JURY AND AWARDS 2024

Thierry Neuvic was born on August 3, 1970, in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis. He made his cinema debut opposite Juliette Binoche in Michael Haneke’s Code Unknown. He then went on to star in many successful projects, including the series Mafiosa from 2006 to 2012, while also venturing into Hollywood alongside Clint Eastwood and Cécile De France in Hereafter and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows by Guy Ritchie with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. Recently, Thierry appeared in C’est quoi cette famille?! and C’est quoi cette mamie?!, both directed by Gabriel Julien-Laferrière, which each met with great success upon release, as well as in the TV movie Piégés, directed by Ludovic Colbeau-Justin and selected at the La Rochelle Fiction Festival. After winning the Best Actor award at the Luchon Festival for Illégitime, directed by Renaud Bertrand, he recently starred in a new TF1 series, La Recrue, alongside Ethann Isidore, and will soon appear in new episodes of the popular series Sam.

Manon Azem became known to the general public through the Disney series Trop la classe! and as the French voice of Emma Watson in the Harry Potter saga. After training in the free class at Cours Florent, she made several film appearances, including in Anne Depétrini’s Il reste du jambon?, before playing the role of Mireille in the cult series En passant pécho. In 2017, she starred in the comedy Gangsterdam. A regular actress in Section de recherches, Manon Azem also portrayed a policeman’s wife in La Mante, a gang leader in prison for Prise au piège, and appeared in Ils étaient dix, a series adapted from Agatha Christie’s famous novel. In 2020, she featured in Friendzone by Charles Van Tieghem, Le Talon d’Achille by Didier Bivel on TF1, and the series Ok Boomer by Constance Maillet for OCS, based on an original idea by Manon Azem and Constance Maillet. In 2022, she played an R&B star embroiled in a scandal in the hit series Detox by Marie Jardillier for Netflix. That same year, she appeared in Michaël Youn’s BDE for Prime Video, while also filming Fifteen-Love in London, a drama set in the world of tennis. She will return to TF1 in 2024 in the event series Mercato, directed by David Hourrègue.

Carole Della Valle began her career at M6 in 2003 as an assistant, then became a program advisor for French Fiction under Roseline Brandford Griffith, where she oversaw programs like Merci les enfants vont bien, Suspectes, and L’Internat. In 2013, she joined Ango Productions (Lagardère Group) as Artistic Director for the short format Pep’s, and she initiated the film on school bullying, Le jour où j’ai brûlé mon cœur, for TF1. Since 2018, she has worked at Banijay Studios France (Banijay Group) and has produced 10 seasons of Skam France for France.tv Slash, Germinal for France 2, and Les disparus de la forêt noire for TF1. She is currently working on the adaptation of a mini-series for France 2 based on the novel Désenchantées by Marie Vareille.

Clémentine Poidatz is a French actress. She trained at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. Her first film, Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola, sparked her passion for the screen. She then worked under the direction of Philippe Garrel, Pierre Jolivet, and others before moving into television with roles in Les Enfants d’Orion by Philippe Venault, Les Hommes de l’ombre by Fredric Tellier, and Les Petits Meurtres d’Agatha Christie. In 2015, she starred in the American film Shut In, directed by Farren Blackburn, alongside Naomi Watts and Charlie Heaton. For two years, she played a lead role in Ron Howard’s series Mars (Fox – Nat Geo). Since 2020, she has starred alongside Laurent Gerra in the Noir Comme neige series directed by Eric Valette for France 2. Recently, she appeared in Une Amitié Dangereuse by Alain Tasma (4×52 min for France 2), in the feature film Reine Mère directed by Manele Labidi (release scheduled for March 2025), and in the series Sud Est Babylone directed by Lucie Borleteau and Danielle Arbid for Canal+.

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