Prix Bohemia Radio presents shortlisted works selected for the main competition
About thirty works will compete at the Prix Bohemia Radio 2023 international radio festival. The 39th edition will take place in the second half of October in Olomouc. Overall, more then one hundred entries have been submitted to compete for the four main prizes in the Drama, Documentary, News Report and Podcast categories.
Thirty Documentaries, twenty-six Dramas, fifty-one Czech and foreign News Reports and thirty-nine Podcasts have been entered into the next edition of the Prix Bohemia Radio Festival, which will take place from 16 to 19 October in Olomouc.
Expert juries chose the works selected for the main competition in all categories. Jury will be augmented by an independent student jury, which will decide on the winner of the Student Awards from all the competition works, regardless of the expert jury pre-selection.
Visitors of the festival can again expect four days of listening to radio production and an accompanying programme of theatre performances, concerts and presentations of news and trends in the field of podcast production.
Selected works in each category:
Documentary:
The Documentary national category is for radio documentaries with a maximum running time of 60 minutes, produced in the Czech Republic and broadcast by a Czech broadcaster between 1 January and 31 December 2022. Thirty documentaries in total were entered in this category. The jury selected six works for the main competition.
- Vyhnanci / Outcasts
Jakub Horáček / Český rozhlas - Nech si uříznout hlavu. Jestli chceš / Behead yourself. If you want.
Lukáš Houdek / HateFree Culture - Svědectví jedné z rodin z vesnice Peremoha, která byla měsíc pod okupací ruských vojáků
Jana Karasová / Český rozhlas - Strom storm / Tree storm
Daniel Kupšovský / Český rozhlas - Příští stanice Hlavák / The Next Stop Hlavák
Ivona Remundová, Walter Nagy / Český rozhlas - Berlín – řada vesnic na písku / Berlin = a scattering of villages built on sand
David Vaughan / Český rozhlas
News Report:
This international category is open to radio News Reports no longer than 10 minutes that were broadcast between the 1st of January and the 31st of December 2022 by a Czech or a foreign broadcaster on the territory of the invited foreign broadcasters. 41 Czech and 10 foreign News Reports were submitted for this section, from which the expert jury chose 4 Czech entries. All 10 of the foreign pieces made it to the finals automatically.
My unknown homeland
Antoni Rokicki / Polish Radio
Mom in the dark - Blind Alena with her daughter at a playground
Veronika Hlaváčová / Czech Radio
The Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
Jonny Dymond / BBC Radio 4
How Three Men Collected Hundreds of Bodies in Bucha
Taras Ibrahimov and Khrystyna Havryliuk / Suspilne Ukraine (UA:PBC)
Shortage of Rental Housing
Nina Alžbetkinová / RTVS
The communists convicted her as a saboteur. The family of a landlady from the south of Bohemia was rehabilitated only now
Petr Kubát / Czech Radio
Dancing against the war
Daniela Prugger / ORF Radio OE1
I Can See Antonivka Bridge From the Window
Taras Ibrahimov and Khrystyna Havryliuk / Suspilne Ukraine (UA:PBC)
Disinformation
Ana-Bella Leikauff / Croatian Radio Television
Attack on Slovjansk
Martin Dorazín / Czech Radio
The dangerous work in the domestic forests
Naz Küçüktekin and Christof Mackinger / ORF Radio OE1
In one word: Slava Ukraini
Marielle Vitureau / Radio France Internationale
Sokol days in Brno
Zuzana Botiková / RTVS
Waiting for Daddy
Iva Vokurková / Czech Radio
Drama:
The Drama national category is for original radio drama, adaptation or dramatization with a maximum running time of 60 minutes, produced in the Czech Republic and broadcast by a Czech broadcaster between 1 January and 31 December 2022. Twenty-six works were entered in this category. The jury selected five finalists.
- Dilema Emila
Autor a režie: Tomáš Dianiška - Kovboj
Autor a režie: Petr Vodička - Máma
Autorka: Asja Vološina
Režie: Tomáš Soldán - Sleduj!
Autor: Tomáš Ráliš
Režie: Ondřej Štefaňák - Svůj vůz i pluh veď přes kosti mrtvých – 1. část
Autorky: Olga Tokarczuk, Kristina Májová
Režie: Izabela Schenková
Podcast:
The Podcast category is added to the traditional Prix Bohemia Radio Festival categories for the second year in a row because of the significant interest in listening to and producing podcasts we have observed in the Czech environment in recent years. The Podcast category was open to submissions of regular podcasts and closed podcast series in Czech that were published on the internet between 1 January and 31 December 2022. Thirty-nine projects were submitted in total, from which the expert jury selected ten finalists for the main competition.
- Gotťák
Pavel Klusák / Audionaut - Vinohradská 12
Matěj Skalický / Český rozhlas - Můžu ti říkat Mirečku?
Dalibor Zíta, Johanna Nejedlová / Alarm / Člověk v tísni - Hranice násilí
Táňa Zabloudilová / Český rozhlas - Šachová hra
Vladimír Mareček / PlayByEars / Český rozhlas / Nadační fond Českého rozhlasu Světluška - Prohnilí
Hana Němečková, Damian Machaj / Seznam Zprávy - Ve stínu: Nejlepší kamarád (investigativní rekonstrukce procesu)
Jiří Kubík a Braňo Pažitka / Seznam Zprávy - Rozchod
Šimon Holý, Denisa Barešová, Jan Nedbal / Český rozhlas - GenZ
Jan Hanák a studenti MUNI, JAMU, UPOL / Radio Proglas - Jiné stavy
Michaela Sladká / Český rozhlas
