The Radharc Trust has announced details of the Radharc Awards 2010. The awards feature two categories – one for documentaries broadcast on any channel on the island of Ireland and another for non-broadcast documentaries produced for digital media in Ireland. The closing date for all entries is Friday 10 September 2010 at 5.00pm and the winning entries will be announced at a lunchtime gala in Dublin in October 2010.
The Radharc Awards are presented to the producers of documentaries which address national or international topics of social justice, morality or faith and honour the memory of the late Fr Joe Dunn, co-founder of past independent production company Radharc Films. Awards are presented every two years to the producers of documentaries of outstanding quality, which address national or international topics of social justice, morality and faith. In 2008, an additional award was introduced for similar short documentaries produced for digital media.
At the inaugural presentation of awards in 2002, the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, spoke of Radharc’s programming as a “claim to excellence, to authenticity, to rigorous honesty, to the exploration of themes others wished to ignore, to the telling of stories that needed to be told boldly and told well.”
Previous winners of Radharc trophies include Adrian McCarthy with his documentary ‘AIDS in Africa – A Missing Generation’; Eddie Doyle for his project ‘Complex Problems: St Teresa's Gardens’; Annette Kinne’s ‘Fr. Shay Cullen – Taking a Stand’ and Loic Jourdain for his documentary ‘Fear na nOileain’.
Conditions of Entry & Entry Forms are available at www.radharc.ie and enquiries should be sent to mail@radharc.ie
