OTS - CIVIS Media Prize 2022 | eight programmes honoured - documentary receives TOP AWARD (part 1)
2022. June 03. 13:45
Cologne, 3 June, 2022 (APA/OTS) - The winners of the European
CIVIS Media Prize for Integration and Cultural Diversity 2022 have
been announced: The main prize of 15,000 euros, the CIVIS TOP
AWARD, goes to the documentary film Schwarze Adler (Black Eagles)
(Amazon Prime Video | BROADVIEW | ZDF), by author and director
Torsten Körner. The film tells the story of social prejudice and
hostility against black footballers. It is also the winner of the
CIVIS VIDEO AWARD in the information category. The jury of the
CIVIS Media Prize praised Torsten Körner´s documentary as
"emotionally moving, journalistically and artistically to the point
- the plight of these eagles in the German national jersey gets
under your skin."
The VIDEO AWARD in the entertainment category goes to Paul
Mommertz und Magnus Vattrodt, authors of The Wannsee Conference
(ZDF | Constantin Television).
Fitore Muzaqi, Henrik Schütz and Stefanie Vollmann come top in
the VIDEO AWARD/Social Media Formats category with My scar: Martin
was a prisoner in a Syrian torture prison (WDR COSMO | bildband
Film & Fernsehproduktion).
The CIVIS AUDIO AWARD in the long programme category goes to
Sebastian Friedrich for The last day. The assassination attempt in
Hanau (Deutschlandradio | Deutschlandfunk Kultur | WDR | NDR).
The competition in the short programme category is won by
Alexander Moritz with Information in the morning: Saxony government
coalition at loggerheads over deportation of well-integrated
Georgian families (Deutschlandradio | Deutschlandfunk).
The CIVIS AUDIO AWARD Podcast was decided by public voting and
goes to authors Fabian Grieger and Jonas Seufert, for Two-Thirds FM
- Season 1 Is there friendship in prison? Episode 4.
Anna-Sophia Richard wins the YOUNG C. AWARD for LOS CUATRO
VIENTOS (THE FOUR WINDS) (Giganten Film Produktions GmbH | SWR |
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg).
Winners of the CIVIS CINEMA AWARD, picked also by public
voting, are director Sönke Wortmann and producers Christoph Müller
and Tom Spieß for their film Contra (Constantin Film Produktion |
SevenPictures Film).
Europe's most prestigious media prize for integration and
cultural diversity will be awarded during a TV broadcast. The
programme will be available in the ARD Mediathek from Sunday, 5
June, and ARD/Das Erste will broadcast the awards ceremony at 11:35
PM on Monday, 6 June.
Anna Dushime will host the award ceremony. Laudators include
former German President Joachim Gauck, actors Melika Foroutan,
Bjarne Mädel, Mariele Millowitsch and Tyron Ricketts, choreographer
and author Nikeata Thompson, presenter Esther Sedlaczek, author and
activist Gianni Jovanovic. Their speeches will be streamed during
the ceremony.
The same applies to contributions from partners of the CIVIS
Media Foundation, whose activities include the organisation of the
CIVIS Media Prize: Tom Buhrow, Chairman of the CIVIS Board of
Trustees and WDR Director-General, Andreas Freudenberg, Chairman of
the Board of Trustees of the Freudenberg Foundation, Reem
Alabali-Radovan, Federal Government Commissioner for Migration,
Refugees and Integration and the Federal Government Commissioner
for Anti-Racism, Directors-General Peter Limbourg (Deutsche Welle)
and Stefan Raue (Deutschlandradio), Directors-General Roland
Weißmann (ORF) and Gilles Marchand (SRG SSR), Minu Barati-Fischer
(Produzentenallianz) and Christiane von Websky (Stiftung Mercator).
Almost 800 programmes from 20 EU countries and Switzerland
competed for the CIVIS Media Prize. CIVIS is Europe's most
important media prize for integration and cultural diversity. It
has been awarded in various categories since 1988. The CIVIS Media
Prize is under the patronage of the European Parliament. (continues)