2024 Juries

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 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 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.

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 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.