The Juries

Louise Bourgoin is a French actress and Beaux-Arts alumnus who started her career on television, as a columnist and a comedian on the CANAL+ TV show Le Grand Journal, for which she wrote and acted out her own skits until 2008. 

She started out on the big screen in 2002 with a role in Les Femmes ou les enfants d’abord by Manuel Poirier, but her true big break happened with La Fille de Monaco, directed by Anne Fontaine, for which she received the Raimu Prize for Best Revelation and was nominated for the César Award for Best Female Revelation in 2009. She then acted in very different projects such as Adèle Blanc-Sec directed by Luc Besson (2009), in which she plays the title role, White as Snow (2010), and A Happy Event (2011). In 2012, she treaded the boards in her first play, A quoi rêvent les autres, directed by Olivia Rosenthal and Laurent Larivière.

In 2013, she can be seen in many movies, including The Nun opposite Isabelle Huppert. She then went on acting abroad in the American production Mojave and continued performing in French films, such as The White Knights with Vincent Lindon and I Am a Soldier directed by Laurent Larivière selected in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, and for which she won the Golden Swann for Best Actress at the Cabourg Film Festival in 2016. 

Since 2018, she is one of the main characters on the Thomas Lilti’s series, Hippocrate. She is also a part of the French-American show Mister Spade directed by Scott Franck. 

In 2022, she is seen in the feature film The Mountain, presented at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, and in 2023 in Bis Repetita, which received a special mention from the Alpe d’Huez International Film Festival jury. In 2025, she will headline two features: Magistrate and Je le jure. 

Alongside her acting career, she is very invested in writing and visual arts.

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Discovered by Bertrand Tavernier in La Princesse de Montpensier, French Actor Cesar Domboy (35) has been working successfully in film and television since he was a teenager. Cesar began his international career with Robert Zemeckis’s The Walk and then added amazing tv series to his roster, such as Tom Fontana’s Borgia, to multiple hit seasons on Starz’s award-winning TV series Outlander in the recurring role of Fergus Fraser and SAS: Rogue Heroes by Steven Knight, creator of acclaimed television series, Peaky Blinders.

However, César Domboy maintains strong ties to his home country with films in France like Eugénie Grandet, directed by Marc Dugain, Netflix’s hit film No Limit and the acclaimed tv series CULTE on Amazon Prime.

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She was born in Madrid, Spain in 1971. From a very young age, she knew she wanted to be an actress. She soon began her training to start her career in film and television. Her professional debut in cinema came in 1998, under the direction of Salvador García Ruiz, with the film Mensaka, for which she received the award for Best New Actress from the Union of Actors.

Since then, she has participated in over thirty Spanish and French films, including those directed by AlmodóvarHable con ella, Los abrazos rotos, Los amantes pasajeros, and Volver, a film for which she won the Best Female Performance Award at the Cannes Film Festival; Mar adentro by Amenábar and Yo, también by Álvaro Pastor and Antonio Naharro, for which she has received the Goya Awards for Best Performance; Alleluia, directed by Fabrice Du Welz, No sé decir adiós by Lino Escalera, and Viaje al cuarto de una madre by Celia Rico.

She has received numerous accolades for her work in all of these films. Her latest film, Sobre todo de noche, a film noir-tinged drama directed by Víctor Iriarte in which Manuel Egozkue also participates, has recently been released in theaters. In television, she stands out for her participation in the series Instinto for Movistar + and Veneno for Atresplayer. Her most recent series is La Mesías by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, recently premiered on Movistar +. In this thriller, Lola plays Montserrat Baró, a religious mother who believes that God communicates with her to give her the mission of saving the world through her daughters.

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Soo Hugh is the showrunner, executive producer, and creative visionary behind Pachinko, the acclaimed Apple TV+ drama based on the eponymous bestselling novel. Premiering in 2022, the series has won multiple awards, including The Peabody, The Gotham Awards, and The Critics’ Choice Award.

In 2024, Hugh signed a multi-year overall deal with Apple TV+ and Media Res. Under the deal, Hugh and her Moonslinger Productions banner headed by Margo Klewans will create, write, and produce content for the streaming service, and the TV studio and movie production company. Her upcoming projects include Bruised Fruit for Apple TV+ starring Viola Davis and an adaptation of Tender Is the Night for Searchlight, in partnership with Margot Robbie’s and Tom Ackerley LuckyChap Entertainment. She is also developing an adaptation of Kim Un-su’s novel The Plotters. Her other producing projects include the true crime thriller Larrimah with George Prichette writing and showrunning, a television adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg’s The Commune, and an English language remake of Kim Ki-Young’s seminal film trilogy, The Housemaid. 

Previously, Hugh was the co-showrunner for AMC’s The Terror produced by Ridley Scott. She also created ABC’s The Whispers, produced by Steven Spielberg. Other television writing credits include The Killing (AMC) and Under the Dome (CBS). Hugh formerly had a multi-year  overall deal with Universal Content Productions to develop, write and produce projects.  As part of the deal, she launched an incubator program, “The Thousand Miles Project,”  to help bring more AAPI stories to cinematic life, and jumpstart fruitful careers in the  entertainment industry. 

She earned her BA from Yale University and her MFA from University of Southern California’s film school. Hugh lives in New York City.

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