Longlist 2023

For websites, interactive online features, apps, interactive documentaries and other digital technologies that use creative and innovative techniques and content to extend knowledge and understanding of, and engagement with, the global south.

The $5 Forests | 101 East, Al Jazeera | Drew Ambrose

Favela vs. Covid | Outriders | Priscila Pacheco & Alexandre de Maio.

Living in the Unknown | Al Jazeera | Viktorija Mickute

Motherhood in Crisis | Al Jazeera | Laurence Ivil, Alicia Prager & Samuel Iwunze

No Epicentro | Lupa | Natália leal

Ophir & The Colonial Syndrome | Olivier Pollet & Alexandre Berman

TESTRIS – The Positive Rate Game | Outriders | Lola García-Ajofrín

The Continent | Mail & Guardian | Simon Allison & Simon Mkina

The price women and girls are paying for Ethiopia’s war | Devex | Sara Jerving

Violated in quarantine | Factual | Ketzalli Rosas Cervantes

Women Entrepreneurs Reporting Award

Sponsored by the European Investment Bank

For media, including broadcast, digital, audio, film or print, that explores women’s entrepreneurship in the global south. Reporting can showcase stories of successful female entrepreneurs, the challenges women face in trying to grow their businesses, and/or the critical role that women entrepreneurs play in economic development by boosting growth and creating jobs.

COVID-19 and Irregular Employment | Masaha Podcast | Rana Daoud

‘Everything I do is for my son’: how mothers in Bangladesh are starting their own businesses | The Guardian | Thaslima Begum

How Women-led Agribusinesses are Boosting Nutrition in Africa | IPS | Busani Bafana

I Am Belmaya | Dartmouth Films | Sue Carpenter & Belmaya Nepali

My hands are my tractor: Urban gardens take root in Johannesburg | Thomson Reuters Foundation News | Kim Harrisberg

Smart Money | BBC Africa | Joice Etutu

The Energy to Stay: Senegal’s village of women | Al Jazeera | Carlotta Dotto

The female Indian entrepreneurs who have overcome gender barriers | Financial Times | Amy Kazmin

Women Make Science: Ecuador’s Hidden Treasure | Al Jazeera | Ana Naomi De Sousa

Women who feed Lagos: How lack of education robs fish traders of booming digital market | The Cable | Taiwo Adebulu

Refugee Reporting Award

Sponsored by British Red Cross

For a piece of media, including broadcast, online, audio, print or film, that covers refugee and asylum-seeker issues by telling compelling stories that generate empathy, understanding and are reported on accurately and fairly.

Coronavirus Crisis: Europe’s Migrant Camps | Panorama, BBC | Said Reza Adib

Dafa Metti (Difficult) | Tal Amiran

Death in the Alps | Unreported World, Channel 4 | Tom Cross

Inside the smuggler’s warehouse: Africa’s 21st-century slave trade | Irish Times | Sally Hayden

Rohingya Brides Thought They Were Fleeing Violence. Then They Met Their Grooms | Vice | Pari Saikia

Surviving in the ruins of Moria | Al Jazeera English | Florian Elabdi

Teranga – We Dance to Forget | BBC Africa Eye | Sophia Seymour, Daisy Squires & Lou Marillier

What happens to migrants forcibly returned to Libya? | The New Humanitarian | Mat Nashed

When Can We Really Rest? | California Sunday Magazine | Nadja Drost

You’ll die at sea: The story of a migrant poet | Middle East Eye | Maria Pullicino

Television Documentary Award

Sponsored by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

For a factual journalistic programme broadcast on television or online, either standalone or one episode from a series, that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

Agricultoras Violentadas | Record TV | Mariana Ferrari

Assam: My country, my home | 101 East, Al Jazeera | Mandakini Gahlot

A Thousand Cuts | Frontline PBS | Ramona S. Diaz

China Undercover | Frontline PBS | Robin Barnwell

Fiji’s High Tide | SBS Australia | Evan Williams

O Meu Sangre é da Cor do Teu | Rádio e Televisão de Portugal | Mafalda Gameiro

Return from Isis: A Family’s Story | Panorama, BBC | Joshua Baker

Self-harm: The Pandemic of Youth | RT Documentary Channel | Vitaly Buzuev

The Schools that Chain Boys | BBC News Arabic | Jess Kelly & Fath Al-Rahman Al-Hamdani

The Search for Assad’s Executioners | Al Jazeera | Mahmoud Al-Ken

Environmental Impact Award

Sponsored by WaterBear Network

For a piece of media, including broadcast, online, audio, print or film, that explores the relationship between people and the planet. In particular, we are interested in these areas: changing cities, the climate crisis, energy, environmental health, environmental justice, food, water, wildlife and zero waste.

Amazon Undercover | Pindorama Filmes | Estêvão Ciavatta

Black Beaches | ARIJ network | Eman Mounir

Mercury, chasing the quicksilver | InfoAmazonia | Bram Ebus

Our Mothers’ Land | The Gecko Project & Mongabay | Leo Plunkett

Silent killer: Oil pollution continues to kill Nigerians in Delta region | International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) | Kelechukwu Iruoma & Ruth Olurounbi

South Africa’s Dirty Secret: Coal | Thomson Reuters Foundation | Nicky Milne

The Linesman | Encompass Films | Dominic Gill

The Plastic Nile | Sky Documentaries and Sky News | Alex Crawford

The race to save Polesia, Europe’s secret Amazon | The Guardian | Phoebe Weston

The Trees That Bleed: How rosewood is smuggled from Senegal into Gambia | BBC Africa Eye | Umaru Fofana

Feature Documentary Award

For a feature-length (over 40 minutes) documentary film that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

Five Years North | Chris Temple and Zach Ingraci

I Am Belmaya | Dartmouth Films | Sue Carpenter & Belmaya Nepali

I Am Samuel | We are not the machine | Pete Murimi

Showgirls of Pakistan | Other Memory Media | Saad Khan

Softie | LBx Africa | Sam Soko

The Accused: Damned Or Devoted? | Mohammed Ali Naqvi

The Art of Living in Danger

The Fifth Story | Majaz Production | Ahmed Abd

Writing With Fire | Black Ticket Films | Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh

Your Mother’s Comfort | Megamot Media | Adam Golub

International Journalist of the Year Award

For a filmmaker or journalist working in any medium who has made the most outstanding contribution to international journalism during the past year.

Bel Trew | The Independent

Diana Cariboni | openDemocracy

Drew Ambrose | Al Jazeera English

Fabio Teixeira | Thomson Reuters Foundation

Katie McQue | Freelance

Nawal Al-Maghafi | BBC

Fisayo Soyombo | Foundation for Investigative Journalism

Suadad Al-Salhy | Middle East Eye

Thaslima Begum | The Guardian

Timour Azhari | Al Jazeera and Newlines Magazine

News Award

For a single television or online video news report or feature that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

On the Frontlines of the Fighting in Azerbaijan | VICE | Hind Hassan

Climate ravage: Sea swallows parts of Senegal’s UNESCO World Heritage Site | Al Jazeera | Nicolas Haque

From naked protests to challenging Museveni: Uganda’s ‘rudest feminist’ on the campaign trail | The Guardian | Alice McCool

Inside Kashmir’s ‘Invisible’ Transgender Community | Business Insider Today | Robert Leslie

Iran & Covid-19 | BBC | Behrang Tajdin

Is Brazil the new epicentre of the coronavirus crisis? | ITV News | Juliet Bremner

Poor forced to collect Covid corpses for work in Peru | Channel 4 News | Guillermo Galdos

New evidence of Uighur forced labour in China’s cotton industry | BBC | John Sudworth

Why we care about India’s farmers’ protests | BBC | Monika Plaka

Yemen: Sky News’ Alex Crawford investigates the killing of nine women and children | Sky News | Alex Crawford

New Voice Award

For a young filmmaker or journalist working in any medium, 32 years of age or under as of 16th February 2021, who has made a substantial contribution to international journalism during the year.

Fateh Al Rahman Al-Hamdani | BBC News Arabic

Grace Ekpu | BBC

Liz Oliva Fernandez | Belly of the Beast

Lou Ferreira | openDemocracy

Nandini Archer | openDemocracy

Nermina Kuloglija | Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Rakan Abed El Rahman | Middle East Eye

Tatsiana Yanutsevich | Freelance

Wale lawal | The Republic

Zecharias Zelalem | Freelance

Popular Features

For a piece of media, including broadcast, digital, audio, print or film, that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south through creative treatment of an issue. The media should reach a wider audience potentially less familiar with global south and help to provide a more accurate, balanced perspective.

Between Borders | Texas Observer | Anna-Catherine Brigida, Acacia Coronado, Morena Perez Joaquin, Emily Kinskey

Dance Around The World | Channel 4 | Ben Cook

Eyes in the Sky | Rest of World | Monica Jha

Female Genital Cutting Is on the Rise During COVID in Kenya | Vice | Neha Wadekar

In Gaza, Scanning the Sky for Stars, Not Drones | Undark | Sarah Sax

Saving mums and their unborn babies | People Fixing The World, BBC World Service | Bara’atu Ibrahim

Skate Gal Club | Refinery29 | Shelby Wilder

The all-women law firm helping prisoners get justice in Nigeria | Al Jazeera English | Nosmot Gbadamosi

The War on Cuba | Belly of the Beast | Liz Oliva Fernández

To Fight Locusts, Historic Rivals India and Pakistan Team Up | Undark | Lou Del Bello

Print Award

For a feature article (750 words or longer) published in print or online that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south. This may include specialist features such as sport, music, food and health.

Asia’s prisons are filling up with women. Many are victims of the war on drugs | CNN | Preeti Jha

Imprisoned under the cover of Covid | TBIJ | Madlen Davies

Inside Nigeria’s illegal backstreet abortion clinics | Al Jazeera | Ope Adetayo

Invisible labor: The trauma of Facebook’s outsourced graphic content moderator workforce | Rest of World | Tekendra Parmar & Vittoria Elliott

Mama Boko Haram’s story | The Guardian | Chika Oduah

Mothers of the Revolution | The New Internationalist | Lucy Provan & Alice Rowsome

Nepal’s sexual violence | Global Press Journal | Shilu Manandhar

Sold into Syrian servitude, Filipina workers tell of abuse, rape and imprisonment | Washington Post | Katie McQue

The next chapter for African genomics | Nature | Amy Maxmena

Uganda’s Hidden Children | Al Jazeera | Beau Donelly

Podcast & Radio Award

For an audio feature, podcast, or single programme from a series, broadcast on radio or online, that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

Africa Science Focus (ep. 17) | SciDev.Net | Njenje Chizu

All the Prime Minister’s Men (part 3) | Al Jazeera Investigations Unit | Will Thorne

Cry Like a Boy (ep. 12) | Euronews | Lillo Montalto Monella

Essex Lorry Deaths: The Journey of 39 Vietnamese Migrants | The Fourcast | Paraic O’Brien

Exodus: Uncovering a cult in KwaZulu-Natal | News24 | Nokuthula Manyathi

Finding Closure | Royal FM 95.1 | Babatunde Okunlola

I’m Not a Monster (ep. 8) | BBC Sounds | Joshua Baker

On China’s New Silk Road (ep. 9) | Global Reporting Centre | Mary Kay Magistad

Studying and Surviving the Pandemic’s Collective Trauma | Undark | Elna Schütz

23419 | Anchor FM | Chioma Onyenwe

Short Film Award

For a short documentary film that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south. The short film must be between 5 and 40 minutes.

Building Baku: Modern Slavery in the Heart of Azerbaijan | OCCRP | Miranda Patrucic & Madeleine May

Call Center Blues | Multitude Films | Geeta Gandbhir

Come over for a drink, kanchhi | Sikuma Rai

Dead Woman’s Pass | Witness, Al Jazeera English | Lali Houghton

India’s Acid Attack Survivors | Close Up, Al Jazeera English | Jihan Hafiz

Last Chance for Justice | BBC World News | Marina Shupac

Mother | Try Hard Films & Naga Productions | Jas Pitt & Kate Stonehill

My Brother’s Keeper | The Guardian | Laurence Topham

Syria: A Family’s Fight Against The Virus | BBC Our World | Katie Arnold

War, Lies & Hashtags | Witness, Al Jazeera English | Hasham Cheema

Special Award

For an independent media organisation based in the global south using media to address social, cultural, political and economic issues. The Award seeks to recognise and encourage outstanding reporting that informs the public, provides an outlet for local people’s voices, creates a space for critical information and holds those in power to account.

CONNECTAS | Colombia

IWACU | Burundi

Kloop | Kyrgyzstan

La Maison Des Reporters | Senegal

La Voie Originale | Côte d’Ivoire

Myanmar Now | Myanmar

Peoples Gazette | Nigeria

Sowt | Jordan

The Republic Knowledge Company | Nigeria

Tuko Media | Kenya

Student Award

For a piece of media, including film, radio, digital or print, made by a student as part of a journalism or filmmaking course at a university or film school that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

Desert Roots | UCL | Jingya Zhao

Golden Wedding | UCL | Chenghui Huang

House of Light | University of West Scotland | Mahmud Hasan Kayesh

Last Chance for Justice | UCL | Marina Shupac

No Going Back | Edinburgh Napier University | Brendan Duggan

On Tour | UCL | Wen Huang

The Power of Choice | Cardiff University | Bii Carolyne Chepkoech

The Seven Villages | FAMU | Farah Abou Kharroub

Two Square Meters | National Film & TV School | Mohamed Shalaby

Youth leadership on the edge of Bogotá | Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano | Carlos Antonio Mayorga Alejo

Digital Media Award

Sponsored by Google News Initiative

Climate Migrant Megacity | Sky | Katerina Vittozzi

Inaccessible Cities | Al Jazeera Digital & AJ Contrast | Viktorija Mickute

KUSUNDA | NowHere Media | Gayatri Parameswaran

Maharaja’s children. A brave bunch in India | Nil Desperandum Foundation | Tomasz Stankiewicz

Seven Grams | Lucid Realities | Karim Ben Khelifa

The Global Gig Workers | Rest of World | Peter Guest and Youyou Zhou

Vaccinegate: The Power Connections | Salud con lupa | Fabiola Torres

Visa to Nowhere | Outriders | Jakub Górnicki

Visualising the Afghan War | Al Jazeera Digital | Mohammed Haddad

What’s Happening in Myanmar | NHK | Masaru Zenke

Environmental Impact Award

Sponsored by WaterBear Network

Colombia’s indigenous form ‘mini-governments’ to save Amazon | Thomson Reuters Foundation | Anastasia Moloney

Crude bargain: How an unknown Canadian firm with no drilling tools scored a major oil deal in Guyana | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | Chris Arsenault

Electric vehicles in the Philippines: a mottled green solution | Eco-Business | Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

Ethiopian Nomads struggle for survival on the climate crisis frontline | ITN/Channel 4 News | Jamal Osman

Floating Swarm | Voice of America | Jaime Moreno

Junkyard of the West | Outriders | Tadeusz Michrowski

Nicaragua’s Forgotten Deforestation Crisis | OCCRP, Confidencial, Onda Local, InfoLibre, La Voz de Guanacaste | Sasha Chavkin

Oceans Inc. | The Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC) | Multiple journalists

The Return | The Guardian | Eriberto Gualinga

Troops | Freelance/fiftytwo | Monika Mondal

Feature Documentary Award

For a feature-length (over 40 minutes) documentary film that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

Ait Atta: Nomads of the High Atlas | Karma Motion | Eda Elif Tibet

Critical Juncture | Zoomin | Alessia Barbiero

Dying to Divorce | Dying to Divorce Ltd | Chloe Fairweather

Lebanon – Explosion of Anger | Vision House Productions | Krzysztof Dzieciolowski

My Childhood, My Country | Seventh Art Productions | Phil Grabsky

Sing, Freetown | Insight TWI Films | Clive Patterson

Street Dreams: Dancing to Survive | BBC Africa Eye | Nick Wambugu

The Last Shelter | STEPS | Ousmane Samassékou

The Weight of Water | Neelima Vallangi and Deej Phillips

This Stained Dawn | Other Memory Media | Anam Abbas

International Journalist of the Year Award

For a filmmaker or journalist working in any medium who has made the most outstanding contribution to international journalism during the past year.

Zaki Daryabi and Elyas Nawandish | Afghanotes

Alex Crawford | Sky News

Bel Trew | The Independent

Fabiola Torres | Salud con lupa

Hendia Alashepy | Egab

Jamal Osman | Channel 4 News

Marcus Yam | Los Angeles Times

Miranda Patrucic | OCCRP

Suadad al-Salhy | Middle East Eye

Yogita Limaye | BBC News

News Award

For a single television or online video news report or feature that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

Eating shoes: surviving Madagascar’s famine | AFP | Gaelle Borgia

‘I just want a bone’: Mexico’s search for 95,000 missing | AFP | Paula Vilella

101 East: India’s COVID Warriors | Freelance/Al Jazeera | Prashun Mazumdar

Life in a town taken by the Taliban in Afghanistan | BBC | Secunder Kermani

Mozambicans fleeing IS-affiliated insurgents feel failed by government, exploited by big business | Freelance/PBS | Neha Wadekar

Across The Balkans: Serbia’s Lithium Mine Controversy | Bulgaria-North Macedonia Breakthrough? | TRT | Aksel Zaimovic

The Americas: A deep dive into the stories from Latin America and the Caribbean | NBC News NOW | Tom Llamas

Trapped in a war zone: On the ground in Gaza | Middle East Eye | Rakan Abed El Rahman

‘They Came Here to Attack Arabs.’ Welcome to Life in Israel’s ‘Mixed Cities’ | AJ + | Angie Nassar

Yemen: The boy who saved his sister from a sniper | BBC | Orla Guerin

New Voice Award

For a young filmmaker or journalist working in any medium, 32 years of age or under as of 16th February 2022, who has made a substantial contribution to international journalism during the year.

Aakash Hassan | Freelance

Andrei Popoviciu | Freelance

Asser Khattab | New Lines Magazine

Harriet Barber | The Telegraph

Ibrahim Adeyemi | Freelance

Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu | openDemocracy

Monika Mondal | Freelance

Prakhar Deep Jain | Insider

Sara Cincurova | Freelance

Zecharias Zelalem | Freelance

Popular Features

BBC 100 Women Team | Urgent letters from Afghanistan: ‘I hope the world will not forget us’ | BBC World Service | Valeria Perasso

Exodus | Freelance/Guernica Magazine | Zahra Hankir

How Bangladesh beat Europe at fighting floods | DW Deutsche Welle | Ajit Niranjan

Hundreds of casualties on both sides in world capital of human-elephant conflict | Freelance/Earth Journalism | Mubina Akhtar

In our teens, we dreamed of making peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Then my friend was shot | Freelance/The Guardian | Roy Cohen

The COVID-19 spraying scandal initiated by President Akufo-Addo | Media Foundation for West Africa | Manasseh Azure Awuni

The Day My Wartime Cat Went Missing | New Lines Magazine | Rasha Elass

The Ghost Village | Freelance/In These Times magazine | Khalid Bencherif

The Dictator’s Last Calls | BBC News Arabic | Emir Nader

Welcome to Brazil? Venezuelan workers exploited under aid program | Thomson Reuters Foundation | Fabio Teixeira

Print Award

A Night with Palestine’s Defenders of the Mountain | The Nation | Mohammed El-Kurd

A Whale in the Desert: Tracing Paths of Migration in Turkana | Freelance/Emergence Magazine | Tristan McConnell

As winter closes in on Afghanistan, a 12-year-old tries to save his family | Freelance/1843 Magazine | Andrew North

Dalit Scientists Face Barriers in India’s Top Science Institutes | Freelance/Undark magazine | Ankur Paliwal

How US Abortion Politics Distort Women’s Lives in Conflict Zones | Freelance/New York Review | Jill Filipovic

Hunting the men who kill women: Mexico’s femicide detective | The Guardian Long Reads | Meaghan Beatley

India’s Anti-Immigrant Crackdown Has Torn Apart Families and Locked Up Hundreds. 1.9 Million People Fear They Could Be Next | Freelance/TIME | Neha Thirani Bagri

Inside Nigeria’s unregulated human egg industry | Freelance/Al Jazeera | Mariam Adetona

Schooling for displaced students in the Sahel: The cross and the banner to resist obscurantism | Sidwaya | Souaibou Nombre

She was trafficked into a giant brothel. Now she runs it | Freelance/1843 Magazine (produced in partnership with The Fuller Project) | Corinne Redfern and Ali Ahsan

Podcast & Radio Award

For an audio feature, podcast, or single programme from a series, broadcast on radio or online, that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

Africa Science Focus: From security gates to the operating room | SciDevNet | Fiona Broom

Hello Hallyu | The Swaddle | Nirupama V & Sadhana Chathurvedula

Ep. 57: In Lagos, Vulnerable Communities Buried by Urbanization | Undark Magazine | Maggie Andresen

False Idol | Religion of Sports | Tim Rohan

Gone to the dogs: Rabies control and street dog welfare in India | Suno India | Mahima Jain

Is Germany’s genocide apology to Namibia enough? | Al Jazeera Digital | Malika Bilal

My Only Story: Back to School | Media24 | Deon Wiggett

Scrolls & Leaves | Freelance | Gayathri Vaidyanathan

Too Many Enemies | Volume | Paul McNally

What’s the isiZulu for dinosaur? How science neglected African languages | Springer Nature | Nick Petrić Howe

Refugee Reporting Award

ADRIFT: Venezuelan migration and mental health | Inquire First – Historias sin Fronteras | Maria Laura Chang, Héctor Villa and Jhoanna Osorio

Escaping Oblivion | The Chronicle of Higher Education | Eric Hoover

He told the world about his brutal torture in Syria. Then, mysteriously, he went back | The Washington Post | Liz Sly

How US Abortion Politics Distort Women’s Lives in Conflict Zones | Freelance/New York Review | Jill Filipovic

Is Europe turning its back on Belarusians fleeing Lukashenko’s regime? | Freelance/Euronews | Alina Yanchur

Norway’s Afghan Sons | Al Jazeera English | Preethi Nallu

She Migrates | Futuro Media | Marta Martinez

Terror in Tigray: The Ethiopian Refugee Crisis | Voice of America | Heather Murdock

The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe | The Outlaw Ocean Project | Ian Urbina

When Europe turns a blind eye: Life and Death in the Mediterranean | France 24 | Emmanuelle Chaze

Short Film Award

For a short documentary film that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south. The short film must be between 5 and 40 minutes.

City Girls | Chambal Media | Priya Thuvassery

Life at 50 C: Fleeing the shifting sands of the Sahara desert, due to climate change | BBC News Arabic | Monica Garnsey

Freedom Swimmer | No Thing Productions (Australia) & Sacrebleu Productions (France) | Olivia Martin-McGuire

The Doll | Elahe Esmaili

The Exiles: A generation’s story | Middle East Eye | Khaled Shalaby and Hossam Sarhan

The Great Abandonment | Cave Pictures | Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya

The Haiti is in Canbuci (O Haiti e No Cambuci) | Playplus
Witness | Mariane Salerno

Pattani Calling | Black Squirrel Productions | Vijitra Duangdee

Russia’s banned youth | Al Jazeera Digital | Olga Khrustaleva

Manila Lockdown: One of the longest COVID lockdowns in the world | Al Jazeera English | Ditsi Carolino

Special Award

Foundation for Investigative Journalism | Nigeria

InfoNile Geojournalism Project | Uganda

Macaranga Media | Malaysia

Salud con Lupa | Peru

Syrian Anonymous Journalists | Syria

Project Multatuli | Indonesia

The Better India | India

The Republic | Nigeria

Tinyhand | Turkey

TOLOnews | Afghanistan

Student Award

3 Promises | National Film and Television School | Mohamed Shalaby

Beyond School | University of British Columbia | Students of the Global Reporting Program

Harvesting Our Tea | London College of Communication, LCC | Sheida Kiran

South African Police Are Undertrained, Uncontrolled, and Deadly | University of the Witwatersrand | Patrick Egwu

The Forbidden Love | International Center of Photography (ICP) | Mohammad Rakibul Hasan

The Violence Between Us | National Film and Television School | Camila Guerreiro

The Dream | University College London | Lucia de la Torre

The Molasses Mills | The School Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) at AUC | Dalia Mohamed Gaber El-Akkad

Toofaan | University College London | Mehr Singh

Where We Stand | University of Sussex | Moon Hwan Lee

Television Documentary Award

Sponsored by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Afghanistan: Inside The Taliban’s Emirate | France 24 | Catherine Norris Trent, Sonia Ghezali and Romeo Langlois

Black Axe: Nigeria’s Mafia Cult | BBC Africa Eye | Peter Macjob

Blood on our Side: Mexico’s Forensic Investigators | Muzungu Producciones | Rodrigo Hernandez & Elpida Nikou

Selling surrogates: wombs for hire in Georgia | Channel 4 News | Anja Popp

Haftar’s Russian Mercenaries: Inside the Wagner Group | BBC News Arabic | Nader Ibrahim

Love in Sao Paulo’s Crackland – Episode 1 (O Amor Na Cracolandia-Parte 1) | Record TV | Aldrich Kanashiro

Morocco’s Youtube Migrants | BBC | Stephanie Hegarty and Katie Arnold

Undercover in Africa’s Secret State | Freelance/Channel 4 / PBS Frontline | Evan Williams

Under the Shadow of Iran | BBC | Nafiseh Kohnavard

Child sexual abuse in Pakistan: Zainab’s Legacy | Freelance/Al Jazeera English | Owen Kean

Women's Solutions Reporting Award

Sponsored by the European Investment Bank

For media, including broadcast, digital, audio, film or print, that explores women’s solutions in the global south. Reporting can showcase stories of successful initiatives by women or for women, of any scale, that help to tackle challenges faced by women and society at large: solutions that address the impact of climate change and protect the environment, solutions that increase access to education and health care, or solutions that empower women.

101 East: The Widows of Everest | Al Jazeera English | Sreya Banerjee and Rojita Adhikari

On the White Nile: A South Sudan businesswoman | Al Jazeera English | Akuol de Mabior

An unlikely band of water defenders fights chronic shortages in El Salvador | Freelance/National Geographic | Anna-Catherine Brigida

Barn Short Docs: The Care Box designed to save lives | Neolight Productions Limited | Jake Sirma

HER – Women in Asia| DW Deutsche Welle | Bettina Thoma-Schade

I am a Leader of my House | The New Humanitarian | Sabiha Faiz, Fahmida Azim, Sara Wong and Irwin Loy

Lebanese Women Fight Period Poverty with eco-friendly alternatives | Egab/The New Humanitarian | Zainab Chamoun

Meet Maggie, the Malawian Musician turned Lockdown Hero | Evening Standard | Thoko Chikondi

Shadow Pandemic: Covid 19, Women and Girls in Nigeria | The Republic | Cynthia Igodo

Women’s Rights and the Pandemic | Global Press Journal | Khorloo Khukhnokhoi

Digital Media Award

Coal Oligarchs: The Game | Project Multatuli | Viriya Singgih

Game of Votes – Colombian Elections 2022 | Cuestión Pública | Claudia Báez

Last stand in the Amazon | Nature | Jeff Tollefson

Occupy to survive: Brazilian squatters fight for housing rights | Freelance/Al Jazeera | Mia Alberti

Reconstructing the “Melilla Massacre” | Lighthouse Reports | Klaas van Dijken & Maud Jullien

Rehab in Yerevan. How is Armenia Healing its New Generation of Men after Nagorno-Karabakh War | Outriders | Lola García-Ajofrín

THE BANALITY OF BRUTALITY 33 days under siege in Block 17, Bucha, Ukraine | Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) | Elena Loginova & Yana Korniychuk

The Night Raids | ProPublica | Lynzy Billing

WhatsApp, Lebanon? | The New Humanitarian | Annie Slemrod

You Destroy. We Create | The war on Ukraine’s culture | NowHere Media | Gayatri Parameswaran

Environmental Impact Award

Sponsored by WaterBear Network

A toxic trash site in Kenya is making women sick | The Fuller Project | Louise Donovan & Moraa Obiria

Climate change is forcing Kenyan women to leave their homes behind | gal-dem & Unearthed | Michelle Buky

Fears of ‘subprime’ carbon assets stall crypto rainforest mission | Thomson Reuters Foundation | Fabio Teixeira

‘It was a set-up, we were fooled’: the coal mine that ate an Indian village | Freelance/The Guardian | Ankur Paliwal

Healthy mangroves build a resilient community in the Philippines’ Palawan | Mongabay | Keith Anthony S. Fabro

Identity Crisis | Freelance/FiftyTwo | Deepa Padmanaban

In the Mekong Delta, sand mining means lost homes and fortunes | Thanh Nien Newspaper and Mekong Eye | Lê Đình Tuyển

The Airstrips of Destruction | Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting | Hyury Potter

The extraordinary benefits of a house made from mud | Freelance/National Geographic | Peter Schwartzstein

The Gulf: Killer Heat | BBC News | Ceci Golding & Pramod Acharya

Feature Documentary Award

For a feature-length (over 40 minutes) documentary film that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

African Moot | STEPS | Shameela Shedat

Ana’s trial | Chai Khana | Tamara Mshvenieradze & Mariam Jachvadze

BLACK MAMBAS | Karbe Film GmbH | Lena Karbe

Children of the Taliban | Moondogs films | Marcel Mettelsiefen

From the Shadows #Missingirls | Filament Pictures | Miriam Chandy Menacherry

No Simple Way Home | Lightbox Limited | Akuol de Mabior

No U-Turn | STEPS | Ike Nnaebue

President | Cinephil | Camilla Nielsson

The Radical | GOOD WORK | Richard Finn Gregory

UÝRA – The Rising Forest | Mama Wolf | Juliana Curi

International Journalist of the Year Award

For a filmmaker or journalist working in any medium who has made the most outstanding contribution to international journalism during the past year.

Alex Crawford | Sky News

Ankita Anand | Unbias the News

Bel Trew | The Independent

Damilola Ayeni | Foundation for Investigative Journalism

David Pilling | Financial Times

Mohammed Amin | Middle East Eye

Oscar Lopez | The New York Times

Philip Obaji Jr. | Freelance/The Daily Beast

Vince Chadwick | Devex

Varsha Bansal | Freelance

News Award

For a single television or online video news report or feature that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

Americans in Jerusalem are kicking out Palestinians | AJ+ | Angeline Nassar

Captagon: How Syria became a narco state | Agence France-Presse (AFP) | Dylan Collins

Drought and famine in Somalia | Deutsche Welle TV | Mariel Müller

Haiti on the verge of an Abyss | BBC News | Orla Guerin

Inside Al-Shabaab | Channel 4 News | Jamal Osman

Journalists of Tijuana, Mexico, confront danger to keep the city safe | Voice of America | Cristina Caicedo Smit

Kenya’s policing epidemic | VICE News | Julia Steers

Pakistan: Flood defences breached in Sindh Province | Sky News | Saima Mohsin

Russian soft power in The CAR | Découpages | Carol Valade, Clément Di Roma

Ukraine’s frontline rescuers | Channel 4 News | Jack Losh

New Voice Award

For a young filmmaker or journalist working in any medium, 32 years of age or under as of 9 February 2023, who has made a substantial contribution to international journalism during the year.

Aakash Hassan

Ceci Golding | BBC News

Harriet Barber | The Telegraph

Lynzy Billing | ProPublica

Mariel Mueller | Deutsche Welle TV

Reha Kansara | BBC

Runako Celina | BBC World Service

Salma Niazi | The Afghan Times

Sara Cincurova

Yaling Jiang

Podcast & Radio Award

For an audio feature, podcast, or single programme from a series, broadcast on radio or online, that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

Bitter tales of Salima Sugar Company | Zodiak Broadcasting Station | Innocent Kumchedwa

Course Correction | Doha Debates | Nelufar Hedayat

El viaje de Estuardo (Estuardo’s journey) | CUIR: Historias disidentes | Erick Yáñez Navarro

GigaWhat: Renewable energy, limited land | Mongabay-India | Mayank Aggarwal

I will not grow old here | Radio Workshop | Mary-Ann Nobele

Slick: The story of oil, Shell and Nigeria | BBC World Service | Mayeni Jones

The Outlaw Ocean Podcast | The Outlaw Ocean Project | Ian Urbina

The Take – Climate change: Leaving Pakistan out to dry | Al Jazeera Digital | Amy Walters

Undercurrents: Tech, tyrants, and us | Coda Story | Isobel Cockerell

Ukrainecast | BBC | Vitaly Shevchenko

Refugee Reporting Award

Children of Ukraine | Renegade Pictures | Shahida Tulaganova

East of Maruipol: what happened to the Ukrainians who fled to Russia | 1843 magazine The Economist | Wendell Steavenson

Ghosts of Moria | Freelance/Guardian | Michael Graversen & Florian Elabdi

Keeping the music alive – Playing in exile | Freelance/CNA | Mandakini Gahlot

Migrant parents losing babies during perilous boat crossings to Europe | i | Molly Blackall

Name Me Lawand | Pulse Films | Edward Lovelace

New York’s first Afghan Mosque became a refuge for children who fled without their families as Kabul fell | Freelance/Time | Jazzmin Jiwa

The Essence of Memories | Freelance/Arte & CBC | Melanie Gouby

The Guardian Long Read : Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda | Guardian News & Media | Samira Shackle

When Does the Journey End? The lasting trauma of a child refugee in Europe | Outriders | Tina Xu

Short Film Award

For a short documentary film that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south. The short film must be between 5 and 40 minutes.

Boubé of the Fulani | STEPS | FÉLICIEN ASSOGBA

Finding My Torturer | BBC | Victoria Arakelyan

Guatemala’s past unearthed | Al Jazeera English | Paula Monaco Felipe

Iran: Catching a killer | BBC | Omid Montazeri

Lady of the Gobi | The Guardian | Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig

ROT54: Armenia’s forgotten space giant | Freelance/Al Jazeera English | Marta Miskaryan

Stay Up | STEPS | AÏSSATA OUARMA

The Essence of Memories | Freelance/Arte & CBC | Melanie Gouby

The Leopard’s Tribe | Freelance/Miriam Chandy Menacherry

The ‘Spider-man’ of Sudan | The Guardian | Phil Cox & Rafa Renas

Print Award

Health in the Amazon: Local communities protect the rainforest, but lack adequate healthcare | Freelance/Nature | Sofia Moutinho

How a British special forces raid went wrong, and a young family paid the price | BBC | Hannah O’Grady and Joel Gunter

In lockdown with their rapist | Passblue | Damilola Banjo

Kenyans are dying to work in Saudi Arabia | Freelance/The Continent | Maurice Oniang’o

‘My bladder keeps slipping out of the vagina – but I can’t seek treatment’ | Freelance/Scroll.In | Romita Saluja

My money or your life: the bank robbers of Beirut | 1843 magazine, The Economist | Wendell Steavenson

Off Balance | Fifty Two | Ankur Paliwal

The Baby Broker Project | Finance Uncovered | Simon Bowers, Malia Politzer & Naipanoi Lepapa

The drug was meant to save children’s lives. Instead, they’re dying | TBIJ | Rosa Furneaux, Laura Margottini, Chrissie Giles, Paul Eccles

‘You are not honourable anymore’: Shamed and trafficked into Iraq’s sex trade | Al Jazeera Digital | Simona Foltyn

Popular Features

Africa Direct – The Adventures of Boubacar | Al Jazeera English | Ousmane Zoromé Samassékou

A Matter of Honor | The Atavist Magazine | Sarah Souli

Brazil’s National Museum deals with its colonial past | Freelance/New York Times | Mariana Lenharo, Meghie Rodrigues

How a Massacre of Nearly 300 in Syria Was Revealed | New Lines Magazine | Ugur Ungor

How the Shipping Industry Sails through Legal Loopholes | Hakai magazine | Paul Tullis

Myanmar: Soldiers admit atrocities | BBC | Ko Ko Aung

Sense of Community – Iten | Al Jazeera English | Michael Onyiego

The Nigerian school with a radical idea: Teaching Boko Haram’s kids | Prime Progress Media & Christian Science Monitor | Innocent Eteng

UXO: Lethal Legacy | Honolulu Civil Beat | Thomas Heaton

What’s Eating My Mind | LBx Africa & BBC | Noella Luka

Special Award

Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosnia and Herzegovina

Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) | Nigeria

Laboratorio de Periodismo y Opinión Pública | Mexico

La Voie Originale | Côte d’Ivoire

Lupa | Brazil

Mongabay-India | India

Project Multatuli | Indonesia

Radio Al-Salam | Iraq

STEPS | South Africa

The Continent | South Africa

Student Award

A Song of Resistance | University College London | Bazla Samin

Cadáver | National Film and Television School | Benjamin Kodboel

Dear Daughter | University College London | Yuqi Tang

Green Country | National Film and Television School | Sophia Seymour

Khayelitsha (Our new home) | National Film and Television School | Pieter Genee

Oubaki | University Of The Arts London: Central Saint Martins | Joe Jordan

Pakistan Floods: The Human Cost | De Montfort University | Safiyyah Choudry

Promised Land | National Film and Television School | Frank Eli Martin

The Blue Fig | Falmouth University | Mohammad Rakibul Hasan

Utopia | University of the Arts London | Yinzi Zeng

Television Documentary Award

Sponsored by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

BBC Panorama – SAS Death Squads Exposed | BBC | Hannah O’Grady

Fault Lines – The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh | Al Jazeera English | Kavitha Chekuru

Modern Day Slaves of Thailand | Open Secrets | Fat Stone Films & Vice | Naruemon Chaingam

Myanmar: The Forgotten Revolution | Evan Williams Productions & Channel 4 | Katie Arnold

Teen Mums: Pregnant and Trapped | Channel 4 News | Anja Popp

The cost of being an atheist | BBC Africa Digital | Yemisi Adegoke

Ukraine: Life under attack | Basement Films & Channel 4 | Mani Benchelah and Patrick Tombola

Under Poisoned Skies | BBC News Arabic | Jess Kell and Owen Pinnell

Untold: Inside The Shein Machine | Zandland & Channel 4 | Ally Roberts

Women at war: Afghanistan | Sky News | Alex Crawford

Women's Solutions Reporting Award

Sponsored by the European Investment Bank

For media, including broadcast, digital, audio, film or print, that explores women’s solutions in the global south. Reporting can showcase stories of girls and women who successfully contributed to tackle challenges faced by women and society at large: solutions to improve women’s financial and economic inclusion, solutions that address the impact of climate change and protect the environment, solutions that increase access to education and health care, or solutions that empower girls and women.

Supported by Plan International

Africa’s first chief heat officer | Freelance/CNN | Amelia Hemphill

A Sense of Community – Iztapalapa | Al Jazeera English | Drew Ambrose

BBC People Fixing the World – Jobs for girls | BBC | Farhana Haider

For this Somali refugee, beauty has a purpose | National Geographic | Neha Wadekar

How Indian health-care workers use WhatsApp to save pregnant women | Freelance/MIT Technology Review | Sanket Jain

How one small Syrian NGO is tackling period poverty, one pad at a time | The New Humanitarian & Egab | Safaa Sallal

India’s women are building an alternative to toxic masculinity | Freelance/Reasons To Be Cheerful | Safina Nabi

La pantalla andina (The Andean Screen) | Carmina Balaguer

Mujeres contra las rejas (Women against bars) | Proceso Magazine & International Women’s Media Foundation | Neldy San Martín, journalist

Witness – Yuli | Al Jazeera English | Ip Kar-Man