The Centro de Enseñanza Superior Alberta Giménez announces the XVI Alberta Giménez Social Journalism Award, whose objective is promoting the responsible profession through the attention and diffusion of topics related to social aspects of importance.
The topics will respond to contents of human interest and will be limited to the following subjects:
o Social o Vulnerable groups
o Training and education system
o Culture o Peace and Justice
o Ethics and Religion
o Communication
o Environment
o Any other discipline with a social focus
Prize for the Best Social Documentary: 1.000 €
Prize for the Second Best Social Documentary: 500 €
1. PARTICIPANTS
1.1. Must be a university student enrolled in any undergraduate degree, diploma or bachelor’s program in Communication at any university or college around the world during the current academic year (2024–2025).
Students enrolled in higher education institutions, postgraduate or master’s programs related to the field of communication may also participate, provided they are no older than 25 years of age.
Other academic backgrounds may be accepted if the organization considers there is a clear link to the field of Communication.
1.2. Or must be a recent graduate from CESAG (having completed their degree during the 2024–2025 academic year).
2. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
2.1 The submitted works must be original and produced after January 1st, 2024.
All content used in the works must be entirely copyright-free. The contest organizers are not responsible for any copyright infringements and may remove entries at any time if they violate intellectual property laws, whether due to images, music, or any other material.
2.2 The original video must be a short social-themed documentary.
The jury will evaluate the piece based on its informative and educational value, the innovative approach to the subject matter, narrative creativity, aesthetic proposal, and technical and cinematic quality.
2.3 The duration of the documentary must not exceed 12 minutes, including credits.
2.4 Documentaries must include a title and end credits, listing sources and the technical/artistic team. Whether or not a voice-over is used, works will be positively evaluated for their educational, informative, social, and creative contribution.
2.5 Submissions may be individual or collaborative. In the case of group submissions, a single representative must be designated for communication and, if applicable, to receive the prize.
2.6 Works may be submitted in English, Spanish, or Catalan. If the original language is different, the video must include subtitles in one of these three languages.
3. AWARDS
One Prize for the Best Social Documentary Short - 1.000 € Prize.
One Prize for the Second Best Social Documentary Short - 500 € Prize.
The Jury may award up to two Special Mentions if the quality of the non-awarded works justifies it.
3.1. The names of the winners will be made public at the awards ceremony and on the CESAG website (www.cesag.org).
3.2. The winning entries will be published on the CESAG website and communicated to the media in the Balearic Islands for possible public dissemination.
3.3. The Commission reserves the right to use other channels of dissemination in order to promote the contest, the sponsoring organisations and the prize-winners as much as possible.
3.4. In the case of collective works, the payment of the economic prize will be made through the representative of the group, and the possibility of splitting the payment between the different authors of the work may be studied.
4. CRITERIA
The selection and award criteria by the jury will take into account:
a) Social, educational, informative and journalistic interest.
b) Originality and creativity. The jury will value the originality of the chosen theme and its creative approach.
c) Technical and artistic quality. The jury reserves the right to discard those works that do not meet the minimum quality standards and may declare the competition void.
5. JURY
5.1 The jury will be composed of the award coordinators, the head of the Department of Communication Sciences, professors of Journalism and Audiovisual Communication at CESAG, directors and journalists from print, radio and audiovisual media, as well as production companies based in the Balearic Islands, and the communications officer of the sponsoring organization.
5.2 The jury composition will be published on the institutional website within 10 days after the submission deadline, unless it has been announced earlier.
5.3 Professors with students participating as candidates may not vote in the category in which their students are competing.
6. DEADLINES
6.1 The submission period will open on April 1st, 2025 and close on July 15th, 2025.
6.2 During September or October 2025, the organization will publish on the institutional website the list of entries accepted into the competition.
6.3 The screening of the audiovisual reports will take place on a date to be determined, either at the end of 2025 or the beginning of 2026, at CESAG, as part of the 3rd FestCESAG – International University Festival of Social Documentary.
6.4 The jury's decision will be announced during the awards ceremony, held within the framework of the 3rd FestCESAG – International University Festival of Social Documentary.
7. ACCEPTANCE
Participation in the contest implies acceptance of each and every one of the contest rules and the unappealable decision of the jury.
8. ORGANISATION
The CESAG Journalism Award is organised and called by the Centro de Enseñanza Superior Alberta Gimenez, through the Department of Communication Sciences.
9. FURTHER INFORMATION
www.cesag.org/premioperiodismo
Documentary Films: rmamblona@cesag.org