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WINNERS

WINNERS - Grand Prix Nova 2023

The winners of 11th Grand Prix Nova are:


DRAMA CATEGORY

1 Events

Cineke Asbl - Belgium

Author, Director: Pascale Brischoux


2 Creation of the Birds

Falling Tree Productions - UK

Author, Producer, Director: Samy El-Enany


3 The supervisor

Norddeutscher Rundfunk – Germany

Author, Producer, Director: Nis-Momme Stockmann


SHORT FORMS CATEGORY

1 The magic of waves

France

Author, Producer, Director: Ève-Marie Bouché


2 White Noise

Falling Tree Productions - UK

Author, Producer, Director: Axel Kacoutié


3 Dochia, The King’s Daughter

SRR - Romania

Director: Attila Vizauer, Sound engineer: Mihnea Chelaru


BINAURAL DRAMA CATEGORY

1 Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell

BBC audio Drama North - UK

Director: Nadia Molinari


2 Nada within air – Poet’s impressions of a field recording

Belgium

Author, Producer, Director: Charo Calvo


3 To the Battle

SRR - Romania

Author: Răzvan Ursuleanu, Director: Mihnea Chelaru



Jury coordinators of 11th Grand Prix Nova:


MARTA REBZDA – journalist, author of radio plays, co-author of the radio novel “Matysiakowie”, chief of the literary section at Polish Radio Theatre.

Winner of several awards for radio features and also a winner of the prizes for best original script in a radio drama at the 19th, 20 th and 21 th, Polish Radio Theatre and Polish Television Theatre Festivals for her texts entitled: The Frog (2019), Broken (2021) and Good comes back double (2022).

Her radio drama Let me tell you won the 1st prize at the UK International Audio Drama Festival in Canterbury 2022, and Someone is waiting for you won the Polish-German Tadeusz Mazowiecki Journalism Award in 2022 and The word won 1st prize at the UK International Audio Drama Festival in Canterbury 2023.

Her radio drama titled The Girl and Hide and seek, here we go and Broken, Let me tell you were nominated for Prix Europa 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022. Let me tell you was nominated for Phonurgia Nova Awards 2022. All her radio dramas were directed by Waldemar Modestowicz.


SEBASTIAN DICENAIRE is a french writer and a radio artist living in brussels, belgium. He deals in language, no matter what the format: written publication, performance, and radiophonic creation. He has published several works of poetry and has appeared on many stages in French-speaking countries and elsewhere. Since 2009, he has been investigating the creative potential of radio fiction through productions that often challenge the form. His fictions have won many awards: Special Commendation at Prix Europa Berlin 2011 and Belgium’s 2012 SACD Prize for fiction for Kirkjubæjarklaustur; Prix Phonurgia Nova (Paris) and Silver Award at the Grand Prix Nova (Bucharest) 2016 for Pamela; Prix SGDL (Paris) and Prix Marulić 2018 (Croatia) for High Fidelity John; New York Festival Golden Award for Dead Memory Clinic (2020)…


WINNERS - Grand Prix Nova 2022
The winners of 10th Grand Prix Nova are:
DRAMA CATEGORY
1 Xerxes
Hessischer Rundfunk, Germany
Director: Peter Kaizar

2  Night falls without warning
MA scène nationale du Pays de Montbéliard, France
Director: Christophe Rault

3  What can you see?
ORF, Austria
Director: Stefan Weber

SHORT FORMS CATEGORY
1 Animal Farm
Deutschlandradio Kultur, Germany, Italy
Author, Producer,  Director: Stefano Gianotti

2 Forever a Room
Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, Germany
Author, Producer,  Director: Johannes  Sistermanns

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SRR, Romania
Director: Mihnea Chelaru

BINAURAL DRAMA CATEGORY
1 Of Mud And Steel - Beware The Angry Deer
La Collectif Wow!, Belgium
Author: Florent Barat

2 Like a dog without a bone
RSI, Switzerland
Director: Flavio Stoppini

3 Uneasy (Part 1 & 2)
Czech Radio, Czech Republic
Producer: Kateřina Rathouská

Jury coordinators of 10th Grand Prix Nova:

Reto Ott was born in 1964 and grew up near Zürich in Switzerland. 

He studied philosophy and literature in Zürich and Berlin and worked as assistant director and dramaturg at theatres in Germany, France and Switzerland. Since 2000 he works as director and editor for the Drama Department at Swiss Radio and Television SRF. Since 2013 he is vice-head of the department and responsible for the drama production.

He was the dramaturg and director of nearly 100 radioplays of different genres, short and long formats and series. He mainly works on original plays by swiss authors, especially plays written and performed in swiss dialect. Besides working with famous swiss authors like Max Frisch, Markus Werner, Thomas Hürlimann and Hansjörg Schneider and producing radioworks by important directors like Jean-Claude Kuner and Thom Luz, he regularly develloped new plays by young authors. And he adapted plays by international authors like Emma Donoghue, Daniel Keene, Lars Norén and Jack Thorne. His productions have been awarded at national and international festivals. 

Since 2008 he is a member of the EBU Radiodrama Group. He was a jury member and coordinator at the Swiss Drama Award, Prix Europa, Grand Prix Nova and others.

He lives with his family in Freiburg im Breisgau/Germany.

Andreas Jungwirth, was born in 1967 in Linz/Donau, Austria. He writes children's books and novels, but from the very beginning he had a special love for radio plays. 

In the past 25 years, numerous original radio plays and adaptations of own and third-party texts have been created for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and various German broadcasters. He also works as a radio play director and moderator for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (radio play gala, radiophone workshop.) The Romanian Broadcasting Corporation produced "Langholzfeld" in 2021.


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GRAND PRIX NOVA 2021
GRAND PRIX NOVA 2020
The winners of 8th Grand Prix Nova #online 2020 are:

DRAMA CATEGORY

1. The Ears Game
Author & Director: Jiří Adámek
Czech Radio
Czech Republic
2. Holidays from Suicide
Authors & Directors: Birgit Kempker and Anatol Atonal
Swiss Radio and Television
Switzerland
3. 101 FM
Director & Sound engineer: Mihnea Chelaru
Radio Romania
Romania


SHORT FORMS CATEGORY

1. The Painting - Director's Cut
Autor, Director & Sound engineer: Neil Sandell
Producer:Neil Sandell with Mira Burt-Wintonick, Cristal Duhaime, Sarah Geis
Canada
2. Earthquake
Director: Dario Harjaček
HRT Radio
Croatia
3. People's House
Director: Ilinca Stihi
Radio Romania
Romania


BINAURAL DRAMA CATEGORY

1. Silence
Director: Bettina Mittelstraß, Jascha Dormann
Idee und Klang Audio Design
Switzerland
2. Letter to Irma
Directors & Sound engineers: Benoit Bories and Aurélien Caillaux
Le Labo Radio Télévision Suisse Espace 2
Switzerland
3. Dreamways
Directors & Sound engineers: Martina Weber, Lena Löhr, Carina Pesch
GERÄUSCHKULISSE
Germany


Jury's Special Prize
Zurab Kandelaki - for his unique and poetic language; for his enrichment of radio culture; for his many original productions and his great devotion to Radio Art
Georgian Public Radio
Georgia



JURY MEMBERS 2020


Bernard Clarke (President of the Jury)

is an award winning broadcaster and sound artist. His work for Irish State public proadcaster RTÉ lyric fm has won many domestic prizes. In his own radio art and sound art work he has won many international awards. He is delighted to be part of Radio Romania’s prestigious Grand Prix Nova once again.


Soila Valkama

is a director, a dramaturge and an actress. She studied acting at Ecole Jacques Lecoq and Ecole d’art dramatique Florent, cours libre 1989-92 in Paris. And graduated in 1998 as Master of Arts from the Theatre Academy of Finland with directing Major. She has worked as a director, dramaturge, producer and as a program developer with the Finnish Broadcasting Company since 1999.


Dmitri Nikolaev

is a stage, radio drama, and film director. Now is teacher in acting and film acting (microphone and camera) at three theater institutes and at two film schools in Moscow. He recorded a bunch of radio dramas and Ars Acustica productions in Russia and abroad. In his „life museum”, he has won two Prix Europa, four Grand Prix Maruliç, Prix Italia and two Prix Novas, which he loves all and calls "metal bolls".


Ulrich Bassenge

works freelance as an audio artist, writer, composer, director, bricolateur, mainly for German and Swiss public radio and functioned as an experimental radio lecturer at Bauhaus University Weimar. Being a two-time winner of Grand Prix Nova he enjoys this year’s jury membership as an opportunity to support adventurous radio art.


Attila Vizauer, director, head of the Radio Drama Department of Radio Romania. Vice-chair of the EBU Radio Drama Group. He has signed the adaptation and artistic direction of numerous radio drama productions. He has participated in and coordinated radio creation workshops, organized by the European Broadcast Union and the Asia-Pacific Broadcast Union
GRAND PRIX NOVA 2019
JURY MEMBERS 2019


Mathias Calmeyer (Norway) (President of the Jury) – actor, writer and director of stageplays, opera, tv-series and short films. Last 6 years director in nrk Radioteatret

Akim Mogaji (UK) – producer and trainer, with a wide experience in building creative teams and coordinates projects for broadcasters (audio and video)

Ilinca Stihi (Romania) – director, internationally awarded for her radio works, and founder member of GPN Festival

Jasna Mesarić (Croatia) – director in the Drama Department of Croatian Radiotelevision

Alexandre Plank (France) – sound artist (fiction and documentary programs) at France Culture

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WINNERS of Grand Prix Nova 7th edition for DRAMA Category:

1. Buzz suppression. Recording Strictly Off the Record
Directed by Ulrich Bassenge
| Germany and Switzerland | WDR and SRF

2. Mental FM 
Directed by Arnaud Forest
| France | ARTE Radio

3.The Black Sheep, Funeral for the Electric Asylum 
Directed by Chiara Todaro and Guillaume Abgral
| Belgium | La tentative



THE WINNERS of Grand Prix Nova 7th edition for BINAURAL Category:

1. That Dreadful Charm of Autumn 
Directed by Natália Deáková
Producer Kateřina Rathouská
| Czech Republic | Czech Radio

2. Pig’s Weather
Directed by Benoit Bories
| Switzerland | RTS Espace 2

3. UM, on Numbers, Poetry and Hope 
Directed by Charo Calvo
| Spain & Belgium |



THE WINNERS of Grand Prix Nova 7th edition for SHORT FORM Category:

1. Lili Marlene - Serbian Cutting 
Directed by Snežana Ristic & Radonja Leposavic
| Serbia |

2. Drip Drop 
Directed by Simina Oprescu
| Romania | SEMI SILENT & Asociația Jumătatea plină

3. Horses Talk. Dii, Hai, Ho and other horse words 
Directed by Félix Blume
| Romania | SEMI SILENT & Asociația Jumătatea 
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GRAND PRIX NOVA 2018


JURY MEMBERS 2018


Soila Valkama (President of the Jury)
(Finland) is a director, dramaturg and producer/program developer for Finnish Broadcasting Company, Radio Theatre since 1999

Olya Booyar,
(Malayesia), Head of Radio for the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, responsible for setting the strategic direction for the Radio as well as help drive an expansion of services to the ABU’s more than 270 member organisations across the region.

Janko Hanushevsky,

(Germania) muzician, sound artist independent

Slobodan Govorcin,

(Serbia) dramaturg, editor at RTV Vojvodina

Ilinca Stihi,
(Romania) director at Radio Romania




RADIO DRAMA
. The WINNERS are:

1. SWITZERLAND - The Day It Rained 449 Franz Klammers - MARTIN BEZZOLA - SRF

2. BELGIUM - Almanak - WEDERIK DE BACKER - DE ZIEKE STEUR

3. GERMANY - BLATNÝ’S HEAD or: God the linguist teaches us to breathe - CHRISTINE NAGEL - RBB


BINAURAL. The WINNERS are:



1. UK - Martha - NADIA MOLINARI - BBC

2. BELGIUM - The First Time I Went Crowdzy - JEANNE DEBARSY and MAËL G. LAGADEC - BABELFISH ASBL

3. ROMANIA - Santé - ANA - TEODORA POPA



SHORT FORMS. The WINNERS are:


1. DENMARK - The Water - RIKKE HOUD - SINGING SEA

2. IRELAND - sleep no more - BERNARD CLARKE - RTE lyric fm

3. SWITZERLAND - The Birdhouse - WOLFRAM HOLL - SRF


GRAND PRIX NOVA 2017

5th edition, Bucharest, 29th May - 3rd June

JURY

Dmitriy Nikolaev - Stage and Radio Director, member of EBU Radio Drama working group
Shanthi Bhagirathan - Group Director of The Capital Maharaja Organisation(PVT)ltd - Sri Lanka, Group Director - MBC Networks (PVT)Ltd
Bernard Clarke - Radio broadcaster at RTE lyric fm, Ireland
Amandine Casadamont - Freelance artist, author and sound director

Ilinca Stihi - Director in Radio Drama Department of Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation


RADIO DRAMA winners

  1. YOUNG BEAUTIFUL MONSTERS - LE COLLECTIF WOW/ BELGIUM
  2. FALSE ALARM - SRF/ SWITZERLAND
  3. THE BLACK REGEN OVID: THE WHITE REGEN MARCUS AURELIUS- RTVS/ SLOVAKIA

SHORT FORMS winners

  1. FAIRY TALE LICIOUS : FAIRY SONGS AND POP TALES- SWITZERLAND /SRF
  2. NOTTURNO - HRT/ CROATIA
  3. VOICES - EXERCISES IN STYLE - RTS/ SERBIA
GRAND PRIX NOVA 2016

4th edition, Bucharest 31th May - 4th June

JURY

Katharina Rathouská - Head of Drama and Literature Departmentof Czech Radio, member of Euroradio Drama Group
Vijay Sadhu - Senior Executive, Programming Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)
Dmitri Plax - Freelance artist, writer and radio producer
Stefano Gianotti - Freelance composer, guitarist and perfomer
Oana Cristea Grigorescu - Theater critic and cultural journalist at Radio Romania Cluj

RADIO DRAMA winners

  1. SO FAR AWAY FROM LIFE / SRF / SWITZERLAND / AUTHOR: ULRICH BASSENGE / DIRECTOR: JOHANNES MAYR
  2. PAMELA / ACSR / BELGIUM / AUTHOR & DIRECTOR: SEBASTIAN DICENAIRE
  3. TRAITORS / ARTE RADIO / FRANCE/ AUTHOR: ILANA NAVARO & SILVAIN GIRE / DIRECTOR: SAMUEL HIRSCH

SHORT FORMS winners

  1. PEDAL POWER / ARTE RADIO / FRANCE / AUTOR & DIRECTOR: CHARLES TRAHAN
  2. SHUT THE WINDOWS! SHUT THE WINDOWS! / SRF / SWITZERLAND / AUTHOR: GERHARD MEISTER / DIRECTOR: PÄIVI STALDER
  3. THINKING OF SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW / TRIBORD STUDIO / GERMANY / AUTHOR & DIRECTOR: MARTIN DASKE
GRAND PRIX NOVA 2015

3rd edition, Bucharest 1st - 6th June

JURY

Reto Ott - Director and editor in Radio Drama Department at Swiss Radio and Television SRF and member of EBU Radiodrama Group
Silvain Gire - co-founder and editor-in-chief of ARTE Radio
Vijay Sadhu - Senior Executive, Programming Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)
Krok & Petschinka - Freelance Writer and Director
Mihai Lungeanu - Director in Radio Drama Department of Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation

RADIO DRAMA winners

  1. PESCHO - CZECH RADIO - DIRECTOR: PETR MANČAL; AUTHOR: MAREK EPSTEIN
  2. TO MOSCOW ! - RADIO RUSSIA / RADIO KULTURA- AUTHOR AND DIRECTOR: DAVID ZANE MAIROWITZ
  3. DRY HAZE - THE YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER - DEUTSCHLANDRADIO - AUTHOR AND DIRECTOR: WERNER CEE

SHORT FORMS winners

  1. CALL OF DATING - WIRETAP FROM CBC RADIO - AUTHOR AND DIRECTOR: CRISTAL DUHAIME AND MIRA BURT-WINTONICK
  2. THE MOTHER - RADIO ROMANIA - AUTHOR AND DIRECTOR: ILINCA STIHI
  3. METRO. AUDITORY HALLUCINATIONS - RADIO RUSSIA - AUTHOR AND DIRECTOR: DMITRY NIKOLAEV
GRAND PRIX NOVA 2014

2nd edition, Bucharest 16th -22nd June

JURY

Idalberto Fei - Freelance Director and writer
Marina Bagdasaryan - Theatre critic, radio producer and co-founder of Radio Kultura, Russia
Alison Hindell - Head of Audio Drama, UK of the BBC
Cristina Modreanu - Curator, theatre critic and expert in performing arts
Domnica Tundrea - Producer and editor in Radio Drama Department of Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation

RADIO DRAMA winners

  1. THE METAMORPHOSIS, RADIO ROMANIA
  2. ANNA LIVIA PLURABELLE, RUNDFUNK BERLIN-BRANDENBURG
  3. AMORE MIO - LOVE SONGS AND OTHER STUFF, SUDWESTRUNDFUNK

SHORT FORMS winners

  1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DARLING, RADIO RUSSIA
  2. COUNTDOWN, RADIO ROMANIA
  3. ROUNDABOUT DANCE ABOUT THE DAYS OF THE WEEK, HRT-CROATIAN RADIO


GRAND PRIX NOVA 2013

1st edition, Bucharest 30th September - 5th October

JURY

Nils Heyerdahl - former Head of Radio Drama Department in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK)
Alison Hindell - Head of Audio Drama, UK of the BBC
Ljubo Pauzin - Head of Prix Marulic International Festival of Radio Plays and Documentary Radio Dramas organized by HRT Croatian Radio and Television
Alexandru Darie - General Manager of Bulandra Theatre in Bucharest, Romania
Ilinca Stihi - Director in Radio Drama Department of Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation

RADIO DRAMA winners

  1. FAUST SONG OF THE SUN, BY WERNER FRITSCH, GERMANY
  2. THE STARTLING TRUTHS OF OLD WORLD SPARROWS, UK
  3. PECCATA MORTALIS, AUSTRIA


SHORT FORMS winners

  1. GLAGOLION, CROATIA
  2. ALAS, POOR FATHER, ROMANIA
  3. IOTA MIKRO,BELGIUM