March 6, 2022 – Cologne (ots) | The winners of the CIVIS European Media Awards for Cultural Integration and Diversity 2022 have been announced: The political prize of 15,000 euros, the CIVIS TOP AWARD, goes to the documentary Schwarze Adler (The Notes). black eagle) (Amazon Prime Video | OVERVIEW | ZDF), by author and director Torsten Körner. The film tells the story of social prejudice and hostility towards black soccer players. It is also the winner of the CIVIS VIDEO AWARDS in the information category. The jury of the CIVIS Media Awards praised Torsten Körner’s documentary as “emotionally moving, journalistic and artistic – the plight of the eagles in the German shirt makes you must grieve.”
The VIDEO AWARD in the entertainment category goes to Paul Mommertz und Magnus Vattrodt, author of The Wannsee Conference (ZDF | Constantin Television).
Fitore Muzaqi, Henrik Schütz and Stefanie Vollmann come out on top in the VIDEO AWARDS/Social Media Format category with My Scar: Martin is a prisoner in a torture prison in Syria (WDR COSMO | bildband Film & Fernsehproduktion ).
The CIVIS SOUND AWARD in the long program category went to Sebastian Friedrich for The Last Day. Assassination in Hanau (Deutschlandradio | Deutschlandfunk Kultur | WDR | NDR).
Alexander Moritz won the competition in the short program category with Information in the Morning: Coalition Government of Saxony Dissenting over the Deportation of Well-Incorporated Georgian Families (Deutschlandradio | Deutschlandfunk).
The CIVIS AUDIO AWARD Podcast is decided by public vote and belongs to authors Fabian Grieger and Jonas Seufert, for Two-Thirds FM – Part 1 Is there friendship in prison? Episode 4.
Anna-Sophia Richard wins the YOUNG C. Award for LOS CUATRO VIENTOS (Four Winds) (Giganten Film Produktions GmbH | SWR | Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg).
The winners of the CINEMA CIVIS AWARD, also selected by public voting, are director Sönke Wortmann and producers Christoph Müller and Tom Spieß for their film Contra (Constantin Film Produktion | SevenPictures Film).
Europe’s most prestigious media awards for cultural integration and diversity will be presented in a televised programme. The show will be available on ARD Mediathek from Sunday, June 5, and ARD/Das Erste will air the awards ceremony at 11:35 p.m. Monday, June 6.
Anna Dushime will host the awards ceremony. Practitioners include former German President Joachim Gauck, actors Melika Foroutan, Bjarne Mädel, Mariele Millowitsch and Tyron Ricketts, choreographer and author Nikeata Thompson, presenter Esther Sedlaczek, author and activist Gianni Jovanovic. Their speeches will be streamed online during the ceremony.
The same applies to contributions from the partners of the CIVIS Media Foundation, whose activities include hosting the CIVIS Media Awards: Tom Buhrow, Chairman of the CIVIS Board of Directors and General Manager of WDR, 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 Combating Racism, Director General Peter Limbourg (Deutsche Welle) and Stefan Raue (Deutschlandradio), General Managers Roland Weißmann (ORF) and Gilles Marchand (SRG SSR), Minu Barati-Fischer (Produzentenallianz) and Christiane von Websky (Stiftung Mercator).
Nearly 800 programs from 20 EU countries and Switzerland competed for the CIVIS Media Prize. CIVIS is Europe’s most important media award for cultural integration and diversity. It has been awarded in various categories since 1988. The CIVIS Media Prize is under the auspices of the European Parliament.
CIVIS Europe Award 2022 – category:
CIVIL VIDEO AWARD | Information
Schwarze Adler (Black Eagle) | Torsten Körner (Amazon Key Video | OVERVIEW | ZDF)
CIVIL VIDEO AWARD | Entertainment
Wannsee Conference | Paul Mommertz, Magnus Vattrodt (Constantin Television | ZDF)
CIVIL VIDEO AWARD | Social media format
My Scar: Martin is a prisoner in a torture prison in Syria | Fitore Muzaqi, Henrik Schütz, Stefanie Vollmann (WDR COSMO | Bildband Film & Fernsehproduktion)
CIVIL SOUND AWARD | Short program
Morning news: Coalition government of Saxony at odds over the expulsion of well-integrated Georgian families | Alexander Moritz (Deutschlandradio | Deutschlandfunk)
CIVIL SOUND AWARD | Long program
Last day. Assassination in Hanau | Sebastian Friedrich
(Deutschlandradio | Deutschlandfunk Kultur | WDR | NDR)
CIVIL SOUND AWARD | Audio files
Two-Thirds FM – Season 1 Is there friendship in prison? Episode 4 | Fabian Grieger,
Jonas Seufert (Zweidrittel FM | JSA Berlin)
DISCLAIMER C.
LOS CUATRO VIENTOS (Four Winds) | Anna-Sophia Richard
(Giganten Film Produktions GmbH | SWR | Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)
CIVIL MOVIE AWARDS
On the contrary | Sonke Wortmann, Christoph Muller, Tom Spieß
(Constantin Film Production, SevenPictures Film)
CIVIL TOP AWARDS
Schwarze Adler (Black Eagle) | Torsten Körner (Amazon Key Video | OVERVIEW | ZDF)
Here are the broadcast dates: https://www.civismedia.eu/en/media-prize/media-prize-2022/dates-of-broadcast.
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