Youth care documentary ‘A false start’ by Nicolaas Veul wins Zilveren Nipkow disc

The VPRO documentary series A false start – 100 days in youth and family care This year has won the prestigious silver nipkow disc. The jury presented the prize on Thursday in the Ketelhuis in Amsterdam on the face of the program, TV maker Nicolaas Veul.

In the documentary series, Veul enters the world of youth care for a hundred days. He does an internship as an employee at youth care organization IHUB, who catches the youth placed out of home. According to the jury, the program makes it clear « how immense the responsibilities are of the people who perform this task. And how important, no, indispensable for their pupils. And that while these professions are relatively low, as with the entire ‘soft’ and care sector is the case. »

The series is the fourth part in the series 100 days in …in which Veul is doing an internship as an outsider in vulnerable work floors, such as earlier in education and psychiatry. Veul « proves that with total integrity, commitment and empathy (which by the way cannot be learned), an impressive but also important program can be made. »

According to the jury, Veul is again ‘completely serving’ to its subject. « If you look at a wrestling foal, you feel respect » both the TV maker and the youth care staff and « deeply compassion with children who make a nasty false start in life outside their fault. » According to the jury, consisting of TV reviewers, the series De Spijker learns that ‘finding pathetic’ the children does not do justice.

Silver travel microphone

The silver travel microphone, the prize for the best radio program or the best radio maker, went to Ben Liebrand this year for his Grandmix 1994. The non-stop program was broadcast on Radio Veronica at the end of 2024 and is the result of thirty years of work.

According to the jury, the Grandmix « A pure passion project » that testifies to exceptional craftsmanship and dedication. Liebrand, who pioneered with non-stop-mixed radio formats in the 1980s, is considered a founder of the genre according to the jury. « With his work he inspired generations of DJs, including Armin van Buuren and Tiësto. »

About the mix on Veronica, the jury says: « The master knows how to find the balance between his technical perfectionism, a representative choice of music and all the elements that are needed to make such a musical time journey through the radio a success. »

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