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Awards

Best Documentary Awards

Gold prize—$5000
Silver prize—$4000
Bronze prize—$3000
Honorable Mention prizes (up to 2)—$1500

Entries for the Best Documentary category should document a place, time, person, event, phenomenon or issue. These include but are not limited to: investigative reports, narrative stories, personal essays and audio portraits. We’re interested in work with a social mission and stories that entertain. Musical and historical documentaries are welcome. Profiles and cultural snapshots are welcome. Podcasts and documentaries that redefine the documentary form are welcome.

Directors' Choice Award—$1500

This award is given by the Third Coast Festival to an entry that strongly demonstrates innovation and creativity in storytelling, sound design and/or overall production style.

Best News Feature—$1500

The Best News Feature (BNF) category honors exceptional news features reported by radio newsrooms and independent reporters worldwide. Submissions should be stories (local, national, international) produced in response to events and issues (serious or light-hearted.) Enterprising work that brings new stories to light is also welcome.

Best News Feature entries should exhibit exemplary reporting and journalistic integrity. Like Best Documentary entries, BNF submissions should begin with a compelling story choice, and exhibit strong writing, creativity and the use of sound where appropriate. BNF entries are not eligible for the Best Documentary, Best New Artist, or Radio Impact Awards.

Best New Artist Award—$1500

This award is presented to a producer who entered the audio field between July 2009 and July 2011. To qualify, each entrant must have recorded, written and mixed her/his entry. It is permissible to have worked with an editor, as long as she/he performed in an advisory capacity only. Co-productions are not eligible in this category.

Each entrant must include a statement (200 words max) explaining her/his eligibility as a Best New Artist candidate, including confirmation that her/his submission was produced in accordance with the guidelines listed above.

Radio Impact Award—$1500

This award recognizes a single documentary or feature (regardless of style or structure) that has significantly impacted an individual, group or community. This can be an investigative report that influenced public debate, or a close-up portrait of a community that challenged listeners’ stereotypes, or a radio story that changed the course of an individual’s life... or something else entirely.

IMPORTANT DATES

Call for Entries announced: May 4th

Early deadline: June 23rd, noon PDT

Late deadline: July 14th, noon PDT

Winners notified: early September

Awards Ceremony: October 23, 2011 (in Chicago)

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