This is a brief reminder that there are only a few days left to submit your programmes and projects to PRIX EUROPA 2021:
The deadline is Thursday 1 July 2021, 23:59.
In case you already know that you won't make it in time but still want to enter something, please send an email to programmes@prixeuropa.eu.
If you want to submit to the PRIX EUROPA Student Award - Rising Star there is still time until 15 August 2021
Important: please make sure that your submission is comprehensible to an international audience (e.g. English subtitles etc.).
Enjoy a wonderful summertime!
Changing Europe - diverse & united!
May diverse Stars all rise again: Call for entries
May diverse Stars all rise again: Call for entries
Diverse & united! This year's PRIX EUROPA 2021 Student Award - Rising Star competition is looking for media projects from students in Europe which interpret the PRIX EUROPA slogan 2021 - in a particularly imaginative, original or personal way.
We are looking for your podcast, video, blog, digital audio- or online project, which shows how diverse players can become invincible when they all stand behind a common goal.
The Rising Star competition is open to students from European film- and media schools, universities and training institutions. It was created in 2019 in cooperation with the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF and is looking for projects that show vision, distinct thought and also public responsibility.
If you want to take part, please read the regulations and register your project online by 15 August 2021 on www.prixeuropa.eu.
Details for the upload of files will be communicated during the registration process. The deadline for uploading the finalised files is 31 August 2021.
Important: please make sure that your submission is comprehensible to an international audience (e.g. English subtitles etc.)!
If you have any questions, please get in touch at submissions@prixeuropa.eu.
Ready steady go: Submit now!
Ready steady go: Submit now!
Our submission platform is open and we are impatient to receive your latest work! Consult the PRIX EUROPA Regulations 2021 for digital media projects, radio and television and enter your best productions – now until 1 July 2021.
PRIX EUROPA 2021 is starting!
While German politicians are still debating lockdowns, we have updated our regulations and you can find them online NOW! The online submission system will open mid-May.
Then we hope to be inundated with your best productions (deadline 1 July 2021) and are especially curious to see how this challenging year has influenced them. What creative solutions have you come up with? Have you been able to profit from the new digital media world?
The boom in digital audio innovation with some of the biggest tech companies and global platforms (like Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, Facebook) launching new products and projects with audio at their heart is striking. What is Europe's place in this? What is yours?
There are no changes to the definition of our 10 competition categories: TV Fiction, TV Documentary, TV Current Affairs, TV IRIS, Radio Fiction, Radio Documentary, Radio Current Affairs, Radio Music, Digital Audio and Online Projects, as well as the 14 Awards.
Before you decide which programme you want to submit to the PRIX EUROPA 2021 competition, please read our Regulations carefully and keep in mind this year’s topical festival motto: Changing Europe - diverse and united!
Conditions to compete for the PRIX EUROPA 2021 Student Award Rising Star will be published at the end of May 2021.
We, from the festival office, can’t wait to get going again: to receive your entries, to answer your emails, to return to our office working desks hopefully soon and to finally see you again in October!
If for some reason the virus is still hampering a full-blown live and offline festival then, we will develop a satisfactory hybrid version.
PRIX EUROPA 2021 slogan - Changing Europe: diverse and united!
Preparations for PRIX EUROPA 2021 are in full swing and with a good portion of optimism we count on seeing you all again in person from 10 to 15 October 2021 in Potsdam@Schiffbauergasse.
The PRIX EUROPA 2021 Regulations will be published online on 1 May 2021 - have a close look before registering your programmes and projects. Deadline for submissions will be 1 July 2021. Definitions of categories will remain unchanged, feel invited to submit and look ahead - together with us - to a great competition.
We look forward to receiving your excellent works originated in these trying times and very much hope to see many of you in Potsdam in October at PRIX EUROPA 2021 - to watch, listen to, discuss the best of Europe. Bringing the PRIX EUROPA slogan 2021 Changing Europe: diverse and united! to life.
Happy Easter!
At the turn of the year
PRIX EUROPA wishes you a good Christmas season.
Germany going into lockdown, our office will be closed from 16th December.
After 10th January 2021 we will happily answer your emails and phone calls again.
Stay well!
Congratulations to all our winners!
Congratulations to all our winners!
Please click on the title of the programmes to get detailed information.
PRIX EUROPA Best European TV Movie of the Year 2020:
The Windermere Children, Germany, United Kingdom
Special Commendation:
Anthony, United Kingdom
PRIX EUROPA Best European TV Fiction Series of the Year 2020:
22 July, Norway
Special Commendation:
Caliphate, Sweden
PRIX EUROPA Best European TV Documentary of the Year 2020:
One More Jump, Switzerland
Special Commendation:
Feminicides, France
PRIX EUROPA Best European TV Documentary Series of the Year 2020:
Green Blood, France
Special Commendation:
Gold Fever - The Quiet Heist at The Royal Coin Cabinet, Sweden
PRIX EUROPA Best European TV Investigation of the Year 2020:
Rohingyas: The Crime Mechanics, France
Special Commendation:
Chocolate’s Heart of Darkness, France
PRIX EUROPA Best European TV Programme of the Year 2020 about Cultural Diversity:
Josefin & Florin, Sweden
Special Commendation:
They Call Me Babu, The Netherland
PRIX EUROPA Best European Online Media Project of the Year 2020:
A Thousand Women Murdered, Spain
Special Commendation:
The Great Moose Migration, Sweden
PRIX EUROPA Best European Digital Audio Project of the Year 2020:
Mal angenommen / What if - the tagesschau future podcast, Germany
Special Commendation:
The (Fiction Writing) Stranger - Who is DK, Denmark
PRIX EUROPA Best European Radio Fiction of the Year 2020:
I Am Kanye West, United Kingdom
Special Commendation:
A Point on the Map, France
PRIX EUROPA Best European Radio Fiction Series of the Year 2020:
Made in Norway: For Our Safety and Peace, Norway
Special Commendation:
The Revenge of a Woman, Finland
PRIX EUROPA Best European Radio Documentary of the Year 2020:
Estonia - The Night I Did Not Die, Sweden
Special Commendation:
Grenfell: Flat 142, United Kingdom
PRIX EUROPA Best European Radio Documentary Series of the Year 2020:
Blackout - the Girl in the Photo, Denmark
Special Commendation:
Gamer - The Murder Plan, Sweden
PRIX EUROPA Best European Radio Investigation of the Year 2020:
The True Cost of the Goods We Buy: The Dark Secret of the Automotive Industry, Sweden
Special Commendation :
The Children From Station 19 - In Search of the Victims of a Custody Psychiatry, Germany
PRIX EUROPA Best European Radio Music Programme of the Year 2020:
Making an Opera, The Netherland
Special Commendation:
Dangerous Tones, Denmark
PRIX EUROPA Rising Star 2020 Best Audio Project:
Goldfish and Soldiers, Italy / United Kingdom
PRIX EUROPA Rising Star 2020 Best Video Project:
A Virtual Dream, Poland
PRIX EUROPA President Dr. Alexander Wrabetz, Director General ORF - closing message
PRIX EUROPA President Dr. Alexander Wrabetz, Director General ORF - closing message
Thank you to the PRIX EUROPA 2020 Jury Groups
Thank you to the PRIX EUROPA 2020 Jury Groups
Our big applause goes to the 269 colleagues who have worked in the nine Jury Groups of PRIX EUROPA 2020:
Since 5 October they have stayed tuned: listening, watching, discussing and voting for the 262 competing programmes. This hard and time-consuming work you had to squeeze into your daily and often nightly routine in these difficult times. Here in the competition office we felt close to you and is has been good to be in touch: take a glimpse into the various home offices, see your faces and hear you voices during the jury virtual discussions.
When the motto for PRIX EUROPA 2020 was set, nobody had foreseen how literally it would have to be taken.
The last weeks we have been Together in Trust - now let’s continue Changing Europe!
Greetings from Potsdam to
Amsterdam, Antwerpen, Athens, Bandhagen, Barcelona, Basel, Belgrade, Berlin, Bern, Bratislava, Brno, Bruxelles, Bucharest, Cardiff, Comano, Coolcok, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Gdańsk, Genève, Glasgow, Gothenburg, Groot-Bijgaarden, Haarlem, Halle/ Saale, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hilversum, Hudiksvall, Issy les Moulineaux, København, Köln, Lausanne, Leipzig, Leuven, Lisboa, Liverpool, Ljubljana, London, Lublin, Madrid, Mainz, Malvern, Minsk, München, Olomouc, Oslo, Ostrava, Paris, Ponta Delgada, Potsdam, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Praha, Rennes, Reykjavík, Roma, Romainville, Salford, Savosa, Schaarbeek, Sofia, Stockholm, Tallinn, Tbilisi, Tingstäde, Umeå, Utrecht, Växjö, Vantaa, Vanves, Warszawa, Wien, Wijgmaal, Zagreb, Zaragoza and Zürich
Announcement Top 8 Radio Fiction category
Announcement Top 8 Radio Fiction category
The first ballot has been completed. Please find here the top 8 of the category Radio Fiction.
Top 8 Radio Fiction category
10 The Revenge of a Woman 11 A Point on the Map 16 The Vast Vast Sofa Landscape 19 Made in Norway: For Our Safety and Peace 23 Someone Should Walk The Dog 28 The Brothers Lionheart 31 I Am Kanye West United 32 Oliver: Lagos to London
And have a look at the Jury Group members of the Radio Fiction category. We thank all Jury Members for their hard work.
Announcement Top 8 of the category Radio Documentary and the top 7 of the category Radio Music
Announcement Top 8 of the category Radio Documentary and the top 7 of the category Radio Music
The first ballot has been completed. Please find here the top 8 of the category Radio Documentary and the top 7 of the category Radio Music.
Top 8 Radio Documentary category
03 Brothers 07 Blackout - The Girl in the Photo 12 Once Upon A Father 15 Documentary on One: Benjy the Little Gay Bull 16 Labanof, Nameless Bodies from the Bottom of Mediterranean 26 Estonia - The Night I Did Not Die 27 Gamer - The Murder Plan 31 Grenfell: Flat 142
Top 7 Radio Music category
03 The Music for Sirens - A Succession of Several Sounds and Silences 04 Dangerous Tones 05 Songwriter 08 Jazzy Diaspora - Birth of a Secular Jew 10 Making an Opera 11 The P2 Walpurgis Choir 14 Street Cry Goodbyes
And have a look at the Jury Group members of the Radio Documentary category and the Jury Group members of the Radio Music category. We thank all Jury Members for their hard work.
Announcement Top 7 of the categories Digital Media Projects and Radio Current Affairs
Announcement Top 7 of the categories Digital Media Projects and Radio Current Affairs
The first ballot has been completed. Please find here the 7 top ranked programmes of the categories Digital Media Projects and Radio Current Affairs.
Top 7 Digital Media Projects category
07 The (Fiction Writing) Stranger - Who is DK
11 Republique
13 Mal angenommen / What if - the tagesschau future podcast
16 The Liberation
18 United We Stream Berlin
23 A Thousand Women Murdered
25 The Great Moose Migration
Top 7 Radio Current Affairs category
03 Hurtcore
04 Four Shots and the Silence that Followed – The Case of Hussam Fadl
06 The Children From Station 19 - In Search of the Victims of a Custody Psychiatry
08 The Double Life of Raghdan al-H
12 The True Cost of the Goods We Buy: The Dark Secret of the Automotive Industry
14 Sex Offenders Fleeing Abroad
15 The Boy in The Video
And have a look at the Jury Group members of the Digital Media Projects category and the Jury Group members of the Radio Current Affairs category. We thank all Jury Members for their hard work.
Announcement Top 7 of the categories TV Documentary and TV Fiction
Announcement Top 7 of the categories TV Documentary and TV Fiction
The first ballot has been completed. Please find here the 7 top ranked programmes of the categories TV Documentary and TV Fiction.
Top 7 TV Documentary
03 The Price of Folly
08 Feminicides
09 Green Blood
14 SeaWatch3
19 Suicide on Instagram
22 Gold Fever - The Quiet Heist at The Royal Coin Cabinet
24 One More Jump
Top 7 TV Fiction
05 Peacemaker
07 The Turncoat
08 The Windermere Children
10 The Minister
14 22 July
20 Caliphate
24 Anthony
And have a look at the Jury Group members of the TV Documentary category and the Jury Group members of the TV Fiction category. We thank all Jury Members for their hard work.
Announcement Top 7 of the categories TV Iris and TV Current Affairs
Announcement Top 7 of the categories TV Iris and TV Current Affairs
The first ballot has been completed. Please find here the 7 top ranked programmes of the categories TV Iris and TV Current Affairs.
Top 7 TV Iris
03 No Hard Feelings
05 Khata
06 The Call Me Babu
07 Immigrant-ish
10 Josefin & Florin
11 The Beautiful Game
12 Ewolo
Top 7 TV Current Affairs
05 Chocolate’s Heart of Darkness
06 Inside Our Enemies’s Life
07 Rohingyas: The Crine Mechanics
10 Die Story:Boeing - The Deadly System
11 Doping Top Secret: The Lord of the Lifters. the Destruction of an Olympic Sport
14 Race to the Bottom: Mica
18 Temps Present: In Pursuit of Isis’s Damned
And have a look at the Jury Group members of the TV Iris category and the Jury Group members of the TV Current Affairs category. We thank all Jury Members for their hard work.
Welcome to the virtual PRIX EUROPA 2020
Welcome to the virtual PRIX EUROPA 2020
Patricia Schlesinger, Director General of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg opens the virtual competition week with a video message to her media colleagues all over Europe.
Babylonian babble of voices should have resounded from Sunday in the state capital Potsdam: Media professionals from all over Europe had planned to gather there for a week to discuss, watch films, listen to the radio and experience digital media. Due to the Corona Pandemic, things have now changed: PRIX EUROPA, Europe’s most important media festival is taking place this year under the motto ‘vote@home’. 269 Jury Members are viewing the programmes online and are voting individually from home. The 262 nominations from 28 countries are divided into nine categories. The top ranged productions in each category will be discussed during the upcoming week in video conferences and the Jury Members will decide in a second ballot who the winners of this year’s competition are.
On Tuesday 27 October at noon (CET) the winners of the ‘Best European Programme of the Year 2020’ will be announced here.
Become a Jury Member of PRIX EUROPA 2020
Become a Jury Member of PRIX EUROPA 2020
Our call for the PRIX EUROPA 2020 Student Award Rising Star asked for programmes in keeping with the motto 'stay@home'. The call was responded to with a shower of creative submissions, produced when most of our continent was in lockdown.
An international jury nominated 16 video and audio programmes from 11 countries and now you have the chance to vote for the winner of the Rising Star Award 2020: have a close look at the nominated projects and send an email listing your 3 favourites to press@prixeuropa.eu. This way you will become part of PRIX EUROPA’s unique open jury system. The winner will be announced on Tuesday 27 October at noon (CET) here.
The award ‘Rising Star’ was created in 2019 in cooperation with the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF and is looking for student projects that show vision, distinct thought and also public responsibility.
Lessons and challenges for public service radio at the Potsdam Summit – EBU Cultural Forum
Lessons and challenges for public service radio at
The Potsdam Summit – EBU Cultural Forum
Ivan Krastev, one of Europe’s leading thinkers will debate with Noel Curran, Director General of the European Broadcasting Union on the challenges of the global pandemic for public service radio. Representatives of the most important media institutions of our continent will join the discussion. And you can be part of it: Register for the EBU Cultural Forum, which is this year’s name of the Potsdam Summit and participate virtually. Listen to the thoughts of Eva Połońska-Kimunguyi of the London School of Economics, Cilla Benkö, Chief Executive of Swedish Radio, Alexander Wrabetz, Director General of ORF as well as President of PRIX EUROPA and many more.
Ivan Krastev_copyright: IWM / Klaus Ranger
We look forward to meet you virtually on Friday, 23 October from 14.30 to 16:00. Please register here.
The PRIX EUROPA Trophies have arrived
The Trophies have arrived! - Taurus trophies traveled trouble-free
In spite of the heavy restrictions for non-Berliners, the much beloved PRIX EUROPA TAURUS trophies left their creator, the Dutch artist Anton Hoornweg, without any issue and arrived save and sound at the festival office in Berlin. They can rest now until 27 October, when they will get to know who their new owners will be. We will make sure that they will be ready to head off to their next journey to this year’s winners as soon as possible. Happily they don’t need any Corona-tests to leave Berlin again and travel all throughout Europe. Stay tuned!
Register as Observer: Interested media colleagues may register as Observer. Observers will get access to the 7 top ranking programmes of up to two categories during the competition week. These top ranking programmes in each category are the result of the first ballot of the specific Jury Group. You will receive your personal access link to our video platform the day the TOP 7 will be published.
Dates of publication:
TV IRIS and TV Current Affairs: 19 October TV Documentary and TV Fiction: 20 October Digital Media and Radio Current Affairs: 21 October Radio Documentary and Radio Music: 22 October Radio Fiction: 23 October
Already now you can access our digital catalogue with the programmes details of each competing programme.
The winner of the PRIX EUROPA 2020 awards will be published on 27 October 2020 at 12:00 CET.
PRIX EUROPA 2020 Catalogue online!
PRIX EUROPA 2020 Catalogue online!
Have a look at the PRIX EUROPA 2020 catalogue including all programme details of the nominated productions of this year’s edition.
Today 111 TV Jurors have started their work, on Wednesday the Radio colleagues will beginn their evaluation and on Friday the Digital Media Jury Group.
PRIX EUROPA 2020 Student Award Rising Star Nominations
PRIX EUROPA 2020 Student Award Rising Star Nominations
Our call for the PRIX EUROPA 2020 Student Award Rising Star - theme 'stay@home' - was responded to with a bathful of creative submissions. A side benefit of the lockdown in Europe.
We are happy to announce today the 17 nominated projects that made it into the last round and will be competing in this year's competition.
A Virtual Dream by Bartosz Jakub Jasiński / Poland
Berlin 2020. Through my eyes. by Sarah Sander / Germany
Bridge the Gap by Eliza Pepper / UK
Car antenna by Adam Černich / Czech Republic
confined people talk to confined people by Pauline Blanc / France
Forward Thinking by Cara Gaynor / Ireland
Frog Prince and Sloppy Princess by Esin Güler / Belgium
Goldfish and Soldiers by Michela Mancini / Italy, UK
Hello Grandma by Kamila Chojnacka / Poland
Isolation around the world by Elay Leuthold / Switzerland
Moria’s Ticking Virus by Lara Richir + Michelle Peters / Belgium
Nothing Will Be Written About Me by Lukas Anthierens / Belgium
Seal Story by Bartłomiej Błaszczyński / Poland
Secondly by Gabor Balazs / Hungary
Seeds - Generation Climate by Yonca Sophia Ergen / Switzerland
Staring at the sun by Céline Ottenburgh / Belgium
The pandemic that silenced the music industry by Carl Holmqvist / Sweden