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Judith Light On Artistry, Activism & Global TV & Mireille Dumas On The Vital Role Of Documentaries: Monte-Carlo TV Festival Preview


Judith Light on global drama, TV evolution & leading the Monte-Carlo TV Festival Jury; and Mireille Dumas on the Festival's documentary jury.

In TV, she is known for roles including Karen Wolek in the soap opera One Life to Live, for which she won a brace of Daytime Emmy Awards, and Angela Bower in the hit sitcom Who’s the Boss? She told Deadline about her hopes for the projects she will see and why work such as exiled Iranian director Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, with Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna who was tragically killed, remains vital It has consistently required circumventing, depending on the era and country, the law of silence, intimidation, or even worse, censorship, to uncover scandals or present narratives differing from official accounts—all the while protecting sources.

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