Eight RTÉ productions will compete for one of the 13 prestigious Prix Europa awards at this year’s European multi-platform media festival which will take place from 13 to 20 October in Berlin and Potsdam.
RTÉ’s nominations for television are ‘Damage’ (directed by Aisling Walsh) in TV Fiction, ‘Bloody Sunday’ (directed by Margo Harkin) in TV Documentary and ‘Little Brazil, Gort, Ireland’ (directed by Caroline Bleahen) in the TV Iris catogory.
In the radio categories, RTÉ received nominations for ‘Kerry Plates’ (directed by Aidan Matthews) & ‘Mayday’ (directed by Veronica Coburn) for Radio Drama while in the documentary category ‘Harmony Heights’ and ‘A Convict of the Road’ (both directed by Peter Woods) won nominations.
In the Internet Exploration category the Mooney Cam Blue Tits (www.rte.ie) gained a nomination.
255 television, radio and internet productions from 34 countries have been nominated and in all, 671 productions were entered this year.
For the first time there will be online-voting at Prix Europa - the best of the nominated films in the SPOT category "I am Europe" will be chosen by Internet users.
Prix Europa’s main concern is to promote the trademark "Made in Europe" and to be a forum for quality programmes and young talent. It attracts about 1,000 media professionals each year and has become the most important festival of its kind since its founding in 1987 by the European Cultural Foundation and the Council of Europe.
