Join us from 6 to 12 October 2019 in Potsdam and register as Jury Member or Observer to the competition.
And please check our choice of hotels in Potsdam - we have pre-booked rooms in four hotels close to the competition venues.
PRIX EUROPA in cooperation with Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF awards for the first time two Rising Stars Awards for Digital Media Projects by fresh talents, which show vision, creativity and also public responsibility.
The PE 2019 Digital Media Rising Stars competition will be held in two categories, calling for Digital Audio Projects and Online Media Projects. It is open to students from European film and media schools, universities and training institutions.
Deadline for submissions is 1 August 2019.
Regulations 2019 and Submission forms are now available.
PRIX EUROPA 2019 will - for the first time – award the Best European Radio Documentary Series of the Year. With this latest addition the festival recognises what many European broadcasters have been suggesting.
We are looking for the best Radio series made in Europe that are outstanding due to their quality of content and form and which appeal to their audiences at home or further afield, and to the professional listeners alike. Each submitter can enter one series and has 30 minutes of presentation time for the entry.
Programmes may be entered by all radio organisations, audio production companies and independent producers based in Europe. It is crucial, that the submitter holds the festival rights for the entry.
The call for single Radio Documentaries remains unaffected: Each submitter has 90 minutes of presentation time which can be spread over up to 2 entries.
Relevant and applicable to all radio submissions is, that podcasts can be submitted into all radio categories, provided they abide by the regulations.
The long and short of it is: Radio Documentaries are thriving - be they single features or series. Keep your entries coming.
All the details under Regulations 2019.
The deadline for submitting is 1 July 2019.
PE19 TV Regulations
The TV category is open for entries, which are broadcast linear or on-demand.
PE19 Radio Regulations
The Radio Documentary category has been extended to also include episodes from Documentary series with an ongoing storyline.
All Radio categories are going paperless and are now open for entries, which are broadcast linear or on-demand.
PE19 Digital Media Regulations
In line with the advancing digitalisation we have merged the Online category with Digital Audio to surface as Digital Media.
All the details under Regulations 2019.
The deadline for submitting is 1 July 2019.
The founding father Leo Braun thanks the hosts and supporters of the 45th IFC at Castlemartyr in East Cork, Ireland
James Joyce once wrote: Shut Your Eyes And See.
And so it happened, that in just four days the annual migration of radio disciples tuned into 30 radio features: discussed, questioned, wondered, learned, imparted wisdom on 10 full length features and many more excerpts of programmes all had listened to ahead of time.
This Irish IFC group increased to well over 200 people this year. Radio nurtures its own offspring through the Åke Blomström Memorial Prize and last year's promising newcomers got to showcase their first features. All the while the newly selected Åke Blomström hopefuls are rearing to go and learn from their experienced coaches.
Liam O’Brien and the entire RTÉ team made it all seem so effortless. Work and play in equal measure.
With the Bull trophy the reign was handed over to Daria Corrias and Fabiana Carobolante from Rai, Italy.
We look forward to the 46th IFC in Rome!
Hosts and speakers:
Michael D Higgens - Irish President (video message),
Noel Curran - Director General of the EBU (video message), Séan Mac Giolla Padraig - Group Head of Factual, RTÉ, Tom McGuire - The Head of RTÉ Radio 1, Celene Craig - Deputy Chief Executive of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), Silvia Lahner - Chair of EURORADIO (EBU) Features Group, Gabriela Hermer - Chair of Åke Blomström Award
photo copyright Oliver Wolff
was awarded with the
of 19 October 2018
“In times such as ours, with increased polarization, populism and fixed positions, public broadcasters have a vital role to play across Europe.”
Martin Boudot (France) – Investigative documentary maker
Poul-Erik Heilbuth (Denmark) – International documentary maker
Orkhan Jemal (Russian Federation) – Former Humanitarian Crises Journalist
Laurent Richard (France) – Investigative Filmmaker and founder of ForbiddenStories
Bettina Rühl (Germany) – Radio feature and documentary Journalist
(in alphabetical order!)
The successful candidate will be announced during the
PRIX EUROPA 2018 Awards Ceremony on Friday, 19 October.
Thundering speeches and Nazi salutes. How do you do an in-depth portray of a Nazi movement without sacrificing journalistic standards? Are you not offering platforms for propaganda? What are the deals you have to make as a journalist to be able to enter the no-go areas of right wing movements, prostitution, human smugglers, drug traffickers or global multinationals of the digital age? How have others perhaps managed to gain access, confront their protagonists or drawn their conclusions from the layers of complex information available? How can you reflect all voices?
These are some of the questions that will come up at PRIX EUROPA 2018, which is putting forward a political 32nd edition this year. The big themes revolve around the further effects of globalisation e.g. drawing attention to the Filipinos who clean the Internet or the corporations covering up the climate change, new global insurance policies against kidnapping. Stories of war, terror and flight – current and past - provide a running thread through many of the categories and offer a whole kaleidoscope of perspectives: African migrants imprisoned in Libya, Venezuelans populating the streets of Colombia filmed by a Finnish crew, Israeli soldiers giving testimony of their experiences in the occupied territories of Palestine; a family on the run from a fictitious totalitarian Germany begging for asylum in South Africa; British diaries from Word War 1 recount one real day at war; an Abkhazian father and his son Tedo describe their losses in a Georgian radio play; a Swedish app translates SVT programmes into the immigrant language of your choice.
One year after the start of #metoo, a prevalence of women’s stories is detectable – often told by women. They appear as victims, neglected, mistreated or brutalised, but also as veritable protagonists and heroines. The iconic Simone Veil, the first female politician in France after 1945, is portrayed; Alina, a young Ukrainian football player, has to take a career break to look after her ailing family; Mathilde tells the story of how she adopts the child she had with her same-sex partner in France; the life of cellist Frieda Belinfante (1904-1995) is told by her cello; Federica Mogherini, the EU’s representative for Foreign Policy, is observed by Italian-born director Annalisa Piras. Gender issues, sexual abuse and the war of the sexes further offer ample opportunity for the female perspective and experience.
Beyond the big social and political themes, however, there are numerous small gems of media-making, mosaic pieces of individual creativity without which PRIX EUROPA wouldn’t be the same. What music is best to strip to we learn in a 27 minute radio piece; the experience of being overweight is recounted in the Italian podcast ‘Meat’; the modernity in the Rosary Sonatas composed by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber in the 17th century is analysed through his music; artist Jonathan Meese and his mother Brigitte travel into the heart of the dictatorship of art in a virtual reality production and the gorilla Sally Jones, machinist on a small cargo ship in Lisbon, tells the story of a mysterious murder case on her typewriter. To mention just a few of all the voices reflected at PRIX EUROPA this year. Those who carefully watch and listen during the cram-packed festival week will have more than plenty to take home.
by invitation only! Haus des Rundfunks, Helmut-Koch-Saal, 9:00 - 15:30
Denis Nowlan (BBC/UK), Head of Station Management, Radio 3, Radio 4 – Chair of the EBU Culture Group
How public service broadcasting was saved: Hansruedi Schoch, Director of Programmes SRF/SRG/SSR (Switzerland)
Susanna Arpi, Commissioning Editor P1 & P2 (DR/Denmark)
Mattias Hermansson, Head of Culture (SR/Sweden)
Peter Klein, Head of Ö1 (ORF/Austria)
Sandrine Treiner, Director & Vincent Lemerre, Head of Programming (Radio France/France Culture)
Chantal Pattyn, Head of Klara/Culture Manager (VRT/Belgium)
Josef Podstata, Director CR Ostrava and Olomouc (CR/Czech Republic)
Olga Buckley, Producer in Charge, RTÉ lyric fm (RTÉ/Ireland)
Richard Knight, Commissioning Executive, BBC Radio 4 (BBC/UK)
Mohit Bakaya, Factual Commissioning Editor, Radio 4 (BBC/UK)
Mukul Devichand, Executive Editor of Voice + AI (BBC/UK),
Helen Boaden, former Director of Radio and Director of News at the BB
Prof. Ulrike Guérot, Head of Department for European Policy and the Study of Democracy, Danube University, Krems, Austria
Over the last weeks colleagues from all over Europe have proposed candidates for the PRIX EUROPA Award for the European Journalist of the Year 2018. We were looking for ‘a journalist who has gone out of her or his way to bring new voices into public debate’. Proposals from all genres and formats of journalism were accepted.
Final Nomination List
Roberto Antonini (Switzerland) – Radio Journalist
Phillip Boucher-Hayes (Ireland) – TV host and documentary maker
Martin Boudout (France) – Investigative documentary maker
Sinan Can (The Netherlands) – Journalist and documentary maker
Line Elvsåshagen (Norway) – Journalist and TV host
Emma Clare Gabrielsen (Norway) – Documentary maker, writer and TV host
Marja Grill (Sweden) – Journalist and Documentary maker
Poul-Erik Heilbuth (Denmark) – International documentary maker
Margaret Ikariou (Greece) – Radio Journalist
Orkhan Jemal (Russian Federation) – Former Humanitarian Crises Journalist
Lioba Anna Keuck (Germany) – Photojournalist
Lina Makboul (Sweden) – Journalist and Producer
Laurent Richard (France) – Investigative Filmmaker and founder of ForbiddenStories
Moritz Riesewick and Hans Block (Germany) – Documentary maker
Nicole Rosenbach (Germany) – Investigative documentary maker
Bettina Rühl (Germany) – Radio feature and documentary Journalist
Helen Beate Sandvig (Norway) –TV host and Journalist
Elke Sasse (Germany) – Journalist, author and documentary maker
Jens Schröder (Germany) – Journalist and Producer
Thomas Sideris (Greece) – Journalist, writer and documentary maker
Tijs van den Brink (The Netherlands) – TV host and Journalist
Johan von Mirbach (Germany) – TV Editor and Video Journalist
Julia Vorkefeld (Germany) – Journalist and Editor
Sebastian Weis (Germany) – Filmmaker and producer
Tim Whewell (UK) – TV and Radio Journalist
Sahar Zand (UK) – Journalist and documentary maker
The successful candidate will be announced during the
PRIX EUROPA 2018 Awards Ceremony on Friday, 19 October.
How to survive on the choppy seas of independent radio/audio production?
Alan Hall from London-based “Falling Tree Productions”
- “a hallmark of excellence when it comes to radio documentaries” – (The Observer)
in dialogue
with Belgian master students (Royal Institute for Theater, Cinema & Sound) and Swedish master students (Stockholm University of the Arts).
Thursday 18 October 2018 at 20:00h, Radio Fiction Room
Admission is free of charge, the number of seats is limited. Registration by email is required to press@prixeuropa.eu, the language spoken will be English.
This is a unique opportunity to gain inside knowledge about how broadcasters are making a success of their digital projects.
Kirsty Drain (Senior Producer at BBC Scotland), will tell the success stories of ‘The Social & The Social 2.0’ under the heading: ‘Successful digital diversity on social media – and beyond’.
Manuel Thalmann (programme developer for young target groups at the Swiss SRG SSR) will explore ‘Public Service on Youtube’. Meet SRG SSR (Schwitzerland), FUNK and RTS TAKAI.
And Kåre V. Poulsen (executive producer at DR, Denmark) will present ‘The relation triangle: Successful mixtures of cross media, co creation and partnerships’. In addition, he will present a selection of examples from Submarine Channel (The Netherlands): Advanced learning on Digital storytelling 2012-2018.
Kåre V. Poulsen and Manuel Thalmann, Coordinators of the PRIX EUROPA 2018 Online Jury Group, will moderate the conversation.
Admission is free of charge, the number of seats is limited. Registration by email is required to press@prixeuropa.eu, the language spoken will be English.
Major single piece and serial television documentaries from different countries will provide the focus of a conversation about experiences with international co-productions. Georg Tschurtschenthaler (Germany) will tell us how Gebrüder Beetz found international co-production partners and financing for their documentary ‘The Cleaners’ about the people who ‘clean’ the Internet; Eric Lieshout (Netherlands) will introduce his series ‘Made in Europe’; Stéphane Siohan (France) will talk about the complex media co-operations on his Ukrainian, Polish, French documentary ‘Home Games’; Daniela Drastasta (Croatia) and Frans Jennekens (Netherlands) will present a sneak preview of their just completed series ‘New Neighbours’ and Sören Klovborg (Denmark) will tell us about working with the Why Foundation on the documentary ‘Maid in Hell’. The conversation will be hosted by Ruurd Bierman, an acclaimed keynote speaker.
Grab the unique chance to compare notes with other experienced filmmakers, ask questions and share experiences.
Admission is free of charge, the number of seats is limited. Registration by email is required to press@prixeuropa.eu, the language spoken will be English.
Public broadcasters have always played an important role in the cultural life of Europe. They are a platform were cultural programmes are produced and, as a result, become a cultural asset by themselves. However, due to a dramatic change in the media landscape as well as the political climate, the future of public broadcasters as cultural asset is uncertain. What significance have public broadcasters as cultural producers in the European societies? How could strategies for their maintenance look like? Those and other questions will be discussed from a variety of industry experts.
Panelists
Helen Boaden: former BBC executive, Head of BBC News and BBC Radio from 2013-2016
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung: Curator and artistic director from the art room ‘Savyy Contemporary Berlin’
Róise Goan: Curator, producer and author for theatre, TV and radio. Dramatic advisor of the Art Center Vooruit in Belguim
Kaye Mortley: Producer for French, Australian and almost every other European broadcaster. Mortley's cinematic radio productions have received numerous awards
Dr. Christine Schöpf: Co-director of the media and art competition Ars Electronica. Former honorary professor of the Art University Linz
Moderator
Moderator: Vivian Perkovic (Tonart/ Deutschlandfunk and Kulturzeit/ZDF)
Admission is free of charge, the number of seats is limited. Registration by email is required to press@prixeuropa.eu, the language spoken will be English.
We are delighted to announce that PRIX EUROPA and FIPADOC will cooperate in promoting the excellency of documentary in public television in Europe.
As a first step in this cooperation all programmes nominated for the TV Documentary and TV Current Affairs categories of PRIX EUROPA 2018 will automatically be presented to the preselection of FIPADOC, provided the programmes have not yet premiered in France yet and the submitters have not refused to compete in FIPADOC.
The international documentary festival FIPADOC is taking place 22 - 27 January 2019 in Biarritz, France.
Excellent journalism can highlight voices that are suppressed, misunderstood or just not commonly heard. Thus inspiring people with different experiences to talk - instead of just judging each other.
Journalism, seeking to reflect more voices, leads to better mutual appreciation and maintains the grounds of a healthy democracy.
Proposals from all genres and formats of journalism are welcome. We are not necessarily looking for a person with continent-wide fame, but rather for a person who has gone outside her/his comfort zone and shown extraordinary creativity, courage and impact on her/his specific society or audience.
Please propose your candidates for the PRIX EUROPA Award as European Journalist of the Year 2018 by sending her/his professional cv and attaching a short explanation for your proposal.
mail to: office@prixeuropa.eu
Deadline: 21 September 2018.
'We are living in times where opinions are distributed in a tempo and volume that the world has never seen before. Heated debates rattle on all media platforms. It is getting harder and harder to distinguish between facts and opinions, between reality and political spin/PR. Democracy needs a public that never gives up searching for the truth and finding out what is actually going on. One of the best tools to ensure that, is the TV documentary, based on thorough research, great storytelling and skilled filmmaking.'
Martin Gaarder is a journalist and TV documentary director at Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). He started out as a freelance newspaper journalist, and later worked on the foreign desk of Norwegian Press Agency (NTB). He has produced feature programmes for NRK since 1996, within a wide range of topics. Over the last decade he has been specializing in investigative and historical TV documentaries. In 2011 he received the Prix Italia award for best current affairs documentary, ‘Operation Sea Breeze’, about the fatal Israeli boarding of a ship with activists, heading for Gaza.
