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Congratulations to the winners of the 2002 Third Coast Festival Competition. The recipient of the 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award was Pulitizer Prize-winning radio veteran and historian Studs Terkel. |
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Best Documentary: Gold
Award
In the 1940's, when he was 16 years old, Myron Jones was allowed to stay up
late any night of the week and to hang out at bars or where ever he pleased.
Their mother barely let his older sister Carol out of the house at all. So the
siblings devised a plan - they invented an imaginary family that required
Carol's babysitting services late into the night and sometimes for entire
weekends. Through Myron’s and Carol’s remembrances of this time in their lives,
it becomes clear that the imaginary family is everything that their actual
family was not: happy, whole and innocent of the layers of deception that
separated the children from their mother. Yes, There is a Baby aired
on This American Life, on January 5, 2001. (24:47)
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Best Documentary: Silver
Award
A young patient, reinvents his experience of being in the hospital through
metaphor and allusion. Responding to "what if" questions, Andrew exemplifies
the transformative qualities of fantasy, empathy and humor. The "New Children's
Hospital at Westmead," (Sydney, Australia) with its extraordinary art
collection, gardens and aviary, and even its own radio station, was the initial
inspiration for this piece. Made for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, If
aired on Deutschland Radio, Berlin, on June 15, 2001. (7:24)
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Best Documentary: Bronze
Award
Laura Rothenberg is 21 years old, but likes to say that she’s already had her
mid-life crisis. Laura has cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that affects the
lungs and other organs. People with CF live an average of 30 years. Two years
ago, Laura was given a tape recorder and since that time she has been keeping
an audio diary of her battle with the disease and her attempts to lead a normal
life with lungs than often betray her. My So-Called Lungs aired on NPR
on August 5, 2002. (21:52)
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Best Documentary: Honorable
Mention
Grey Ghost is the story of one man and a bird --or possibly just of
one man. It is also the story of an obsession. The man is Rhys Buckingham, a
"freelance ornithologist" from New Zealand. The bird is the South Island
Kokako, a grey, crow-sized songbird which, most experts agree, is now extinct.
Mr. Buckingham has spent a lifetime in the forest listening for the bird and is
determined with proving its existence. However, his search has been dogged by
almost unbelievable reversals and bad luck. Grey Ghost aired on Radio
New Zealand, on July 21, 2002. (24:27) [Image courtesy of StirlingImages.co.nz]
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Best Documentary: Honorable
Mention
When thirteen students were shot by Ohio National Guard Troops during a war
demonstration on the Kent State University Campus in May, 1970, four young
lives were ended and a nation was stunned. More than 30 years later, the world
at war is a different place, but that incident remains scorched into an Ohio
hillside. Through archival tape and interviews, Remembering Kent State
tracks the events that led up to the shootings. Aired on WKSU-FM on May 5,
2002. (59:10)
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Best Documentary: Director's
Choice
Annapurna: Memories in Sound is an impressionistic sound portrait of
the Ximms' trek through the Annapurna Circuit, a popular three-week hiking trip
through the Himalayas to Nepal. It was posted at quietamerican.org, starting
July 2002. (38:00)
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Best New Artist
Affairs of the Mind is a personal and confrontational story exploring
the nature of jealousy and the parameters of infidelity. The documentary
follows a private detective, Steve Murray, through the process of a marital
investigation that tracks his client's transition from doubt to certainty.
Along the way we examine why Murray himself is drawn to this line of work and
discover what his vengeful and mostly female clients are really getting for
their money. Affairs of the Mind aired on ABC – Radio National on July
27, 2002. (48:04)
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Public Service
Award
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Corrections, Inc. by
John Biewen of American RadioWorks
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The corrections industry has become a $50-billion-a-year business and one of
the strongest influences on criminal justice policy in America. In Corrections,
Inc., American RadioWorks correspondent John Biewen investigates how
unions, corporations and law enforcement agencies all benefit from a full and
expanding prison system, and how some of these vested interests work to
influence sentencing and other law enforcement policies. Aired on NPR member
stations on April 23, 2002. (50:31)
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