The Hinzpeter Awards
Video Journalists, The Eyes of Truth
The Hinzpeter Awards aspire to recognize and honor video journalists who seek the truth, protect human rights and fight for justice as recorders of reality and chroniclers of history. Video Journalism a history written for Human Rights, with Truth, in Justice. It illuminates the future of Human Rights and Justice by revealing the undeniable Truth. The Hinzpeter Awards commemorate video journalists who devoted their souls to the unfolding of democracy across the world.
The Hinzpeter Awards aspire to recognize and honor video journalists who seek the truth, protect human rights and fight for justice as recorders of reality and chroniclers of history. Video Journalism a history written for Human Rights, with Truth, in Justice. It illuminates the future of Human Rights and Justice by revealing the undeniable Truth. The Hinzpeter Awards commemorate video journalists who devoted their souls to the unfolding of democracy across the world.
Submission Category & Award Type
- Competitive Category
The World A Crossroads Award The best entry form the combined pool of submissions in the News and Features category will receive this award. Award for News News footage of impact Award for Features Investigative news, press documentary footage - Non-competitive Category
May Gwangju Award One entry (news, documentary etc.) from current/former video journalist who made contributions to democracy, human rights and peace.
2nd Hinzpeter Awards Winners
- Phillp Cox
- The World at A Crossroads
- Philip Cox, winner of the grand prize, The World at a Crossroads Award, is a British freelance video journalist who was working in Khartoum, the capital of the Republic of the Sudan, in October 2021 when a military coup took place. The citizens of Sudan ousted Omar al-Bashir, a dictator for 30 years, in a revolution in April 2019. While civilians and the military were preparing for the establishment of democratic rule by forming a joint transitional government, a military coup occurred. Sudan’s citizens protested against it and began to hold large-scale demonstrations demanding the return of democratic and civilian rule.
- Takuya Watanae
- Awards for News
- Takuya Watanabe joined TBS Japan in 2016 as a video journalist and has been working as a correspondent in the London office since 2021. In August 2021, he and his team interviewed Taliban spokesperson Muhammad Suhail Shaheen in person, for the first time in Japanese media, just before the U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan. Three months later, in November, he visited Kabul, the capital city, where the Taliban had begun to rule again, and Bamiyan, where the world’s largest stone Buddha was destroyed during the Taliban’s rule 20 years ago. He captured the condition of the Afghan people, living in poverty and amid food shortages.
- Award for Features
- Chea-wan Yun, In-tae Jun, Dong-yeol Kim
- MAY GWANGJU Award
- The Late Shireen Abu Akleh, Majdi Bannoura
- The late Shireen Abu Akleh, since 1997 a Palestinian-American reporter for Al Jazeera, an Arab broadcasting channel, had presented in-depth coverage of issues between Palestine and Israel for the past 25 years. The Israel Times called Akleh the “most prominent veteran among Arab journalists.” She reported on the second Intifada Resistance Movement in 2000, the attack on the Jenin Refugee Camp in 2002, and the long-term Palestinian prisoners in Shikma Prison in 2005.
Majdi Bannoura joined Al Jazeera as a video journalist in the same year as Akleh. They worked together as field reporters for 24 years. Bannoura has been recording the Israeli military’s oppression of human rights and violence against the Palestinian people and their resistance movement. Bennoura, who was covering the Israeli invasion of Ramallah in 2018 and the Palestinian protests against it, was wounded by a tear gas canister fired by Israeli forces. At that time, Arab media organizations and international human rights groups who heard the news of the incident released a protest statement stating that “Israeli authorities must guarantee the freedom and safety of journalists.” They demanded measures to prevent a recurrence.
1st Hinzpeter Awards Winners
- Mikhail Arshynski
- The World at A Crossroads
- Mikhail Arshynski has been working since 2009 as a video journalist for Belsat, a satellite service based in Poland but accessible in Belarus. He produced the documentary “Don’t be Afraid,” about the Belarusians fighting the dictatorship for fair elections and preventing fraudulent elections in 2020 under the Alexander Lukashenko regime. This documentary aired in May 2021.
- Norman & Collin (nickname)
- Award for News
- Norman and Collin, the of the Award for News, are video journalists from the Yangon bureau of the Singapore-based English news channel CNA (Channel News Asia). On February 27 of this year, during a large-scale demonstration against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, they covered the violence of the police indiscriminately firing tear gas and beating and detaining citizens in a video “Myanmar Army Steps Up Enforcement Level”, which was aired around the world on that day.
- Bruno Federico
- Award for Features
- Federico captured the arduous and dangerous journey of migrants to reach the United States through Darien Gap, a rugged canyon that connects Colombia in South and Central America and Panama in North and Central America. His video coverage was reported on August 12, 2020 through the US public broadcasting station PBS and its program “PBS News Hour” with the title “Desperate Journey”.
- Young-gil Yu
- MAY GWANGJU Award
- Young-gil Yu, the late video journalist at the Seoul branch of CBS, has won the May Gwangju Award, which is a non-competitive prize. Yu was the first video journalist who reported on martial law forces being deployed on Geumnam Street, Gwangju, on May 19, 1980. He also contributed to the May 18 Democratic Uprising by covering it for the first time through television news.
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