GRAND PRIX NOVA 2026 - Call for programs
Dear colleagues and friends!
Radio Romania announces the launch of 14th Grand Prix Nova, International Radio Drama Festival that will take place in Bucharest between the 15th and 20th of June.
Grand Prix Nova is waiting for you again with the best of your creative works in long and short length!
Grand Prix Nova aims to attract radio drama productions from all over the world. We are particularly interested in rewarding innovative artistic works that explore new approaches to audio drama.
The guests are invited to carefully consult the RULES AND REGULATIONS of the festival.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Bucharest for an intense week of auditions, debates and workshops. You'll also have the chance to discover life in Bucharest, a city happily blending Balkan influences and the Latin tradition.
Please download the REGISTRATION FORM and follow the instructions.
All registrations must be sent by February 15th, 2026.
ATTENTION! In Short Forms category we honor Prix Maruliæ Festival and adopt this year their theme: Old Texts Revisited. For details on the specificity of the theme take note an excerpt from their regulations.
"The intentions are implied in the Festival's motto - Old Texts Revisited, and the components of the motto should be interpreted including all the layers of their meaning. 1. (a) Old texts refers to literature and/or heritage, regardless of its genre or form, poetry or prose (poems, epics, dramas, novels etc.), i.e. all literary works inherited from the past. However, the Festival gladly welcomes programs based on so-called borderline texts, not belonging to literature in the strictest sense, and on other artifacts, e.g. complete or fragmentary notes, which are witty or observant or show the spirit of the times, and which transfer past spiritual experience into the present (epitaphs, letters, recorded oral tradition: customs and rituals, legends, myths, fairytales etc. and songs, biographical and autobiographical notes, entries in a diary and other personal notes, historical documents and the like). In brief, old texts refer to old literary texts, but also to any other document or written form of cultural heritage, which eludes literary classification. (b) An old text in this context is considered to be any text pre-dating 1954. 2. Revisited - the second part of the Festival's motto refers to the strength and appeal of an old text, and its power to find a reflection in the present, in particular, to find a new artistic form suited for radio. In this respect, the intention of the Festival is to encourage genuine audio expressiveness. The old text is viewed as a model, a point of departure and a challenge. The radio adopts it, transforms it, and broadcasts it to its listeners as an authentic work of radio-art. The Festival would like to affirm the diversity of approaches, forms and methods, and in view of this aim it stresses its openness to various genres of radio-art."
Also you can visit https://prix-marulic.hrt.hr/main-info/regulations-459871
Please send us your audio work and an English script by transfer to our email grandprixnova@gmail.com
The preselection results will be announced no later than April 1st, 2026.
Please share information about Grand Prix Nova with your colleagues (writers, directors, producers, sound engineers, etc.) who may be interested in attending the festival.
Let us fill Bucharest with our sunny sounds!
Grand Prix Nova Team
