Prix Bohemia Radio presents shortlisted works selected for the main competition
About thirty works will compete at the Prix Bohemia Radio 2024 international radio festival. The 40th edition will take place in 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-four Dramas, abou fifty Czech and foreign News Reports and forty-six Podcasts have been entered into the next edition of the Prix Bohemia Radio Festival, which will take place from 13 to 17 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 2023 and 31 March 2024. Thirty documentaries in total were entered in this category. The jury selected six works for the main competition.
- In the Trailer
Eva Lammelová / Hate free culture - Hotel Hate
Brit Jensen / HateFree Culture - If It Falls, It Falls
Zdeněk Chaloupka / Czech Radio - Are You in a Relationship? Could I See It?
Tereza Reková / Czech Radio - Five Stages of Grief
Eliška Mádrová / Masaryk University - Let It Go
Jiří Slavičínský / Audionaut-Bionaut
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. Over 50 Czech and foreign News Reports were submitted to this section, from which the expert juries selected 4 Czech and 10 foreign finalists for the main competition.
- Letters
Antoni Rokicki | Polish Radio | Poland - “Help me! I'm a child, I'm being shot." Hind's Last Phone Call from Gaza
Azzurra Meringolo | RAI radiotelevisione Italiana and Picomedia | Italy - Europa-Journal: Ukraine - Radio Experiences a Rebirth in Times of War
Daniela Prugger | ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Corporation | Austria - "There is sorrow in every house now" - in Groza People are Preparing for a Mass Burial
Dmytro Grebinnyk | Suspilne Ukraine (JSC "UA: PBC") | Ukraine - Life Always Wins: Ukrainian Women and Doctors Reflect on Childbirth in Wartime
Ieva Balsiunaite | Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) | Lithuania - Kharkiv Is Experiencing Heavy Attacks by the Russian Army
Indra Sprance | Latvian Radio | Latvia - The Organization "Save Ukraine" Helps Evacuate People from Ukraine
Indra Sprance | Latvian Radio | Latvia - Let Us Across the Rio Grande!
Jan Kaliba | Czech Radio | Czech Republic - As Far As Impossible
Mário Rui Cardoso | Radio Antena 1/RTP | Portugal - Europa-Journal: Russia - Free Media Only Exists Abroad
Markus Mueller-Schinwald | ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Corporation | Austria - Help for Vuhledar under Fire
Martin Dorazín | Czech Radio | Czech Republic - Illegal Mining of Moldavites around Ceske Budejovice
Matěj Vodička | Czech Radio | Czech Republic - Carnation Revolution: Spain Eyes on Portugal
Miguel Soares | Antena 1 – RTP | Portugal - Babybox stories – Johanna
Veronika Hlaváčová | Czech Radio | Czech Republic
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 2023 and 31 March 2024. Twenty-four works were entered in this category. The jury selected five finalists.
- Alfred Jarry: King Ubu (Translated by Prokop Voskovec, Radio adaptation Vít Vencl, dramaturgy by Martin Velíšek, Music and Sound Design by Miroslav Tóth, Sound Dominik Budil, Directed by Vít Vencl)
- Pavel Molek: Crossroads (Dramaturgy by Klára Novotná, Music and Sound Design by Miroslav Tóth, Sound by Jonáš Rosůlek, Directed by Petr Mančal)
- Rudyard Kipling: Mowgli (Translated by Aloys Skoumal a Hana Skoumalová, Dramatization by Marie Špalová, Dramaturgy by Lenka Veverková, Music and Sound Design by Miroslav Tóth, Sound by Jonáš Rosůlek, Directed by Izabela Schenková)
- Ladislav Fuks: Mr Theodor Mundstock (Dramatization by Lenka Veverková, Dramaturgy by Zuzana Sikačová, Music by Jan Trojan a Ester Grohová, Sound design by Jan Trojan, Sound by Tomáš Pernický, Directed by Aleš Vrzák)
- Daisy Mrázková: Why is Heaven so Far Away (Dramatization by Matěj Samec, Dramaturgy by Lenka Veverková, Music and Sound Design by Jan Trojan, Sound by Tomáš Pernický, Directed by Izabela Schenková)
Podcast:
The Podcast category is added to the traditional Prix Bohemia Radio Festival categories for the third 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 2023 and 31 March 2024. Forty-six projects were submitted in total, from which the expert jury selected ten finalists for the main competition.
- Disappearance
Author Matěj Samec, Directed by Bohdan Karásek, Sound Džian Baban and Jakub Školný, Music and Sound Design Džian Baban, Creative producer and Dramaturgy Klára Vičíková | Czech Radio - Tarts Read
Authors Ivana Veselková and Zuzana Fuksová | Czech Radio - Where is My Home?
Author and Direction Lukáš Houdek, Sound Design Adam Voneš, Dramaturgy Brit Jensen | Hatefree Culture - To the East!
Authors Josef Pazderka and Ondřej Soukup, Sound Design Damiana Smetanová, Dramaturgy Daniela Vrbová, Creative producer Lukáš Sapík | Czech Radio - A Year of War: From Ukraine to Prague
Authors Damian Machaj, Ondřej Suchan, Martin Dorazín, Jan Pokorný, Storylab Audio | Czech Radio - Behind the Scenes: Kavčí hory
Authors Jakub Adamus and Jakub Hošek, Directed by Eva Jarešová, Sound and Sound Design Jakub Novotný, Dramaturgy Jiří Koukal, Creative producer Štěpánka Sunková | Czech TV - Reaction
by Marie-Louisa Purkrábková, Script Radio Wave, Directed by Natália Deáková, Sound Jitka Špálová, Sound Design Stanislav Abrahám, Music Jakub Kudláč, Creative producer and Dramaturgy Kateřina Rathouská | Czech Radio - Karina the Eagle Has Died
Authors and Direction Zdeněk and Květa Chaloupkovi, Sound Adam Levý | Audionaut - School Ski Trip
Script and Direction Tereza Verecká, Sound Jitka Špálová, Sound design and Music Ondřej Gášek, Dramaturgy Lenka Veverková | Czech Radio - Forgive?
Author Ridina Ahmedová, Sound Jaroslav Pokorný, Music Ridina Ahmedová and Jaroslav Pokorný, Creative producer and Dramaturgy Veronika Ruppert | Czech Radio
