CALL FOR ENTRIES
Mobile Journalism Awards recognizes excellence in non-fiction storytelling produced with smartphones, mobile and pocket cameras.
There are categories for video, photography, and audio stories.
Winners will be showcased in a series of film screening events between April and July 2020. (Ohio, London, Paris, Cairo, and Buenos Aires)
Winner of the Innovation Prize will be revealed at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum in Bon in July 2020.
Judges will be nominated by the directors of:
- E.W Scripps School of Journalism & School of Film, Ohio University
- Journalism co.uk
- The American University Cairo, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication and AUC Tahrir Square Cultural Campus
- EFJ School of New Journalism
- Latin American Congress of Mobile Journalism
- Visual Editors, Non-profit
- Deutsche Welle
Visit http://mobilejournalismawards.com for additional details and a video that explains more about how to submit your work on the FilmFreeway platform.
The categories and criteria for each are listed in the right hand column of this page.
Qualifying entries will be awarded at each stage of the judging process: From "Official Selection" to ‘Semi-finalist,’ ‘Finalist,’ and "Award Winner."
The category winners will be announced at the global screening events.
PRIZES
In addition to the global film screenings, there will also be prizes awarded. Film and video gear is being donated to the prize pool by Shoulderpod, Luma Touch, Røde, Sirui, the Smart Film School, MoonDog Labs, and Shure microphones.
Luma Touch is donating four new iPads to the prize pool!