The fourth edition of the Grand Prix Nova International
\nRadio Drama and Short Forms Festival , organised under the high patronage of
\nHer Royal Highness Princess Margareta of Romania, was preceded by a press
\nconference chaired by Attila Vizauer, the Director of the Radio Drama
\nDepartment of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation. 41 productions from
\naround the world have already been short-listed for this year’s edition of
\nGrand Prix Nova, a festival which has enjoyed a huge success and has brought
\nradio drama into the focus of attention again. <\/p>\n
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Attila Vizauer: It is a competition which will
\nturn out to be very difficult for the jury. I admit, when the short-listing was
\nmade, apart from selecting the 41 productions running in the competition, we
\nalso made a pre-classification and noticed that many important productions
\nwould compete for the first three places this year. We have productions from
\nAustralia, Iran, Russia, many European and overseas productions, from Canada,
\nfor instance. We shouldn’t forget that last year a Canadian production won the
\nfirst place in the ‘short forms’ section. Consequently, anything is possible
\nnow, the list is open. <\/p>\n
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The Grand Prix
\nNova International Radio Drama Festival
\nboasts a prestigious jury this year, too. The members of the jury are:
\nKaterina Rathouska, the Director of the Radio Drama and Literature Department
\nof the Czech Radio Broadcasting Corporation and a Euradio member, Vijay Sadhu,
\nSenior Executive, Programming Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), Dimitri
\nPlax, a Swedish artist, composer and radio drama producer and the Italian
\ncomposer, author and performer Stefano Giannotti, who attended Grand Prix Nova for the first time in 2015. <\/p>\n
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The 2016
\nedition of Grand Prix Nova celebrates the DADA centennial by two exquisite
\nshows, as Attila Vizauer has underlined: The Dada centennial has become a topic for
\nradio productions. There are two very interesting productions this year.
\nIt is interesting how people perceive this phenomenon 100 years on, and how
\nforeigners speak about the Dada phenomenon, which seems to have remained in the
\ncultural memory of the Swiss or the Serbs, for instance. All this has given me the idea of
\norganising, within the Grand Prix Nova Festival, a workshop devoted to the Dada
\ncentennial, during which we will also present two productions. One is ‘Dada Cabaret’, the title of Mihai
\nLungeanu’s script after Matei Vi\u015fniec’s play. The second production, equally
\ninteresting, I even dare say unique, is ‘Fuchsiada’ by Urmuz, a new type of
\nwriter, who wrote that genre of literature, concurrently with the Dadaists.<\/p>\n
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Between May 31
\nand June 5, the Grand Hotel Continental in Bucharest will host public auditions
\nof the radio shows nominated for Grand Prix Nova. Productions from such
\ncountries as Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, the Czech Republic, Russia,
\nSwitzerland, Iran, Australia and Canada will be presented to the public on the
\ncompetition days. At the end of this year’s edition, the Award Gala will be
\nhosted by the Elisabeta Palace in Bucharest. Also, as a first in Romanian radio
\ndrama, scripts by the world famous director Federico Fellini will be adapted
\nfor radio. <\/p>\n
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