Web Documentary Competition

Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan is launching the seventh competition for the Web Documentary Visa d’or award sponsored by RFI & France 24.

The Visa d’or for the best Web documentary will be awarded for the best story produced with original, innovative use of multimedia tools. The web documentaries submitted should, in particular, open up new ways of using the Web to understand the news.

The selection process will therefore take the following criteria into account:

• The web documentary must be related to a recent news topic;
• The web documentary should demonstrate a journalistic and/or documentary approach to the treatment of a topical news item.
• The choice of subject treated in the web documentary will be taken into account in the selection process;
• The web documentary should demonstrate a multimedia approach with, in particular, combined use of several media – video, text, photos and sound – for online distribution.
• Photo slideshows will not be accepted;
• The web documentary should allow for true interactivity and should innovate in this domain.
• The user should be able to react to and become involved with the web documentary as well as able to adjust his / her navigation;
• Through their web documentary, candidates should innovate and develop or contribute to a new, innovative and easy-to-access way of exploring news on the Web;
• Production quality.

Eligibility

Entry in the competition is open to all candidates aged 18 years or over, regardless of gender or nationality. The competition is not open to people employed by Images Evidence. Web documentaries produced by Images Evidence cannot enter the competition.

Prizes

Among the Pre-selected Candidates, the jury will give the Award to the winner as concerns the relevance, quality and originality of the web documentary. Images Evidence will award the winner a prize of € 8000. The winner must be able to attend, when possible, the award ceremony, which will take place in Perpignan during the 2015 Visa Pour l’Image – Perpignan festival. The amount of € 8000 will be given to the author(s) of the web documentary and not to the producer(s). Charge to the authors, if there are several, to share this amount.

Location: Perpignan, France

Application deadline: 27 July 2015

Read more and apply here.