URTI – the International Radio and Television Union – has announced the official list of winners of its 2023 Grand Prix, which is divided into two categories: Television and Radio.
Created in 1981 by Armand Lanoux, a French writer and URTI’s vice-president, the URTI International Grand Prix for Creative Documentary is for documentaries which stand out for their technical and editorial quality but also for the originality of their subject-matter and point of view.
Seven documentary films won awards at this 42nd competition. The Bronze Medal was awarded jointly to Mohamed El Aboudi’s L’École de l’Espoir and Jin-Hee Him’s Revisiter la maison. Set in the Moroccan desert, L’École de l’Espoir shows the life of young children who travel miles on foot to attend a small mud-brick school. At the 2020 PriMed this film won the Mediterranean Issues Grand Prix and the France 3 Corse ViaStella. The URTI Silver Medal went to Don’t Come Back by Chiara Avesani and Matteo Delbò and the Gold Medal to Mame Woury Thioubou’s Rebeuss, Chambre 11.
The URTI International Radio Grand Prix is for international radio programmes which stand out for their research and innovation. Every year there is a different theme, and for this 35thedition the theme was “Radio and Peace”.
Merlin Chimegni’s La Paix des Ondes walked away with the Grand Prix. The Silver went to Carnets de Correspondante, reports by Marine Vlahovic and Arnaud Forest while the Bronze Medal went to the podcast Inside Kaboul by Caroline Gillet, Raha and Marwa Anna Buy.
Source : URTI
