FRANCE24-RFI Web Documentary Award
The international news channel, FRANCE 24, and the international news radio station, RFI, are launching the first Web Documentary Award at the 21st Visa pour l’Image International Festival of Photojournalism to be held in Perpignan in September 2009.
The FRANCE 24-RFI Award for the best Web documentary report will be chosen on the basis of the following criteria: subject, originality and innovative use of new multimedia tools.
Nine Web documentaries short-listed for the award, chosen from more than a hundred viewed by a pre-selection jury, have been programmed in a new multimedia forum in Perpignan. One of the 9 documentaries will win the FRANCE 24-RFI Web Documentary Award to be presented at the evening screening on Wednesday, September 2:
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Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War by Ayperi Ecer et Jassim Ahmad / Reuters with collaboration of MediaStorm The Places We Live by Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Photos Adoma, House or Home? by Thierry Caron Words of War in Eastern Congo by Cédric Gerbehaye / Agence VU Imprisoned Body by Collective Work / Le Monde Interactif Iron Curtain Diary, 1989-2009 by Beccogiallo, On/Off, PeaceReporter, Prospekt|Photographers Listening to the Homeless by Matthieu Mondolini Notes from Beijing: from Mao to the Olympic Games by Charlie Buffet / Arte Geie / Hakari Productions Tiananmen Generation Patrick Zachmann production Narrative
Caserne Gallieni (rue de l'Académie), 10am to 8pm, August 29 to September 13, 2009. Free entry.
Information is available on both Websites: FRANCE24.com & RFI.fr
Any requests for further information should be sent to:
webdocuFRANCE24-RFI@france24.com