Third Coast International Audio Festival Honors and Broadcasts the Year's Best Radio Stories

Third Coast International Audio Festival Honors and Broadcasts the Year's Best Radio Stories

CHICAGO, Ill., Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At an emotion-filled awards ceremony on November 3, the Third Coast International Audio Festival (TCIAF) honored documentary producers from around the world in the only competition of its kind in North America.

Winners will be heard on 150 public radio stations nationwide over Thanksgiving weekend. For the first time, gold, silver and bronze winners will be broadcast in their entirety. To view the broadcast schedule, listen to winning excerpts, and learn more about the producers, visit http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/.

The TCIAF Fall Broadcast will air Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 9-11 am on WBEZ 91.5 FM Chicago and online at http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/.

2007 TCIAF/RICHARD H. DRIEHAUS FOUNDATION COMPETITION WINNERS:

AUDIO LUMINARY: Peter Leonhard Braun (Germany)
German maestro Peter Leonhard Braun has been championing radio,
and the European "radio feature," for more than thirty years.

GOLD: Don't Hang Up 2: Nightlines - by Mark Burman (with Alan Dein and
Anne Smith) (UK)
Strange encounters from a security guard in the Florida Everglades
to a vision of violent, teenage hell on a Margate seafront.

SILVER: A Fragile Son - by Carma Jolly (with Surjit Sachdev and Neil
Sandell) (Canada)
A man's frustrations with his son increased until one day a major
confrontation forced him to examine his competence as a father.

BRONZE: Grandpa - by Lu Olkowski (with Jad Abumrad and Ellen Horne) (USA)
A father and son have a contest to take the best pictures of
their dying grandpa.

DIRECTOR'S CHOICE: Before the War it Was the War - by Anna Burns (with
Louis Mitchell and Nicole Steinke) (Australia)
In the 2006 conflict, one man "resists with his pen," and brings
the world, in his words, "the real news from Beirut."

BEST NEW ARTIST: The Dead Can't Do You Nothin' - by Katie Mingle (USA)
A quest to find ghosts in a "pauper's graveyard" in New Orleans.

RADIO IMPACT: The Ground We Lived On - by Sarah Kramer (with Adrian
Nicole LeBlanc and David Isay) (USA)
A story of loving and losing a parent and a father's final gift
to his daughter.

The TCIAF is a production of Chicago Public Radio and is made possible with lead support from The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Airlines and Chicago's Navy Pier.

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CONTACT: Cindy Hansen of Chicago Public Radio, +1-312-893-2950,
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http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/

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