Radio Netherlands Worldwide was among the winners with three English-language programmes at the prestigious New York International Television and Radio Festivals 2010. The radio documentary The Lonely Funeral was crowned with a gold medal. The radio programme The State Were In won two awards, a silver medal for Babahs Day In Court and a bronze medal for Otto and Lucy. The festival received entries from over 30 countries. The awards were presented during a ceremony in New York on 24 September 2010.
A gold medal was awarded to programme maker Michele Ernsting for The Lonely Funeral, a documentary about a poet and a civil servant who create an extraordinary ritual for people who die alone in Amsterdam. Their shared respect for the dead forges an unlikely friendship.
www.rnw.nl/english/radioshow/lonely-funeral
Programme makers Jonathan Groubert and Greg Kelly of the radio programme The State Were In won a silver medal for their report entitled Babahs Day In Court. Babah Tarawallys world was turned upside down by Charles Taylors war in Sierra Leone. He musters the courage to go to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to see to make what he calls his confrontation with history.
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The bronze medal went to programme maker Chris Chambers of the The State Were In for his report entitled Otto and Lucy, featuring a young British man with Downs Syndrome and his mother as they talk openly and funnily about his quest to discover the sexual side of love.
www.rnw.nl/english/radioshow/right-sex
New York Festivals
The NYF International Television and Radio Broadcasting Awards, also known as the Radio Oscars, are presented to outstanding radio productions from all over the world. Each year hundreds of entries are judged by various panels of international experts for a number of criteria, including production level, presentation, originality, and creativity.