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IAWRT explores media women’s response to change
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he 34th Biennial Conference of the International Asso-
ciation of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) brought 70 broadcast journalists and filmmakers from 30 countries to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to dis- cuss the challenges media women face in the chang- ing digital and social me- dia paradigms.
The conference took place between 21-24 Novem- ber and was hosted by IPPTAR (Tun Abdul Razak Broadcasting and Infor- mation Institute). It was themed “New Paradigms: Media Women Respond- ing to Change”.
In her opening address, the outgoing President of IAWRT, Olya Booyar called for a stop to gender inequality, stating that it was no longer enough to simply avoid gender discrimination, and that it was time that everyone actively worked to end it.
The ZDF co-production Millennium trilogy won an International Emmy Award in the TV Movie/Mini- Series category. The prize was conferred at the 39th Emmy Awards Gala in New York last November.
The screen adaptation of the Millennium trilogy by best-selling Swedish author Stieg Larsson was shot in Sweden in 2009.
It is an international co- production by Yellowbird,
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“We must be entirely com- mitted to ending gender bias in the media, both in the employment of women in all media fields and in their portrayal on our newspaper pages, radio bulletins and television screens,” said Ms Booyar.
Conference participants discussed women re- porting from war and conflict zones; the use of social media; advocacy through the media and case studies from around the world in using media tools to engage women in governance and develop- ment for change.
Workshops were held on investigative journalism and documentary making The three-day programme was rounded off with film screenings and discus- sions of a joint project be- tween IAWRT, ABU, AIBD and FES, “Broadcasting for all – Focus on Gender”.
A particular highlight of the IAWRT Biennial Con- ference is the Awards for Excellence in radio and film documentaries. Twenty radio entries and 40 TV entries were received and two international juries worked for four days prior to the conference to select
ZDF’s Millennium trilogy wins Emmy Award
ZDF (commissioning editors: Klaus Bassiner and Wolfgang Feindt) and SVT, in collaboration with ZDF Enterprises and Nordisk Film.
Starring Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace, Millennium was first screened in European cinemas in a short ver- sion. ZDF then broadcast
the original full-length ver- sion in January and Feb- ruary 2011 as a six-parter for German television’s popular Sunday evening crime spot at 10 p.m.
Audience ratings aver- aged 4.17 million (with a 17.8 per cent market share), as the gripping ex- ploits of Lisbeth Salander and investigative journa-
two winners, one for radio and one for film.
The winner of the Radio documentary award was Louise Williams, for her programme I can tell by looking at you! It was based on her personal experiences of how little looks count when one’s identity gets mixed up in a fraud.
In the film category, the winner was Limor Pinhasov from Israel for her documentary Melissa, Mom and Me. The film takes a compassionate look at two women’s friendship, exploring these women’s relationships to their families and the psychological factors that contributed to their entry into the sex industry.
The conference ended with the election of new board members and with Racheal Nakitare of Kenya becoming IAWRT’s first African President.
list Mikael Blomkvist kept viewers on the edge of their seats.
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