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October 31st, 2004
As David Isay and Alex Kotlowitz wrapped up their discussion on Friday someone in the audience asked David what “advice” he had for independent radio producers. His Answer: Public radio producers should never take no for an answer and always keep in mind that public radio is not a career for those seeking fame or fortune – Good radio, he said, is produced by people with vision and conviction.
Very inspiring stuff. This and the singing taxi cab driver who sang me an inspirational song (on request – I have tape and will post audio soon) were the two moments for me that made the whole weekend worthwhile. Third Coast is all about inspiration – I would love to hear what inspired others who were in Chicago this weekend.
“the problem with American literature today is the epiphanies are always in the same place”
–Rick Moody, author and sometime radio guy, speaking on day 1 of the TCF
“doing a two-minute radio story is like carving a sculpture into a walnut”
–Dave Isay, day 2
“Walnut Carvers of the World Unite!”
–hypothetical Chicago graffito
Distance and time is against us but we’d love to know results of the comp.Hope you’re all having a great time!
Natalie
natalie!
we missed you this year, without a doubt. i hope you’re already planning to make it next…
here’s the goods…
best new artist – bente birkeland – hard to say
radio impact -teresa goff, in so many words
directors choice – thirteen ways, pejk malinovski
hon. mention – legs, hope and water by peggy giakoumelos and lea redfern
hon mention – perfect hearing, by nubar alexanian, abby alexanian, and jay allison
hon mention – all my stuff in bags – amy dorn and hillary frank
bronze – the few who stayed: defying genocide in rwanda by stephen smith and michael montgomery
silver – joseph shabalala: in his own words, by david shulman and jeffrey freymann-weyr
gold – she’s alright, my mum is, by kim normanton and nigel acheson.
check out the third coast site on tuesday for a beeeyoootiful photo of the winners and soon after for a photo gallery.
julie
For inspiration, some of those award acceptance speeches did the trick for me. I interviewed all the winners for the broadcast during the conference (which kept me out of sessions unfortunately) and they were all thoughtful and full of heart.
I hope others will post here about the moments that inspired them.
“whatever your ideology about journalism and art, story is what we do”
- Sharon Ball
” I highly recommend the blacklist as a career move”
- Studs Terkel, at home watching the World Series
For inspiration to guide us through the darkness … Jude Fletcher’s wonderful piece, filled with Day of the Dead spirit … Isay and Kotlowitz playing stunning piece after stunning piece (including a feature on the muralist-for-hire of the Robert Taylor homes, another Joseph Mitchell-for-our-times piece produced by Kotlowitz with Amy Dorn) … an amazing all-star team of editors, talking some inspiring and pragmatic shop … a real and useful session on covering race issues … and getting to finally say a thank you, in person, to Jeff Towne for providing such amazingly helpful audio production ‘tools’ for us independent producers (http://www.transom.org/tools/index.html) … thank you all for the inspiration …
-D