancer within the troupe and maybe probably the most naturally gifted. The sequence comes courtesy of Apple Tree Productions.
Within the parallel Information and Documentary competitors, France Tv’s “Life on the Donbas Frontline” embedded viewers in war-torn Ukraine and was named greatest information program for its efforts, whereas “The Man Who Performed With Fireplace” from the U.Ok.’s Uncooked TV billed itself because the “biggest thriller by no means written” and tracked creator Stieg Larsson’s actual life investigation into the homicide of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. Lastly, “Nazanin” from 649 Media and Channel 4 took house the jury prize.
The competition additionally awarded three further awards, celebrating BFMTV’s “Russia, The Stolen Youngsters of Ukraine” with the AMADE prize, and the Israel-set plea for non secular co-existence “Oasis of Peace” with the Monaco Purple Cross prize.
Created by Prince Albert II in honor of the competition’s founder, the ecologically minded Prince Rainier III Particular Prize comes with grant of $10,900 and was attributed to “Till the Final Drop” from Poland’s Orient Movie.
“Our competition has continued to evolve through the years and is now the pre-eminent occasion celebrating the content material enterprise in Europe,” stated Monte-Carlo CEO Laurent Puons. “By our extremely revered Golden Nymph competitors we have now been in a position to acknowledge and applaud the perfect programming from world wide.”
