PRIX EUROPA 2016 REGULATIONS TELEVISION PREAMBLE PRIX EUROPA - The European Broadcasting Festival awards the best European television, radio, digital audio and online productions each year with the aim of publicising them throughout Europe and supporting their continental distribution and use. It calls on all media professionals and their commitment to quality to compete against each other with their best productions. PRIX EUROPA distinguishes itself by its unique juries open to all programme makers from across the continent. All competition entries are assessed and evaluated in a public and open debate. This transparent process makes PRIX EUROPA a first-class training platform and a multinational market place. PRIX EUROPA is an annual forum reliably highlighting the latest trends in the media and taking a stand on broadcasting quality for all Europeans. 1. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR PRIX EUROPA is looking for the best of television Made in Europe. PRIX EUROPA is looking for entries, which by the quality of their content and form equally convince audiences and professionals. The programmes should bear the cultural imprint of their place of origin, yet also reach people of other cultures, thus making them suitable for screening outside of the country in which they were produced. 2. WHO MAY ENTER PRIX EUROPA is open to all television organisations, production companies and independent producers based in Europe, given they hold the festival rights for the entered production. 1
3. CATEGORIES The PRIX EUROPA 2016 television competition will be held in four categories. The submitter decides the category in which the production should compete. * TV Documentary Category Television documentaries up to 90 minutes. * TV Fiction Category - TV movies and mini-series (up to 8 episodes) - TV Fiction series and serials * TV Current Affairs Category This category is looking for journalistic research programmes focusing on in-depth information and investigative journalism. They should examine key contemporary topics, not be afraid to tackle controversial issues and demonstrate demanding and responsible journalism. The entries should be made for television and not for theatrical release, and stem from regularly broadcast television formats. Minimum length: 15 minutes. * TV Iris Category Under the Patronage of NTR - the Dutch Public Broadcaster IRIS invites programmes that deal explicitly with the culturally diverse character of European societies and contribute towards equality, understanding and tolerance between people of different origins, cultures and religions. IRIS seeks to be an incentive for programme practitioners to devote their attention to the ethnic diversity aspect of European societies. Programmes can be fiction or documentaries, children or entertainment programmes, that have cultural diversity as central theme. There is no minimum or maximum length. 2
4. NUMBER OF ENTRIES Each submitter may enter a maximum of two programmes in each of the categories TV Documentary, TV Fiction, TV Current Affairs. There are no restrictions in the TV IRIS category, but please note that the programmes are nominated strictly on the merit of their cultural diversity. 5. ELIGIBLE PERIOD The first broadcast of television entries to PRIX EUROPA 2016 must lie between 1 November 2015 and 31 December 2016. 6. PRESENTATIONS All entered programmes will be available free of charge to all festival participants and the reporting media in the Programme Library during the festival week: 15 21 October 2016. In all competition categories, only the programmes nominated by the Festival Office will be competing for the PRIX EUROPA Awards. 7. ADJUDICATION In all the competition categories at PRIX EUROPA the adjudication lies in the hands of the respective open Jury Group which undertakes to examine all the entries together, to discuss them in public and then to assess them using a points system. Each Jury Group will be a professional forum of programme-makers. Each submitter of an entry nominated for PRIX EUROPA 2016 will be obliged to send a Jury Member to present its entry and to take part in the adjudication as a member of the respective Jury Group. Each Jury Member is entitled to vote and is obliged to view to all the entries in his or her category. Irrespectively of having submitted a programme into the competition, all TV organisations, production companies and independent filmmakers are invited to send Jury Members to serve in each Jury Group. In addition, Observers may participate in all sessions of all Jury Groups. Observers may take part in the discussions but not in the adjudication. 3
8. AWARDS 2016 TV Documentary Best European TV Documentary of the Year TV Fiction Best European TV Movie or Mini-Series of the Year Best European TV Fiction Series or Serial of the Year TV Current Affairs Best European TV Current Affairs Programme of the Year TV Iris Category IRIS Best European TV Programme of the Year about Cultural Diversity 9. ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PRIZE WINNERS On Friday, 21 October 2016 all prize winners will be officially announced during the PRIX EUROPA 2016Awards Ceremony. 10. PRIZE MONEY & TROPHY Each prize amounts to 6,000. The prize money will be paid by the Organisers to the person/s (authors, directors, producers, camera persons etc.) named by the entering organisations. The PRIX EUROPA TROPHY will be handed over to the representative of each winning entry at the Awards Ceremony on Friday, 21 October 2016. The Festival Organisers expect the prize winner to attend the Awards Ceremony in person or to send a representative. 4
11. DEADLINES Submission: By 1 July 2016 the PRIX EUROPA Festival Office in Berlin must have received: a) submission forms, duly completed online at www.prixeuropa.eu b) video files of each registered production, with English subtitles uploaded to the server (details of where and how to upload are detailed during the online registration process) c) TV fiction mini-series/serials: summary of the storyline of the complete series please mail to tv@prixeuropa.eu Pre-Selection: By 31 August 2016 each submitter will be informed about the results of the pre-selection. Nominated Programmes: By 15 September 2016 the submitters of the selected programmes must send in the following: Personal registration form, duly completed (at prixeuropa.eu) of the Jury Member who will represent the submitter in the Jury Group By 23 September 2016 the submitters of the selected programmes must send in the following: a) an uploaded video file of the selected programme for screening purposes (details will be communicated) b) photographs: a film still, picture of the author/director for use free of charge and press kit (if available) please mail to: press@prixeuropa.eu 5
12. THE SMALL PRINT If a submission wins the submitter will mention the PRIX EUROPA award in all subsequent promotional and press material. Productions entered into the competition may not include any commercial advertising. Commercial breaks have to be edited out to ensure continuous screening. A co-production will be regarded as the entry of whichever organisation submits it. All co-production partners must be named on the registration form. It will be presumed by the Organiser that the other co-producers have agreed to the programme being entered. The Organiser shall have the right to release excerpts of up to 5 minutes from any entry for screening free of charge by TV stations reporting on PRIX EUROPA 2016 or for use on the Internet. All graphic material sent in by the submitters will be released free of charge for use in all publications on PRIX EUROPA 2016 (press, printed material, Internet). The Organiser will keep the files of all competing productions in Berlin for its archives. These rules are issued in English. Any entry failing to comply with these rules may be disqualified by the Organiser or the relevant Jury Group. The registration of an entry for the PRIX EUROPA 2016 competition implies full acceptance of these rules. Please see next page for all information requested to fill in the submission form. 6
You will need to have the following information in hand once you start filling in the online submission form: The once marked * are compulsory fields! *Submitting Organisation *Street, postal code, city, country *Contact person, email, telephone *Press contact, email *Original Title *English Title Title of Series Episode No *Author, email Adapted from and by *Director, email *Commissioning Editor, email *Camera *Producer, email *Production Company, City, Country *Company Contact Person, email, website *All Co-Producers *Distribution Company Key Staff *Length in Minutes *Original Language *Date of Production *First Broadcast By *Date of the First Broadcast *Time of The First Broadcast *Total Budget *Synopsis In English *Production Context (cross-medial strategy, stand-alone, a weekly show, part of special festivities, a part of a focus week, jubilee year etc.) The Submission form will be online from 1 May 2016 at ww.prixeuropa.eu 7