Nuri Kino

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Nuri Kino (born February 25, 1965) is an Assyrian-Swedish freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker.

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[edit] Biography

Born in Midyat, (Tur-Abdin), in southeast Turkey, Nuri Kino fled with his family to Germany when he was only a toddler and finally settled in Sweden with his parents, older sister and two younger brothers. For many years he bounced around from job to job working as a caretaker, teacher, bartender, medical secretary and pizza maker, until he was pushed into studying journalism. Though he’s never had a byline in any major publication in print, Nuri's claim to fame has been the various awards and nominations he’s garnered. Many are shared credits with a number of other journalists from Sweden including Juan Flores, Bo-Göran Bodin, Margita Boström, and Jenny Nordberg. Currently, Nuri’s journalism seems to be limited to occasionally writing guest editorials for small on-line Assyrian and Middle-Eastern sites, smaller unknown publications, and Swedish online news and blogs, as well as his own Swedish blog that compiles news from around the world. Nuri has also served as a jury member for the Humanity of the World Documentary Film Festival.

[edit] Awards and nominations

2006

  • Suryoyo of the Year by Huyodo, an obscure online Syriac website
  • Journalist of the Year by Qenneshrin and Suroyo-TV a Syriac newspaper and satellite television
  • Blatte de Luxe Award for Journalism [1]
  • Assyrian of the Year by Zinda Magazine
  • Assyrian of the Year by the Assyrian Youth Federation of Sweden

2004

  • Nominated for Guldspaden for a joint effort with Bo-Göran Bodin and Margita Boström for a Swedish Radio Report [2]
  • Ikaros Prize for Best Public Service Radio program by the Swedish Radio
  • Nominated for Best Radio News Piece of the Year by the Swedish National Radio Academy
  • Awarded Det lite storre Journalistpriest for journalist students at Mitt University in Sundsvall, Sweden

2003

  • Awarded Guldspaden for a joint effort withh Jenny Nordberg and Margita Boström for a Swedish Radio Report [3]

2002

  • Awarded Guldspaden for journalism [4]
  • Nominated for Save the Children Prize for journalists

2000

  • Awarded Guldspaden for a joint effort with Wolfgang Hansson [5]

[edit] Director documentary film

  • The Cry Unheard (2001) documentary film about the Assyrian Genocide/Seyfo in Turkey during 1914-1918.
  • Assyriska: A National Team Without a Nation (2005), a five-part sports documentary film chronicling the Swedish Premier League Soccer Team Assyriska. The series was co-produced and co-directed by Nuri Kino and Erik Sandberg and executive produced by Laika Film & Television AB for Sveriges Television. In April of 2006, competing for the Golden Palm Award, Part 3 of this documentary was a finalist at the Beverly Hills Film Festival, a lesser known minor festivals which receives very few nods and coverage in the film community. BHFF was an obvious choice, since the five part documentary film had previously been screened on Swedish Television, thus disqualifying it from all other festivals. Perhaps the reason it made it to the BHFF was that Nino Simon, the Assyrian owner of the festival, fast tracked the film to the finals. The five-part documentary did not receive favorable reviews when it first aired on Swedish television, consequently, Sveriges Television declined to stand behind the project for distribution and additional screenings. (Summary: They have no country to represent, but the Assyriska soccer team nonetheless serves as a symbol of Assyrian identity. The fans tend to be a mixed bag of suburban youth from Sweden that has a large and strong immigrant populations, to monks from Southeast Turkey and Assyrian kids in Iran. This documentary series interweaves elements of love, conflict and growth in a story about a team attempting to become number one in the Swedish Top Division.)

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