On The Spot

Spektrum TV's talents, Eszter Cseke and Andras Takacs are digital journalists and documentary filmmakers, creators, presenters and producers of On The Spot, the award winning documentary series aired on Spektrum TV in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Eszter and Andras have covered together the hot spots of the planet, digging for human stories behind the news, without a crew, with two small cameras. With the motto of Robert Capa in mind ("If your photographs are not good enough, you're not close enough") they have made hour-long documentaries in Gaza, Afghanistan, French Guyana, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Bolivia, Israel, Svalbard, Sri Lanka, Burma, Iran, Mauritania, South Africa, Japan and Egypt. They have made exclusive interviews with world leaders like Ban Ki-moon or Evo Morales but always focused on the stories of ordinary people living in the background of the news. They filmed with gangsters in the ghettos of Johannesburg, were embedded on frontlines, met terrorists, lived in tribes, covered earthquakes and revolutions, worked under-covered in dictatorships. Their footage appeared on BBC and CNN, On The Spot got the Media Award of the Council of Europe and the European Youth Press, the Media Personality of the Year Award from Ringier Publisher House and the Story Value Award from Sanoma Publisher House.