Monte-Carlo TV Festival to honour Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman will be lauded at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival in June.

Prince Albert II of Monaco will present Freeman with Festival’s Crystal Nymph award. Civil war drama The Gray House, which Freeman executive produced with Kevin Costner, Leslie Greif and Lori McCreary, will have its world premiere at Monte-Carlo.

The Honorary Golden Nymph, the Festival’s highest distinction, will be presented to the French actor and director Olivier Marchal (36 quai des Orfèvres, Braquo), while Simone Ashley (Bridgerton, Sex Education) will receive the Golden Nymph for Most Promising Talent.

Fan Events at the festival include an NCIS event attended by Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Brian Dietzen and Wilmer Valderrama and 50th aniversary celebrations for Little House On The Prairie.

The following titles are screening in competition:

Official Selection – Fiction

Alone at Sea (High Sea Production), France
Der Heimweg (Ziegler Film), Germany
Elsbeth (CBS Studios, King Size Production), USA
Helgoland 513 (UFA Fiction), Germany
Little Did I Know (Bigster Suéde), Sweden
Madam (Tavake / XYZ Films), New Zealand
Night Therapy (Yes TV, Eight Productions), Israel
The Gathering (World Productions), United Kingdom
The Law of the Sea (RTVE), À Punt Spain

Official Selection – News & Documentaries

A Family-Beyond the Age of Isolation (KBS), South Korea
Auslandsjournal – the documentary: Yemen, A Country Torn – In the Grip of the Houthi Militias (ZDF) Germany
Egypt Broken Dreams (RAI, NANOF, CINÉTÉVÉ), Italy
La Guerre de l’Info : Israël/Hamas (France.Tv Studio, France.Tv Presse, France Télévisions), France
Lie To Me (Hacienda Film Norvège), Norway
Mines of Death (TV4 Sweden), Congo
Ukraine’s War: The Other Side (A Sean Langan And Tiger Nest Films), United Kingdom
Ukrainian Chronicles (Bonne Pioche Télévision, LCP Assemblée-Nationale) France
Uvda: Table for Eight (Uvda For Keshet Broadcasting), Israel

Source: Deadline