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Call for project: Peace and Sport Documentary Prize

Call for entries

Peace and Sport
Documentary Prize

The Peace and Sport Documentary Prize rewards a movie that highlights the positive role of sport in contributing to the achievement of sustainable development goals and building more inclusive and peaceful societies.

Under the Honorary Presidency of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco, the Sportel Awards put in competition the best sportive sequences that made a significant contribution in the sport world.

To highlight the positive role of sport to promote peace and social inclusion, Peace and Sport and Sportel Awards have built a partnership. As a result of this partnership, they deliver a prize reflecting both institutions’ values: The Peace and Sport Documentary Prize.

The Peace and Sport Documentary Prize rewards a movie that highlights the positive role of sport in contributing to sustainable development goals and building more inclusive and peaceful societies.

By delivering this Prize, Peace and Sport wants to highlight the importance of enhancing directors who, through their movies, demonstrate the power of sport to set matters in motion in societies.

The Jury of the Peace and Sport Documentary Prize is composed by “Champions for Peace”, a group of personally committed athletes to the peace-through-sport movement alongside Peace and Sport. The Prize will be delivered to the winner by a Champion for Peace during the Sportel Awards ceremony.

2020: “Into the Storm”, directed by Adam Brown.

“Into the Storm” provides an insight into everyday life of a young indigenous surfer who strives to make his dream of becoming a professional surfer come true in the underprivileged district of Lima.

The Prize was delivered by Champion for Peace Jean-Baptiste Alaize.


2019: “Boxgirls”, directed by Jaime Murciego Tagarro.

The documentary gives a unique insight on Kariobangi neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya where girls and women face precarious living conditions. The female boxers of “Boxgirls” try to overcome this situation through physical and mostly mental skills that boxing gives to them.

The Prize was delivered by Champion for Peace Marc Raquil.


2018: “Fighting for Life”, directed by Jamillah Van der Hulst.

The documentary “gives a unique look inside the South- African prison Drakenstein Correctional Center and the impressive work of Dutch boxing coach Sharita van der Hulst in the rehabilitation program for prisoners that are serving heavy sentences” according to the director.

The Prize was delivered by Champion for Peace Jean-Baptiste Alaize.


2017: “Girl Unbound: The War to be Her”, directed by Erin Heidenreich.

This film explores the world of Maria Toorpakai Wazir, international Champion of squash. In Waziristan, a mountainous region of Pakistan, Maria Toorpakai defies the Taliban by disguising herself as a boy so she can play sports freely. However, when she becomes a rising star, her true identity is revealed, bringing death threats on her and her family. Undeterred, she continues to fight for her freedom.

The Prize was delivered by Champion for Peace Kashif Siddiqi.

TO REWARD

To reward the movies of the past year that best highlighted how sport contributes to build more peaceful and inclusive societies.  

TO PROMOTE

To recognize sport and its federative and universal values.  

TO CONNECT

To provide a unique platform to a diversity of actors and federate both the sport and artistic world.  

2 AUGUST

OPENING OF THE CALL FOR PROJECTS

8 SEPTEMBER

END OF THE CALL FOR PROJECTS

5 OCTOBER

SPORTEL AWARDS CEREMONY

 

To apply for the Peace and Sport Documentary Prize, we kindly ask you to consider the following terms:

  • The following categories can participate: TV Channels, companies, sportive federations, directors and public or private sector producers, as any sport image producers’ organisms.
  • Every movie must be received before Wednesday 8th of September.
  • Movies must contain English subtitles.
  • The movie must be presented alongside a short extract of the movie (1 minute) containing English subtitles.
  • Movies must not have been submitted during 2020.
  • Movies produced between the 21st of September 2020 and the 8th of September 2021 are the only ones eligible.

Submitted sequences must be sent to the Peace and Sport team at the following address: communication@peace-sport.org, and should meet the following technical requirements:

    • HD resolution: 1920×1080
    • Frame rate: 25i/25p
    • Video codec: H-264 (MPEG-4), maximum 8mbit/s
    • Audio codec: 2 ch – 48000Hz – AAC codec, maximum bitrate 128kbit/s

 

The Sportel Awards will cover the arrival of the winner, on the basis of a return trip from Europe only.