Conditions for entering pieces
Drama. Documentary. News reports. Podcasts. These are the four competition sections that will be offered by the Prix Bohemia Radio international radio festival in 2023 — the event’s 39th year.
Four competition categories will be presented at Prix Bohemia Radio 2023. For this year’s competition, three national categories and one international category have been announced.
NOTICE ON SUBMISSIONS OF WORKS
Works cannot be submitted to several categories at once. However, a podcast channel or a series overall may be submitted in the Podcast category while a selected episode of that podcast is also submitted in the corresponding category—Drama, Documentary, or News Report.
The festival committee reserves the right to shift submissions into the appropriate categories and reject submissions that do not meet the submission rules.
International category News Report
The international News Report category is open to radio reports of up to 10 minutes in duration, published in the period between 1 January and 31 December 2022 by a Czech media or a foreign media on the territory of the invited foreign broadcasters.
In a news format - i.e. authentic, eyewitness testimony by a reporter who reports on an important current event in the form of a description, narration, interview with other participants, and audio capture of the environment. In the version and format as it was broadcasted, i.e. without any editing.
In this category the first three places will receive a Prix Bohemia Radio prize. The order of the competing submissions will be assessed by a dedicated five-member expert jury. Evaluation of the pieces in the main competition will be carried out by means of a secret vote following playbacks of competing programmes.
The jury will be supplemented by an independent student jury. It will select the recipient of the Student Prize from among all of the competing programmes, regardless of the expert commission’s pre-selection.
National category Documentary
The national Documentary category is open to radio documentaries of up to 60 minutes in duration produced in the Czech Republic and published by the Czech media in the period from 1 January to 31 December 2022.
In this category the first three places will receive a Prix Bohemia Radio prize. The order of the competing submissions will be assessed by a dedicated five-member expert jury. Evaluation of the pieces in the main competition will be carried out by means of a secret vote following playbacks of competing programmes.
The jury will be supplemented by an independent student jury. It will select the recipient of the Student Prize from among all of the competing programmes, regardless of the expert commission’s pre-selection.
National category Drama
The national Drama category is open to radio dramas, adaptations and dramatizations of up to 60 minutes in duration produced in the Czech Republic and published by the Czech media in the period from 1 January to 31 December 2022.
In this category the first three places will receive a Prix Bohemia Radio prize. The order of the competing submissions will be assessed by a dedicated five-member expert jury. Evaluation of the pieces in the main competition will be carried out by means of a secret vote following playbacks of competing programmes.
The jury will be supplemented by an independent student jury. It will select the recipient of the Student Prize from among all of the competing programmes, regardless of the expert commission’s pre-selection.
National category Podcast
Podcast submissions may be: regular podcasts, podcast channels with at least ten published episodes, or finished podcast series with at least five published episodes that were published via the internet (a website, app, or streaming platform) between January 1st and December 31st of 2022.
The podcasts must be in Czech and must be available in audio for Czech audiences. Video podcasts cannot be submitted. The podcasts may be of any length.
Together with a link to the published podcast, other related materials can be submitted as well (e.g. listener reactions and comments, audience-size data, or accompanying multimedia data, with a presentation scope of max. 5 slides or 5 pages (at 1,800 characters per page). Podcasts can be submitted by their authors, dramaturges, implementation teams, or production companies.
A regular podcast or series can only be entered as a whole, so you cannot enter individual episodes of podcasts or series, individual radio plays, documentaries or news reports. A work can only be entered in one competition category.
In this category the first three places will receive a Prix Bohemia Radio prize. The order of competition entries will be judged by the jury itself. The evaluation of the works in the main competition is done by secret vote by the jury after the presentations of the competition works.
The jury will be supplemented by an independent student jury. It will select the recipient of the Student Prize from among all of the competing programmes, regardless of the expert commission’s pre-selection.
