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16/11/2015
GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG RADIO PRODUCERS
Dear Colleagues,
The ke Blomstrm Award offers to young and promising radio feature makers
the chance to attend a special documentary training program, to join the International
Feature Conference and to participate in the Prix Europa 2016.
The Award addresses young radio talents who are at the beginning of their career as
feature makers. We are explicitly looking for feature makers with great potential
rather than for those who already have much experience and expertise.
Each of the winners will be assigned a personal coach who will mentor them in
documentary making throughout the year. The winners will attend a two-day coaching
session in Vienna on 7 & 8th May 2016, immediately before the start of the
International Feature Conference (IFC) which will be held from 8th to 12th of May at
the same location. All coaches are award winning radio producers from all over
Europe.
The prize money will cover travel, accommodation and daily allowances during the
two-day training course and the visit of the IFC. At the IFC, the ke Blomstrm
Award winners will meet experienced feature makers from all over the world, will
listen to and discuss a broad range of inspiring radio documentary programs and will
attend workshops and seminars on radio documentary making.
After the IFC, the winners will work online with their coaches in order to produce a
documentary of approximately 30 minutes by the 1st of February 2017.
On 14th October 2016, one day before Prix Europa starts, the winners will attend a
one-day training in Berlin as well as the Radio Documentary Jury session of Prix
Europa (15 - 21st October 2016). The prize money will cover travel cost,
accommodation and a daily allowance.
After the Prix Europa, the winners will continue to work online with their coaches.
Each radio documentary should be accomplished by 1st of February 2017. Program
editors of the ke Blomstrm Award winners radio stations are kindly asked not to
interfere in the developing process.

Who is eligible for an ke Blomstrm Award?

Any young and promising feature maker aged max 35 years from Europe (East
and West).
They may be freelance producers or employees of broadcasting organizations.

The working language of the IFC and Prix Europa is English.

The prize cannot be given to feature makers who have previously been awarded
the ke Blomstrm Award.

Entry Requirements
Please note:
Each submission should be made by an individual feature maker. Group entries are
not acceptable.
The following should be sent to each member of the selection committee listed
below:

A short CV including date of birth, education and radio experience to date

A summary of why the candidate wishes to undertake the documentary
training/mentoring
A letter of support from the relevant broadcasting corporation or institution,
including a commitment to technical support for the trainee.
Candidates must be aware that an English translation of the script for the
production will be necessary.
A 5 min creative audio presentation where the candidates will explain with their
own voice in English to the selection committee their motivation, expectation, and
experience in radio (preferably in wav or mp3 format). Excerpts from their former
programs can be used. The audio presentation should be sent to the committee
members EITHER
by uploading the audio file to a cloudservice like www.wetransfer.com, or
www.dropbox.com. The audio file must be clearly named with ABA (ke
Blomstrm Award) and with the name of the author and it must be sent to
the chairperson of ke Blomstrm Award: gabriela.hermer@rbb-online.de
No author may submit more than one audio presentation.

A complete transcript/translation of the audio presentation in English

A treatment for a documentary the candidate wishes to propose for the
training/mentoring process (max. one page).
Please send all the written documents via email to gabriela.hermer@rbbonline.de

The closing date for the entry of submissions for the 2016 ke Blomstrm Award is
15th of January 2016. In order for a submission to be considered, each member of the
selection committee should have received the materials listed above by the closing
date.

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The prize was established in 1986 in honour of ke Blomstrm (31/12/31 31/5/85), for many years
Head of Documentaries in Swedish Radio and deeply committed to the support of young and fresh
talents. Today, the ke Blomstrm Award is a joint venture between SR (Sweden), DR (Denmark),
YLE (Finland), NRK (Norway), Dradio Berlin, NDR, RBB, SWR,WDR (Germany), ORF (Austria),
BRT (Belgium), HRT (Croatia) and RT (Ireland) who together sustain the prize by means of an annual
donation into a bank account held under the aegis of the EBU.

Selection committee 2016

Gabriela Hermer
Kulturradio vom RBB
Knstlerisches Wort / Feature
Berlin , Germany
gabriela.hermer@rbb-online.de
Hannu Karisto
Documentary programmes
YLEISRADIO, Finland
Ylva Lindgren
Dokumentrredaktionen
Sverigesradio, Sweden
Christiane Glas
Featureabteilung
Norddeutscher Rundfunk,
Hamburg, Germany

Eva Roither
Feature & Feuilleton
ORF, Austria

The selection committee will reach its decisions by 19th of February 2016. On that
date all entrants will be notified of the result. If you have any further questions, please
do not hesitate to contact me by e-mail or telephone.
Best wishes,
Gabriela Hermer
Chairperson, ke Blomstrm Award
Tel.: 0049-30-97993-33504
gabriela.hermer@rbb-online.de