Documentary by Istanbul University Communication Faculty (Turkey)
awarded with the
Erasmus EuroMedia 2011 Medal of Excellence for Cultural Feature
Jury Statement
The Medal of Excellence for a Cultural Feature goes to the film documentary “Houses of Prayers”, produced and published by the Film Department of Istanbul University in connection to Istanbul’s nomination as a European Cultural Capital in 2010. The documentary tries to touch the horizons of hope that religious denominations and unities understand them selves as a community of prayers. The documentary has found a media language and a way of aesthetical design that assimilates traditions through their differences and honours rituals of praying and in same time as the cultural variety in finding an expression of faith. Congratulation!
Documentary series by VARA (the Netherlands): Fidan Ekiz (director), Kees Schaap (editor in chief), Julia Rademaker (production)
awarded with the
Erasmus EuroMedia 2011 Medal of Excellence for Conversational Feature
Jury Statement
The Medal of Excellence for Conversational Feature goes to the Dutch production (TV documentatry series) “Veerboot naar Holland”, because of its special style of conversation. The jury wants to honour the idea of telling a story about Turkish women emigrating to Holland under burdening circumstances in a way of a very charming and everyday language using conversational concept. By this way the production gains a lot of friendliness, which is important for intercultural tolerance. Congratulation!
Feature film by Independent Artists Productions (Germany): Feo Aladag (author, director, producer), Independent Artists Filmproduktion (production), Judith Kaufmann (cinematography), Andrea Mertens (film editing), Silke Buhr (production design)
awarded with the
Erasmus EuroMedia 2011 Medal of Excellence for Fictional Production
Jury Statement
The Medal of Excellence for Fictional Feature honours the film feature “Die Fremde”, a film b y Independent Artist Production, because of the lucid idea to tell the story about women feeling as strangers either in their origin homeland Turkey as as well in the country where they are living, Germany. A fictional story coming close to real life and putting the finger to a hidden agenda of many people’s everyday life. Congratulattion!
Documentary by Klub Zwei (Austria): Simone Bader (director), Jo Schmeiser (director)
awarded with the Erasmus EuroMedia 2011 Medal of Excellence for Historical Narrative
Jury Statement
The Medal of Excellence for a historical Narrative goes to the TV documentary “Liebe Geschichte”, produced and published by Klub2 – honouring the exceptional empathetic and sensitive approach to forefather’s history over family stories. This documentary has found a very charming method of re-assessing history by telling stories as personally experienced moments of histories over heartful connections to familial personalities from the past – but putting the narration in an contemporary environment, especially architectonic landscapes. This combines history with presence. Doing so the result in fact is a love story with at least two addressees: the forefathers and Vienna a the capital of Austria. Congratulation!
TV documentary by ORF/3sat (Austria): Günter Schilhan (director), Dr. Hubert Nowak (editor), Rosemarie Prasek (production)
awarded with the Erasmus EuroMedia 2011 Medal of Excellence for Analytical Feature
Jury Statement
The Medal of Excellence for Analytical Journalism was dedicated to the ORF /3Sat TV documentary “Leben auf dem Vulkan” in order to honour the highly sophisticated and in depth going analytical feature. The jury was impressed by the outstanding quality of contextual research explaining the (actual) finance- and bank crises on Iceland in relation to history, to society, to mentality, to social rites and political rituals, to the way of everyday life as well as to the exposition of the small country – an outstanding piece of qualitative journalism in an documentary environment. Congratulation!
Multilingual traveblog by Goethe-Institut Rom (Italy): Goethe-Institut Rome (project management), Corriere della Sera (media partner), Die Zeit (media partner), Beppe Severgnini (author), Mark Spörrle (author)
awarded with the
Erasmus EuroMedia 2011 Medal for Narrative Journalism
Jury Statement
The Medal of Excellence for Narrative Journalism goes to the Blog „Moskau-Lissabon, produced by Goethe Institute Rome, Italy – in order to honour the idea and its realization to symbolize the connectivity of Europe as a common space of living by a journey through different countries telling just everyday stories as they happen and get experienced out of the moment. Through this concept the blog is not just a story about travelling, it turns to become a journey through stories. Congratulation!
