Prix Europa

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PRIX EUROPA is the biggest annual European trimedial festival and competition. Its open jurys sample and select the best television-, radio- and emerging media productions of each year. The festival takes place in the third week of October in Berlin and Potsdam and is hosted by the German broadcaster RBB (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg).

The competition is held in five television categories (fiction, documentary, current affairs, IRIS multicultural programme and tv fiction script), two radio categories (drama and documentary) and one emerging media category. The festival's main concern is to promote the trademark "Made in Europe" and to reflect the complete spectrum of European productions, to show cross-border programme developments and to be a forum for quality programmes. It offers ample opportunity to its around 1000 annual participants to network with European colleagues, compare notes and take home inspiration and ideas for their own work.

With a total of 72.000 Euros award money PRIX EUROPA is one of the financially best-endowed media competitions in Europe. Each of the twelve winners gets a taurus trophy, a certificate and 6000 Euros.

[edit] History

In 1997, the Prix Futura Berlin, which had been launched in 1969, and the PRIX EUROPA, which had been launched in 1987, merged. Since then this trimedial festival takes place every October in the German Berlin-Brandenburg region under the joint name PRIX EUROPA open for television-, radio- and emerging media productions.

Set up in 1987 by the Council of Europe and the European Cultural Foundation it now has the backing of around 20 partners, including institutions like the European Parliament, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the European Alliance for Television and Culture and national broadcasters like Radio France, YLE Finnish Broadcasting, Telwizja Polska or Österreichischer Rundfunk.

In 1997, Prix Futura Berlin merged into PRIX EUROPA.^[1]