Zeitenspiegel reporter Carsten Stormer has won the 9th. ARD-Won the documentary competition. Also, stern TV and the SWR several reports from our reporters were broadcast.
Zeitenspiegel reporter Carsten Stormer (director and writer) and Tristan Chytroschek (producer), commissioned by a&o buero Filmproduktion GmbH Hamburg, have won the 9th with their documentary film project „The Recycling Lie.“. ARD-Won the documentary film competition. With 69 submitted projects, the competition recorded a record number of entries this year. The winning project looks at the gigantic amounts of plastic waste, especially in countries of the so-called „Third World,“ and the tricks of the recycling industry.
The planned 90-minute film „The Recycling Lie“ impressed with its „very good investigative approaches and combines everything that makes a prize-winning documentary for ARD,“ according to the jury's statement. The decision for the winning project was made according to ARD- Editor-in-Chief and Jury Chairman Rainald Becker unanimously: „This is a first since I've been chairman of the jury,“ said Becker. „Plastic waste has increased by ten percent since Corona, so the topic is more relevant than ever.“
„The Recycling Lie“ picks up where other films about packaging waste leave off, emphasize Chytroschek and Stormer. The documentary will go behind the scenes of the recycling and plastics industry and bring the truth of the recycling lie to light.
The participating broadcasters of the ARDInitiative Brazil, MDR, NDR, RBB, SWR and WDR – enable the realization of the award-winning documentary film project by covering production costs of up to 250,000 Euros. In addition, „Recycling Lie“ awaits a broadcast slot on Das Erste and a release in the ARDMedia library.
More on this in the Press release the ARD.
Short film „On the Ground“ by Zeitenspiegel reporter David Sahay
Several TV projects aired
Since the beginning of the year, Sophia Maier (formerly stern TVand David Sahay (formerly Stuttgarter Zeitung, Resort Reportage/Multimedia) the TV documentary team of our reporter community. Several TV reports have already been produced in recent months, including:
Horror on the farm
stern TV, October 2020 (Author: Sophia Maier)
Meat from your own farm – and thus from happy animals? Far from it! Secretly filmed footage from a farm in the Black Forest shows that the supposed idyll is nothing but a facade: the cattle stand knee-deep in their own feces, and before slaughter, the farm manager stuns them by shooting them with a long gun – agonizingly and in absolute violation of the law. Our reporter was on site and confronted those responsible with the footage.
The Drama of Moria
stern TV, September 2020 (Author: Sophia Maier)
The devastating fire at the Moria refugee camp has suddenly left more than 12,000 refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos homeless – around a third of them children and infants. However, a quick solution to the humanitarian crisis is not in sight. What is the situation for the people on the ground? What could happen next?
https://www.zeitenspiegel.de/de/publikationen/das-drama-von-moria
Corona protests: What's driving people to the streets?
stern TV, May 2020 (Author: Sophia Maier)
In Stuttgart, the „Querdenken” initiative regularly calls for demonstrations. But who are the people who take to the streets? Are they all conspiracy theorists, or ordinary citizens expressing understandable criticism of the government?
As part of the documentary film competition „Love in the Time of Corona,“ SWR and the MfG Film Funding supported contributions between five and ten minutes long with 10,000 euros each. Two short documentaries by Zeitenspiegel Reportagen were also created within this framework:
Marie and the Music
SWR, October 2020 (Concept/Idea: Ingrid Eißele, Direction/Editing: Sophia Maier, Cinematography: David Sahay)
She loves to sing, and always has. That's why she keeps going somehow.
https://www.swrfernsehen.de/dokumentarfilm/marie-und-die-musik-100.html
On the ground
SWR, October 2020 (Directed by/Cinematography/Editing: David Sahay)
Corona state of emergency for staff at Stuttgart Airport. Because no one else is there, the employees need the encouragement of a chaplain more than ever.
https://www.swrfernsehen.de/dokumentarfilm/am-boden-100.html