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Kashmir's Torture Trail wins Amnesty Media Award
Congratulations to Jezza Neumann, Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark who have won the Amnesty Media Award for Documentary for their film, Kashmir's Torture Trail.
The Amnesty Media Awards recognise excellence in human rights reporting and acknowledge journalism’s significant contribution to the UK public’s awareness and understanding of human rights issues.
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Chinese Murder Mystery Nominated
Well done to the Chinese Murder Mystery team - nominated at the Monte Carlo TV Festival for Best Documentary
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Britain's Sex Gangs nominated for Broadcast Awards
Well done Anna, Matt, Tazeen and the Britain's Sex Gangs team for the nomination for Best Current Affairs Programme in the Broadcast Awards
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Ukraine's Forgotten Children nominated for AIB Award
Congrats to Kate Blewett, Matt Pinder and Olga Bettko for the nomination of Ukraine's Forgotten Children for the AIB Awards in the Best Investigative TV Documentary category
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Another nomination for Britain's Sex Gangs
Britain's Sex Gangs has been nominated for yet another award - this time the Prix Europa in Berlin. Well done to all the team.
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2 films Grierson shortlisted
Well done to Anna Hall for getting Britain's Sex Gangs onto the Grierson shortlist for Best Contemporary Documentary. And to Adam Wakeling for making it to the Best Newcomer Shortlist with his film Up In Smoke!
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Up In Smoke wins the Green Economy Silver Award at the Deauville Film Festival!
Well done to Adam Wakeling, Up In Smoke has won the Green Economy Silver Award at the Deauville Film Festival! Click here to watch it on 4OD
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Poor Kids wins Gold at Chicago Film Festival
Well done to the Poor Kids team. The film has won the Gold Plaque for Social & Political Documentary in the 2012 Hugo Television Awards at the Chicago Film Festival
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Britain's Sex Gangs nominated for Silver Nymph
Well done to the Britain's Sex Gangs team! The film has been nominated for a Silver Nymph at the Monte Carlo TV Festival in the News Documentary category
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Up In Smoke nominated for One World Award
Well done Adam Wakeling and Claire Ferguson, Up in Smoke has been nominated for the One World Sustainable Development Award
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Poor Kids shortlisted for the Bulldog Award
Congrats to the Poor Kids team for the Televisual Bulldog Award nomination. To vote for Poor Kids, click here
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Poor Kids nominated for Learning On Screen Award
Well done to the Poor Kids team. The film has been nominated for the Learning on Screen Awards at the BFI in April
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Young Journalist of the Year
Many congratulations to True Vision's Tim Lawton, nominated as Young Journalist of the Year in the RTS Awards. Very well deserved!
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Poor Kids shortlisted for Broadcast Awards
The shortlist for the 2012 Broadcast Awards has been revealed and we're delighted that Poor Kids is one of the nominees. Congratulations to Jezza and the team!
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Jezza Neumann wins 2011 Sony Professional Impact Award
Jezza Neumann has been awarded the Rory Peck Sony Professional Impact Award 2011 for his work on Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children. Judges praised the camera work and said ‘the continuity and emotional impact of the narrative of this film is astonishing’. Congratulations, Jezza!
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True Vision director Jezza Neumann picked up the top gong for his critically acclaimed Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children at the Rory Peck awards last night.
The documentary won the Sony Professional Impact award which recognises news or current affairs that examines humanitarian or social issues, with the judges noting its “astonishing” in its emotional impact.
The documentary was filmed undercover in Zimbabwe over nine months and first went out on BBC4 before being repeated on BBC2.
The ceremony, which was hosted by BBC anchor Mishal Husain and Channel 4’s Alex Thomson, also recognised Belgian freelancer Ahmed Bahaddou for his frontline footage of rebels fighting Gaddafi forces in Western Libya.
The judges described his footage as “everything you could want and more. It is incredibly composed shooting. You can almost feel the bullets whistling past you.”
Meanwhile American freelancer Abdallah Omeish, who was born in Libya, won the Rory Peck Award for Features, for his Benghazi film, Libya: Through the Fire. The doc followed Mohammed al-Nabbous, the first person to broadcast from within Libya and report on events in English and Arabic. Al-Nabbous later died.
“It’s been an extraordinary year for the Rory Peck Awards - incredibly strong entries across all of the categories and three outstanding winners”, said Tina Carr, director of the Rory Peck Trust.
“I want to congratulate all of this year’s finalists on producing such exceptional work - the sheer range and quality on show tonight demonstrates how vibrant and talented the freelance community is right now. It is a privilege to celebrate their work.”
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Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children wins AIB Award
Congratulations to Jezza Neumann and Xoliswa Sithole for winning the Association of International Broadcasters, Current Affairs Award. Described by the jury as "a genuinely engaging narrative that was emotional, informative and motivating. The three children featured were remarkable choices by the producers whose voices and words, one judge said, will never be forgotten. This was a heart-wrenching documentary that captured the economic and political meltdown of Zimbabwe, once the bread basket of southern Africa, and an exposé of the devastating impact that this has on the country's next generation."
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Up in Smoke won the Prix Buffon at the Paris Science International Film Festival
Up in Smoke won the Prix Buffon at the Paris
Science International Film Festival
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TWO nominations for Association for International Broadcasters' Awards
Well done Chris Eley, Cathy Scott-Clark, Jezza Neumann & Xoliswa Sithole for getting 2 out of the 6 nominations for International Current Affaris Documentary at the AIB Awards - both City of Fear and Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children have been recognised. Ceremony will take place on November 9th.
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Freedom to Create Prize 2011
Deborah Shipley and Xoliswa Sithole have been named amongst 50 commended artists in the 2011 Freedom to Create Prize shortlist for their work on The Lost Girls of South Africa. Congratulations to them both!
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2011 Rory Peck Finalists Announced
Congratulations to Jezza Neumann, one of three finalists for the Rory Peck Sony Professional Impact Award for his work on Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children. The Sony Professional Impact Award honours the work of freelance cameramen and women in news or current affairs that examines humanitarian or social issues. Judges ‘praised the quality of the camerawork given the difficulties of operating inside Zimbabwe’ and added ‘the continuity and emotional impact of the narrative of this film is astonishing’.
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Prix Europa Nominations Announced
Both Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children and War Child have been nominated for the Prix Europa 2011 Awards. Zimbabwe will be competing for the TV Documentary Award, and War Child for the TV Iris Award. Congratulations to the director of both films, Jezza Neumann.
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True Vision Hot Shots
Congratulations to True Visionaries Tim Lawton and Paddy Garrick, BOTH picked by Broadcast magazine as Young Hot Shots
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Lost Girls of South Africa shortlisted for Grierson Award
Congratulations to Deborah Shipley who has been shortlisted for the prestigious Grierson Award for her film, Lost Girls of South Africa.
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Chris Eley nominated as Debut Director
Congrats also to Chris Eley nominated in the debut director category at the Edinburgh TV Festival Awards, for his brilliant Dispatches film, City of Fear.
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Zimbabwe awarded 'Best Documentary' title at DMVIFF 2011
Festival organisers said the audience 'absolutely loved and responded to your film, it spoke volumes'.
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Zimbabwe wins Broadcast Digital Award
Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children won Best News or Current Affairs. The judges said that film was full of unforgettable images - "Outstanding journalism, beautifully put together in demanding circumstances. Very moving."
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Zimbabwe wins BANFF Rockies award
Zimbabwe Forgotten's Children was awarded Best Current Affairs programme, beating stiff competition from Burma VJ, Dispatches: Behind Enemy Lines, If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise and other nominated films.
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Zimbabwe wins True Vision's 7th BAFTA
Click here to see the BAFTA being presented by Tracy Emin
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Lost Girls Nominated for Amnesty Media Award
Dispatches: Lost Girls of South Africa has been nominated for the Amnesty Media Award for Television Documentary.
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Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children wins Peabody Award
Brian Woods, Exec Producer of the film said. "We are really thrilled that the film has been honoured with a Peabody Award. It's fantastic recognition for the brilliant journalism of Jezza Neumann and Xoliswa Sithole, and for the bravery of BBC FOUR to commission such a risky piece of television. This film has already brought about great change in Zimbabwe, and hopefully this award will encourage a US broadcast, which will enable us to build on the work that the True Vision Foundation has already started in various schools out there, and get more of Zimbabwe's forgotten children into school."
Click here to see how things have changed since the film was broadcast
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Dispatches: Children of Gaza wins One World
Chidlren of Gaza won the One World Children's Award, narrowly beating Lost Girls of South Africa. In a ceremony on Tuesday evening Children of Gaza was declared the winner of the Children's Rights Award and the One World Media Awards. This award is especially significant as it is judged not by media professionals, but by a jury of young people still at school, who compete in a national competition to be on the jury. We were particularly honoured this year to get two of the three nominations.
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Broadcast Nomination for Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children has secured it's fourth nomination in as many weeks. It has been shortlisted for Best Current Affairs in the Broadcast Digital Awards. The winner will be announced at a ceremony at the Hilton, Park Lane, on June 15th.
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Two BAFTA nominations
Lost Girls of South Africa and Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children have BOTH been nominated for a BAFTA! This is the seventh consecutive year that True Vision films have won BAFTA nominations. The Television BAFTAs will take place in London on May 22nd, and will be shown live on BBC ONE
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Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children awarded Gold Plaque at the Chicago FIlm Festival
Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children awarded Gold Plaque at the Chicago FIlm Festival
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War Child wins Silver Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival
War Child wins Silver Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival
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Lost Girls of South Africa AND Children of Gaza nominated for One World Awards
Both Dispatches: Lost Girls of South Africa AND Dispatches: Children of Gaza have been selected by the Youth Jury of the One World Awards as nominees for the highly prestigious Children's Rights Award. We are thrilled that this jury, made up of young people who won a nationwide competition, have selected True Vision films as two of the three nominees for this prestigious award.
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Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children nominated for Investigative & Current Affairs category at BANFF
Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children nominated for Investigative & Current Affairs category at BANFF
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The Slumdog Children of Mumbai has been nominated for three craft BAFTAs
Nick Read nominated for Factual Photography BAFTA (Slumdog Children of Mumbai) Nick Read nominated for Factual Director BAFTA (Slumdog Children of Mumbai)
Jay Taylor nominated for Factual Editing BAFTA (Slumdog Children of Mumbai). This is the sixth year running that True Vision films have been BAFTA nominated,Nick Read nominated for Factual Photography BAFTA (Slumdog Children of Mumbai) Nick Read nominated for Factual Director BAFTA (Slumdog Children of Mumbai)
Jay Taylor nominated for Factual Editing BAFTA (Slumdog Children of Mumbai). This is the sixth year running that True Vision films have been BAFTA nominated,Nick Read nominated for Factual Photography BAFTA (Slumdog Children of Mumbai) Nick Read nominated for Factual Director BAFTA (Slumdog Children of Mumbai)
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Jay Taylor nominated for Factual Editing BAFTA (Slumdog Children of Mumbai). This is the sixth year running that True Vision films have been BAFTA nominated,
