Five experts that will decide on the winners. Introducing the panel of judges in the Documentary category
Four international panels of judges will be deciding on which radio works will be taking home the prizes from the Prix Bohemia Radio festival. The order of the works in the Documentary category will be in the hands of five experts.
The first spot in the panel goes to Barbora Hovorková. After graduating with a master’s degree from the Department of Sound at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), she got involved in the production of (not only) Czech films, TV shows, animated films, documentaries and series. She likes both on-set filming and working in post-production. She enjoys the diversity, creativity and the wide range of expressive means that sound design can use to affect the emotions of a viewer. She is currently working at Studio Virtual on dubbing foreign films into Czech, for which she won the 2019 František Filipovský Award for Sound in Dubbing.
Zdeněk Chaloupka studied documentary filmmaking at FAMU Film and TV School. As a director and cinematographer he has worked mainly with non-profit organizations such as Adra, Post Bellum and Doctors Without Borders. Since 2015, he has regularly travelled to eastern Ukraine to record the consequences of a war the world has forgotten. It is also where his radio debut, Cesta zapomenutou válkou (The Journey through the Forgotten War) originated from, showing the reality of everyday life in villages on the frontline.
In 2019, together with Květa Přibylová he made a four-episode series for Czech Radio called Plýtvání (Wasting), which explored the causes and consequences of wasting not only food, but also resources, time and human potential.
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With Květa – now his wife – he is currently finalizing Kdo zabil orlici Karinu (Who Killed Karina the Eagle) podcast series. In seven episodes, they follow the trail of a poisoner who poisoned four sea eagles with the banned poison carbofuran, and their search takes them among conservationists, police officers, and most importantly, into a tangled web of personal and social relationships.
Liam O'Brien is the Series Producer of RTÉ Documentary on One with the Irish public service broadcaster, RTÉ. Since starting out with RTÉ in 2000, he has been involved in the production of hundreds of radio documentaries and podcasts.
As Series Producer of RTÉ Documentary On One, he has developed the unit into the most successful in the history of RTÉ, in awards terms - whilst also developing the strand into the top podcast in RTÉ, and consistently one of the top podcasts in Ireland. He has won many awards at all the top audio competitions worldwide, including being a multiple award winner at Prix Europa.
A grand total of twenty one jurors will be deciding the winners of the 39th annual Prix Bohemia Radio festival awards. National and international radio professionals will sit on each of the juries for the documentary, drama, news report and podcast categories and decide which works will reach the main competition.
Liam has been both a student and coach on the European Broadcasting Union Masterschool for young documentary makers and been a coach on the Åke Blomström training programme. Liam has also created a Diploma in Creative Audio Storytelling for Podcast and Radio in conjunction with the University of West London.
Throughout the last number of years, Liam has begun to focus on multi-episodic documentary series for podcast and radio, a number of which are being made into film/TV or have been optioned for film and/or books. He is the current chair of the EBU Audio Storytelling Group.
Vaida Pilibaitytė is a Lithuanian radio journalist and documentary producer working for the national public broadcaster LRT. Her professional focus is mainly on environmental issues, but also history, culture, and human rights. Vaida’s co-production with Deutsche Welle received a Silver medal in the Environment category at the New York Festivals in 2004. Her documentary work has won multiple national awards, was featured on the BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts, presented at the EBU International Feature Conferences and nominated for the Prix Europa twice. Since 2021 she is also a programmer of the BANGUOJA festival – a first audio festival in Lithuania with focus on human rights.
Filip Titlbach is a journalist at the daily journal Deník N. He is the author of the Studio N news and journalism podcast, one of the most listened-to in the country. He wrote a book Byli jsme tu vždycky (We’ve Always Been Here), which maps current queer reality in the Czech Republic. He has won multiple radio awards and nominations for the Journalism Award and the Křišťálová lupa Award. His book was recommended by the Magnesia Litera jury in the Journalism category. The Open Society’s Genderman poll awarded him for drawing attention to sexism and for "provoking a necessary discussion". Previously, he worked for public service broadcaster Czech Radio, the daily newspaper MF Dnes and the Deník regional daily. He focuses on politics as well as social and minority issues. He was born in Sokolov, West Bohemia. He studied journalism at Palacký University in Olomouc. For a long time and without success.
