AIPS Media
LAUSANNE,
June 24, 2021 – AIPS is inviting all professional sport journalists
involved in video production – cameraman, producer, director, etc., to
take part in the fourth edition of the AIPS Sport Media Awards in the
Athlete Profile, Documentary and/or the Short Feature categories.
For
Documentary, an applicant is expected to submit “a video longer than 10
minutes that tells a compelling and revealing story about any aspect of
the sport world, showing qualitative research and editorial input
combined with quality filmmaking”.
Read about Athlete Profile here
Participation
is free and each person can submit a maximum of two submissions
published between November 10, 2020 and October 4, 2021, in any
language, for a chance to win 8,000 US Dollars for the first place,
3,000 US Dollars for the second place and 2,000 US Dollars for the third
place.
Click here for ten steps to join
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“Stop the Tour”, a BT Sport Film by the director Louis Myles (UK),
which in 2019 marked 50 years since a 19-year-old Peter Hain led
anti-apartheid protests against the Springbok rugby tour of Britain and
Ireland, topped this category in the last edition of the Awards. It
tells the powerful story of how sport played a key role in the fight
against apartheid in South Africa. Indeed, the country’s third rugby
World Cup victory in Japan, inspired by the first black captain of the
Springboks, could not have come at a better time. The landmark moment of
Siya Kolisi lifting the Webb Ellis Cup, surrounded by a multi-racial
squad, would never have been possible without the Stop the Seventy Tour
demonstrations dating back to 1969, which did not only successfully
disrupt the Springbok rugby tour but also forced the cancellation and
banning of South African sport internationally for decades. The one hour
24-minute film, which brilliantly connects the struggle of the past and
the triumph of the present, also demonstrates the symbiotic
relationship between sport and society.