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The first round of judging of the #MojoAwards is complete and six #Mojo short films have been selected for the four season of the international film festival.

Winning work will be screened at the #MojoWorkshop sessions @NabShow and @JournalismFest in April.

Congrats to these amazing non-fiction mobile filmmakers.

Trip to marshes
Mustafa Zaki Al darraji
Crisis reporting
Iraq

The Organ Builders
Barbara Weidmann
Mobile Journalism
Germany

The Journalist’s Swiss Army Knife
Jarno Tahvanainen
Mobile Journalism
Finland

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Milan M.A. Gonzales
Crisis reporting
Germany

Water scarcity in Tigherman village, Morocco
Ayoub Toumi
Documentary
Morocco

Beneath the Lonesome Skye
Director Rob Layton
Documentary
Australia

CATEGORIES

Mobile Journalism
• An open call for feature stories, news reports, travel stories, and human-interest features that have been shot primarily with smartphones.

NOTE: Judges can make several awards from work entered into this category. It all depends upon the variety, originality and quality of the work sent in.

• Assets from other small mobile gear like portable mics, GoPros, Drones, 360° and Action Cams is allowed.
• English Subtitles (burned in) are mandatory for any non-English scenes. 
• All aspect ratios are supported (Square, Horizontal, Vertical).

Documentary
• Non-fiction subject between 3 and 10 minutes in length on any topic. Must be accurately reported with integrity using journalism ethics. Creative approaches to editorial illustration and narrative exposition that push the frontier of the documentary genre forward are certainly welcome. 

Crisis Reporting
Entries may consist of reports, documentaries, live shots, news packages, or human-interest features that have been shot primarily with smartphones. 
• Stories can be filmed in any location (battlefield, border crossings, homes, in transit, or anywhere necessary to tell the story of the crisis).
• Assets from other small mobile gear like portable mics, GoPros, Drones, 360°, and Action Cams is allowed, but material that was clearly produced with the capabilities of larger cameras is ineligible. 
• English Subtitles (burned in) are mandatory for any non-English scenes. All aspect ratios are supported (Square, Horizontal, Vertical).

Prizes are awarded to Mobile Journalism Award winners thanks to gear being donated by some of the top names in the business.

In-kind and cash donations to the public charity are accepted year-round to support the #MojoAwards and #MojoWorkshop events.

Prize sponsors include Luma-Touch, Røde, Smart Film School, MoonDog Labs, IK Multimedia, Shoulderpod, and Shure.

Luma Touch, for example, is providing a new iPad to the winner of the #FinishedOnMobile category.

And MoonDog Labs has donates three gift certificates worth $200 each each season for gear sold in their online store.

Winners are discovered via a random drawing each month from the early-bird entries. The drawing is conducted at MoondogLab HQ in New York and shared on social media – hashtag #MojoAwards.

Røde has donated WirelessGo mics with Go lavs to add to the prize pool.

Follow the #MojoAwards hashtag on Twitter for news about the Mobile Journalism Awards.

Prizes going out to #MojoAwards Season 2 Winners. Congrats and thanks to sponsors @rodemics and @Shoulderpod for donating #Mojo kit to @vizeds public charity which produces the annual competition. pic.twitter.com/M0WG9duigu

— Robb Montgomery (@videojournalist) July 14, 2021

Shoulderpod donates G2 mobile grips to the prize pool and IK multimedia donates iRig MIcPre 2 units.

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