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Friday 13 December, 2024
Pauline Augustyn
Une utopie, un mensonge
In the presence of the author.
A Fantasy, A Lie is the story of Jaione, a Basque woman who joined the Basque separatist movement ETA at the age of 18 but ended up in prison in Spain 40 years later.
This audio documentary is not about guilt or innocence. No, this story is about why an irreversible decision was made and what that does to a person’s life and those around you.
Pauline Augustyn is an audio maker with a passion for alliterations, story and sound. In her work she looks for stories that question the state of the world through voices that creak but charm, found sounds and silences (if they fall).
After graduating from Literature and Linguistics at the University of Gent, she studied radio at the Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound in Brussels. In 2022 she graduated with the audiodocumentary ‘A fantasy, a lie’, for which she won the award for Best Documentary: Non-English Language at the 2023 Third Coast International Audio Festival. ‘A fantasy, a lie’ was also nominated for the Prix Europa 2023 in the category of Audio Documentary.
Her other, earlier work ‘Le village des fous’ won the NTR Podcast Award 2022.
Currently, she does commissioned work making podcasts, works as a freelancer at the public radio broadcasting company and she’s working on her own new audiopiece. She appears on Instagram in the form of ‘luister.luik’, where she tips must-hear podcasts with self-made collages.
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