(uniquement en anglais)

Around 1000 media professionals from about 40 countries are expected to come to Berlin for the 21st edition of the biggest tri-medial festival in Europe. From 255 nominations they will be selecting this year's best European Television-, Radio- and Internet productions during the festival week from 13 until 20 October 2007. It is hosted by the German broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB). Partners of the festival are European broadcasters, the European institutions, the Länder Berlin und Brandenburg, and their common bodies Medienanstalt (mabb) and Medienboard. 

Broadcasters and producers answered with a record number of entries from 36 countries to this year's call for entries. PRIX EUROPA 2007 with its motto "Europe in Berlin" is opening up to the public for the first time with a series of special events during the festival week. These include a big multicultural opening concert "Muhabbet and the Capital Dance Orchestra", Public Screenings in three cinemas, an Open Day with a European Crime Movie Marathon, Speed-Dating for Onliners and a Hungarian After Work Party.

For the first time too this year, young talent from all over Europe was called upon to enter one-minute films on the subject "I am Europe". Most of the entries were specially made for the competition. The broad range of ideas and associations of the film-makers from 16 countries surprised the pre-selection jury. They range from playful graphics and cartoons to mini-documentaries and fiction scenarios. 

The 30 mini-films of the category PRIX EUROPA SPOT can be viewed from today on the homepage of the German broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg under http://www.rbb-online.de/prixeuropa. Every user has only ONE vote.

For more information: Prix Europa website