20th PRIXCIRCOM WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Prix Circom 2009 Jury report

The eight category winners in the valuable and prestigious Prix Circom Regional for Europe’s regional TV stations are announced on Monday 6 April 2009, after four days of judging in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

The BBC has dominated with two winners – in the Video Journalism and Documentary categories – and with two other programmes highly commended, in the Magazine and Documentary categories. The Magazine category and the Web category were both won by RTE Ireland, who can also celebrate great success. Other awards go to Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg in Germany, Czech Television, RTVSlo Slovenia and Omroep Fryslan in The Netherlands

There were 132 entries from 20 different countries. The categories were Web Site, Documentary, Magazine, International, Fiction/Drama, Sport, Vivre L’Europe and Video Journalism.

The awards are sponsored by several European public service broadcasters: France TV, BBC, ERT 3 Greece, SVT Sweden, RTVSlo Slovenia, TG4 Ireland and TVP Poland. The winning station in each category receives prize money of 3,000 euros and a trophy. The winning stations are invited to send the producer or director of the programme (or manager of the web site) to Groningen, expenses paid for travel and two nights’ accommodation, to collect the award at a gala evening event attended by the senior executives and producers of Europe’s public service broadcast regional stations.

The judging was in Celadna, near Ostrava, at the invitation of Ilja Racek, Ceskatelevize Ostrava’s station director, and Vladimir Stvrtna, national co-ordinator for CTV.

The 14 judges were all highly experience television professionals from 14 different countries. The judges were: Grethe Haaland (NRK Norway); Malin Rogstrom (SVT Sweden); Janos Csespregi (MTV Hungary); Jozef Puchala (STV Slovakia); Vladmir Strakos (CTV Czech Republic); Maire ni Choinlain (TG4 Ireland); Jean-Christian Spenle (FTV France); Dieuwke Kroese (Omroep Fryslan, The Netherlands); Elke Kalbe (BRF Studio Franken, Germany); Isabel Correia (RTP Portugal); Carla Tompea (TVR Romania); Boris Bergant (RTVSlo Slovenia); Wojchiech Malinowski (TVP Poland); Tony O’Shaughnessy (BBC Wales).

The BBC is also sponsor of the category, Documentary, which it won and under the competition rules is not allowed to collect the prize money give by its own sponsorship. The trophy, however, will still be presented and the producer or director will still have travel and accommodation paid to collect the award.

The category winners are:

GRAND PRIX
Winner: God's Rainbow (CTV Ostrava, Czech Republic), also this year's Fiction/Drama winner

DOCUMENTARY
Winner: Inside Out: A Ferry Big Con (BBC South East, UK)
Commended: Who Killed My Son (BBC South, UK) and My Seventh Spring (NRK More Og Romsdal, Norway)

MAGAZINE
Winner: Pobal Special (RTE Dublin, Ireland)
Commended: Inside Out South (BBC South, UK)

VIDEO JOURNALISM
Winner: Gareth Furby (BBC London, UK)
Commended: Sean Mac an tSithigh (TG4 Galway, Ireland)

VIVRE L'EUROPE
Winner: EU Snapshots (RTVSlo Maribor, Slovenia)

SPORT
Winner: Keats Heart (Omroep Fryslan, The Netherlands)
Commended: The Boat Competition (TG4 Galway, Ireland)

INTERNATIONAL
Winner: Rublyovka: Road To Bliss (Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg, Germany)

FICTION/DRAMA
Winner: God's Rainbow (CTV Ostrava, Czech Republic)

WEB
Winner: RTE Dublin, Ireland
Commended: SVT Umea, Sweden

PROGRAMME ENTRY PACK: Rules, Categories, Criteria, Entry Form:
~ pdf format  ~ doc format
~ pdf format  ~ doc format
~ pdf format  ~ doc format

The Best Regional Television Programmes In Europe

Every year, the Prix Circom Regional honours the best regional productions. These are the most important international awards for regional programmes and were first presented in 1990.

Categories change from year to year. For instance, in 1992 the awards were for Best Documentary, Best Direction, Best Fiction and Best Cross-Border Programme. In 1993, there was an award for Best Youth programme.

The award juries comprise experts working as producers in regional stations and have been supported financially the the European Commission, European Parliament, France 3 and host stations at the annual conference.

The Circom Regional Annual Conference is hosted every year by a national network in a regional centre.

Year	Town	Station
2008	Prix Circom 2008, Maribor	RTVSLO
2007	Prix Circom 2007, Bilbao	TVE, EITB
2006	Prix Circom 2006, Kolding	TVS
2005	Prix Circom 2005, Liverpool	BBC
2004	Prix Circom 2004, Wroclaw	TVP
2003	Prix Circom 2003, Grado	RAI
2002	Prix Circom 2002, Kosice - Jury Report (pdf)	STV
2001	Porto (pdf); Conference Catalog (pdf)	RTP
2000	Potsdam (pdf); Conference Catalog	ORB
1999	Dubrovnik	HRT
1998	Thessaloniki (pdf)	ERT 3
1997	Szeged (pdf)	MTV
1996	Copenhagen (pdf)	TV2 Lorry
1995	Birmingham (pdf)	BBC
1994	Iasi	RTR
1993	St. Vincent	RAI
Special Conference: Migration in Europe
1992	Liege	RTBF
1992	Valencia	RTVV
1991	Strasbourg	FRANCE 3
1990	Bled	TVS
1989	Ofir	RTP
1988	Harrogate	BBC/YTV
1987	Bergen	NRK
1986	Munich	ARD
1985	Chianciano	RAI
1984	Biarritz	FRANCE 3
1983	Lille	FRANCE 3