DIG Festival is Italy's major festival devoted to investigative journalism and reportage. The DIG Awards are our international competition, open to projects both video and audio. The next edition of DIG Festival will take place in Modena (Italy) from 18 to 22 September, 2024.

Awards & Prizes

BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR WORK TO DIG FESTIVAL, READ OUR CALL FOR ENTRIES

🇬🇧 ENGLISH: https://bit.ly/DIG-Awards-2024-ENG
🇮🇹 ITALIAN: https://bit.ly/DIG-Awards-2024-ITA

The DIG Awards acknowledge excellence in journalism and encourage the work of reporters who use video and audio to investigate current social, economic, technological, environmental and political issues.

This submission website accepts applications for all the following 6 DIG Awards video and audio categories:

● Best Investigative Long (Video - Longer than 40 min)
● Best Investigative Medium (Video - From 15 to 39 min)
● Best Reportage Long (Video - Longer than 40 min)
● Best Reportage Medium (Video - From 15 to 39 min)
● Best Short (Video - Below 15 minutes)
● Best Podcast (Audio - All lenghts)

The DIG Awards are presented each year to outstanding works of international calibre, in terms of quality, angle, depth of inquiry, the use of sources and the originality of format. The selection the most deserving project in each of the competition categories is entrusted to an international jury of journalists, directors and communications professionals.

The competition is open to productions by freelance journalists, media companies and news outlets, radio/tv stations, platforms, consortia, non-profit organizations.

PS. We also have a DIG Pitch category that awards € 15.000 to fund the development of a documentary. For this specific Award, apply here: https://bit.ly/DIG-Pitch-2024-Form

Rules & Terms

Works and projects published after June 1st 2023 and June 1st 2024 are eligible for the DIG Awards 2024. Yet to be released works can also be submitted.

All video works entered into the competition must be subtitled in English. Non-english audio projects must be accompanied by an English transcript.

There is no limit to the number of works that can be entered by a single subject, but each must fill in a single online entry form. Anonymous works or works without a valid reference are not admitted. Works entered in the competition must have fulfilled their obligations under copyright and related rights legislation.

The DIG Association reserves the right to exclude from the competition works that clearly violate copyright law, or that do not respect all the competition guidelines. Under no circumstances will DIG Association be held responsible for any unauthorised use of protected material.

This submission website accepts applications for all DIG Awards video and audio categories.

Read our call for entries:

🇬🇧 ENGLISH: https://bit.ly/DIG-Awards-2024-ENG
🇮🇹 ITALIAN: https://bit.ly/DIG-Awards-2024-ITA