In search of young talent
The Reportage Award, established as part of Reportage. Pictures, words, stories – Atri Festival (Reportage Atri Festival), promotes investigative and eye-witness journalism by awarding a prize of 5.000 euros for the completion of a reportage project undertaken by authors under 35 years of age. The joint work of more than one reporter (for example, a photographer and a journalist) will be given preference in the assessment of the projects.
The award is the incontestable decision of the jury.
Method of participation
Each candidate must present a reportage project in Italian or English, already begun and structured to allow its appraisal, on the days of the festival at the time decided by the organisation on the basis of the arrival order of requests and up to the maximum number of places allowed.
Registration
After online registration available on the website Reportage Atri Festival the project must be presented at Atri by at least one of the reporters when it has not been created individually.
Registration must be confirmed to the organisational office at the Palazzo Ducale on the morning of 19 June by handing in the project presentation form.
Participation in the competition requires:
- the registration form completely filled in and printed in two copies: one to be handed to the
organisational office in Atri on 19 June, the other to be presented to the selectors;
- the following documentation:
• literary reportage: from 2 to 4 typed pages of extracts/examples of the project under way.
• photographic reportage: from 20 to 30 photos, printed or on CD
• video reportage: video of between 3 and 10 minutes in length.
• radio reportage: recording of between 3 and 10 minutes in length.
Where necessary, participants must be equipped with the appropriate technical equipment to present their work during the selection stage (laptop computer for audio/video reproduction). All projects must carry the name of the project and its makers.
Only those participants whose work is admitted to the final selection must make the material presented to the selectors available to the jury.
The finalists’ projects can be collected on Sunday 21 June from 2.30 to 5 pm from the organisational office.
Further information on participation and rules is available on the website of the festival (Reportage Atri Festival section Prize)