Radio Papesse (RP) launches the Premio LUCIA for audio productions in Italian, as stated in the announcement.
Premio LUCIA is:
a production agreement for the completion of an unpublished work [PROGETTI].
a reproduction fee for existing works [OPERE AUDIO]
All projects sent, which include a CV, a signed copy of these terms and conditions, the receipt of the € 10 registration fee and the applicant’s portfolio, by and no later than 11pm (CET) on 29 February 2024, are eligible for the award.
The jury’s judgment is final.
Works that have already been produced or published are eligible for the Award category Published Works.
Applicants guarantee the originality of their proposal and release RP and A.D.N. from any liability in case of copyright plagiarism.
In the event that the stories are to be based on the works of third parties, participants release RP from all possible disputes with the authors.
The copyright on the projects submitted to the LUCIA Award remains entirely with the applicants; RP may not develop them independently.
The reading, the selection of the projects and the relationship with the applicants will take place in full respect of their privacy.
By signing the acknowledgement and acceptance of these terms and conditions, participants give their consent to the processing of their data for all that concerns the regular management of the Award.
The contract to be signed between RP and the winners of the LUCIA Award acknowledges a fee of € 2.000,00, which will be paid in two installments: the first within two weeks after the announcement, the second upon delivery of the work.
The payment will be taxed according to the tax regime of the winners.
After three extraordinary editions we’ve shared with our friends at Archivio dei Diari (the Diary Archive), this year the LUCIA Award is changing its format. Though our interest in personal stories and the use of archive materials remains strong, we are moving on from Pieve Santo Stefano and its stories and are now going to listen to yours, those you have already told and those only you have in your ears.
Premio LUCIA awards:
[OPERE AUDIO] existing audio works produced from January 2022 to January 2024 > €500
[PROGETTI] grant for the production of new works > €2000.
In the first case, we ask you to share an mp3 file and a short synopsis. In the second case, please write your idea to us in 2000 characters maximum. In both cases, tell us who you are: you can send CVs, portfolios, audio portraits…
As always, two caveats remain: the LUCIA Prize is open to productions in Italian. The new works are expected to last no longer than 30 minutes.
Who can participate?
The Award is open to young producers and established professionals. You can participate alone or with a production group, as a collective or a theater company: prior experience in narrative audio production or familiarity with audio storytelling will be favourably valued.
Whatever your language might be, the Lucia Award is only for productions in Italian.
What do we expect?
Works already being produced, whether distributed or not, as of January 2022. Single episodes of podcast series are also allowed as long as they have narrative autonomy, i.e. as long as they are stand-alone stories within the single episode.
A project for the production of a new work that is max. 30 minutes. We are looking for good stories and audio rich productions. LUCIA awards audacity and experimentation with formats and sound!
In the first case, we ask you to share the mp3 file and a short synopsis. In the second case, please write your idea to us in 2000 characters maximum. In both cases, tell us who you are: you can send CVs, portfolios, audio portraits…
As always, two caveats remain: the LUCIA Prize is open to productions in Italian. The new works are expected to last no longer than 30 minutes.
A single proposal per entry fee is accepted.
What do you get?
LUCIA awards two projects with € 500,00 and €2.000,00. The audio works will be presented at LUCIA Festival 2024, released on radiopapesse.org and luciafestival.org.
As for the new work, Radio Papesse is committed to supporting its national and international circulation. Radio Papesse also holds the discretion to award one or more special mentions to works that have already been completed.
How can you participate?
To participate you must:
fill in the registration form [where you will be asked to upload a portfolio / bio, the receipt of payment of the € 10.00 registration fee and a link to the audio file in the case of already completed works or a project idea outline for unpublished works],
no later than 11.00 PM on February 29th, 2024.
If you have just submitted a project for the YASS mentorship program, the registration fee is 5 euro. For any further doubts or questions, please write to premiolucia[at]radiopapesse.org
The shortlist of finalist projects and the winner for the category NEW WORKS, as well as the winner and special mentions in the category WORKS ALREADY PRODUCED will be announced by mid-March 2024. The winning audio stories will be presented at the LUCIA Festival 2024, from 13 to 15 December.
The jury’s motivations will be published on the luciafestival.org website.
The jurors are
Orecchiabile – Giacomo Bagni and Chiara Sagramola – is a newsletter that recommends podcasts and audio works from the point of view of listeners, not producers. Edited by Chiara Sagramola and Giacomo Bagni, every now and then it pushes into the real world by organising public listenings, meetings with authors and a few escapades into the world of paper.
Chloé Barreau was born from an extraordinary love story between a priest-labourer and a nurse, whose marriage caused a scandal in 1970s France. She told this story in her first film, My Father’s Fault, awarded at the Biografilm Festival. With a degree in Modern Literature from the Sorbonne in Paris, she wrote and directed short films (Acqua Passata with Riccardo Scamarcio), TV specials (Anna M. with Anna Mouglalis) and docuseries (Blue Is the Colour, Raindance Festival) before joining Fox Channels Italy as Creative Producer. For 15 years, she worked with prestigious brands (National Geographic, History Channel) but also on more personal documentary projects, such as Stardust Memories (Carboluce, 2008).
She has created several audio documentaries, including Stardust Memories (Radio Rai 3, 2020) and Malafemmina (Storytel, 2021). Chloé also works as a voice over artist and speaker: she is the voice of Plumette in Beauty and the Beast, Walt Disney; the voice of Marlena in Maneskin’s album Il ballo della vita and the French voice for Una specie di tenerezza, Chora Media.
In 2023, her documentary film Frammenti di un percorso amoroso (Greenland, 2023), presented in Venice in the Giornate degli Autori – Venice Days, won the DocIt (Italian Documentary Filmmakers Association) Special Prize of the Jury and was selected for the Nastri d’Argento in the category Cinema del Reale.
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About us
Radio Papesse is a webradio and online audio archive devoted to contemporary art. It works with museums and cultural institutions to talk about art practices today. It hosts and commissions experimental sound and radiophonic works, inviting artists and producers to renew the rules of broadcasting and audio narration. Among its current projects are: YASS! an international mentorship & training program for audio makers; LUCIA Festival, a festival dedicated to the listening of radio works and podcasts. Between 2018 and 2020 it was associate researcher of Pratiques d’Hospitalité – Platform for critical research and political imagination at ESAD Grenoble • Valence. It is a member of the scientific board of the Interdepartmental Research Center for Radiophony at UNIRSM – Università di San Marino. It adopts the Creative Commons License and is part of the RADIA network.
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