50 jury members for the Rose d'Or Festival 2012
The international jury for the 51st Rose d'Or Festival has been announced: The 50 experts from the television industry hail from 27 countries. From May 6 to 10, 2012, they will select the winners of the Golden Roses at the Global Entertainment Television Festival.
The Rose d'Or Festival competition awards the best programs of the year in 13 different categories. Telenovela, Series, Lifestyle and TV Movie as well as Children and Youth are now also included as independent categories. Anyone who wants to win a Golden Rose in Lucerne in May 2012 can enter the competition until December 31, 2011.
The 2012 jury is headed by Shane Allen (Channel 4, UK) for Comedy and Sitcom, Fabrizio Battocchio (RTI, Mediaset Group, Italy) for Game Show, Barbara Uecker (ABC, Australia) for Children and Youth, Karoline Spodsberg (Banijay International, France) for Factual Entertainment, Aurelio Valcárcel (Telemundo Internacional, USA) for Series and Telenovela, Reinhold Elschot (ZDF, Germany) for TV Movie, Toshio Asaoka (NHK Enterprises, Japan) for Arts Documentary & Performing Arts, Roek Lips (Nederlandse Publieke Omroep, Holland) for Live Event Show, Lyne Denault (Canal Vie, Les Chaînes Télé Astral, Canada) for Lifestyle and Ricardo Villa (RTVE, Spain) for Multiplatform. The other 40 jury members are also experts in television entertainment from all over the world, according to a statement from the organizers.
Registration for the Rose d'Or competition is now online. This enables the international festival jury to access the entries directly at any time during the pre-selection process. The nominated programs in the 13 categories will then be announced in February 2012. The conditions of participation and further information can be found on the website
