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 2024 — the event’s 40th year.
Four competition categories will be presented at Prix Bohemia Radio 2024. 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.
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 2023 and 30 June 2024 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 2023 to 31 March 2024.
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 2023 to 31 March 2024.
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 three published episodes that were published via the internet (a website, app, or streaming platform) between January 1st of 2023 and March 31st of 2024.
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.
