PRIX EUROPA 2022 Timetable
The PRIX EUROPA 2022 Timetable with running times per category and per day is available now online including a number of activities accompanying the competition.
The PRIX EUROPA 2022 Timetable with running times per category and per day is available now online including a number of activities accompanying the competition.
Viviane Aubert
Head of Digital Distribution at Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen - SRF / SRG SSR
Manuel Thalmann
Head of Youth & Music Department at Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen - SRF / SRG SSR
organised by Vivian Aubert, Head of Distribution and Manuel Thalmann, Head of Youth and Music Department at Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen - SRF / SRG SSR
Tuesday, 25 October 2022, 10.00-12.00
One year ago SRF – the Swiss Public Broadcaster - changed the way of working together – and not just a little bit, the structure of the whole company was changed. Now the change is completely implemented in the structure of the company and the new formed Distribution and Content departments really start to work together. In this workshop we show you what we have done, we look at best and worst cases and we will discuss other ways of how it might develop in the future. And we also want to know how you at home in your companies work. Let’s share cases from all over Europa and try to build a better future for our audiences.
Register now with guests@prixeuropa.eu. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Get to know the 4 experts who lead the PRIX EUROPA 2022 Åke Blomström Masterclass.
The Åke Blomström Masterclass @ PRIX EUROPA 2022 is a two day training event for Europe’s audio talent by Europe’s best radio documentary makers. Out of over 50 applications for a scholarship 16 lucky students have been chosen by a selection committee to participate.
The Masterclass will be delivered at the start of this year’s PRIX EUROPA (22 & 23 October 2022) in Potsdam. During the two day Masterclass the invited participants will have the unique opportunity to learn from the best radio documentary makers in Europe, to glean their secrets and get their advice.
Get to know the 17 PRIX EUROPA 2022 Coordinators:
Agnieszka Czyżewska Jacquemet, Alison Hindell, Andres Noormets, Anna-Karin Larsson, Brit Jensen, Carmen Fernald, Clémence Coppey, Eva Roither, Kåre V. Poulsen, Liam O'Brien, Manuel Thalmann, Martin Gaarder, Mirande de Jong, Niels-Ole Rasmussen, Rhian Roberts, Riet De Prins, Saskia van Leeuwen
The Coordinator’s job is to organise the work of the Jury Group, chair the daily presentations and discussions, supervise the voting procedure, and make sure that the competition rules are followed. They are supported by a Jury Assistant.
The winners will be announced during the PRIX EUROPA 2022 Awards Ceremony on Friday, 28 October 2022 and will be invited to attend PRIX EUROPA 2023.
We are looking for media projects from students in Europe on the topic ‘Media that matter to us’ for the PRIX EUROPA 2022 Student Award - Rising Star.
Send us your podcast, video, blog, digital audio- or online project. We are thrilled to find out what matters to you.
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.
Submission:
If you want to take part, send an email with your submission data (title of the project, submitter's name (your name), submitting training institution, university or school, length of the project, author, director, producer and other key staff, production date, project description, and your (downloadable) project material (all files must be in English or with English subtitles without exception!) by 23 September 2022 to submissions@prixeuropa.eu.
By submitting you agree to us making your project available for viewing online if it gets nominated. Please make sure that you have cleared all rights.
Pre-selection:
We aim to present a cross-section of the best work from the best: projects that are particularly imaginative, original or personal.
All submissions will be screened or listened to, checked, and evaluated at least twice in written form by a team of independent European experts.
Pre-selection results will be published online on 10 October 2022: 10 entries will be nominated for the competition and will be available online for viewing / listening and voting from 23 to 27 October 2022 on www.prixeuropa.eu.
And the Winner is…
The audio - and video project which receives the most points in the 5 days of the online voting will receive the
* PRIX EUROPA Student Award - Rising Star Audio
* PRIX EUROPA Student Award - Rising Star Video.
Submitting an entry for the PRIX EUROPA 2022 competition implies full acceptance of this procedure.
If you have any further questions, please get in touch with us at submissions@prixeuropa.eu.
A two day training event for Europe’s audio talents by Europe’s best documentary makers. Over 50 applications for a scholarship have been thoroughly checked by the selection committee.
The decision has been made and the 16 scholarships will go to:
Agnieszka Loch from Poland
Ed Coulson from Ireland
Fiona Mcgarry from Ireland
Hege Omre from Norway
Irene Dani from Italy
Isa Tubbax from Belgium
Judith Geffert from Germany
Kim Neubauer from Germany
Kristján Guðjónsson from Iceland
Mads Bjørn Lundsgaard from Denmark
Martin Klusak from the Czech Republic
Pauline Augustyn from Belgium
Rikke Huan Clemmesen from Denmark
Samuli Ala-Lahti from Finland
Talia Augustidis from the United Kingdom
Tereza Simanová from Slovakia
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On 3 September 2022 Darya Chultsova was released after serving a full two-year sentence in the women’s penal colony in Gomel, south-western Belarus. At least one good news…
The situation is quite different for Katsiaryna Andreyeva who was sentenced to eight years in jail for treason in July 2022 and got a new prison term on top of one she was already serving.
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. The two journalists were found supposedly guilty of “organising activities violating public order” by a district court in Minsk on 18 February 2021 and sentenced to two years in a labour colony.
To this year's competition 255 media organisations submitted a total of 606 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 187 programmes from 28 countries have been chosen to compete in this year’s competition:
20 Digital Media projects
29 Radio Fiction programmes
28 Radio Documentary programmes
16 Radio Current Affairs programmes
17 Radio Music programmes
23 TV Fiction programmes
21 TV Documentary programmes
19 TV Current Affairs programmes
14 TV Iris programmes
Nominations for the Student Award - Rising Star competition will be published on 10 October 2022
Congratulations!
Please find here all nominated programmes sorted by category and the English programme title.
Who is your Journalist of the Year 2022?
PRIX EUROPA wants to honour a European journalist who has gone outside her/his comfort zone and shown extraordinary creativity, courage and impact on her/his specific society or audience. We are looking for a journalistic game-changer dedicated to the truth in the thicket of global disinformation.
A person immune to political propaganda and populism aiming to provide transparency, ready to go out and get to the bottom of things, find out the truth and inform the world. Somebody whose work has helped break through encrusted positions and change perspectives.
Does anyone come to mind? Proposals from all genres and formats of journalism are very welcome.
Please suggest your candidate for the PRIX EUROPA Award as European Journalist of the Year 2022 by sending her/his professional cv, contact details and a short explanation for your proposal.
Email: press@prixeuropa.eu
Deadline: 30 September 2022
Take a look at who has been awarded in the last years.
Join us from 23 to 28 October 2022 in Potsdam and register as Jury Member or Observer for the competition.
This week-long media competition and festival features and awards the best European television-, radio- and digital media productions with the aim of publicising them throughout Europe and supporting their continental distribution and use. A unique system of open juries is at the core of the festival, enabling also the makers of the nominated productions to come into the Jury Group of their respective genre and see / hear and talk about what is being produced by colleagues in other countries. This creates a unique week-long European forum, a place where media professionals can move out of the box, can network and enter into an exchange about their craft and the pressing themes of the year.
At PRIX EUROPA we want to create conversations. We want to enable a fair discussion and find a common denominator between societies and countries that are drifting apart in disapproval and even hate. Take part in the European exchange where a multitude of perspectives can be seen or heard.
Be there and become part of the community that will meet in Potsdam, Schiffbauergasse between 23 - 28 October 2022 to select and celebrate Europe’s Best Digital Media, Radio and Television productions!
PRIX EUROPA 2022
Media that matter – Together in Europe!
You find more on our jury system here.
For PRIX EUROPA participants we have pre-booked rooms near the festival venue on a first-come, first-served basis.
We are looking for media projects from students in Europe on the topic ‘Media that matter to us’ for the PRIX EUROPA 2022 Student Award - Rising Star.
Send us your podcast, video, blog, digital audio- or online project. We are thrilled to find out what matters to you.
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.
Submission:
If you want to take part, send an email with your submission data (title of the project, submitter's name (your name), submitting training institution, university or school, length of the project, author, director, producer and other key staff, production date, project description, and your (downloadable) project material (all files must be in English or with English subtitles without exception!) by 15 September 2022 to submissions@prixeuropa.eu.
By submitting you agree to us making your project available for viewing online if it gets nominated. Please make sure that you have cleared all rights.
Pre-selection:
We aim to present a cross-section of the best work from the best: projects that are particularly imaginative, original or personal.
Between 15 September and 30 September 2022 all submissions will be screened or listened to, checked, and evaluated at least twice in written form by a team of independent European experts.
Pre-selection results will be published online on 10 October 2022: 10 entries will be nominated for the competition and will be available online for viewing / listening and voting from 23 to 27 October 2022 on www.prixeuropa.eu.
And the Winner is…
The audio - and video project which receives the most points in the 5 days of the online voting will receive the
* PRIX EUROPA Student Award - Rising Star Audio
* PRIX EUROPA Student Award - Rising Star Video.
The winners will be announced during the PRIX EUROPA 2022 Awards Ceremony on Friday, 28 October 2022.
Submitting an entry for the PRIX EUROPA 2022 competition implies full acceptance of this procedure.
If you have any further questions, please get in touch with us at submissions@prixeuropa.eu.
Grants available for the Åke Blomström Masterclass@PRIX EUROPA
A two day training event for Europe’s audio talent by Europe’s best radio documentary makers.
Apply now for a scholarship to the prestigious Åke Blomström Masterclass delivered at the start of this year’s PRIX EUROPA (22 & 23 October 2022) in Potsdam. During the two day Masterclass you will have the unique opportunity to learn from the best radio documentary makers in Europe, to glean their secrets and get their advice. In the follow-up you will be tutored online and complete the training with an Åke Blomström Masterclass Certificate.
To be eligible for one (of ten) scholarships, submit a 5-minute edited audio production demonstrating the creative use of audio as well as a CV and a covering letter outlining why you wish to attend the Åke Blomström Masterclass. The scholarship covers your attendance fee and travel support. Please send your application by 16 August 2022 to radio@prixeuropa.eu.
On 9 September we will publish the winners at the IFC and PRIX EUROPA website and you’ll find out if your application was successful. Good luck!
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!
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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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.
Thomas Ecke / rbb
Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, Finland
Directors: Pia Erkinheimo, Krister Linden
Producer: Jyri Loikkanen
Bayerischer Rundfunk - BR / ARD, Germany
Author: Daniel Wild
Director: Martin Heindel
Producers: Klaus Uhrig, Manuela Baldauf, Ulrike Ebenbeck, Martina Müller-Wallraf
VPRO, The Netherlands
Author and Director: Eefje Suijkerbuijk
Producers: Eritia de Jonghe, Rens Mevissen
France Télévisions, France
Author and Director: Karim Ben Khalifa
Producer: Chloé Jarry
ARTE Radio, France
Author: Klaire fait Grr
Directors: Klaire fait Grr, Arnaud Forest
Producer: Silvain Gire
Eesti Rahvusringhääling - ERR / Estonian Public Broadcasting, Estonia
Author: Martin Algus
Director and Producer: Andres Noormets
British Broadcasting Corporation - BBC Scotland, United Kingdom
Author: Ben Lewis
Director and Producer: Kirsty Williams
Sveriges Radio - SR, Sweden
Authors: Åsa Asptjärn, Gertrud Larsson
Directors: Åsa Asptjärn, Gertrud Larsson, Magnus Berg
Producer: Magnus Berg
Marta Medvešek, Croatia
Author, Director, Producer: Marta Medvešek
Polskie Radio SA, Poland
Author, Director, Producer: Agnieszka Czyżewska Jacquemet
Sveriges Radio - SR, Sweden
Author and Director: Daniel Velasco
Producer: Ylva Lindgren
British Broadcasting Corporation - BBC Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Author: Glenn Patterson
Director: Andy Martin
Producer: Conor Garrett
British Broadcasting Corporation - BBC, United Kingdom
Author: Andrew Harding
Director: Bridget Harney
Producer: Becky Lipscombe
Second Captains, Ireland
Author, Director and Producer: Mark Horgan
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
Radiotelevisione svizzera - RSI / SRG SSR, Switzerland
Author, Director and Producer: Daniel Bilenko
France Télévisions, France
Authors: Dominique Garnier, Zoé Galeron
Director: Akim Isker
Producer: Arnaud Figaret
Scarlett Production, France
Authors: Sandrine Gregor, Melina Jochum
Director: Marion Vernoux
Producer: Joëy Faré
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
Sveriges Television - SVT, Sweden
Author: Cilla Jackert
Director: Sanna Lenken
Producers: Martin Persson, Erik Magnusson; Mats Alders, Miira Paasilinna (Executive producers)
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)
Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbH, Germany
Author and Director: John Goetz
Producer: Olaf Jacobs
Bullitt Film, Denmark
Author and Director: Thora Lorentzen
Producer: Rikke Tambo Andersen
Piraya Film I AS, Norway
Author and Director: Mads Brügger
Producer: Bjarte Mørner Tveit
Norddeutscher Rundfunk - NDR / ARD, Germany
Author and Director: Felix Meschede
Producer: Nicole Deblaere
TV4 - Sweden, Sweden
Authors and Directors: Hans Johansson, Nicke Nordmark
Producer: Jonas Alsgren
Medieoperatørene as, Norway
Author and Director: Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
Producer: Ingvil Giske
HUMAN, The Netherlands
Authors: Ester Gould, Sarah Sylbing
Directors: Ester Gould, Sarah Sylbing, Daan Bol
Producers: Judith Vreriks, Annemiek Munneke
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.
Kumi, Belgium by Bérénice Coussement RITCS
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!