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Best Documentary: Gold Award
She's Alright, My Mum Is
by Kim Normanton and Nigel Acheson
Kim Normanton has over 14 years’ experience producing features and
live magazine programs for BBC Radio 4 and 5. She helped launch a
three-hour live Saturday morning program for children, then went on to research
and report on feature programs including the much acclaimed Touching the
Elephant, which explored blind people’s perceptions of the world. Since
returning from two years working in Zimbabwe, Normanton has been a researcher for
current affairs television and for several radio features.
Working as an independent producer since March 1996, Nigel Acheson has
over 20 years’ experience of program-making for BBC Radio. His work ranges from
magazine programs and light-hearted features to serious documentaries
re-examining events in recent history. In 1994 his program The Unspeakable
Atrocity, won a George Foster Peabody Award.
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Best Documentary: Silver Award
Joseph Shabalala: In His Own Words
by David Schulman and Jeffrey Freymann-Weyr
David Schulman produces Musicians in Their Own Words, a series of
first-person portraits of jazz vocalists, congueros, dobro virtuosos and other
creative musicians. The series, which is supported by the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting, is heard on NPR newsmagazines such as All Things Considered
and Morning Edition, and is availablethrough PRX.
Jeffrey Freymann-Weyr is a producer and editor for National Public
Radio's Arts Desk. He has worked for NPR's classical music show Performance
Today, and at recording studios in New York City that specialize in post
production for radio and TV advertising. He composes original music and sound
design scores for dance, film, commercials and he wrote the theme music for
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Best Documentary: Bronze Award
The Few Who Stayed: Defying Genocide in Rwanda
by Stephen Smith and Michael Montgomery for American RadioWorks
Stephen Smith reports on a wide range of international and domestic
issues for the documentary project American Radio Works and NPR. This work has
taken him to Asia, Europe and Latin America among other destinations. In
addition to such issues as human rights, science, health and race relations,
Smith also reports on diverse social and cultural issues across the United
States. Smith has won a duPont-Columbia University Gold Baton, as well as many
other national journalism awards.
Michael Montgomery joined American RadioWorks as a correspondent in
July, 1999. Prior to that, Montgomery was an associate producer at CBS Reports and 60 Minutes, where he covered national and international stories, including
an extensive investigation into Mexican drug trafficking. From 1989 to 1995,
Montgomery was a correspondent for The London Daily Telegraph, covering the
collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the break up of Yugoslavia.
Montgomery is the recipient of a duPont-Columbia Gold Baton and Overseas Press
Club Award.
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Best Documentary: Honorable Mention
Legs, Hope and Water
by Peggy Giakoumelos and Lea Redfern
Peggy Giakoumelos first got involved in radio through Radio Skid Row in
Sydney. Among other jobs, she has worked as an ESL teacher in Australia and
overseas, as a welfare worker and tour guide. Giakoumelos has written two short
plays that were professionally produced and is currently completing a
documentary for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio Eye about the
tourism industry in Greece.
Lea Redfern is a feature and documentary producer for Radio Eye,
broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She studied
communications at the University of Technology in Sydney and worked for
Sydney's largest community radio station. Thus began a love affair with the
medium of radio. Redfern recently won the Australian Human Rights Award for
Radio for her program, The Place You Cannot Imagine: A Family and Detention in
Australia.
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Best Documentary: Honorable Mention
Perfect Hearing
by Nubar Alexanian , Abby Alexanian, Jay Allison
Abby Alexanian is a sophomore at The Commonwealth School in Boston and
where she is studying art, literature, and foreign languages. She spent the
past summer volunteering as an assistant teacher for an ESL program in Salem,
MA and worked as a PA on film shoots in the Boston area.
Nubar Alexanian is an award-winning documentary photographer whose work
has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Life, National
Geographic and others. He is currently working on his fifth book, Re-enacted
Reality, with filmmaker Errol Morris and directing his second
documentary film, Duende, about Flamenco in Spain. Perfect Hearing,
his first radio documentary, aired on Transom.org and This American Life
in February 2004.
Jay Allison is an independent broadcast journalist whose work airs on
NPR's All Things Considered, PRI's This American Life, ABC News' Nightline,
and other national programs. He has received five Peabody Awards and the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Edward R. Murrow Award among other
honors.
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Best Documentary: Honorable Mention
All My Stuff In Bags
by Amy Dorn and Hillary Frank
Amy Dorn is a producer for Chicago Public Radio. Her audio documentaries
and personal narratives have been broadcast nationally on such programs as This
American Life, Studio 360, and Weekend All Things Considered.
Among other honors, Dorn won a Peabody for Stories of Home, a collection
of first-person narratives produced with writer Alex Kotlowitz. Dorn is
currently producing for the public affairs series Chicago Matters and
directing the Ear to the Ground mentorship project which she co-founded.
Hillary Frank is an award-winning freelance writer and radio producer.
Her work has aired on a variety of public radio programs including This American
Life, Morning Edition and Chicago Matters. Frank’s first
novel, Better than Running at Night, was named a Best Book for Young
Adults by the American Library Association. Frank also has a master's degree in
classical drawing. Her pictures can be found in her novels and in private
collections.
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Directors' Choice Award
Thirteen Ways
by Pejk Malinovski for PRI's The Next Big Thing on WNYC
Pejk Malinovski went to a Marxist kindergarten in his hometown of
Copenhagen. Today he’s a poet, translator, publisher and freelance radio
producer for Danish Radio, the BBC and PRI’s The Next Big Thin on WNYC.
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Radio Impact Award
In So Many Words
by Teresa Goff
Teresa Goff is a freelance writer and radio producer based in Vancouver,
British Columbia. Her documentary In So Many Words won the 2003 Canadian
Association of Speech Language and Audiologist’s Media Award.
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Best New Artist Award
Hard To Say
by Bente Birkeland
Bente Birkeland is a graduate student at the University of Missouri
School of Journalism. She reports from the state Capital for KMOX Radio in St.
Louis and NPR affiliates in Missouri. Her first documentary Hard to Say was
produced at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and originally broadcast
on PRI’s The Next Big Thing, from WNYC.
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