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32nd International Feature Conference, IFC 2006 @ Laurent Marceau
Vienna, 29 April – 04 May 2006
Dear Colleagues,On behalf of Vincent Van Merwijk, Chairman of the EBU Features Group, I am pleased to inform you that the next International Feature Conference (IFC) will be held in Vienna at the invitation of ORF/Austria from 29 April to 04 May 2006.
Official invitations, with deadlines and entry details, programme, registration and accommodation forms, will be distributed in January 2006.
Yours sincerely,
Laurent Marceau
EBU Radio Department
Head of Eurosonic/Radio Plus
Distribution: EBU Features Group EBU Features Heads
International Relations – EBU Active and Associate Members
(Vienna/Austria)
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2006, 32nd IFC, Vienna (HOME
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The AIDS Diary Project on NPR @ Joe Richman
Today is World AIDS Day. I am writing to you from South Africa, the global epicenter of the disease. More than 5 million people are infected in this country. Each day 1,000 South Africans die from AIDS.
After a while, though, numbers and facts lose their meaning. It becomes harder to remember the individual people behind the statistics – what they look and sound like.
More than a year ago…
(The AIDS Diary Project)
Thembi is 19 and lives in the township of Khayelitsha. For the past year she has been carrying around a tape recorder and keeping an audio diary of her struggle to live with AIDS.
Please help us bring Thembi’s story to as many people as possible
Please help us reach others by forwarding this email to your friends and colleagues.
Thank you for your support,
Joe Richman
Radio Diaries on National Public Radio
Helping people document their own lives
A not-for-profit organization
www.radiodiaries.org
joe@radiodiaries.org
website
Find out more about the project and how you can contribute.
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a new stable version of Audacity, the free audio editor @ admin
is a new stable version of Audacity, the free audio editor.
It includes a couple of bug fixes and minor improvements and is recommended for all users.
(Click here for more information or to download:)
Audacity 1.3.0
is a beta release that contains hundreds of new features, but this version is unfinished and unstable, and is recommended primarily for advanced users.
You can install both Audacity 1.2 and 1.3 simultaneously.
for
more information or to download:
Click here
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Third Coast Festival Update (12/06/05): Tricks of the Trade @ org
The Third Coast International Audio Festival December 6, 2005
____________________________________________THIS WEEK @ http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org… we’re taking you behind the curtain to find out how great radio is made.
(http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org)
Hear from some of the best in the business who joined us for the 2005 Third Coast Festival Conference. Susan Stamberg, Jad Abumrad, Julie Snyder and Benjamen Walker, (to name a few) talked about everything from interviewing to using music creatively to podcasting, and now you can listen to what they had to say.
(new and improved link)
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/annual_conference_2005.asp
THE BEST FEATURE AND DOCUMENTARY STORIES OF THE YEAR
You only have a few more weeks to treat yourself to all nine winning stories of the 2005 Third Coast Festival/ Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition IN THEIR ENTIRETIES! Starting January 9, some pieces will revert back to their excerpt formats, due to unavoidable and tricky international permissions issues. So come visit soon, to hear radio at it finest.
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/audio_library.asp
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do you know…? @ andrea hanackova
…do you know, where or who from I could get an information about the most important books about the problem “european feature”, “feature as a genre”, “history of feature” and so on?
There should be a book named “The feature” in germany, but I have heard, it is sold out and I cannot find other information about literature of my topic of Phd.work.
Can you help me in this? Thanks, by!
andrea
email
andrea.hanackova@quick.cz
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The Story of my Life: Nicole Marmet
Nicole Marmet: My Story
« Every life is irreplaceable, so every life should be able to give its all to others … »
Tchicaya- Congolese poet
My insatiable curiosity and need for the « other» leads me, in my documentary work, to voices, sounds, music, silences which are both a recognition of, and an appeal to life for life’s sake.Daughter of colonial settlers, I’m part of the fifth generation born on Algerian soil. My arrival in France dates back to July 1962, at the time of the French-Algerian War.
Nicole Marmet
Exile, uprooting, a visceral rejection of violence, anaesthesised memory, silence, … a constant questioning follows me.
Starting with « The Faces of Jeanne d’Arc » (SFB 2001 – DLR – DRS – SRG – Radio Polski – Prix Marulic, “Best Radio Documentary 2002), Joan, heroic character from my childhood, a girl from Lorraine (like me later on), boiling in her suit of armour under the Algerian sun, later co-opted by nearly every form of nationalism on the planet.
Followed by «Voice of a Woman: Jacky Micaeli» (SFB 2002 – Radio Polski – Radio Saarbrucken – SWFR) portrait of an engaged Corsican singer, as well as an encounter between the rooted (Jacky Micaeli) and the uprooted (Nicole Marmet).
With the adaptation for France Culture in 2002 of « L’Étranger » by Albert Camus, I took a breathless plunge into a familiar universe.
And, with « The Unwed Mothers of Casablanca » (SFB 2003 –DRS – NDR – WDR– Shortlisted for the Medienpreis — media prize dedicated to childrens’ rights — 2005.), I returned to the Maghreb after a lapse of 20 years, for an essential encounter with a group of women – young girls ridiculed and excluded for having children outside wedlock.
“Music in Exile: Once Upon a Time there was a Radio Orchestra in Kabul†and “Mahwash: Like the Moon» ( Radio Berlin Brandenburg 2005) brought me to the vertiginous brink of exile through my encounter with, and through intimate portraits of, 4 exiled Afghan musicians and a singer.
Listening to others means learning to speak.
To listen and speak is to exchange.
To exchange honourably and respectfully you need time.
Time for language to find its form, colour, place.
Time for the ear to attune to language in order to recognise it, retain it and finally transmit it.
Sensitive to the art of the African storytellers (griots and griottes), whom I had the good fortune to see and hear in Mali, I try to orient my documentary work in this storytelling spirit.
The “griot†is a privileged messenger, a collector of talents, of knowledge, of words, of memories.
He or she is a messenger who needs to have the talent of a poet, sorcerer and inventor.
I write and work in French, but, strange as it may seem, my radio documentaries are only broadcast in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Poland.
Because of the closed structure of Radio France, feature makers are only permitted to propose an idea and then put it into someone else’s hands; we don’t even have the right to record our own material because it would lack the “unique sound of France Cultureâ€.
However, in January 2006, I will finally have the chance to produce and broadcast in French … in Belgium! RTBF has invited me to Brussels to direct the French language version of « The Unwed Mothers of Casablanca ».
For my features, I find it hard to work in a team; for the encounter and the « collecting » I need intimacy.
To achieve intimacy time is essential. For example, for « The Unwed Mothers of Casablanca », I stayed in Morocco for two months.
I have over 75 recorded hours of of intimate conversations.
In progress is another return to my origins.
More than ever the time factor is vital, for a work concerning the memories of people at the twilight of their lives, between the ages of 75 and 93: “ And the storks remain foreverâ€.
Who are these “pieds-noirs†(Maghrebins of French origin) who remained in Morocco after independence?
Storks in Kenitra, Morocco June 2005
These last three years, in the course of many working journeys to Morocco, I rediscovered a part of myself.
Above all, I met many people, many characters, elderly French colonials who have chosen to remain in their country of birth.
They’ve invited me into their stories and allowed me to recognise myself there.
With them I can perhaps understand my fascination with storks, discover why I was so moved to see them “in colonies†in the streets of Kenitra.
To my immense surprise, I learned that they have become sedentary storks.
Once upon a time there were storks who chose their country of exile…
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The next life story belongs to Marusha Krese
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Who is (IFC) Who? Life Story
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Have some fine days @ Vincent van Merwijk
On behalf of the members of the EBU Radio Feature Project Group I’d like to wish you all the best for the next year, in good health, with good friends and with the best possible facilities for producing your documentaries.
As a Project-group responsible for last IFC in Romania we look back at a most pleasant and successful conference, and we again thank Romanian Radio (in the person of Mihaela) for their hospitality.
We hope for a meeting with all of you at the IFC in Vienna, next April, when ORF will be hosting and Peter Klein and Alfred Koch will be our hosts.
Have some fine days,
Vincent van Merwijk, chairman
talking about IFC 2006?…
Vincent (L) and Peter (R)
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