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Meet the Winners of the 2006 Third Coast Festival / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
(Click on each image to enlarge. Photos by Stu Mullenberg)
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Gold Award: My Lobotomy, by Piya Kochhar and Dave Isay
Piya Kochhar was born in India but, because of her father's job, spent her childhood moving from country to country. She has lived and attended school in Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Canada, India and the U.S. Kochhar studied radio at Columbia University’s School of Journalism and for the past three years she has worked with Sound Portraits and StoryCorps in New York City.
Dave Isay is the founder of Sound Portraits Productions. Over the past 16 years his radio documentary and feature work has won almost every award in broadcasting including four Peabody Awards and two Robert F. Kennedy Awards. Isay has also received the Prix Italia, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is the author (or co-author) of three books based on Sound Portraits radio stories including Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago. Isay also founded the oral history initiative StoryCorps which launched in 2003.
Accepting the Gold Award with Piya is Howard Dully, the main voice of the winning program My Lobotomy. |
Silver Award: Goat on a Cow, by Laura Starecheski, Jad Abumrad and Ellen Horne
Laura Starecheski is an independent radio producer based in New York City. She teaches sound production at the City University of New York, and is a teaching artist with the Student Press Initiative and the Davis Museum in Wellesley, MA. She enjoys riding her bicycle long distances and drinking coffee.
Jad Abumrad is the host and producer of WNYC’s Radio Lab, an award-winning radio series that explores big ideas in science and beyond through conversation, sound and storytelling. Prior to joining WNYC, Abumrad worked as an independent reporter, producer and documentarian for a variety of local and national programs. He was also a member of the team that launched PRI's The Next Big Thing. Before working in radio, Abumrad wrote music for films and studied music composition and creative writing at Oberlin College.
Ellen Horne is the Senior Producer of WNYC’s Radio Lab. She has been an independent radio producer filing stories for B-side, KQED’s California Report, and the National Radio Project’s Making Contact. Before pursuing a career in radio, she worked in coral reef conservation. She studied theater and theology at Cornell College and somehow her education all makes sense now that she’s at Radio Lab.
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| Bronze Award: Thembi's AIDS Diary, by Joe Richman
Joe Richman is an independent producer for NPR's All Things Considered and the founder of Radio Diaries. Over the past ten years, Radio Diaries has helped to pioneer a model for working with people to document their own lives. Past productions include: Teenage Diaries, Prison Diaries, My So-Called Lungs, New York Works and Mandela: An Audio History. Richman also teaches at Columbia University's Graduate School of journalism.
Accepting the Bronze Award with Joe are his
co-producers Ben Shapiro and Anayansi Diaz-Cortes.
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| Directors' Choice: Rhapsody in Bohemia, by Alan Hall
Alan Hall is an independent radio producer with his own London-based company, Falling Tree Productions. Recent BBC credits include Icons, a music interview series with Tom Robinson, 84 Book Crossing Road, a trans-Atlantic literary adventure and Challenging the Silence, the work of artists under Stalin. He’s also recently had programs commissioned by the ABC in Sydney, Danish Radio and Resonance FM. Hall’s programs have received numerous awards, including the Prix Italia, the Prix Bohemia and several Radio Academy Sony Awards.
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Directors' Choice: Honoring the Body: Taharah, by Rebecca Sheir
Rebecca Sheir is the host and associate producer of AK, Alaska Public Radio Network’s award-winning public affairs program. In May 2006, she received her MFA from the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, where she designed and taught the radio essay/commentary course, "Radio Voices." Sheir also worked at WSUI, producing and co-hosting Weekend America: Iowa Edition and anchoring All Things Considered. Her work has aired on public radio stations across the country.
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Honorable Mention: Millionaire, by Ronan Kelly
Ronan Kelly is a producer with RTE Radio 1 in Ireland. Kelly studied communications at the University in Dublin and then began his career as a commercial video producer. He was an intern for Channel 13 in New York and for CNN in Atlanta when, having given Ted Turner all his good ideas, he came back to Ireland to resume his career. Kelly worked as a reporter for RTE TV for three years before finally finding his niche as a radio producer. He has worked for RTE for 16 years.
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Honorable Mention: Kyenkyen Be Adi Mawu, by Ann Heppermann, Kara Oehler and Rick Moody
Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler are a Brooklyn-based production team whose work has aired on numerous national and international programs including Weekend America, Marketplace, Studio 360, Radio Lab and BBC4's A World in Your Ear. Their Third Coast Festival shortdocumentary And I Walked...Stories from the Border has been featured in international audio festivals and most recently was part of the Hearing Voices' Special, Crossing Borders. The producers of this series have received awards from RTNDA, PRNDI, NFCB, and the AP
Rick Moody is the author of several critically acclaimed novels and collections of short fiction, including "Garden State," "The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven" and "The Ice Storm," which was made into a film directed by Ang Lee in 1997. He has earned many literary awards, and was presented with a Guggenheim fellowship in 2000. In 2002 he published "The Black Veil: A Memoir With Digressions," which received the PEN Martha Albrand prize for excellence in the memoir. His radio pieces have appeared on Chicago Public Radio's Re:sound and PRI's The Next Big Thing from WNYC.
Heppermann, Moody and Oehler have been producing the Song and Memory series for Weekend America for the past year, asking people to recall their most memorable songs from childhood.
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Radio Impact Award: Between Friends, by Neil Sandell and Jody Porter
Neil Sandell is senior producer of CBC Radio’s award winning documentary program, Outfront. He has worked as a producer on such flagship CBC current affairs programs as Morningside, As It Happens, Ideas, and Quirks & Quarks. His documentaries have won recognition from the Gabriel Awards, the New York Festivals, Amnesty International Canada and the RTNDA. In May 2006, Sandell presented the documentary Between Friends to the International Features Conference in Vienna.
Jody Porter’s journalistic career began at the top of the world in Inuvik, NWT in 1992 and has since gone south. She has worked in town and cities across Canada including one joyous summer as the Stratford theatre critic for the Sentinel review in Woodstock, Ontario. Currently employed by CBC Radio in Thunder Bay, Porter has received several media awards, including a 2006 Gabriel Award and a Debwewin Citation for her reporting on Aboriginal issues.
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Best New Artist Award: Muriel's Message, by Mira Burt-Wintonick
Mira Burt-Wintonick might not talk much, but she sure likes to listen. When she's not cutting up peoples’ voices and making them into stories, you can find her hoisting a boom microphone for a video doc or plunking away on her piano. She enjoys subtle soundscapes, DIY podcasts and hijacking samples off the Internet. Burt-Wintonick currently works as an assistant editor and provides production help on CBC Radio's WireTap.
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Audio Luminary Award: Piers Plowright
Piers Plowright is an internationally respected producer who created radio dramas, documentaries and features for the BBC from 1967-1997. His work reinvented British radio by opening its doors to impressionistic, poetic and heartfelt styles of storytelling. His productions have won many prestigious radio awards including three Prix Italias and several Sony awards. Now almost seventy, Plowright continues to teach his craft and to produce work independently.
Plowright’s lasting contribution to radio was best described by BBC documentary editor Robert Ketteridge, who said, “In film, the British have Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and Peter Greenaway. In literature and drama, Salman Rushdie and Harold Pinter. And in radio, we have Piers Plowright.” He’s also been called the “Joseph Campbell of radio” and a “realist-magician” by Matt Thompson, a colleague from the BBC.
Read more about Piers's radio career. |
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