Prix Europa Current Affairs Television Programme of the Year, 2004

The MFP/Galafilm production, "The Origins of AIDS", has just won another major prize, which was awarded in Berlin on Saturday October 23rd. Apparently the Prix Europa is reckoned by most people in the film world to rank second only to an Emmy.

To quote part of the jury's commendation: "[T]his film.....makes us think about how little we know about our "current affairs" and how deeply we trust in what science and scientists tell us."

On October 4^th, 2004, it was announced that the MFP/Galafilm documentary, "The Origins of AIDS", had been shortlisted for an International Emmy in the "best documentary" category. This follows a series of other awards that the film has won at film festivals around the world.

While the Emmy nomination is clearly a tribute to the skills of the film-makers, rather than to the viability of the OPV/AIDS hypothesis per se, this honour comes at a particularly ironical time - in the midst of a new legal onslaught by doctors Koprowski and Plotkin, who are seeking to dissuade television companies and film festivals from showing the film. [See separate article: "The New Round of Legal Threats by Doctors Koprowski and Plotkin".]