Last Call for films and pieces deadline prolonged to 1st of October

[Video Reporting Award]

DEADLINE PROLONGED TO 1st of OCTOBER 2005
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The 2nd International Video Reporting Award is an international 
competition specifically geared towards innovative documentary shorts 
and non-fiction digital films helmed by a single autonomous author.


Prizes will be awarded in the following categories:

INTERNATIONAL VIDEO REPORTING AWARD
2000 Euro

Criteria: Documentary film of 15 minutes length at most, which has been 
produced by one or more Video Journalists/ Video Reporters. Open 
category. Those films will be awarded that experiment with this new mode 
of production and outstand by a journalistic – cinematic narrative in 
form and content. The filmmaker’s fondness of experimentation is very 
important to us.


GERMAN VIDEO JOURNALISM/ VIDEO REPORTING AWARD
2000Euro

Criteria: Television documentary of 15 minutes length at most, which has 
been produced by one or more Video Journalists/ Video Reporters and 
broadcasted by a German television broadcast station (please explicitly 
state broadcast station and date of broadcasting). Those 
journalistically as well as technically outstanding works will be 
awarded that also meet the claims of mainstream television and show an 
innovative and self-contained personal style.


VIDEO JOURNALISM/ VIDEO REPORTING TALENT AWARD
500Euro

Criteria: Film of 15 minutes length at most, which has been produced by 
one or more Video Reporters/ Video Journalists. The applicants must be 
under the age of thirty or enrolled in a University for admission. We 
will award those films that convince us of an individual personal style 
in content or cinematography and that show us the applicants’ 
outstanding potential.
Video Reporting is the merge of cinematography, editing, sound and 
directing in one single persons hand.
Film and television technicians adopt these digital documentary 
techniques and regard the resultant new autonomous ways of production as 
a challenge.


Not only will the jury and the preselection committee judge the idea and 
conception of the film but they will also place great emphasis on the 
way the filmmaker creatively dealt with the new digital authoring principle.

Smaller cameras offer more freedom of movement and consequently often 
lead to new perspectives and prospects differing from what you see on 
television.
Additionally, commercial video editing software has achieved a level of 
sophistication allowing for quick and playful experimentation with the 
footage.
The end results are journalistic films which inspire new boundaries in 
the field of TV journalism.



We seek outstanding films that experiment with this new mode of 
production and whose journalistic-cinematic narrative catches our 
attention in form and content.

Furthermore the films should withstand traditional quality criteria and 
simultaneously broaden the boundaries of mainstream television.

We are looking for documentary films and authentically narrated stories 
captivating us with their particular intensity, an innovative creativity 
and a very distinctive personal authoring style.

We also place a great deal of emphasis on the filmmakers fondness for 
experimentation, however, keeping in mind the presented films should not 
exceed 15 minutes and they should have been produced by one or more 
Video Reporters/ Video Journalists.


The 2nd International Video Reporting Award is being borne by the 
Bauhaus University Weimar as well as those television broadcast stations 
that are already working together with Video Journalists large scale – 
Hessischer Rundfunk, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Deutsche Welle TV .

The 2nd International Video Reporting Award is going to take place on 
the 5. and 6. November in Weimar. It is being organised by the 
professorship Medienereignisse of the media faculty of the Bauhaus 
University Weimar.
The Jury are: Philip Hilven (TV Limburg/Belgium), Lisa Lambden (BBC/UK), 
Jan Metzger (HR/Germany), Benedikt Otto (MDR/Germany), Michael Rosenblum 
(Rosenblum Ass., USA), Dr. Christian Trippe (DW-TV/Germany), Mike Kraus 
(Award winner 2004, UK) and Professor Wolfgang Kissel (Bauhaus-University).

Videoreporters, Video journalists, documentary filmmakers, program 
managers, journalists, videobloggers and TV directors from all across 
Europe and the USA will discuss the potential of video reporting/ video 
journalism in contrast with mainstream television in public screenings, 
panels and discussions.

The awards ceremony will take place on the 6. November 2005 in the “Mon 
Ami” cinema and cultural centre in Weimar.

The festival is directed by Sabine Streich and curated by Albert Beckmann.


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