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How (not) to build a home away from home…
By Martina Castro, for the Museum of Migration in Montevideo (2015)
Sometimes immigrants want to stay super connected to their home countries because they feel that connection slipping away. And well, they can go overboard. At least, that’s what Eduardo Bolioli noticed.
This story was produced by Martina Castro as part of an audio documentary series she made with her class at the University of Montevideo for her 2015 Fulbright grant. The series, called ‘Los Retornados’, features first-person stories from Uruguayans who had left their country to seek better opportunities and who ended up returning, many as part of a wave of reverse migration triggered by the worldwide financial crisis in 2009. The series was also turned into an audio exhibit at the Museum of Migration in Montevideo, Uruguay where it is currently being integrated into the museum’s permanent collection.
Martina Castro is the founder and CEO of Adonde Media, a globally-minded podcast production company based in Brooklyn, New York.
Over the past fifteen years, Martina has produced and edited award-winning audio content in both the U.S. and Latin America. She has worked at NPR, KALW-FM in San Francisco, CA, and NPR’s Radio Ambulante, a Spanish-language narrative journalism podcast she co-founded in 2011. She is a frequent speaker and workshop leader on the art of narrative radio storytelling. Martina launched Adonde Media in 2017 and has worked with clients such as TED, Duolingo, NPR, and Vice News to create podcasts that aim to bring new audiences to the medium.
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A box containing treasured keepsakes opens up painful memories of the past.
By Sofia Saldanha for HearSay International Audio Arts Festival (2019)
Sofia Saldanha is an award winning audio producer. She started her radio adventure in Portugal at Rádio Universitária do Minho, has a masters degree in Radio and is a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Sofia is part of In The Dark, a non-profit organization based in London, that presents audio documentaries from around the world to live audiences. In 2018 she started In The Dark Lisboa. Sofia is the author of a documentary series that tells the story of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.
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A broken-hearted granddaughter’s search for understanding.
By Neena Pathak for HearSay International Audio Arts Festival (2019)
Aaji (Grandma) is in her 90s, proficient in English but more comfortable in Marathi, and hard-of-hearing. Mithu is in her 30s, okay at Marathi (but speaks in a stilted, error-filled, and somewhat childlike way common to many second-generation immigrants), and heartbroken. The piece explores how bearing witness to each other in a family context can be hard and fraught, even when it might be worth it.
ROW-cub won the Fiction Award at the 2019 HearSay International Audio Arts Festival.
Neena Pathak is an audio producer based in NYC. She currently produces the Still Processing podcast at The New York Times.
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“We have life in our imaginations…”
Exploring three alternative visions, ‘A Voice from Utopia’ attempts to deconstruct the concept of the nation state. From virtual communities like Bitnation to micronations like Liberland.
It comes from Blank Maps – an Arabic podcast that seeks to address the problem of statelessness in the Arab world. By doing that, the show tries to understand concepts of belonging and citizenship at a time where immigration and refuge are most relevant.
Tala Elissa is a writer and podcast producer from Jordan. Her work can be found at www.talaelissa.com
Blank Maps was produced for the podcast network Sowt. You can learn more about Sowt here.
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A young woman walks out onto the ice, under a full moon, and disappears.
Produced by Rikke Houd for Third Ear (11th March 2014)
Deep beneath the Greenlandic ice, lies a hidden history. The Danish feature-maker Rikke Houd travels in the footsteps of Karen Roos, who disappeared on the ice outside the small East Greenlandic town of Tasiilaq in 1933.
Winner of the 2015 In The Dark award for audio documentary presented at Sheffield Doc/fest. Produced with support from the Danish Arts Council.
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Echoes of a rebellion in a mine falling back to nature.
By Gianluca Stazi and Giuseppe Casu for Radio3 Rai (2018)
Silvestro has worked in the mine since he was 23 years old – he’s the son of a miner, the son of the mine, now he is 67. Manlio, at 40, left teaching to go and work in the mine, but to know himself and this new world, had to take on its most infamous job – the time-keeper. He is now 88.
The paths of these two men, different but parallel, meet in 1992 when they barricade themselves into the San Giovanni mine for months – laying explosives across the opening, preventing its closure and the slow desertification of the territory at that time. Years later, after the mines are closed and the desertification advances, Manlio and Silvestro revisit the ghosts of their past.
Best Radio Documentary at the Prix Italia and Prix Europa 2018.
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A woman and her cat attempt to reach a happy resolution.
By Inga Janiulytė (2018)
A fleeting scene from a remote village in Polesia, south east Belarus. After lunch and liquor on the Saturday before Orthodox Easter at babka Maria’s house. No meat is allowed on the table. The only one exempt from this rule is Maria’s ginger cat…
Recorded as part of a documentary on the Belarusian photographer Siarhiej Leskiec, whilst he was capturing material for his project ‘Whisper’ in which he tries to capture the lives of the last whisperers – women who believe they are healing illnesses with incantations.
Inga Janiulytė is a journalist for Lithuanian National Radio
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An exploration of listening and liberty.
By René Farabet for France Culture (1992)
A feature which weaves together audio compositions created by inmates serving long-term sentences interwoven with their reflections on sound and listening. Winner of the Prix Futura in 1993.
René Farabet (1934 – 2017) was one of the key figures in the Atelier de Creation Radiophonique at France Culture from its creation in 1969 until 2000. A master of the creative audio feature, his work was profoundly influential on radio-makers around the world.
The interviews in this program were recorded in the ‘Studio of Time’ at St Maur prison.
The Studio of Time was created in 1991 by the composer Nicolas Frize and his associates (Les Musiques de la Boulangère). Composed of twelve digitising studios, two radio and music studios and two workshops, this is a space where art and culture join forces to offer high-level training programs in sound skills and a profession to fifteen long term detainees. The Studio of Time continues to exist, functioning as a service of public utility in collaboration with institutions such as the National Sound Archive, the National Archives, various museums and other bodies.
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Jonathan Zenti embarks on a quest to recover a loved possession, which has gone astray.
Produced by Jonathan Zenti for HearSay International Audio Festival (November 2015)
For five years the radio producer Jonathan Zenti has been making recordings with elderly Italians that explore old cultural rites in his country that are in danger of disappearing.
Imelda, who appears in this short documentary, was one of the voices Zenti happened to capture for this ongoing project. The prayer she says to San Antonio would traditionally be used to rediscover very important lost items – wedding rings, documents, jewels etc – but at the time the only thing Zenti was keen to recover was his lost t-shirt.
‘I Am Analog’ won the Create GanBéarla Award at the 2015 HearSay International Audio Festival
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An Iranian journalist, forced to flee the country, captures her search for a sense of home in Norway.
Produced by Sheida Jahanbin and Rikke Houd for NRK (2011)
My Share of the Sky artfully captures the disorientation of seeking refuge in a new country. Working on her first radio documentary – journalist Sheida Jahanbin recorded her own experiences, coached by Rikke Houd who also edited and structured the story with Jahanbin.
Together they offer an inventive audio language which cracks and fragments – English, Persian and Norwegian jaggedly interrupt each other, artfully dizzying the listener, embodying the feeling of being lost in translations.
The documentary placed third at the Prix Europa in 2011.
