PRIX EUROPA President, Katja Wildermuth (Director General of Bayerischer Rundfunk / ARD) calls all media makers based in Europe to submit their best digital media, radio and television programmes which show vision, creativity and also public responsibility:
"Independent and trustworthy media are more important than ever. PRIX EUROPA brings together the best of Public Service Programming in Europe."
The submission platform for the PRIX EUROPA 2022 competition is open!
Please consult the PRIX EUROPA 2022 Regulations before submitting until 1 July 2022 at the latest.
If you have questions, please get in touch. The registration of an entry for the PRIX EUROPA 2022 competition implies full acceptance of the regulations.
By Monday 5 September 2022 the PRIX EUROPA 2022 Nominations will be published on the PRIX EUROPA website!
PRIX EUROPA 2022 Regulations
PRIX EUROPA 2022 Regulations
Today on the World Press Freedom Day, PRIX EUROPA is opening this year’s call for entries: Media makers are called upon to submit their productions which show vision creativity and also public responsibility according to this year’s slogan
Media that matter - Together in Europe. PRIX EUROPA 2022 is looking for television-, radio- and digital productions that strengthen dialogue in our progressively polarised societies.
The competition is open to all broadcasters and production companies based in Europe who commit to upholding public service values. Programme-makers from diverse backgrounds are explicitly encouraged to submit their work.
A unique feature of the competition is the adjudication by open Jury Groups, who publicly discuss and then vote for the nominated productions, thereby determining the 14 PRIX EUROPA award winners.
The submission platform will be open from 18 May to 1 July 2022.
We look forward to receiving your inspiring, encouraging and courageous media productions.
The call for proposals for the 2022 awards for the EUROPEAN JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR and the PRIX EUROPA RISING STAR will be published in June.
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Please sign the manifesto 'Protect Children on the Move'
Please sign the manifesto ‘Protect Children on the Move’
Last Friday, 15 October 2021 the PRIX EUROPA 2021 for the Best TV Documentary of the Year was awarded to ‘Shadow Game’ in Potsdam. In Shadow Game, directors Eefje Blankevoort and Els van Driel follow teenagers on a hellish journey through Europe. They are fleeing war and violence. Every day they try to cross perilous borders, in search of safety and a better life. Abuse and hardship are a daily reality.
Together with the youngsters from the film the directors have made a manifesto in which they urge to uphold the rights of refugee children as we have pledged to do in the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Please spare one minute of your time and sign here: https://www.change.org/p/protect-children-on-the-move.
PRIX EUROPA 2021 Winners
Thomas Ecke / rbb
Congratulations to all our winners!
PRIX EUROPA
European Journalist of the Year 2021:
Katsiaryna Andreyeva, Darya Chultsova
from Belarus
PRIX EUROPA Best European Digital Audio Project of the Year 2021:
Donate Your Speech
Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, Finland
Directors: Pia Erkinheimo, Krister Linden
Producer: Jyri Loikkanen
Special Commendation:
Tatort - The Interactive Audio Drama
Bayerischer Rundfunk - BR / ARD, Germany
Author: Daniel Wild
Director: Martin Heindel
Producers: Klaus Uhrig, Manuela Baldauf, Ulrike Ebenbeck, Martina Müller-Wallraf
PRIX EUROPA Best European Online Media Project of the Year 2021:
The Cycle Club
VPRO, The Netherlands
Author and Director: Eefje Suijkerbuijk
Producers: Eritia de Jonghe, Rens Mevissen
Special Commendation:
Seven Grams
France Télévisions, France
Author and Director: Karim Ben Khalifa
Producer: Chloé Jarry
PRIX EUROPA Best European Radio Fiction of the Year 2021:
Godcast
ARTE Radio, France
Author: Klaire fait Grr
Directors: Klaire fait Grr, Arnaud Forest
Producer: Silvain Gire
Special Commendation:
The Lion
Eesti Rahvusringhääling - ERR / Estonian Public Broadcasting, Estonia
Author: Martin Algus
Director and Producer: Andres Noormets
PRIX EUROPA Best European Radio Fiction Series of the Year 2021:
The System, Level One: Get Naked
British Broadcasting Corporation - BBC Scotland, United Kingdom
Author: Ben Lewis
Director and Producer: Kirsty Williams
Special Commendation:
Outskirt Sweden: Feminist Nuclear Weapons
Sveriges Radio - SR, Sweden
Authors: Åsa Asptjärn, Gertrud Larsson
Directors: Åsa Asptjärn, Gertrud Larsson, Magnus Berg
Producer: Magnus Berg
PRIX EUROPA Best European Radio Documentary of the Year 2021:
Fly or Die
Marta Medvešek, Croatia
Author, Director, Producer: Marta Medvešek
Special Commendation:
Less and Less Soul
Polskie Radio SA, Poland
Author, Director, Producer: Agnieszka Czyżewska Jacquemet
PRIX EUROPA Best European Radio Documentary Series of the Year 2021:
The Manipulator
Sveriges Radio - SR, Sweden
Author and Director: Daniel Velasco
Producer: Ylva Lindgren
Special Commendation:
The Northern Bank Job: Unexpected Visitors
British Broadcasting Corporation - BBC Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Author: Glenn Patterson
Director: Andy Martin
Producer: Conor Garrett
PRIX EUROPA Best European Radio Investigation of the Year 2021:
Blood Lands
British Broadcasting Corporation - BBC, United Kingdom
Author: Andrew Harding
Director: Bridget Harney
Producer: Becky Lipscombe
Special Commendation:
Where Is George Gibney?
Second Captains, Ireland
Author, Director and Producer: Mark Horgan
PRIX EUROPA Best European Radio Music Programme of the Year 2021:
Concert for Animals / A Hushed Conversation With the Landscape
Český rozhlas - Czech Radio, Czech Republic
Authors: Ladislav Železný, Zdeněk, Závodný, Filip Jakš, David Danel, Ivan Boreš, Martin Režný, Jiří Suchánek, Martin Janíček, Ian Mikyska, Milan Jakeš, Matuš Kabolka
Director and Producer: Ladislav Železný
Special Commendation:
Sechs Musikalische Sternstunden
Radiotelevisione svizzera - RSI / SRG SSR, Switzerland
Author, Director and Producer: Daniel Bilenko
PRIX EUROPA Best European TV Movie of the Year 2021:
Nobody’s Child
France Télévisions, France
Authors: Dominique Garnier, Zoé Galeron
Director: Akim Isker
Producer: Arnaud Figaret
Special Commendation:
Like Queens
Scarlett Production, France
Authors: Sandrine Gregor, Melina Jochum
Director: Marion Vernoux
Producer: Joëy Faré
PRIX EUROPA Best European TV Fiction Series of the Year 2021:
Albatros
Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep - VRT, Belgium
Authors: Gilles Coulier, Wannes Destoop, Dominique Van Malder, Tom Dupont
Director: Wannes Destoop
Producers: Gilles Coulier, Gilles De Schryver, Wouter Sap
Special Commendation:
Thin Blue Line
Sveriges Television - SVT, Sweden
Author: Cilla Jackert
Director: Sanna Lenken
Producers: Martin Persson, Erik Magnusson; Mats Alders, Miira Paasilinna (Executive producers)
PRIX EUROPA Best European TV Documentary of the Year 2021:
Shadow Game
Witfilm, The Netherlands
Authors and Directors: Els van Driel, Eefje Blankevoort
Producer: Femke de Wild, Nazima Mintjes Iris Lammertsma (Creative Prod.) Boudewijn Koole (Executive Producer)
Special Commendation:
In Search of Monsters
Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbH, Germany
Author and Director: John Goetz
Producer: Olaf Jacobs
PRIX EUROPA Best European TV Documentary Series of the Year 2021:
Absolute Beginners
Bullitt Film, Denmark
Author and Director: Thora Lorentzen
Producer: Rikke Tambo Andersen
Special Commendation:
The Mole: Undercover in North Korea
Piraya Film I AS, Norway
Author and Director: Mads Brügger
Producer: Bjarte Mørner Tveit
PRIX EUROPA Best European TV Investigation of the Year 2021:
Planet Without Apes
Norddeutscher Rundfunk - NDR / ARD, Germany
Author and Director: Felix Meschede
Producer: Nicole Deblaere
Special Commendation:
Kalla Fakta: Decade - In Assange's Shadow
TV4 - Sweden, Sweden
Authors and Directors: Hans Johansson, Nicke Nordmark
Producer: Jonas Alsgren
PRIX EUROPA Best European TV Programme of the Year 2021 about Cultural Diversity
Faith Can Move Mountains
Medieoperatørene as, Norway
Author and Director: Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
Producer: Ingvil Giske
Special Commendation:
Class
HUMAN, The Netherlands
Authors: Ester Gould, Sarah Sylbing
Directors: Ester Gould, Sarah Sylbing, Daan Bol
Producers: Judith Vreriks, Annemiek Munneke
PRIX EUROPA 2021 European Journalist of the Year 2021
PRIX EUROPA
European Journalist of the Year 2021:
Katsiaryna Andreyeva, Darya Chultsova
from Belarus
Laudatory Speech by Can Dündar
Dear Katsiaryna Andreyeva, dear Darya Chultsova,
We are honouring you and your work tonight - IN ABSENTIA!
Dear friends, dear colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Let's stop for a moment to think about what this means - in absence. To let our imaginations wander to where you, Katsiaryna, and you, Darya, are now. What might you be doing at this moment in time?
You are about 1500 km from here locked away in the Women's Correctional Labour Colony Nr.4 in Homiel as “prisoners with extremist tendencies" - just for doing your work.
Are you lying in your bunk beds exhausted from sewing uniforms all day, counting the 491 long days of the two years you still have in the detention camp?
Do you wonder in sleepless nights, what it is you did wrong?
How the hell you got there and why?
On November 15, 2020 27 year-old Katsiaryna Andreyeva and her 23-year old colleague and camerawoman Darya Chultsova live-streamed for five hours a protest against the authoritarian Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko. Hundreds of people had gathered to commemorate Raman Bandarenka—an activist beaten to death, allegedly by plain clothed police officers — and demand justice for his death. After police dispersed the peaceful demonstrators, ten riot police officers broke into the apartment the journalists used as a vantage point, detained both of them, and seized their equipment. They were found supposedly guilty of “organizing activities violating public order” by a district court in Minsk on 18 February 2021 and sentenced to two years in a labour colony.
The two women work for Belsat, a Poland-based broadcaster set up by Belarusian and Polish journalists to cover events in Belarus. It was recently classified as "extremist" by the Belarusian regime.
Around 40.000 people have been detained since Lukashenko’s contested re-election on 9 August 2020, among them about 500 media professionals. The Belarusian press club BAJ, a beacon in the fight for freedom of expression was closed down recently. Belarusian media have been under attack: the newspage 1 Region, Hrodna.life, the Minsk office of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the newspaper Nasha Nidwa, the independent newspage Tut.by, the magazine Nascha Istorija, the independent newspage Orsha, the online platform Intex-press, the Telegram-Channel Nexta... The list is long and it is getting longer.
Journalists are disappearing behind bars.
Like you, Katsiaryna, and you, Darya!
Is two years in a Belarusian labour colony too high a personal prize to pay for wanting the world to know what was going on in the streets of Minsk? Was it worth it?
We can't answer that.
What we CAN say is: THANK YOU!
Thank you for your courage and your will to report independently - no matter what!? Thank you for letting us know about the events in Belarus, thank you for keeping up the voice of independent journalism and of freedom of speech in circumstances that demand otherwise. Thank you for risking your lives to do your work, for telling the truth as you find it and for informing the world of your findings.
It is important to stand firmly behind the principles of democracy, human rights and the freedom of the press. And to support those who are fighting for these principles.
Dear Katsiaryna Andreyeva, dear Darya Chultsova, it is with this in mind that we at PRIX EUROPA want to support your fight and honour you with the title “European Journalist of the Year”.
Can Dündar Turkish journalist in Exile and European Journalist of the Year 2017
We can support Katsiaryna Andreyeva, Darya Chultsova by sending letters to the address: Penal Colony #4. 246035, Homiel, Antoshkina Street, 3, Belarus.
Winners Student Award - Rising Star
Winners Student Award - Rising Stars
PRIX EUROPA Student Award - Rising Star Audio
Kumi, Belgium by Bérénice Coussement RITCS
PRIX EUROPA Student Award - Rising Star Video
Rat’s nest, Switzerland by Alessa Fanzoi Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK
We will get in touch with Bérénice and Alessa and are looking forward to welcoming the two winners next year in Potsdam at PRIX EUROPA 2022!
PRIX EUROPA 2021 Awards Ceremony
PRIX EUROPA 2021 Awards Ceremony at the Schinkelhalle in Potsdam
TV IRIS @ PRIX EUROPA
Erik Hogenboom, NTR, Coordinator TV IRIS
Thank you Erik!
Today Erik Hogenboom, editor in chief at the Diversity/Religion Department of the Dutch public broadcaster NTR, is coordinating the TV IRIS jury sessions for the last time. Since 1999 he has devoted his professional time and energy to bringing films with diversity topics to PRIX EUROPA with unwaning enthusiasm and tenacity. Thank you, Erik, for bringing TV IRIS to the festival and your vision to us. We will miss you dearly!
The TV IRIS Category is under the Patronage of NTR - the Dutch Public Broadcaster. It invites programmes that deal explicitly with the culturally diverse character of European societies and contribute towards equality, understanding and tolerance between people of different origins, cultures and religions. TV IRIS seeks to be an incentive for programme practitioners to devote their attention to the ethnic diversity aspect of European societies. (PRIX EUROPA 2021 TV IRIS Regulations)
DIGITAL MASTER CLASS - New and wonderful toys: How to break digital boundaries and refresh PS media
Digital MasterClass
New and wonderful toys: How to break digital boundaries and refresh PS media
On Friday, 15 October 2021 from 11:00 - 13:00 Kåre V. Poulsen from Denmarks Radio - DR and PRIX EUROPA Coordinator offers you a case based walk though of some of this year’s most advanced digital media projects from PRIX EUROPA’s 2021 Digital Media Projects category. Meet the inventors behind and learn how they worked on their project. Technology offers dizzying perspectives and each year the boundaries expand and the envelope is pushed just a bit further. In this Masterclass you will experience a range of new Public Service media projects that use different new tools to break new ground and offer alternative digital experiences of all kinds.
Don’t miss the opportunity to leave Potsdam inspired to perhaps create your own inventive media projects when you come home.
The following projects will be presented:
Tatort - The Interactive Audio Drama
Trust in the Blockchain Society
All registered PRIX EUROPA 2021 participants are invited to attend, if you are interested to take part, please write an email to guests@prixeuropa.eu.
CharactHer: empowering all talents in the film and media industries - Safia Kessas
CharactHer: Safia Kessas
The European Commission & Collectif 50/50, a French organisation advocating parity and diversity in the audiovisual industry, launched a campaign entitled CharactHer: empowering all talents in the film and media industries during the Cannes Film Festival.
Gender equality in the European film and media industries is still far from being achieved. In addition to the obstacles women may encounter throughout their careers, a well-known factor for these persistent imbalances resides in the fact that certain sectors are still considered to be predominantly or exclusively “masculine”.
The impact of such views has sustained widespread practice of self-censorship, discouraging some women from pursuing a wide range of jobs.
The CharactHer campaign aims at debunking these stereotypes: there is no such thing as a “masculine” job – women can do anything!
The film and media industries offer a wide range of professional opportunities that require a variety of different competences. If you’re ambitious, determined and passionate, there may be a job for you, no matter your gender or origin!
The campaign highlights 12 European women professionals from the film and media industries, who work in careers still commonly perceived as “masculine” - ranging from music composer to stunt performer or VFX supervisor.
As of now, 9 portraits have been released and you can watch them on the CharactHer campaign-website.
You can find more information on jobs in the audiovisual- and media industries, training and media collectives existing in Europe in the CharactHer campaign-Toolkit.
Social Media:
Facebook: @CreativeEuropeEU / @Collectif5050
Twitter: @europe_creative / @Collectif5050
Instagram: @creative_eu / @lecollectif5050
"Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to this year's edition of PRIX EUROPA!"
"Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to this year's edition of PRIX EUROPA!"
Patricia Schlesinger, Director General of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg and host of PRIX EUROPA 2021 opens the competition week and welcomes her media colleagues from all over Europe. "What a treasure for you to discover. Good that you have a whole week for the journey."
PRIX EUROPA 2021 Catalogue online!
PRIX EUROPA 2021 Catalogue online!
Browse the PRIX EUROPA 2021 catalogue including all programme details of the nominated productions of this year’s edition.
Nominations PRIX EUROPA 2021 Student Award - Rising Star
Nominations PRIX EUROPA 2021 Student Award - Rising Star
Our call for the PRIX EUROPA 2021 Student Award - Rising Star asked for projects from students at European film- and media schools, universities and other training institutions. We were overwhelmed by abundant of creative submissions.
An international jury nominated 6 video and 6 audio programmes and you have the chance to vote from home for the two winners of the Rising Star Award 2021: 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.
You can cast your vote until Friday, 15 October 2021, 12:00.
The winner will be announced on Friday, 15 October 2021. Due to the difficult travel conditions under Corona-rules, getting to Potsdam within a few hours, we have decided that the two PRIX EUROPA 2021 Rising Stars will be invited to attend 2022 in Potsdam.
Covid rules @PRIX EUROPA 2021
We are delighted that it is possible again to bring several hundred media professionals from 26 countries together at a real-life PRIX EUROPA. In order to be able to run the festival screenings and jury discussions as normally as possible we have developed a safety concept together with the local authorities that should guarantee health protection for all participants, while at the same time enabling unhindered exchange and discussion amongst colleagues.
Our safety measures include a Covid-19 check at the accreditation, for unvaccinated participants we will have a free test every morning next to our Welcome Desk and there will be personalised seating for everybody in the jury rooms. Face masks only need to be worn when entering and crossing a room; during the screenings and discussions the masks can be taken off. Voting will take place via an online platform. All rooms need to be aired regularly, and we encourage everybody to spend the breaks in the fresh air. So please bring warm coats, this is always advisable for a visit to Potsdam in October!
The Awards Ceremony requires - due to greater numbers of guests - slightly more stringent measures, unvaccinated guests will get their own auditorium with extra protection in place. And no worries - the Prize Trophies will still be able to make their way there.
We are certain that all participants share our joy and relief at being able to take part in a real-life international event and reunite with colleagues again and will understand the need for some safety precautions to protect everyone's health.
Let's make PRIX EUROPA 2021 a success together!
Shortlist of candidates for the Award European Journalist of the Year 2021
Shortlist of candidates
for the Award
European Journalist of the Year 2021
(sorted by first name)
Ana Lalić, Serbia
Chloe Hadjimatheou, United Kingdom
Diamant Salihu, Sweden
Inès Léraud, France
Johan von Mirbach, Germany
Katsiaryna Andreyeva & Darya Chultsova, Belarus
Lenka Kabrhelová, Czech Republic
Liselott Lindström, Finland
Lyse Doucet, United Kingdom
Marine Vlahovic, France
Peter R. de Vries, The Netherlands
Roman Protasevich, Belarus
Scabolcs Panyi & András Szabó, Hungary
Thomas Sideris, Greece
The winner will be announced at the PRIX EUROPA 2021 Awards Ceremony on 15 October 2021 in Potsdam.
PRIX EUROPA 2021 Jury Coordinators
Meet the Jury Coordinators of PRIX EUROPA 2021!
We are proud to present the 16 media professionals from 10 European countries who will spark off conversations, stir debate and moderate professional exchange in this year's PRIX EUROPA Jury Groups.
They share our goal of bringing quality media to diverse European audiences and will inspire us all with their know-how, their perspectives and experience.
Find out who they are by clicking on the photos.
PRIX EUROPA 2021 Timetable
PRIX EUROPA 2021 Timetable
The Covid pandemic might yet oblige the organisers to modify the timetable depending on health and government rules valid in October 2021. All information in the timetable provided is subject to change.
209 Programmes nominated to compete for the PRIX EUROPA 2021 Awards
To this year's competition 268 media organisations submitted a total of 684 outstanding productions have been listened to or screened over the last 12 weeks. This was done by a group of independent experts who do not belong to any broadcaster and do not have an entry of their own. Each submission was evaluated at least twice in written form, using the parameters of the particular PRIX EUROPA voting sheet for each category.
Finally 209 programmes from 26 countries have been chosen to compete in this year’s competition: 30 Digital Media projects 31 Radio Fiction programmes 32 Radio Documentary programmes 16 Radio Current Affairs programmes 22 Radio Music programmes 22 TV Fiction programmes 27 TV Documentary programmes 16 TV Current Affairs programmes 13 TV Iris programmes
Nominations for the Student Award - Rising Star competition will be published on 1 October 2021
Congratulations!
Please find here all nominated programmes sorted by category and the English programme title.
Personal Registration is open!
Registration to attend PRIX EUROPA 2021
Instead of appointing traditional juries PRIX EUROPA calls on the programme makers of our continent to come to Potsdam and to select the Best European Digital Media, Radio and TV Productions of the Year 2021. Each submitter of an entry nominated for PRIX EUROPA 2021 is obliged to delegate a Jury Member for the entire period of the respective jury sessions, to take part in the adjudication as a member of the Jury Group and to present his/her entry. Registration to the PRIX EUROPA juries is open to all media professionals. Organisations can register more than one delegate to each jury group. Accreditation is free of charge, our working language is English.
A limited number of media colleagues may register as observer - as many as the COVID-19 situation allows. Observers have no voting rights. Interested colleagues have to send an email to guests@prixeuropa.eu indicating category and dates.
For hotel recommendations near the event please have a look here.