The competition received 25 creative works in 4 nominations, chairman of the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting Oleg Nalivaiko.
"Since 2018, on the initiative of the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting, the premium has been increased from 2 to 10 thousand UAH in each of the four categories," said Oleg Nalivaiko.
The greatest number of works was traditionally submitted to the nomination "For the best publication in print media" - 14. In the nominations "For the best work in the television sphere" - 6, "For the best scientific work in the information field" - 4. For the award in the nomination "For the best work in the broadcasting sector", 1 work was received.
Members of the Committee noted the high level of the works presented, as well as the variety of topics and genres.
The best publication in print media defined the work of writer-publicist Sergei Shevchenko "The Year of Victims of the Great Terror: Let's Honor the Memory of the Repressed," promulgated on May 27, 2017 in the newspaper Zerkalo Nedeli.
In the nomination "For the best work in the television sphere," the documentary-feature film "The Fire of Self-denial" won, the author of which is the director, actor, Honored Artist of Ukraine Petr Avramenko. The film is dedicated to the life and work of an outstanding poet, politician, scholar Oleg Olzhych.
"We know about Oleg Olzhych as a Ukrainian poet, one of the representatives of the so-called" Prague school ", as an academic archaeologist who studied Tripoli culture, but very little we know about him as a politician who, as part of the OUN's marching groups 1941 arrived in Kiev, where he led the struggle for independent Ukraine. He was executed by the Gestapo in the concentration camp of Sachsenhausen precisely because he was an activist of the national liberation movement. The film just fills this gap. In addition, he is dynamic, interesting, from the first to the last minute keeps in suspense ", - said the first deputy chairman of the State Committee for Radio and Television Bogdan Chervak.
The award in the nomination "For the best scientific work in the information field" was awarded to the team of authors representing the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine and the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management for the monograph "State Civil Communication: The Way from Crisis to Interaction" (SE "Publishing House" Staff ", Kiev, 2017).
In the nomination "For the Best Work in the Broadcasting Sphere" the award was decided not to award.
Let's remind, the premium to them. Ivan Franko in the field of information activities was founded in 2004, it is awarded every year to the birthday of Ivan Franko - August 27. The award recognizes the authors of new original works that promote the establishment of the historical memory of the people, their national consciousness and identity, aimed at creating the state and democratization of Ukrainian society.