International Citizen Media Award

Deadline: 31 August 2013
Open to: Single participants, groups, associations, civil initiatives, school classes and especially for producers, actors and editorial teams in the field of citizen media work.
Prize: 300/1000 Eur

Description

The 3rd International Citizen Media Award intends to honor tremendous national (DE) and international work in the field of citizen media and its products in the categories “Video” and “Audio” that have been created by private, non-commercial producers. The award distinguishes the dedication of citizens of all countries and their audiovisual products and their reporting concerning locally, regionally, globally and socially relevant topics.

Categories

An expert jury awards the prizes in the following categories:

Video (individual product, short movie, movie in a television broadcast, video podcast etc.)
Audio (individual product, radio spot in a radio broadcast, podcast etc.)

Topic

The topic for the 2013 award is: Citizen Media for Democracy and Tolerance – Against Racism and Right-Wing Extremism. Citizen media stations are places of living and experiencing democracy. They stand for freedom of expression and discourse, intercultural respect and tolerance. Community media stand together with active citizens in the social media clearly against right ideology, in contrast to the outrageous incidents around the NSU in Germany and the again dangerously growing xenophobia in Germany, Europe and the rest of the world.

With this announcement and the topic choice, the supports of the third International Media Prize 2013 are encouraging citizens to produce and broadcast appropriate TV and radio products against racism and right – wing extremism, as well as to strengthen the training and education in the community media on this topic. TV and radio productions shall be developed that raise awareness for right – wing ideology and its actual impact in Germany, Europe or any other country in the world. Both nationally and internationally the participants shall locally and regionally take a stand against right – wing extremism with their submitted products on screen and in the internet.

The focus is on the issue, the quality of media implementation, the authenticity, the relevance of the research and the originality in the foreground. The peculiarities of the productions will be considered by the jury in an appropriate manner. Besides the personal interest, quality, medial implementation, activity, authenticity, extent and relevance of research, design elements and innovativeness are relevant. Special features of the products in the different categories (genres) will be especially considered by the jury.

Guidelines

The competition is worldwide open for single participants, groups, associations, civil initiatives, school classes and especially for producers, actors and editorial teams in the field of citizen media work. Products can be sent that have been created between the 1st of August 2012 and the 31st of August 2013.

Every participant/group can only send one product per category. German participants respectively production groups take part in the prize and its categories in the category “national” (DE). All others take part in the “international” category. A single product may not exceed a running time of 20 minutes.

Submission

Complete information on registering for the ICMA can be found on the registration page. Deadline for tenders: 31st of August 2013. Applications sent afterwards will not be considered at all.

Send to:

Bürgerhaus Bennohaus
Keyword: 3rd ICMA 2013
Bennostr. 5
48155 Münster
Germany

Or by E-mail to: info@icm-award.com

Prizes

Video – national (DE)

  • Winner: 1000 Euro prize money + trophy + certificate
  • Runner-Up: Participation in an international media camp + trophy + certificate
  • 3rd Place: 300 Euro prize money + trophy + certificate

Video – international

  • Winner: 1000 Euro prize money + trophy + certificate
  • Runner-Up: Participation in an international media camp + trophy + certificate
  • 3rd Place: 300 Euro prize money + trophy + certificate

Audio – national (DE)

  • Winner: 300 Euro prize money + trophy + certificate

Audio – international

  • Winner: 300 Euro prize money + trophy + certificate

For more info please visit the official website.

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