An international television festival boasting a long history and unique content. A meeting place for leading artists from all corners of the world. An event where audiences meet their favourite stars. A space for cooperation, inspiration and fun. That is Golden Prague, a festival whose diverse content has been a magnet for art lovers for fifty-seven years.
Golden Prague is a unique international cultural event. Along with Prix Italia and Rose d’Or, it ranks among the oldest television festivals in Europe. Regularly staged by Czech Television in the beautiful environment of old Prague, in recent years it has been held at the New Stage of the National Theatre. Since its opening year, Golden Prague has been attended by dozens of globally renowned directors, choreographers and artists, including H. Burton, P. Weigl, B. Monsaingeon, B. Large, Ch. Bruce B. Gavin, N. Duato, H. Hulscher, J. Kylián, M. Ek, Ch. Nupen, A. Preljocaj, J. Neumeier, D. Klimentová, or J. and O. Bubeníček.
History and unique content
The Prague television festival was founded in 1964, but its evolution since then has been complicated, switching from a festival of all television production to a drama and music competition to a festival focusing solely on music and dance. Golden Prague survived the “crisis years” of 1968 and 1969, the period of communist normalisation, the break-up of Czechoslovakia, the transformation of Czechoslovak Television into a public-service broadcaster and television’s dramatic shift as a medium since the start of the new millennium. All that time it stayed true to its values and developed into an important cultural event featuring an accompanying programme with something for the whole family to enjoy.
A meeting place
For years Golden Prague’s unique feature was that it brought together television creators and executives from various countries with different political systems; over time, these were joined by their counterparts from Asia and Africa, whose output was otherwise essentially unknown in Europe. In the past twenty years the festival has taken on an irreplaceable role as the only major festival of music, dance and theatre programmes.
An event and platform
Today Golden Prague is a four-day cultural event that showcases a wide range of television programmes focusing on music, dance and theatre as well as both Czech and international films, presenting them through competitions, screenings, video libraries and industry meetings. There are three categories of competition programmes, which are selected primarily on the basis of artistic quality:
• documentaries about music, dance and theatre
• recordings of performances
• recordings of music programmes
The winners in each category receive a Czech Crystal award. The jury, which is drawn from international experts and changes every year, also hands out special awards for outstanding artistic achievement and, of course, the grand prize – the Grand Prix Golden Prague.
This year’s festival starts on 23 September 2020. Come and experience it with us!
| GOLDEN PRAGUE FESTIVAL JURORS 2019-2010 | |||
| 2019 | Name | Country | |
| Chairman of the Jury | Jonas Hermansson | TV Director, Sweden | |
| Jury members | Ekaterina Orlova | Head of Foreign Projects for the International Relations Department, RTR, Russia | |
| Frank Gerdes | Director of the Cultural Department , Servus TV, Austria | ||
| Yasuko Kobayashi | Director of the Music and Theatre Programme Division, NHK, Japan | ||
| Jiří Nekvasil | Director of the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre, Czech Republic | ||
| 2018 | Name | Country | |
| Chairman of the Jury | Elmar Kruse | CEO, C Major Entertainment, Germany | |
| Jury members | Heidi Pruuli | TV producer, ERR, Estonia | |
| Samantha Farber | CEO, sonostream.tv, Austria | ||
| Elen Rhys | Content Commissioner entertainment and music, S4C, Wales | ||
| Aleš Březina | composer, Director of the Bohuslav Martinů Institute, Czech Republic | ||
| 2017 | Name | Country | |
| Chairman of the Jury | Bernd Hellthaler | CEO, Euroarts, Germany | |
| Jury members | John Bridcut | Director, Crux Productions, United Kingdom | |
| Danica Dolinar | Head of the Music and Dance Department, TV Slovenija, Slovenia | ||
| Miikka Maunula | producer, YLE, Finland | ||
| Silvia Hroncová | Director of the National Theatre Opera and the State Opera, Czech Republic | ||
| 2016 | Name | Country | |
| Chairwoman of the Jury | Barbara Willis Sweete | Director, Willis Sweete Productions, Canada | |
| Jury members | Anne Røthing | producer, NRK, Norway | |
| Ieva Rozentale | film producer, Latvian TV, Latvia | ||
| Robin Lough | film director, United Kingdom | ||
| Roman Bělor | Director of the Prague Spring Festival, Czech Republic | ||
| 2015 | Name | Country | |
| Chairman of the Jury | Bernhard Fleischer | CEO, producer, Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images, Austria | |
| Jury members | Masumi Kawaguchi | Head of the Department of Music Programs, NHK, Japan | |
| Sonja Schneider | producer, ZDF, Germany | ||
| Ditte Feuk | producer, Sveriges Television, Sweden | ||
| Jan Burian | Director of the National Theatre, Czech Republic | ||
| 2014 | Name | Country | |
| Chairman of the Jury | Andrea Andermann | TV producer, Radafilm, Italy | |
| Jury members | Robert Kamyk | Head of Music Department, TVP Kultura, Poland | |
| Jan Younghusband | producer of music programs, BBC, United Kingdom | ||
| Larry Weinstein | film director, Larry Weinstein Productions, Canada | ||
| Jana Návratová |
dance publicist, Czech Republic
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| 2013 | Name | Country | |
| Chairwoman of the Jury | Hazel Wright | producer, Hazel Wright Media, United Kingdom | |
| Jury members | Arild Erikstad | Executive Producer and Editor of the Music Department, NRK, Norway | |
| Henk van der Meulen | Director of The Hague Conservatory, Netherlands | ||
| Reiner Moritz | film director, Poorhouse International, Germany | ||
| David Mareček | General Director of the Czech Philharmonic, Czech Republic | ||
| 2012 | Name | Country | |
| Chairman of the Jury | Arild Erikstad | Executive Producer and Editor of the Music Department, NRK, Norway | |
| Jury members | Sheena MacDonald | COO, Canadian Film Centre, Canada | |
| Heidi Pruuli | TV producer, ERR, Estonia | ||
| Martin Traxl | Head of the Culture Department, ORF, Austria | ||
| Vladimír Strakoš | dramaturge, Czech Television Brno, Czech Republic | ||
| 2011 | Name | Country | |
| Chairman of the Jury | Henk van der Meulen | Director of The Hague Conservatory, Netherlands | |
| Jury members | Nicolas Auboyneau | Head of the Culture Department, France Télévisions, France | |
| Marie-Odile Demay | film producer, MODemay Entertainment, Canada | ||
| Alexey Korolev | producer of music programs, TV Kultura, Russia | ||
| Radim Smetana | dramaturge, Czech Television, Czech Republic | ||
| 2010 | Name | Country | |
| Chairwoman of the Jury | Hazel Wright | producer, Hazel Wright Media, United Kingdom | |
| Jury members | Aarno Cronvall | TV and radio producer, Arcron Productions, Finland | |
| Andres Golding |
film and TV producer, Australia |
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| Klaas Rusticus | film director, Netherlands | ||
| Stanislav Vaněk | TV director, Czech Republic | ||
For the winning films of the previous years click here.
