PRIX EUROPA 2015
REGULATIONS TELEVISION
PREAMBLE
PRIX EUROPA - The European Broadcasting Festival – is the programme-makers’ festival
among the media festivals.
Looking for the best television, radio and online productions from Europe, it invites
programme-makers and editors to find the winner within their genre.
These unique juries assess and evaluate all competition entries in a public debate and then
vote for the best.
This makes PRIX EUROPA a first-class training platform, a multinational market place
as well as a forum reliably highlighting the latest media trends and championing quality
broadcasting for all Europeans.
1. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
PRIX EUROPA is looking for the best of television – Made in Europe.
PRIX EUROPA is looking for television entries, which by the quality of their content and
form equally convince audiences and professionals. The programmes should bear the cultural
imprint of their place of origin, yet also reach people of other cultures, thus making them
suitable for screening outside of the country in which they were produced.
2. WHO MAY ENTER
PRIX EUROPA TELEVISION is open to all television organisations, production companies
and independent programme-makers based in Europe, given they hold the festival rights
for the entered production.
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3. CATEGORIES
The PRIX EUROPA 2015 TELEVISION competition will be held in four categories.
The submitter decides the category in which the production should compete.
* TV Documentary Category
This category is looking for Television documentaries up to 90 minutes.
* TV Fiction Category
This category is looking for
- TV dramas with a complete storyline (minimum length 30 minutes) and
- episodes from TV fiction mini-series and serials.
* TV Current Affairs Category
This category is looking for journalistic research programmes focusing on in-depth
information and investigative journalism. Programmes that follow up key contemporary
matters not afraid to tackle controversial issues and vouch for demanding and responsible
journalism. The entries should be made for television and not for theatrical release, and stem
from regularly broadcast television formats. Minimum length: 15 minutes.
* TV Iris Category
Under the Patronage of NTR - the Dutch Public Broadcaster IRIS invites programmes that
deal explicitly with the culturally diverse character of European societies and contribute
towards equality, understanding and tolerance between people of different origins, cultures
and religions.
IRIS seeks to be an incentive for programme practitioners to devote their attention
to the ethnic diversity aspect of European societies.
Programmes can be fiction or documentaries, children or entertainment programmes, that
have “cultural diversity” as central theme.
There is no minimum or maximum length.
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4. NUMBER OF ENTRIES
Each submitter may enter a maximum of 2 programmes in each of the categories
TV Documentary, TV Fiction, TV Current Affairs.
There are no restrictions in the TV IRIS category, but please note that the programmes are
nominated strictly on the merit of their cultural diversity.
5. ELIGIBLE PERIOD
All television entries to PRIX EUROPA 2015 must have been produced after 1 January 2014.
Programmes that have not yet been broadcast are also eligible.
6. PRESENTATIONS
All entered programmes will be available free of charge to all festival participants and
the reporting media in the Programme Library during the festival week:
17–24 October 2015.
In all competition categories, only the programmes nominated by the Festival Office will be
competing for the PRIX EUROPA Awards.
7. ADJUDICATION
In all the competition categories at PRIX EUROPA the adjudication lies in the hands of an
open Jury Group which undertakes to examine all the entries together, to discuss them in
public and then to assess them using a points system.
Each Jury Group will be a professional forum of programme-makers.
Each final candidate organisation will be obliged to send a Jury Member to present its
entry and to take part in the adjudication as a member of the Jury Group.
Irrespectively of having submitted a programme into the competition, all TV organisations,
production companies and independent filmmakers are invited to send Jury Members to
serve in the Jury Group.
In addition, Observers may participate in all sessions of all Jury Groups. Observers may take
part in the discussions but not in the adjudication.
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8. AWARDS 2015
TV Documentary
* PRIX EUROPA
Best European TV Documentary of the Year
TV Fiction
* PRIX EUROPA
Best European TV Drama of the Year
* PRIX EUROPA
Best European TV Fiction Serial or Mini-Series of the Year
TV Current Affairs
* PRIX EUROPA
Best European TV Current Affairs Programme of the Year
TV Iris Category
* PRIX EUROPA IRIS
Best European TV Programme of the Year about Cultural Diversity
9. ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PRIZE WINNERS
On Friday, 23 October 2015 all prize winners will be officially announced during
the Awards Ceremony.
10. PRIZE MONEY & TROPHY
Each prize amounts to €6,000.
The prize money will be paid by the Organisers to the person/s (authors, directors, producers,
camera persons etc.) named by the entering organisations.
The PRIX EUROPA TROPHY will be handed over to the representative of each winning
entry at the Awards Ceremony on Friday, 23 October 2015.
The Festival Organisers expect the prize winner to attend the Awards Ceremony in person –
or to send a representative.
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11. DEADLINES
Submission:
By 1 July 2015 the PRIX EUROPA Festival Office in Berlin must have received:
a) submission forms, duly completed online at www.prixeuropa.eu
b) video files of each registered production, if possible with English subtitles
uploaded to the server (details of where and how to upload are detailed during the online
registration process)
c) TV fiction mini-series/serials: summary of the storyline of the complete series
please mail to [email protected]
Pre-Selection:
By 31 August 2015 each submitter will be informed about the results of the pre-selection.
Selected Programmes:
By 23 September 2015 the submitters of the selected programmes must send in the following:
a) an uploaded video file of the selected programme for screening purposes
(details will be communicated)
b) personal registration form, duly completed (online) of the Jury Member
who will represent the submitting organisation in the Jury Group
c) photographs: a film still, picture of the author/director for use free of charge and press kit
(if available) please mail to: [email protected]
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12. THE SMALL PRINT
If a submission wins the submitter will mention the PRIX EUROPA award in all subsequent
promotional and press material.
Productions entered into the competition may not include any commercial advertising.
Commercial breaks have to be edited out to ensure continuous screening.
A co-production will be regarded as the entry of whichever organisation submits it.
All co-production partners must be named on the registration form. It will be presumed by
the Organiser that the other co-producers have agreed to the programme being entered.
The Organiser shall have the right to release excerpts of up to 5 minutes from any entry for
screening free of charge by TV stations reporting on PRIX EUROPA 2015 or for use on the
Internet.
All graphic material sent in by the submitters will be released free of charge for use in all
publications on PRIX EUROPA 2015 (press, printed material, Internet).
The Organiser will keep the files of all competing productions for its archives.
These rules are issued in English.
Any entry failing to comply with these rules may be disqualified by the Organiser or the
relevant Jury Group.
The registration of an entry for the PRIX EUROPA 2015 competition implies full
acceptance of these rules.
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