Press Conference Introduces Adami Media Prize

The intro­duc­to­ry press con­fer­ence of Ada­mi Media Prize was held on Sep­tem­ber 21 in the office of BAJ in Min­sk. The coor­di­na­tor Salome Kikaleishvili described the aims and terms of the con­test. The com­pe­ti­tion was launched on Sep­tem­ber 1, sub­mis­sion of works con­tin­ues until Octo­ber 25. Audi­vi­su­al jour­nal­ists, film­mak­ers, pro­duc­ers are encour­aged  to sub­mit their works that were broad­cast between Sep­tem­ber 1, 2013 and Octo­ber 25, 2015. The top­ics for the com­pe­ti­tion are migra­tion, inte­gra­tion, and cul­tur­al diver­si­ty. The full pro­ce­dure of reg­is­tra­tion for the con­test can be found here.

The con­test is aimed at cre­ators from EaP coun­tries — Ukraine, Moldo­va, Arme­nia, Azer­bai­jan, Geor­gia and Belarus.

There are six nom­i­na­tions: fic­tion movie, doc­u­men­tary, news, short doc­u­men­taries, youth movies, online mul­ti­me­dia, Inter­net video.

The jury will choose win­ners in Novem­ber, and the award­ing cer­e­mo­ny is to be held in Tbil­isi on Decem­ber 10.

The idea of the prize belongs to Ger­man NGOs and lists a num­ber of part­ners; key part­ners are Ger­man Civis Media Foun­da­tion and the Euro­pean Broad­cast­ing Union.

At the press con­fer­ence, the Ambas­sador of Ger­many to Belarus Peter Dettmar out­lined sev­er­al fea­tures of the Ada­mi con­test: it is a com­mon con­tri­bu­tion into the EaP ini­tia­tive; the prize aims to estab­lish coop­er­a­tion between jour­nal­ists of the six coun­tries, and more con­tacts in human dimen­sion.  

Jim Couzens, who has recent­ly start­ed work with the EU Del­e­ga­tion to Belarus, remarked that he was aware of the dif­fi­cult con­di­tions of work for jour­nal­ists in Belarus.  He thinks that the project is impor­tant for Belarus as a means to join the pub­lic space of Europe.

“It is hard to think of a more time­ly ini­tia­tive,» said Mikhas Yanchuk, rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Bel­sat in Belarus, mem­ber of the Board of BAJ. «Now we are faced with  seri­ous tri­als to Euro­pean val­ues since the col­lapse of the USSR… The EaP coun­tries made use of the pos­si­bil­ties in a very dif­fer­ent way… Now, we can talk that it is 50 per cent effec­tive: three coun­tries were activized and fol­low the civ­i­lized world. And I hope that such projects as Ada­mi will help awak­en the oth­er three.»

Also, singer Rusia showed their project Shu­ma and spoke a lit­tle about how val­ues of minori­ties start to build in into the glob­al world.

For more infor­ma­tion: +995 32 222 57 59, e‑mail: competition@adamimediaprize.eu