Press release
Budapest, September 26th 2016
The 28th International URTI Radio Grand Prix established a great participation this year again on the theme of “WOMEN AND CONFLICTS”, representing 25 countries.
Made up of audiovisual personalities, the Jury met in Budapest (Hungary), from September 20th until 22nd 2016, at the invitation of the MTVA and under the presidency of Mrs Julianna Borbély-Urquhart, Head of Social Relations Department at MTVA.
- Grand Prix: BENIN - LE SUPPLICE DU LEVIRAT
Mirabelle Dogani Akpaki, ORTB, Benin
- Silver Medal: I am not a comfort woman
Kim Hyuk-dong, Chon Kyung-sook, Yoo Kwan Mo, KBS, South Korea
- Bronze Medal: Yalda Night
Sima Sabooti, IRIB, Iran
- Jacques Matthey-Doret Award for Discovery: Breakdown
Péter Mészáros, MTVA - Kaneta Produkcio KFT, Hungary
Finalists:
- La vie d’Aleth - ARTE Radio - France
- The Big Void: When Woman Regret Becoming Mothers - Bayerischer Rundfunk - Germany
- Two women from Syria - ERT - Greece
- After the music - The daughter's story - RTE - Ireland
- Wojtek - Katowice Polish Radio - Poland
- Colour Radio, episode: Why a female twitterer cannot be a cleaner? - Radio Novosti - Serbia
In 2016, the winner of the Radio GRAND PRIX gets a 500 dollar reward.
Contact: prixradio@urti.org
