The 2023 DIG Awards Finalists

DIG Festival 2023: Don’t Give Up hosts the DIG Awards, the prizes given each year by DIG’s international jury to the best international journalistic, audio and video productions selected from more than 400 entries. From September 21-24, in Modena, Italy, DIG Festival will welcome to its program the 25 documentaries and 6 podcasts that will compete in the six categories of competition. Find out all the finalists by category:

Investigative Long

The category is reserved to investigative documentaries with a minimum length of 40 minutes. Selected works use original sources and investigative techniques to bring out novel elements in relation to the subject matter.

The Caliphate Legacy

Deutsche Welle | France | 2022 | 42'

Catching a Pervert: Sexual Assault for Sale

BBC News | UK | 2023 | 52'

Gold Mafia (Series)

Al Jazeera | Qatar | 2023 | 242’

Sex for Work: the True Cost of Our Tea

BBC Africa Eye | UK | 2023 | 50'

Under Poisoned Skies

BBC News | UK | 2023 | 53'

Reportage Long

The category is reserved to video reportages with a minimum duration of 40 minutes. Selected works analyze and narrate issues of social relevance using original points of view and journalistic cuts.

The Bandit Warlords of Zamfara

BBC Africa Eye | UK | 2022 | 50'

Too Hot to Work

Arte | France | 2023 | 92'

The Matchmaker

Independent | Italy | 2022 | 90'

Inside Russia: Traitors and Heroes

BBC News | UK | 2023 | 75'

The Substance of Days

Independent | Italy | 2022 | 96'

Investigative Medium

The category is reserved to investigative documentaries between 15 and 40 minutes in length. Selected works use original sources and investigative techniques to bring out novel elements in relation to the subject matter.

101 East: Rohingya VJs

Al Jazeera English | Myanmar | 2023 | 25'

Death on the Border

BBC Africa Eye | UK | 2022 | 28'

Finding My Torturer

BBC Eye | UK | 2022 | 16'

On Their Skin

Rai News | Italy | 2022 | 19'

Philippines: Hell Behind Screens

Arte | Philippines | 2023 | 24'

Reportage Medium

The category is reserved to video reportages between 15 and 40 minutes in length. Selected works analyze and narrate issues of social relevance using original points of view and journalistic cuts.

Hunger in Tigray

Arte | France | 2022 | 24'

The Pain of Others

Rai 2 | Italy | 2022 | 20'

Kenya. Fighting for Water

TRT World | France | 2023 | 26'

Myanmar. The Chin against the Junta

Arte | France | 2022 | 36'

Zama Zamas. Mining Coal to Survive

Arte | France | 2022 | 24'

Shorts

The category is reserved to investigations and video reports, both edited and unpublished, with a maximum duration of 15 minutes.

An Ordinary Massacre

ARTE | France | 2022 | 12'

Escaping Brazil’s Deadliest Gangs

VICE News | Brazil | 2022 | 13'

How Frontex’s Surveillance at Sea is Used by Libya to Intercept Migrants

Le Monde | France | 2023 | 9'

Uma

Independent | Spain | 2023 | 11'

Wagner Leaks

Le Monde | France | 2023 | 10'

Audio and Podcast

The category is reserved to journalistic products in audio format (podcasts, audio dramas, radio programs) that address and narrate current issues with an investigative approach, using investigative techniques and a novel slant.

The Outlaw Ocean

Outlaw Ocean Project, CBC, L.A. Times | USA | 2022 | 352'

Please Protect Abraham

Whistledown, BBC Radio 4 | UK | 2022 | 291'

Phantom – The Unabomber Case

OnePodcast | Italia | 2022 | 300'

Cold Front

DR | Denmark | 2023 | 239'

County Lines

Falling Tree, BBC Radio 4 | UK | 2023 | 28'

Cinema Eros

Corriere della Sera, Chora | Italia | 2023 | 104'

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