ADAMI Media Prize Nominees 2020
ADAMI Media Prize for TV-Information
Nicolae Cantabine - Andrei Kaptarenko, Moldova
Author: Andrei Kaptarenko
Co-author: Viorika Tataru
Producer: Andrei Kaptarenko
Broadcaster: TV8 Moldova
Nikolay has a very telling surname - Kintebine - which means „sings well.” This name determined his life and role in the rural village of Pokhreby, where he and his wife Vera have lived all their lives. They have been singing for as long as they can remember. Nikolai has kept in his repertoire the forgotten songs of his childhood. Young people no longer sing these songs, and only in the yard of Uncle Kolya, as he is called in the village, you can still listen to them.
ADAMI Media Prize for TV-Entertainment
Country of Songs - Stanislav Medvedev, Ukraine
Author: Stanislav Medvedev
Co-author: Yuliia Nozdran
Director: Ganna Kramarenko
Producer: Stanislav Medvedev
Broadcaster: UA: PERSHYI / UA:PBC
It has been said that folk music unites people of different professions, generations and even nations. The first episode of the music programme The Country of Songs is dedicated to such interethnicexchange between two cultures. The Belarusian-Ukrainian ensemble Kyselianocka demonstrates that folk culture has no language barriers, and the main character of the epi-sode, Vira Yakivna, will even give us a recipe for the national Belarusian dish. The ensemble Berehynia demonstrates the idea that it’s „never too late”. With an average age of 80 years, its members became real celebrities in Ukraine and also abroad, and the group members even took their first plane trip!
ADAMI Media Prize for TV-News / Short Doc
Girl Without a Hijab - Elene Tsintsadze, Georgia
Author: Elene Tsintsadze
Co-author: Kakha Roinishvili
Producer: Nino Japaridze
Broadcaster: Imedi TV
Director: Irakli Chikhladze
Thirty-one-year-old Maryam Sharif used to be a #whitewednesdays activist in Iran. Following an altercation with police in which a policeman struck Maryam for not wearing a headscarf, she shared the evidence on Instagram and then had to leave her home country. In Iran she had no freedom, no choice, no voice, like every Iranian woman. Now she is an asylum seeker in Georgia and is speaking up about women’s rights, including those of Georgian women. Maryam never gives up; her goal is to return to Iran, without restrictions, with the right to choose and with freedom.
ADAMI Media Prize for Web Videos
Bounded by Memories - Christina Soloyan, Davit Avetisyan & Anonymous, Armenia/Azerbaijan
Author: Christina Soloyan, Davit Avetisyan, Anonymous
Director: Christina Soloyan, Davit Avetisyan, Anonymous
www.chai-khana.org
After finishing their household tasks, Armenian and Azerbaijani women used to sit together, drink tea and discuss things; it was their moment of peace. Today, women have the same routine, but their old neighbours are now gone. The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict closed the border between Armenians and Azerbaijanis and introduced a tension that has restricted their lives and relationships. This story is filmed on the Armenian-Azerbaijani in border in 2018, an unusually peaceful period for villagers who call this land home.
Giulgun from Tekalo - Eka Kevanishvili, Georgia
Author: Eka Kevanishvili
Director: Toma Begiashvili
Producer: Eka Kevanishvili
www.radiotavisupleba.ge
This video story is about Gulgun Mametkhanov, a 21-year-old ethnic Azerbaijani girl living in Georgia, in a village called Teqalo. When it was time for her to choose a profession, she confessed that she wanted to study journalism. Gulgun’s parents allowed her to study but advised her to choose a more „feminine profession” and steered her towards geography, thinking she’d be-come a teacher, much like other girls in Azerbaijan. However, Gulgun did everything to make her dreams come true. Currently she lives in Tbilisi and has big plans for the future.
YOUNG ADAMI Media Prize
Safe Zone - Arpi Bekaryan, Armenia
Author: Arpi Bekaryan
Director: Arpi Bekaryan
Chai Khana
I am from the generation born during and after the war, in a closed and isolated society. I have not experienced Armenians and Azerbaijanis living, working and co-existing together. I do not have memories from those times; I have only the stereotypes that society, school and the media have taught me and everyone else in my generation. The words enemy and Azerbaijani had always been synonyms for me until I went to Tbilisi. This film is about the „hidden” community of Armenians and Azerbaijanis who have the chance to gather together only in a third country, who need to talk to each other and who sometimes are frightened of their friendships.
Ferry Tale - Iryna Kyporenko, Ukraine
Author: Iryna Kyporenko
Director: Iryna Kyporenko
INDIE LAB
Three peoples, two banks, one dream – to be connected by a small ferry across the Danube. It is a story about the river of life and heroes who travel distance and time to connect cultures and preserve the identity and flow of existence. The film is about people who, being in the middle of nowhere, at the junction of borders and amid changes, manage to retain their identity. Тhey all continue to be Moldovans, despite globalization and a new challenge - a large construction site near their village.