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Best Documentary: Gold Award
The Sonic Memorial Project
by The Kitchen Sisters with Ben Shapiro and The Sonic Memorial Team
The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) have been
producing radio programs together since 1979. They are the creators, with Jay
Allison, of the 1999 Peabody Award-winning series, Lost & Found Sound
and the 2002 Peabody Award winning series The Sonic Memorial Project.
Aired on NPR's All Things Considered , these groundbreaking national
collaborations have brought together independent producers, NPR, stations,
artists, historians and public radio listeners throughout the country to create
memorable and significant radio.
Ben Shapiro is a radio and television producer whose
wide-ranging documentary work has aired on NPR, the CBC and other outlets. His
television projects as producer and cameraperson have appeared on PBS, HBO, the
BBC and he is currently finishing a high-definition video documentary on
photographer Gregory Crewdson. Shapiro’s programs have won many awards
including NFCB Gold and Silver Reels, and three Emmys. He’s the producer of the
2003 Third Coast Festival Broadcast.
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Best Documentary: Silver Award
Come Back to Afghanistan
by Susan Burton and Hyder Akbar
Susan Burton’s radio documentaries can be heard on This
American Life, for which she is a contributing editor and former
producer. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and
previously she was the editor of the “Readings” section of Harper’s
Magazine. Burton received a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
to produce radio stories about teenagers, and her documentary Tornado Prom
won the Best New Artist award at the 2001 Third Coast Festival.
Hyder Akbar was born in Peshawar, Pakistan, to Afghan parents,
and grew up mainly in Concord, California. In the summer of 2002, he traveled
to Afghanistan for the first time and made a radio documentary about his
experience living in Kabul. Akbar returned to Afghanistan in 2003, living this
time in Kunar, a rural border province of which his father is now the governor.
Akbar currently attends Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California.
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Best Documentary: Bronze Award
Oakland Scenes: Snapshots of a Community
by Youth Radio
Youth Radio is an award-winning non-profit media training
program and independent producer of youth media. For more than a decade, the
Berkeley-based organization has trained thousands of teenagers in broadcast
journalism, radio & web production, engineering, media advocacy and
literacy. The fresh and compelling voices of these young reporters can be heard
on radio, the internet, and through print media, reaching an audience of 15
million people per year.
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Best Documentary: Honorable Mention
Open Outcry
by Ben Rubin
Ben Rubin is a sound designer and multimedia artist and he
teaches at the Yale School of Art. He collaborates frequently with other
artists such as Laurie Anderson, Steve Reich and Arto Lindsay. Rubin has been
awarded numerous artistic residencies and has been nominated for several
national prizes. In 1993 he founded EAR Studio which provides design,
consulting and production services to architects, museums, artists, producers
and performers.
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Best Documentary: Director's Choice
The Dribble Down Effect
by Eurydice Aroney
Eurydice Aroney has produced program for the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation for many years. Her radio features have been broadcast
on the CBC, Canada and the BBC, UK. Currently she’s attempting to break new
ground in documentary form by combining the ideas of social theorists with
“real people and problems.” Aroney is also Head of Radio Journalism at the
Sydney University of Technology.
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Best New Artist
Can You Say Haa?
by Reena Katz
Reena Katz is a violinist, teacher and audio artist in
Toronto, Canada. Katz's personal audio work stems from her interest in
detailing the history of her family and its relationship to immigration, war,
and transformation. Since 2001, she has been active in the movement for just
peace in Israel and Palestine, and produces a monthly community radio show in
Toronto. Can You Say Haa? is her first radio documentary.
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Public Service Award
Tracking
by Jaimita Haskell, Marianne McCune and Czerina Patel of Radio Rookies
Jaimita Haskell attends Curtis High School in Saint George,
Staten Island where she also lives. As a result of challenging the educational
tracking system at Curtis High School during her sophomore year, Haskell will
soon graduate from the advanced program. Haskell enjoys writing, loves being
with her family, and is planning to be a lawyer.
Marianne McCune was a documentary and educational filmmaker
before sliding over into the world of public radio. She has worked in Gambia,
Croatia, London and New York, focusing as often as possible on programs for and
about young people. Her documentary Memories Do not Burn, about a summer camp
for refugee children from Bosnia and Croatia, won numerous awards. McCune
reports for WNYC and contributes regularly to NPR and PRI. She's also the
founder of Radio Rookies.
Czerina Patel is the producer of Radio Rookies, a youth radio
program. From mentoring 5th graders while in college, to organizing a
journalism mentoring project for Harlem teens while in graduate school, Czerina
has been a mentor and friend to children and teenagers for many years.
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