The Rory Peck Awards
Sponsored by Sony
The Roy Peck Awards is the main fundraiser for The Rory Peck Trust
The Rory Peck Awards is an international and unique competition, which celebrates freelance camerawork in TV news and current affairs worldwide. The annual Rory Peck Awards Ceremony has become one of the most prestigious and moving events in the international broadcasting industry.
Sony enabled The Trust to begin its charitable programme of work by sponsoring the first three years of the Awards, 1995-1997. Since the relationship was renewed in 2001, Sony have remained the primary corporate sponsor of The Rory Peck Awards and sole sponsor of the Awards ceremony. The Trust meanwhile has grown into an internationally recognized organization, widely respected for its charitable work.
In 2001, Sony and The Rory Peck Trust created a new award to recognise the value that Sony places on those freelancers who risk their lives to film images that have had an impact internationally. The competition for The Sony Impact Award has grown, and this award is now judged each year in Europe by specially selected panels of European broadcast professionals (2002 in Paris, 2003 in Berlin , 2004 in Milan and 2005 in Barcelona).
The Awards ceremony has always been a joint industry effort, and is now produced with support from APTN, BBC News, BDL Autocue, BSkyB, CNN, Channel 4 TV, Globecast, ITV News, NBC News, Neon and Reuters. It is attended by senior broadcasters, freelancers, bureau chiefs, commissioning editors, diplomats and journalists. The Awards generate increasingly wide media coverage with BBC World’s “In The Firing Line” and Channel 4 Television’s “The Rory Peck AwardsSlot”.
There are four Awards:
The Sony
Impact Award
This award honours humanitarian footage which has had an impact internationally
and which contains images that have changed perception or policy.
The Rory Peck
Award for Hard News
This award honours freelance coverage of an event where the focus is on
the immediacy of the action.
The Rory Peck
Award for Features
This Award honours originality in approach and storytelling. Recognising
that many freelance camerapeople are now multi-skilled, it also honours
their versatility, determination and stamina.
The Freelancers
Choice
Honours a person who, whether freelance or not, has made an outstanding
contribution to the work and community of freelancers.
Good freelance footage is broadcast all the time, all around the world. Don't wait until the Awards - the moment you film, see or hear of a piece of freelance footage that is relevant, please let us know.
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