Berlin (ots) – The winners of the European CIVIS Media Prize for Integration and Cultural Diversity 2024 have been chosen: The main prize, worth 15,000 euros, the CIVIS TOP AWARD, goes to the social media format CTRL_F: Israel and Gaza: Life between terror and war (NDR | funk) by the authors: Manuel Biallas, Armin Ghassim, Lisa Hagen, Mariam Noori, Timo Robben, Sulaiman Tadmory. The film describes the fate of two young people who were affected by the Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s war in Gaza affected: the German-Israeli Yarden and the German-Palestinian Abed. The production is also the winner of the CIVIS VIDEO AWARD in the social media formats category. The jury of the CIVIS Media Prize explains its decision as follows: “The production is partisan in the best sense of the word – it is decidedly on the side of empathy and humanity. The audience is not forced to make its own assessments, but rather is provided with intensive impressions and deep insights that make it possible “To form your own opinion about the current situation between Israel and Palestine.”
The authors Fatima Kaci and Pablo Léridon received the CIVIS VIDEO AWARD in the fiction + docudrama category The Voice of Others (La Fémis | La Cinef Cannes). In the information category, Cem Kaya and Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay received the prize for Songs of Gastarbeiter – Liebe, D-Mark und Tod – Ask, Mark ve Ölüm (WDR | RBB | ARTE).
The CIVIS AUDIO AWARD in the long program category goes to Yasmina Hamlawi and Annika Erichsen for Pearl – The path back to physical integrity (SWR 2). Hannah Weber is taking part in the race in the short program category The people who stay in Branden – stronger than hate | “The fire department is my safe space” – home despite racism (electronic media school gGmbH). The winners of the audience award CIVIS AUDIO AWARD Podcasts are the authors Danny Frede and Alexander DernoOstkinder 80/82 | Episode 39: Sonneberg is our fault!
Lara Milena Brose wins with Echoes from Borderland (Munich University of Television and Film) the YOUNG C. AWARD.
Director Jonathan Glazer and producers James Wilson and Ewa Puszczyńska received the audience award CIVIS CINEMA AWARD for the film The Zone of Interest (Extreme Emotions Encore, Silesia Film Film Institution | Leonine Studios).
Europe’s most important media prize for integration and cultural diversity will be awarded for the first time in 2024 as part of re:publica. From Wednesday, May 29th, 2024, the program will be available in the ARD media library; on Thursday, May 30th, 2024, 12:05 a.m., ARD/Das Erste will broadcast the award ceremony.
The award ceremony will be hosted by journalist and presenter Vivian Perkovic.
Partners of the CIVIS Media Foundation, whose activities include organizing the CIVIS Media Prize, speak in the broadcast: Tom Buhrow, Chairman of the CIVIS Board of Trustees and WDR Director, Andreas Freudenberg, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Freudenberg Foundation, Reem Alabali- Radovan, Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration and Federal Government Commissioner for Anti-Racism, the directors Peter Limbourg (Deutsche Welle) and Stefan Raue (Deutschlandradio), the general director Roland Weißmann (ORF) and the director for development and offering of SRG SSR , Bakel Walden, Minu Barati-Fischer from the Producer Alliance, Christiane von Websky, Head of Participation and Cohesion at the Mercator Foundation, Friederike Behrends, Chairwoman of the Management Board of the German Postcode Lottery.
In the competition for the CIVIS Media Prize 2024, almost 900 programs from all 27 EU countries and Switzerland were represented for the first time. CIVIS is Europe’s most important media award for integration and cultural diversity. It has been awarded in various categories since 1988.
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