WINNERS - Grand Prix Nova 2024

WINNERS - Grand Prix Nova 2024

The winners of 12th Grand Prix Nova are:

DRAMA CATEGORY

1. Onda and Storia by Myriam Pruvot
Halles de Schaerbeek, Belgium.

2.  Ex Aequo:

The Five Best Days directed by Stefan Weber
SRF Swiss Radio and Television, Switzerland

and

Danger directed by Flavio Stroppini
SSR - RSI, Switzerland.

3. Spores produced and directed by Nicolas Jackson
Afonica, UK

SHORT FORMS CATEGORY

1. The Fall of Lapinville by Benjamin Abitan & Wladimir Anselme
Arte Radio, France.

2. Archive în disonance by Kenza Lansari
Kenza Lansari, UK

3. My Synthetic Thoughts by Samuel Robinson
Samuel Robinson, UK

BINAURAL DRAMA CATEGORY

Mr Theodor Mundstock by Aleš Vrzák
Czech Radio, Czech Republic.

Jury coordinator of 12th Grand Prix Nova:

Amandine Casadamont is the author and director of many well-documented audio dramas in which imagination plays an important role in concrete spaces, in which fiction meets reality in order to question how things work in our society. This abandonment of the comfort zone highlights the invisible and attacks sensitive subjects such as her travels in the forbidden area of Fukushima or in drug trafficking heavy zones in the Mexican dessert. Archives research led her to create for Fondation Van Gogh din Arles, La nuit de la radio (SCAM), France Culture as well as MEG of Geneva, centered around recent history. Her French Culture productions are acclaimed with multiple international awards, including the Award for Sound Documentary at The International Biennial Radio Mexico City (2012), The 'Phonurgia Nova' Award for "radio sound art" (2015), 'The Sound of the Silence' Festival, New York (2006).

WINNERS - Grand Prix Nova 2023

The winners of 11th Grand Prix Nova are:

DRAMA CATEGORY

1 Events

Cineke Asbl - Belgium

Author, Director: Pascale Brischoux

2 Creation of the Birds

Falling Tree Productions - UK

Author, Producer, Director: Samy El-Enany

3 The supervisor

Norddeutscher Rundfunk – Germany

Author, Producer, Director: Nis-Momme Stockmann

SHORT FORMS CATEGORY

1 The magic of waves

France

Author, Producer, Director: Ève-Marie Bouché

2 White Noise

Falling Tree Productions - UK

Author, Producer, Director: Axel Kacoutié

3 Dochia, The King’s Daughter

SRR - Romania

Director: Attila Vizauer, Sound engineer: Mihnea Chelaru

BINAURAL DRAMA CATEGORY

1 Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell

BBC audio Drama North - UK

Director: Nadia Molinari

2 Nada within air – Poet’s impressions of a field recording

Belgium

Author, Producer, Director: Charo Calvo

3 To the Battle

SRR - Romania

Author: Răzvan Ursuleanu, Director: Mihnea Chelaru

Jury coordinators of 11th Grand Prix Nova:

MARTA REBZDA – journalist, author of radio plays, co-author of the radio novel “Matysiakowie”, chief of the literary section at Polish Radio Theatre.

Winner of several awards for radio features and also a winner of the prizes for best original script in a radio drama at the 19th, 20 th and 21 th, Polish Radio Theatre and Polish Television Theatre Festivals for her texts entitled: The Frog (2019), Broken (2021) and Good comes back double (2022).

Her radio drama Let me tell you won the 1st prize at the UK International Audio Drama Festival in Canterbury 2022, and Someone is waiting for you won the Polish-German Tadeusz Mazowiecki Journalism Award in 2022 and The word won 1st prize at the UK International Audio Drama Festival in Canterbury 2023.

Her radio drama titled The Girl and Hide and seek, here we go and Broken, Let me tell you were nominated for Prix Europa 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022. Let me tell you was nominated for Phonurgia Nova Awards 2022. All her radio dramas were directed by Waldemar Modestowicz.

SEBASTIAN DICENAIRE is a french writer and a radio artist living in brussels, belgium. He deals in language, no matter what the format: written publication, performance, and radiophonic creation. He has published several works of poetry and has appeared on many stages in French-speaking countries and elsewhere. Since 2009, he has been investigating the creative potential of radio fiction through productions that often challenge the form. His fictions have won many awards: Special Commendation at Prix Europa Berlin 2011 and Belgium’s 2012 SACD Prize for fiction for Kirkjubæjarklaustur; Prix Phonurgia Nova (Paris) and Silver Award at the Grand Prix Nova (Bucharest) 2016 for Pamela; Prix SGDL (Paris) and Prix Marulić 2018 (Croatia) for High Fidelity John; New York Festival Golden Award for Dead Memory Clinic (2020)…

WINNERS - Grand Prix Nova 2022

The winners of 10th Grand Prix Nova are:

DRAMA CATEGORY

2  Night falls without warning
MA scène nationale du Pays de Montbéliard, France
Director: Christophe Rault

3  What can you see?
ORF, Austria
Director: Stefan Weber

SHORT FORMS CATEGORY

2 Forever a Room
Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, Germany
Author, Producer,  Director: Johannes  Sistermanns

3  PR (How to deal with the Customers)
SRR, Romania
Director: Mihnea Chelaru

BINAURAL DRAMA CATEGORY

2 Like a dog without a bone
RSI, Switzerland
Director: Flavio Stoppini

3 Uneasy (Part 1 & 2)
Czech Radio, Czech Republic
Producer: Kateřina Rathouská

Jury coordinators of 10th Grand Prix Nova:

Reto Ott was born in 1964 and grew up near Zürich in Switzerland. 

He studied philosophy and literature in Zürich and Berlin and worked as assistant director and dramaturg at theatres in Germany, France and Switzerland. Since 2000 he works as director and editor for the Drama Department at Swiss Radio and Television SRF. Since 2013 he is vice-head of the department and responsible for the drama production.

He was the dramaturg and director of nearly 100 radioplays of different genres, short and long formats and series. He mainly works on original plays by swiss authors, especially plays written and performed in swiss dialect. Besides working with famous swiss authors like Max Frisch, Markus Werner, Thomas Hürlimann and Hansjörg Schneider and producing radioworks by important directors like Jean-Claude Kuner and Thom Luz, he regularly develloped new plays by young authors. And he adapted plays by international authors like Emma Donoghue, Daniel Keene, Lars Norén and Jack Thorne. His productions have been awarded at national and international festivals. 

Since 2008 he is a member of the EBU Radiodrama Group. He was a jury member and coordinator at the Swiss Drama Award, Prix Europa, Grand Prix Nova and others.

He lives with his family in Freiburg im Breisgau/Germany.

Andreas Jungwirth, was born in 1967 in Linz/Donau, Austria. He writes children's books and novels, but from the very beginning he had a special love for radio plays. 

In the past 25 years, numerous original radio plays and adaptations of own and third-party texts have been created for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and various German broadcasters. He also works as a radio play director and moderator for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (radio play gala, radiophone workshop.) The Romanian Broadcasting Corporation produced "Langholzfeld" in 2021.

GRAND PRIX NOVA 2021

The winners of 9th Grand Prix Nova #online 2021 are:

DRAMA CATEGORY

I. Eight Point Nine Nine

BBC Audio in Bristol, UK

Director & Producer: Becky Ripley

II. Lydia

Chalk Roots Theatre, UK/Romania/Lithuania

Director: Saulius Kovalskas

III. Siren

Norddeutscher Rundfunk with Deutschlandfunk, Germany

Author, Director & Producer: Christine Nagel

SHORT FORMS CATEGORY

I. Mass

Hugo Branco (director of VIC Aveiro Arts House and curator of the project "New Chronologies of Sound") and Laura Romero Valldecabres, Spain/Portugal

Author, Director, recordings, voices, edit and mix: Laura Romero Valldecabres

II. Vicious Dishes

SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Switzerland

Author & Director: Karin Berri

III. Correspondances

RTE lyric fm, Ireland

Author, Director, Sound engineer & Producer: Bernard Clarke

BINAURAL DRAMA CATEGORY

I. Memory Garden

Deutschlandfunk/Österreichischer Rundfunk, Germany/Austria

Directors & Composition: Merzouga (Janko Hanushevsky & Eva Poepplein)

II. The Other Half by Petre Barbu

Radio Romania

Director: Attila Vizauer, Sound design: Madalin Cristescu

III. Otaku Nation

Germany

Author, Director & Producer: Udo Moll

JURY MEMBERS 2021

𝐋𝐣𝐮𝐛𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐳𝐢𝐧 (President of the Jury) –Outstanding member of the Croatian Radio Drama Team. He has been the initiator and for a long time the director of Radio Drama and Documentary Festival Prix Maruliç.

𝐎𝐥𝐲𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐫 -Head of Radio for the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, responsible for setting the strategic direction for the Radio as well as help drive an expansion of services to the ABU’s more than 270 member organisations across the region.

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐥 - Head of Radio Drama at Deutschlandfunk Kultur, also curating the weekly sound art program „Klangkunst“. He served as coordinator of the EBU Ars Acustica Group. 2018 – 2020, he co-coordinated the Prix Europa Radio Fiction Jury.

𝐈𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐡𝐢 – stage director and multi-award winning director at radio drama international festivals, co-founder of the Grand Prix Nova International Radio Drama Festival as well as jury member for international radio drama festivals

GRAND PRIX NOVA 2020

DRAMA CATEGORY

SHORT FORMS CATEGORY

BINAURAL DRAMA CATEGORY

JURY MEMBERS 2020

Bernard Clarke (President of the Jury)

is an award winning broadcaster and sound artist. His work for Irish State public proadcaster RTÉ lyric fm has won many domestic prizes. In his own radio art and sound art work he has won many international awards. He is delighted to be part of Radio Romania’s prestigious Grand Prix Nova once again.

Soila Valkama

is a director, a dramaturge and an actress. She studied acting at Ecole Jacques Lecoq and Ecole d’art dramatique Florent, cours libre 1989-92 in Paris. And graduated in 1998 as Master of Arts from the Theatre Academy of Finland with directing Major. She has worked as a director, dramaturge, producer and as a program developer with the Finnish Broadcasting Company since 1999.

Dmitri Nikolaev

is a stage, radio drama, and film director. Now is teacher in acting and film acting (microphone and camera) at three theater institutes and at two film schools in Moscow. He recorded a bunch of radio dramas and Ars Acustica productions in Russia and abroad. In his „life museum”, he has won two Prix Europa, four Grand Prix Maruliç, Prix Italia and two Prix Novas, which he loves all and calls "metal bolls".

Ulrich Bassenge

works freelance as an audio artist, writer, composer, director, bricolateur, mainly for German and Swiss public radio and functioned as an experimental radio lecturer at Bauhaus University Weimar. Being a two-time winner of Grand Prix Nova he enjoys this year’s jury membership as an opportunity to support adventurous radio art.

GRAND PRIX NOVA 2019

WINNERS of Grand Prix Nova 7th edition for DRAMA Category:

1. Buzz suppression. Recording Strictly Off the Record
Directed by Ulrich Bassenge
| Germany and Switzerland | WDR and SRF

2. Mental FM 
Directed by Arnaud Forest
| France | ARTE Radio

3.The Black Sheep, Funeral for the Electric Asylum 
Directed by Chiara Todaro and Guillaume Abgral
| Belgium | La tentative

THE WINNERS of Grand Prix Nova 7th edition for BINAURAL Category:

1. That Dreadful Charm of Autumn 
Directed by Natália Deáková
Producer Kateřina Rathouská
| Czech Republic | Czech Radio

2. Pig’s Weather
Directed by Benoit Bories
| Switzerland | RTS Espace 2

3. UM, on Numbers, Poetry and Hope 
Directed by Charo Calvo
| Spain & Belgium |

THE WINNERS of Grand Prix Nova 7th edition for SHORT FORM Category:

1. Lili Marlene - Serbian Cutting 
Directed by Snežana Ristic & Radonja Leposavic
| Serbia |

2. Drip Drop 
Directed by Simina Oprescu
| Romania | SEMI SILENT & Asociația Jumătatea plină

3. Horses Talk. Dii, Hai, Ho and other horse words 
Directed by Félix Blume
| Romania | SEMI SILENT & Asociația Jumătatea 
plină

GRAND PRIX NOVA 2018

RADIO DRAMA. The WINNERS are:

2. BELGIUM - Almanak - WEDERIK DE BACKER - DE ZIEKE STEUR

3. GERMANY - BLATNÝ’S HEAD or: God the linguist teaches us to breathe - CHRISTINE NAGEL - RBB

BINAURAL. The WINNERS are:

1. UK - Martha - NADIA MOLINARI - BBC

2. BELGIUM - The First Time I Went Crowdzy - JEANNE DEBARSY and MAËL G. LAGADEC - BABELFISH ASBL

3. ROMANIA - Santé - ANA - TEODORA POPA

SHORT FORMS. The WINNERS are:

1. DENMARK - The Water - RIKKE HOUD - SINGING SEA

2. IRELAND - sleep no more - BERNARD CLARKE - RTE lyric fm

3. SWITZERLAND - The Birdhouse - WOLFRAM HOLL - SRF

GRAND PRIX NOVA 2017

5^th edition, Bucharest, 29^th May - 3^rd June

JURY

Dmitriy Nikolaev - Stage and Radio Director, member of EBU Radio Drama working group
Shanthi Bhagirathan - Group Director of The Capital Maharaja Organisation(PVT)ltd - Sri Lanka, Group Director - MBC Networks (PVT)Ltd
Bernard Clarke - Radio broadcaster at RTE lyric fm, Ireland
Amandine Casadamont - Freelance artist, author and sound director

Ilinca Stihi - Director in Radio Drama Department of Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation

RADIO DRAMA winners

1. YOUNG BEAUTIFUL MONSTERS - LE COLLECTIF WOW/ BELGIUM
2. FALSE ALARM - SRF/ SWITZERLAND
3. THE BLACK REGEN OVID: THE WHITE REGEN MARCUS AURELIUS- RTVS/ SLOVAKIA

SHORT FORMS winners

1. FAIRY TALE LICIOUS : FAIRY SONGS AND POP TALES- SWITZERLAND /SRF
2. NOTTURNO - HRT/ CROATIA
3. VOICES - EXERCISES IN STYLE - RTS/ SERBIA

GRAND PRIX NOVA 2016

4^th edition, Bucharest 31th May - 4^th June

JURY

Katharina Rathouská - Head of Drama and Literature Departmentof Czech Radio, member of Euroradio Drama Group
Vijay Sadhu - Senior Executive, Programming Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)
Dmitri Plax - Freelance artist, writer and radio producer
Stefano Gianotti - Freelance composer, guitarist and perfomer
Oana Cristea Grigorescu - Theater critic and cultural journalist at Radio Romania Cluj

RADIO DRAMA winners

1. SO FAR AWAY FROM LIFE / SRF / SWITZERLAND / AUTHOR: ULRICH BASSENGE / DIRECTOR: JOHANNES MAYR
2. PAMELA / ACSR / BELGIUM / AUTHOR & DIRECTOR: SEBASTIAN DICENAIRE
3. TRAITORS / ARTE RADIO / FRANCE/ AUTHOR: ILANA NAVARO & SILVAIN GIRE / DIRECTOR: SAMUEL HIRSCH

SHORT FORMS winners

1. PEDAL POWER / ARTE RADIO / FRANCE / AUTOR & DIRECTOR: CHARLES TRAHAN
2. SHUT THE WINDOWS! SHUT THE WINDOWS! / SRF / SWITZERLAND / AUTHOR: GERHARD MEISTER / DIRECTOR: PÄIVI STALDER
3. THINKING OF SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW / TRIBORD STUDIO / GERMANY / AUTHOR & DIRECTOR: MARTIN DASKE

GRAND PRIX NOVA 2015

3^rd edition, Bucharest 1^st - 6^th June

JURY

Reto Ott - Director and editor in Radio Drama Department at Swiss Radio and Television SRF and member of EBU Radiodrama Group
Silvain Gire - co-founder and editor-in-chief of ARTE Radio
Vijay Sadhu - Senior Executive, Programming Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)
Krok & Petschinka - Freelance Writer and Director
Mihai Lungeanu - Director in Radio Drama Department of Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation

RADIO DRAMA winners

1. PESCHO - CZECH RADIO - DIRECTOR: PETR MANČAL; AUTHOR: MAREK EPSTEIN
2. TO MOSCOW ! - RADIO RUSSIA / RADIO KULTURA- AUTHOR AND DIRECTOR: DAVID ZANE MAIROWITZ
3. DRY HAZE - THE YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER - DEUTSCHLANDRADIO - AUTHOR AND DIRECTOR: WERNER CEE

SHORT FORMS winners

1. CALL OF DATING - WIRETAP FROM CBC RADIO - AUTHOR AND DIRECTOR: CRISTAL DUHAIME AND MIRA BURT-WINTONICK
2. THE MOTHER - RADIO ROMANIA - AUTHOR AND DIRECTOR: ILINCA STIHI
3. METRO. AUDITORY HALLUCINATIONS - RADIO RUSSIA - AUTHOR AND DIRECTOR: DMITRY NIKOLAEV

GRAND PRIX NOVA 2014

2^nd edition, Bucharest 16^th -22^nd June

JURY

Idalberto Fei - Freelance Director and writer
Marina Bagdasaryan - Theatre critic, radio producer and co-founder of Radio Kultura, Russia
Alison Hindell - Head of Audio Drama, UK of the BBC
Cristina Modreanu - Curator, theatre critic and expert in performing arts
Domnica Tundrea - Producer and editor in Radio Drama Department of Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation

RADIO DRAMA winners

1. THE METAMORPHOSIS, RADIO ROMANIA
2. ANNA LIVIA PLURABELLE, RUNDFUNK BERLIN-BRANDENBURG
3. AMORE MIO - LOVE SONGS AND OTHER STUFF, SUDWESTRUNDFUNK

SHORT FORMS winners

1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DARLING, RADIO RUSSIA
2. COUNTDOWN, RADIO ROMANIA
3. ROUNDABOUT DANCE ABOUT THE DAYS OF THE WEEK, HRT-CROATIAN RADIO
   

GRAND PRIX NOVA 2013

1^st edition, Bucharest 30^th September - 5^th October

JURY

Nils Heyerdahl - former Head of Radio Drama Department in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK)
Alison Hindell - Head of Audio Drama, UK of the BBC
Ljubo Pauzin - Head of Prix Marulic International Festival of Radio Plays and Documentary Radio Dramas organized by HRT Croatian Radio and Television
Alexandru Darie - General Manager of Bulandra Theatre in Bucharest, Romania
Ilinca Stihi - Director in Radio Drama Department of Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation

RADIO DRAMA winners

1. FAUST SONG OF THE SUN, BY WERNER FRITSCH, GERMANY
2. THE STARTLING TRUTHS OF OLD WORLD SPARROWS, UK
3. PECCATA MORTALIS, AUSTRIA

SHORT FORMS winners

1. GLAGOLION, CROATIA
2. ALAS, POOR FATHER, ROMANIA
3. IOTA MIKRO,BELGIUM