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| Congratulations to the winners of the 2003 Third Coast Festival / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. The recipient of the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award was prize-winning radio producer and playwright Joe Frank. |
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Best Documentary: Gold
Award
Narrated by writer Paul Auster, The Sonic Memorial Project is an
intimate and historic documentary commemorating the life and history of the
World Trade Center and its surrounding neighborhood, through audio artifacts,
rare recordings, voice mail messages and interviews. The Sonic Memorial Project
was produced by the Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson) in
collaboration with other independent producers, National Public Radio, artists,
writers, archivists, historians and public radio listeners throughout the
country. The Sonic Memorial Project aired on All Things Considered.
(58:55)
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Best Documentary: Silver
Award
In the summer of 2002, seventeen year old Hyder Akbar traveled from California
with his father to their home country of Afghanistan. He took a tape recorder
along on the trip to record his thoughts and experiences. Independent producer
Susan Burton crafted Akbar's audio diaries into a documentary that provides a
rare and personal glimpse into this turbulent corner of the world. Come Back to
Afghanistan aired on This American Life. (59:00)
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Best Documentary: Bronze
Award
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Oakland Scenes: Snapshots of a Community by
Youth Radio
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Using a poetic retelling of Romeo and Juliet as its centerpiece, Oakland Scenes
chronicles the tense summer of 2002 in Oakland, California, when an alarming
number of youth homicides weighed heavily on the community. A number of people
collaborated to produce this story for Youth Radio (a youth media
project in Berkeley, California) including Broadcast Training Director Gerald
Ward II, recent high school graduate Bianca Yarborough and poet/activist Ise
Lyfe. Oakland Scenes aired on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday.
(5:44)
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Best Documentary: Honorable
Mention
Sound designer and multimedia artist Ben Rubin employs the cacophony of the New
York Mercantile Exchange to create a musical piece commemorating the reopening
of the World Financial Center's Winter Garden, which was closed after the
events of September 11th. Open Outcry was adapted from an audio
installation and first aired on PRI's The Next Big Thing from WNYC.
(7:00) (13:20)
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Best Documentary: Director's
Choice
Blending satire, drama and interviews, this Australian documentary portrays a
not-so-distant future where robots care for children and parents agree to live
apart from their families during the work week. The Dribble Down Effect was
produced by Eurydice Aroney with technical production by John Jacobs. It aired
on the ABC program Radio Eye. (33:34)
[Image courtesy of Chris Bishop (http://www.chrisbishop.com)]
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Best New Artist
Violinist and sound artist Reena Katz was raised Jewish in suburban Toronto,
Canada. As a girl, she learned one story about the history of Israel and the
people who lived there. As she grew up, an interest in cartography and her
father's rare books about Palestine, prompted her to dig deeper to understand
the landscape of the Middle East. In this impressionistic piece, Katz weaves
memories and music into a textured exploration of her cultural heritage. Can
You Say Haa? aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Outfront.
(13:00)
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Public Service
Award
As a sophomore, Jaimita Haskell was given the opportunity to take advanced
classes at her high school, an experience she found stimulating and rewarding.
When, due to circumstances beyond her control, Haskell was dropped back into
mainstream classes, she challenged the educational tracking system at her
school, an action that inspired other students to follow her lead. Haskell
reported Tracking for Radio Rookies, a youth training program based at
public radio station WNYC, under the direction of producers Czerina Patel and
Marianne McCune. Tracking aired on WNYC's local segment of Morning
Edition. (8:47)
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The 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner is Joe
Frank, producer, film-maker, playwright and master of the dark, humorous and
sometimes absurd in radio. You can hear his work and listen to his
one-of-a-kind acceptance speech here.
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