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INDEX PAGE INTRODUCTION JURY COORDINATORS 10 THE PRIX EUROPA AWARDS 2014 18 LIFETIME ACHIVEMENT AWARD 2014 20 COMPETING TELEVISION ENTRIES TV DOCUMENTARY 22 TV FICTION 46 TV CURRENT AFFAIRS 74 TV IRIS 92 PRIX GENEVE-EUROPE 108 COMPETING RADIO ENTRIES RADIO DOCUMENTARY 120 RADIO CURRENT AFFAIRS 156 RADIO FICTION 174 RADIO MUSIC 210 COMPETING ONLINE ENTRIES ONLINE 232 SPECIAL EVENTS 264 2 If I were to pick one word to describe the PRIX EUROPA, I would choose ‘gathering’. This year, for the 28th time, the PRIX EUROPA will gather the cream of the crop of European media. From all over the continent, people who share the same passion for television, radio and web will come to Berlin to compete against each other, and so pay testament to the dynamism of European public broadcasting. However, the strength of the festival goes beyond the competition itself. Its real virtue is that it gets young and old from different cultures, religions and languages communicating with and learning from each other. What’s more, this sort of collaboration helps us to understand each other – and that is of crucial moral, civil, social and cultural value in the turbulent world of the moment. I look forward to this exceptional event and to meeting you there. Yours sincerely, Roger de Weck PRIX EUROPA President Director General of Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft - SRG SSR Welcome to Berlin, where PRIX EUROPA has built its home - with good reason. It is a city where ideas count more than high salaries, imagination defeats protocol, and talent can find space to develop. But it is also a place where open criticism is the order of the day, just right for a festival that takes up the cause of programme-makers, a media competition for professional dispute and crossing borders. Welcome – and please feel at home! Susanne Hoffmann PRIX EUROPA Festival Director 3 Each year in October the time-honoured Haus des Rundfunks resonates with a diversity of voices from all over the continent. PRIX EUROPA is in the house. Radio people, TV people and onliners from more than 40 European countries gather here to listen and see, to present and discuss a new harvest of media productions with their colleagues. The festival makes a difference for the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg. For seven days our house is more colourful, more vibrant, more fun than usual. I thoroughly enjoy listening to so many different languages and meeting so many different people. This year another event enhances the resonance of voices from all over Europe: 25 years ago the Berlin Wall came down. This week you will not only celebrate together, but discuss and disagree on – at the best – inspiring and thought-provoking features, research programmes, films, radio series or cross-media projects. This year’s PRIX EUROPA subjects 210 productions to your scrutiny. I am looking forward to your findings and to the winners. Dagmar Reim Director General of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg 4 Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg – mabb: Berlin is the ideal location for a European competition that is all about creativity and quality. This will be the 28th time that PRIX EUROPA brings together Europe’s best productions and the people behind them for a professional dialogue and a competition to find the best programmes. We are glad that we can help to make this productive exchange take place again and again, and we wish PRIX EUROPA all success in the future in its efforts to bring the European media world together. We thank the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg – mabb for its continuous support. 5 We thank the European Commission for kindly sponsoring the following three awards: PRIX EUROPA Best European TV Documentary of the Year 2014 PRIX EUROPA Best European TV Investigation of the Year 2014 PRIX EUROPA Best European Online Project of the Year 2014 6 We thank the Federal Foreign Office for kindly sponsoring the following two awards: PRIX EUROPA Best European TV Drama of the Year 2014 PRIX EUROPA Best European Radio Drama of the Year 2014 7 8 9 JURY COORDINATORS Anna Birgersson-Dahlberg I have long experience from Swedish public media, both radio and television, working with all kinds of programming, including news, current affairs and investigative journalism as well as documentaries, entertainment and humour shows. Today I am Head of UR International that includes acquisitions and international co-productions. I am Vice chairman of the EBU Intercultural and Diversity Group, member of the PRIX EUROPA Steering Committee, Swedish National Coordinator of Input and Vice Chairman of the Swedish Radio Academy. ‘Even though Europe next year is facing the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, Anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia show no signs of fading into the past. Recent surveys concerning fundamental rights show alarming levels of hate-motivated crimes and discrimination all over Europe. That is why PRIX EUROPA, and the IRIS category are so important. As programme makers and journalists we have the responsibility to reflect on the multicultural Europe that we live in – now and in the future.’ Coordinator TV Iris Jury Group Silvia Costeloe It has been an eventful ten years for me at the BBC - from filming undercover for the TV consumer programme Watchdog, to launching the first BBC web 2.0 social network - Blast, to sourcing user generated content for Bafta-winning documentary Our War, to producing the BBC’s core news Twitter feed, @BBCBreaking (10m followers and counting)... there has rarely been a dull moment. Using new technologies effectively to tell the stories has always been the heart of my work. As a senior journalist on our global rolling news channel, BBC World News, my main aim is now to harness social media to better our journalism - on social platforms, when we are newsgathering, and when we are on air. ‘The best place in the world to discuss online projects produced by public service broadcasters is the PRIX EUROPA’s Online category. Creating what has been known as ‘new media’ in ‘old media’ organisations presents huge challenges... and fantastic opportunities. It was not until I first came to the festival that I realised that however far our colleagues working in public service might be, and whatever language they are producing in, these challenges and opportunities are common to all. This makes sharing innovative ideas, lessons and solutions powerful and inspirational.’ Coordinator Online Jury Group 10 JURY COORDINATORS Stephan Cyrus I am a Senior Editor for the German TV station N24. I grew up in Hamburg, went to the army for two years before I began to study law – also in Hamburg. My hobby became my first job in television, when I worked for ‘Ran’ – a TV-show about German football. I live in Berlin since 1998 – one year later I changed to the News-Desk! Since 2004 I am Senior Editor for N24 and responsible for the news programme including the stories-of-the-day as well as for reports on planned items. For me it is quite exciting to see and to work with all the information in short und long formats, because every story has its own methods to create interest and excitement in the viewer. ‘It is a great honour for me to be asked to be one of the coordinators for the Jury at PRIX EUROPA! Journalism is a very important job in any democracy and it is fantastic to meet so many motivated colleagues at PRIX EUROPA. And to see and discuss their work! I am really happy about that! ’ Coordinator TV Current Affairs Jury Group Graham Dixon I am the Managing Editor of BBC Radio 3, and until 2009 I was Chair of the Music Committee of the European Broadcasting Union. I now chair the EBU Euroradio Users Group. I studied at both London and Durham universities, gaining a Ph.D. on sacred music in Baroque Rome, an area on which I have written extensively. I have also completed an MBA, which included work on restructuring media production to embrace new technologies. As a producer and programme editor, I was responsible for major projects and seasons for the BBC’s cultural station. My role as Diversity Lead for BBC Radio builds on a long-term interest and commitment. ‘Witnessing the continuing strength and creativity of the programmes submitted to PRIX EUROPA is a yearly privilege and pleasure. The relatively recent music category now provides a unique chance for producers to learn from each other’s achievements and sense of imagination. At the same time, it should make us very optimistic about the continuing vitality of this sector which is continually striving to find new ways of addressing audiences.’ Coordinator Radio Music Jury Group 11 JURY COORDINATORS BenediKT Fischer Born in 1964, I grew up in Freiburg, Frankfurt and Bonn. I learnt how to make video films and teach it while studying philosophy and communication in Munich. Practical trainings at television and film companies followed where I got to know different stages and roles in filmmaking. Education as filmmaker and commissioning editor for television at Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich. Since 1993 author of short films and director of award-winning documentaries about social and educational issues for Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt. I love language, pictures, fantasy to find out the ‘story behind the story’ and the big ‘why’? behind it all… ‘Unlike many other festivals PRIX EUROPA is not a show! Watching films, discussing and swapping ideas with colleagues from all over Europe – that‘s simply straight forward and may broaden your horizons. It is a great honour for to be part of it!’ Coordinator TV Documentary Jury Group Alan Hall I am the Director of Falling Tree Productions, a small production company based in south-east London that specialises in documentaries, music & arts features and innovative formats (Between the Ears, Short Cuts and The Design Dimension among them).