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A ‘Prix Europa-Overview-Movie” on YouTube (uploaded Sep 26, 2007)
‘Contenders’, by Radio Diaries
Friends of Radio Diaries,
Our new series – Contenders – airs on National Public Radio this week. We’ll be sending out a quick email each day this week to let you know what’s coming up. In the meantime, the series overview is below.
We hope you can listen.
Joe Richman
Radio Diaries
www.radiodiaries.org
CONTENDERS
Portraits of some of the most original, groundbreaking, and unsuccessful presidential candidates in American history.
1) Victoria Woodhull: First Woman to Run for President (1872)
2) William Jennings Bryan: The Speech That Changed Politics (1896)
3) Adlai Stevenson: An Egghead in the Age of Television (1952)
4) Margaret Chase Smith: Cold Warrior in Pearls (1964)
5) Shirley Chisholm: The Politics of Principle (1972)
Broadcast on NPR’s All Things Considered, October 13-17.
Starting Monday you can hear the stories, along with speeches and campaign songs, at http://www.radiodiaries.org
Contenders is produced by Joe Richman and Samara Freemark with help from Deborah George, Ben Shapiro, Anayansi Diaz-Cortes, and Posey Gruener. Radio Diaries is a not-for profit organization.
Congratulations to the Winners of the 8th Annual TCF/ Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition!!!
Nine awards were chosen from hundreds of stories, from nearly a dozen countries worldwide. Find out “who won what” from the very first Best News Feature Award to the top prize- Best Documentary: Gold.
Few new things on this site
A short update about this IFC web site to explore…
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a few new links (top of the homepage)
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a few new links to ifc-related websites (sidebar)
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a new (bèta) event calendar (sidebar)
Prix Europa 2008 opened with Miss Platnum (fragment)
Prix Europa Top5’s
The five productions with the highest scores in seven categories will be presented in the Festival Venue.
(Top 5 Radio Documentary, A-Z) NOT in winning order yet
- 1 Minute, Netherlands
- A House in the Country, Finland
- A Minor – An Approach from the white Keys, Austria
- Mother’s Shadow, Germany
- My Life as Radio, Denmark
Winners Prix Europa 2008 (cat.: radiodoc)
(from our special correspondent on location: Alfred Koch)
PRIX EUROPA
Best European Radio Documentary of the Year 2008
‘Mother’s Shadow‘,
by Lorenz Rollhäuser, NRD/ARD, Germany
Translated to English by Christiane Bergfeld, Hamburg, Germany, and edited by Drie Deyman and Michael Osmann, Clarksburg, Canada
‘Our memories from the past are mostly evoked by certain objects but also by smell, taste, sound – not
necessarily by the most important things but banal remnants.
When people have to leave their homes – someone has to clean up.
In this feature it is the author himself.
In a very personal but never too private style he takes us back to the provincial town where he grew up
in the sixties. We follow him to the house of his parents – and the places from his rebellious youth
where he tried to escape the expectations of parental home.
But his mother – still alive – has become soft and fragile. There is no more reason to argue.’
PRIX EUROPA – RADIO ÖSTERREICH 1
Donated by Radio Österreich 1, ORF
‘1 Minute‘,
by Jair Stein and comp., VPRO, Netherlands
‘“I felt like a woman who loses a breast”.
This is how the story of a man begins who suddenly realizes that he can lose everything if one day
without any warning a tooth falls out.
A collection of absurd short stories from daily life of approximately sixty seconds each. They are true
and wondrous – made to move, surprise and astound.
Though extremely short, the programme demonstrates a new and fresh form of dealing with reality.’
Special Commendation
‘A Minor – An Approach from the white Keys’,
by Philip Scheiner, ORF, Austria
no Jury Report available
complete winners list
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