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Jury Group Coordinators 8 The PRIX EUROPA Awards 2016 16 Special Events 2016 19 COMPETING TELEVISION ENTRIES TV Fiction 20 TV Documentary 48 TV Current Affairs 72 TV Iris 94 Prix Genève 112 COMPETING RADIO ENTRIES Radio Fiction 122 Radio Documentary 158 Radio Current Affairs 192 Radio Music 210 Digital Audio 230 COMPETING ONLINE ENTRIES Online 250 2 THE ALLIANCE Why we need the PRIX EUROPA People have the right to impartial, credible and coherent information. Quality in our media is essential for our intellectual health just as quality in food, water and air is for our physical health. Quality in the media requires freedom of expression. To emphasize this, we have invited journalists and experts for the PRIX EUROPA Panel Debate to talk about what happens when it is lost. Quality in the media needs continuously trained versatile programme makers. To this end we provide extensive professional feedback and debates in all our jury groups and the PRIX EUROPA MasterClasses. Quality in the media requires the recognition and distinction of programme makers who devote their lives to producing the outstanding. This is why the PRIX EUROPA has honoured the Best European TV, Radio, Online Productions of the Year since 1987 and will continue to do so in the future. Susanne Hoffmann PRIX EUROPA Festival Director 3 Our continent has been growing together since PRIX EUROPA was founded 30 years ago. And most of us have taken the continuation of this process of integration for granted. Today, the continent’s pillars of solidarity have been shaken. Thriving on discontent with migration policies, populist forces propagate anti-establishment sentiment and disaffection with public institutions. In times of political turbulences and economic uncertainty, journalism is challenged to rebuild confidence and to regain public trust. We should not give in to fear, cynicism, and xenophobia. Instead, our task is to offer new perspectives and innovative ideas to focus on the bigger picture. At PRIX EUROPA, we honour the most exceptional productions among hundreds of television, radio and online submissions. It is a privilege for Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg to host what is not only Europe’s largest cross-media festival but also a gathering place for all Europeans. I am delighted to have you here, welcome to Berlin. Patricia Schlesinger Director General of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg 4 This year we gather here in Berlin to celebrate 30 years of PRIX EUROPA. And never has this annual event been of more importance. Public service broadcasting is under enormous pressure in a lot of countries. Sometimes due to financial reasons, sometimes due to political decisions and sometimes sadly due to both. At the same time freedom of speech and freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted in countries that call themselves democracies. This is a development that has an impact on us all. Threats to journalists are part of daily life in a lot of countries and a threatened journalist tends to be a frightened journalist. This might in the end lead to self-censorship. And then we will no longer have well functioning democratic societies – for that you need both people who dare to speak out, as well as strong and independent media. Yes – PRIX EUROPA is about hopefully going home with a nice statue, some much-needed prize money and the recognition from colleagues that you have done an excellent job. To go home as a winner. But PRIX EUROPA is so much more. It’s also about sharing knowledge and ideas. It’s about showing the strength of public service journalism in a Europe where today this is badly needed. And it’s about promoting quality. It’s about honoring journalists and programme-makers for the important job they do. But for me Prix Europa is also about innovation and looking into the future. I’m very proud that we have added a new category this year: digital audio. I hope that this category will bring us all some forward-looking and inspiring new ways of producing audio that go beyond traditional radio. Nominations that we can all learn from. Because if we as public service broadcasters want to stay relevant also in the future, we have to develop our content for, and with, the audience on all platforms: terrestrial, digital and social. We have to make a difference and contribute to a better society. So welcome to an important but also hopefully inspiring and fun week in Berlin. Let us celebrate the 30 years together that we have behind us and at the same time join our forces for the future. Cilla Benkö PRIX EUROPA President Director General of Sveriges Radio - SR 5 Many thanks to the region Berlin-Brandenburg from Europe’s media-makers! 6 THE ALLIANCE Over the past decades, PRIX EUROPA has set standards through investigative programmes that hold up a mirror to the European public, programmes that reflect European life and shared history, and fascinating digital content. On the thirtieth anniversary of PRIX EUROPA, I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to all those involved. Michael Roth Minister of State for Europe Our culture has always been the best language to overcome borders between us in Europe. That’s why - more than ever - we need journalists, directors, producers and authors to express their ideas in order to unite us in our diversity. The European Commission recently proposed modern copyright rules to ensure best working conditions and recognition for creators. I am grateful that PRIX EUROPA has been honouring their important work for the past 30 years. Richard Kühnel Head of Representation of the European Commission in Germany 7 Jury Group Coordinators The PRIX EUROPA organisers appoint one or two Coordinators for each Jury Group to lead the discussions and oversee the voting procedures. All Coordinators understand a lot about programmes, are good communicators and − have a warm heart. They are supported by a Jury Assistant, appointed by the organisers. Each Coordinator also has full voting rights. Alena MÜllerovÁ ‘Last year it was my first time at PRIX EUROPA and I was excited about the opportunity to participate in such an interesting and inspiring event. It was very surprising to see all these European TV programmes side by side and compare what is different and what is similar among countries. I am honoured to have the possibility to be a coordinator of TV documentary this year.’ I have twenty years’ experience in Czech Television where I was in charge of the Centre TV Documentary of documentary, journalistic and educational production. I cooperated on the preparation of a programming scheme and many successful television formats. I have been working as a producer, script editor and screenwriter mainly with documentary cinema (e.g. cooperation with Czech Director Helena Třeštíková on her time collection projects). Today I am a creative producer in Czech Television and I deal with different genres from documentaries to TV drama. In my free time I am writing novels with autobiographical elements. 8 Jury Group Coordinators Claudia Schreiner ‘In a world that is rapidly changing, the need for understanding the growing complexity and inner coherences of conflicts and situations is urgent. Documentaries may function as a window to the world or as a mirror – both, the undiluted truth or the perception of it have an impact on the viewer and, thus, may also change the world. Europeans - being part of and in the focus of a world wide conflict - would do well to pay attention to the art of documentary film making. The PRIX EUROPA festival encourages film makers to take part in the effort to make the world a better place. I feel honoured to be part of this community TV Documentary of devoted and enthusiastic documentary junkies and look forward to this year’s edition of PRIX EUROPA.’ Studies in American History, Political Science and Archaeology in Cologne and New York. 1979 M.A. at Columbia University, NYC, 1984 Ph.D. at the University of Cologne. Worked for ZDF – German Television and other broadcasters in different functions – reporter, anchor woman and correspondent in Washington. From 1994 to 2000 Head of Programme Family/Current Affairs, since 2000 Head of Programme Culture/Science, responsible for non-fiction programmes and documentaries in History, Society and Wildlife at MDR/ARD, Leipzig. My department won several prizes for documentaries, among them Deutscher Fernsehpreis, Grimmepreis and a nomination for the Oscars. Since 2008 chairperson of the Historical Workshop of ARD, since 2009 member of the Board of INPUT. Dmitry NIKolaev ‘PRIX EUROPA is a place to study and to learn from my fellow programme-makers how to express myself in audio language. It is kind of a school or academy. There’s no single idea or one statement in this study. It’s not one melody concert but a polyphonic composition for many voices and themes. Any idea and every way of speaking may dominate this or that year. I think diversity is the main trend in audio fiction today. This means we’re ready for the future. Variability is a prerequisite for evolution, according to Darwin. So we shall overcome modern dinosaurs. Come on guys!’ Radio Fiction I work as a drama director on Radio Russia. My background is theatre and I direct on stage sound art performances and TV movies. I had the pleasure to make plays for different radios in various countries. I direct drama series (since 12 years / 2 per month) in which we try to talk to children about world culture not in the most boring way. My regular programme ‘Metaphysics of Sound’ invites listeners into the amazing Ars Acustica world. And I really love to work together with cool young directors and actors in my practical radio courses at the theatre academy GITIS.