The nominees for the Golden Nymph Awards, which will be presented by Prince Albert at the 57th Monte-Carlo Television Festival on June 20, have been announced.
Entries for the Golden Nymph Awards continue to increase, the organisers say, with submissions in 2017 significantly up on the previous year. Across seven categories spanning Fiction and News programming, applications have been received from more than 50 countries.
Laurent Puons, CEO of Monaco Mediax, organisers of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, said: “With ever expanding opportunities for viewers to access the best in television content, the supply of internationally-relevant, high-quality programming continues to strengthen around the world.”
Mr Puons added, “This growth is driving the ongoing increase in the number, quality and diversity of submissions for the Golden Nymph Awards. The Festival’s Awards are renowned throughout the world for recognising true excellence in the fields of content creation and acting talent, and I’m looking forward to welcoming our nominees to Monte Carlo in June.”
The Monte-Carlo Television Festival will take place from June 16 to 20. The annual event celebrates the very best of television and delivers marketing and public relations opportunities to producers and distributors looking to access a large group of international print and on-camera journalists to promote and support their sales to worldwide broadcasters.
The event first saw the light of day in 1960 at the urging of Princess Grace, who saw the Television Festival as one of many ways to help Monaco become a centre of excellence in so many spheres in the modern world. (Feature image: Facebook Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo)
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On September 26, the second edition of the Monaco Yacht Summit will examine issues of first-time charterer or purchase of luxury yachts.
The pre-Monaco Yacht Show event is exclusively designed to equip new potential superyacht charterers and buyers – or their reps – with information about the decision-making process before attending the four days of the Monaco Yacht Show (MYS), which takes place from September 27-30.
For Gaëlle Tallarida, Managing Director of the Monaco Yacht Show and on the initiative of the Monaco Yacht Summit, this new rendezvous on the eve of the Show aims at offering the ad hoc platform to deliver the superyacht industry intelligence for prospectives. “The Monaco Yacht Show is the world’s leading superyacht market for yacht owners and the new clientele. With the rising generation of younger UHNWI that can afford a luxury vessel but don’t know much about yachting, we believe this is the responsibility of the MYS to give them the opportunity to better understand the industry,” Ms Tallarida told Monaco Life.
She added, “In an intimate and focused format, the Monaco Yacht Summit will be held in a relaxed atmosphere where everyone can ask difficult questions they might feel embarrassed to ask as they are new to this world, which has become ever more regulated, with changing laws and hoops to jump through.”
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Eleven selected experts will share their personal experience and unbiased insights during five table talks on the subjects of Charter (Freddy Desplanques, Sophia Tutino), Purchase (Ken Judge, Robb Maass, Anouch Sedef), Crew (Charles Dugas-Standish, John Cook), Design (Stefano Pastrovich, Laura Pomponi) and Management (Xavier Lamadrid, Jonathan Watson).
Ken Judge has been living in Monaco for the last 25 years. At Tuesday’s Summit, he will be addressing the purchase and chartering of superyachts and, as both a lawyer with a background in superyacht construction projects and a consumer, he has a lot of perspective on the good, bad and ugly of buying, selling and chartering superyachts. “Monaco has probably the highest concentration of superyacht owners,” Mr Judge, who has raced all his life, from dinghies and all sizes up to the America's Cup, said, “and it’s a natural destination for owners and charterers to check out what boats are available and the latest trends in both, as well as to be updated at the developments in taxation and crewing of boats.”
Mr Judge referred to the 2016 Monaco Yacht Summit as “a revelation”. “The attendees were very engaged and eager to explore a range of topics and as the format was pretty relaxed and the speakers are readily accessible, the topics were explored in depth. The feedback has been very generous and it seems everyone thought they had a great time.”
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Xavier Lamadrid, who will discuss the complex regulatory and tax environment during the Management workshop, said he has experienced first hand the period and waste of resources that a poorly managed yacht can cause on a Family Office and the Principal. The Monaco resident said, “The Summit is special as it brings some of the best experts to give real unbiased information to real prospective to first-time yacht buyers and renters, this makes it unique. There are still a lot of cowboys out there when big commissions are at stake.”
Yacht owner and ex-GB Team Sailor Tom Montgomery first became involved in the Monaco Yacht Summit through an introduction from Yacht Investor Magazine. “I will be there to introduce a number of my friends and clients who are in the early stages of looking to buy their first superyacht, and in some cases this is their first Monaco Yacht Show, and certainly their first time at the Summit,” Mr Montgomery explained.
“The Summit for me is a superb event to introduce new potential owners, many from the Royal Thames Yacht Club in Knightsbridge – the World’s oldest Yacht Club, which is a reciprocal club with the Yacht Club de Monaco – who need guidance in the yacht market and the Monaco Yacht Show.”
The Monaco Yacht Summit is a free event, although participation is upon approval. Anyone looking to appoint a personal assistant or family office representative to attend on their behalf should register for information at mys-prive.com.
[caption id="attachment_29780" align="alignnone" width="640"] Vicenç Mateu Zamora and José Badia. Photo: Facebook Conseil National de Monaco[/caption]
On the occasion of the 138th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva, from March 24-28, the President of the External Relations Commission of the Conseil National, José Badia, met the Andorran delegation and the President of the General Council, Vicenç Mateu Zamora, to discuss the state of progress of the EU negotiations.
"More than ever, we remain attentive to the progress of negotiations with the European Union. The recent creation of the Negotiations Monitoring Commission with the European Union allows the National Council to be better involved in the progress of the file.”
The 72-year-old added, “Along this line of thinking, the Assembly reserves the right to request the conduct of impact studies essential to the negotiation strategy."
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Councillor Michèle Dittlota, who is also President of the Association Les amis du Printemps des Arts, was also present in Geneva and involved in the fight against the under-representation of women in politics. "The idea of our new mandate is to positively evolve the main principles of gender equality to level from above the concept of political commitment and therefore the representation of women,” she said.
“There is still a long way to go to better representation of women in politics, it’s is within our walls that we must prepare the future for the next generations!"