twp.ai Fellowship

🎥 Calling all aspiring global journalists and filmmakers!

The @oneworldmedia.bsky.social fellowship is open for applications — offering support, training, and funding to tell underreported stories from the Global South.

🌍 Apply now: https://twp.ai/9PUi1F

Deadline: Aug 20.

Great opportunity for Nigerian journalists 👇

🎥 Filmmakers: Have a story from the Amazon?

The @oneworldmedia.bsky.social & @mongabay.com Amazon Film Grant supports new short docs highlighting environmental & Indigenous issues across the Amazon Basin.

🌿 For storytellers based in or reporting on the Amazon region.
👉 https://twp.ai/9PTM5Q

🌍 Want to report on the climate crisis from the Global South?

The @oneworldmedia.bsky.social Climate Reporting Gap Fellowship supports underreported climate stories with funding, training & mentorship.

🗓️ Apply by Aug 20.
👉 https://twp.ai/9PUi0b

🦎 Amazon Film Grant (for Amazon Basin storytellers)
🔗 oneworldmedia.org.uk/projects/ama...

🌱 Climate Reporting Gap Fellowship (for Nigerian journalists) (One World Media x Surge Africa)
Deadline: August 20, 2025
🔗 oneworldmedia.org.uk/projects/cli...

Other @oneworldmedia.bsky.social opportunities for journalists & filmmakers covering underreported stories include:

🩺 Global Health Film Grant (One World Media x @financialtimes.com x @pulitzercenter.bsky.social)
Deadline: August 20, 2025
🔗 oneworldmedia.org.uk/projects/glo...

'Chocolates Melting Away' portrays how cocoa farmers in the Philippines are adapting to climate change with resilience and hope.

This documentary by grantee Breech Asher Harani was produced in partnership with @oneworldmedia.bsky.social and @financialtimes.com.

📽️ bit.ly/44mOeGc 📺

Honoured that our investigation Poison PR won the Environmental Reporting prize at @oneworldmedia.bsky.social last week, and to see key collaborator Cynthia Gichiri shortlisted as Journalist of the Year for her amazing work with Africa Uncensored.

Fellowship - Apply Now - One World Media

Applications are open for the One World Media Fellowship 2025.
Up to £3k grants, mentoring + year-long support for journalists + filmmakers telling global stories.

Short documentaries, international features, radio docs welcome.

Apply now: oneworldmedia.org.uk/fellowship/a...
#OWMFellowship2025

Congratulations to Majed Neisi, Emma ailes and the
#BBC100women team for winning the EIB-backed
@oneworldmedia.bsky.social Women’s Solutions Reporting Award.

‘Songs from Inside’ is a powerful and moving portrayal of women political prisoners in Iran.

bit.ly/OneWorldMedi...

Congrats to grantees Monica Jha, @sriramvmurthy.bsky.social, and @shamsheer.bsky.social and the team at @thewire.in for winning a @oneworldmedia.bsky.social Award for Innovative Storytelling!

Their project 'Breaking The Nets' chronicles the invisible work of fisherwomen in India. bit.ly/3TRL0Gn

The True Price of Sportswear — The Dial Workers at an athletic apparel factory in Lesotho that make clothes for Reebok, The Greg Norman Company, and others allege assault, humiliation, intimidation, and bullying.

Congratulations to Ryan Lenora Brown & Majirata Latela, whose Dial investigation into abuses at a Lesotho factory that produces sportswear for American clothing companies won the @oneworldmedia.bsky.social award in the Print category! www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Filmmakers and journalists play a crucial role in inspiring change. Now more than ever, it is vital to amplify their voices.

The @eib.org is proud to celebrate storytellers who break stereotypes, shift perspectives, and champion women’s rights.

@oneworldmedia.bsky.social

ARIJ Wins One World Media Press Freedom Award - Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) This award celebrates an independent media organization in the Global South using journalism to spotlight critical social, political, cultural, and economic issues.

Our partner @arijnetwork.bsky.social has received the 2024 Press Freedom Award from @oneworldmedia.bsky.social, recognizing their work supporting investigative journalism in the Arab region.

en.arij.net/award/arij-w...

🎥One World Media Awards-Press Freedom Winner🎉
Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) wins for their bold, collaborative approach to investigative reporting and fact-checking across the Arab world.
#OWMAwards #JournalismMatters

Inside the war on kush: The drug ‘mixed with human bones’ taking over Sierra Leone – video Sierra Leone is facing a drug abuse epidemic with young people becoming addicted to ‘kush’ – a deadly cocktail containing chemicals and even human bones. The government has announced a crackdown on ku...

🎥One World Media Awards-News Winner🎉
The Deadly Drug ‘Mixed With Human Bones’: Sierra Leone’s War on Kush explores the country’s fight against a drug crisis.
www.theguardian.com/news/video/2...

Breaking the Nets: An Oral History of India's Fisherwomen This five-part series chronicles the discriminations Indian fisherwomen have faced, the battles they have waged, and the solutions they have crafted.

🎥One World Media Awards-Innovative Storytelling Winner🎉
Breaking The Nets reveals the invisible labor of women in India’s fishing industry and their fight for rights through solidarity and action.
📺Watch: thewire.in/special/brea...
#OWMAwards #Women’sRights

The True Price of Sportswear — The Dial Workers at an athletic apparel factory in Lesotho that make clothes for Reebok, The Greg Norman Company, and others allege assault, humiliation, intimidation, and bullying.

🎥One World Media Awards-Print Winner🎉
The True Price of Sportswear exposes abuse faced by female factory workers in Lesotho, from bullying to assault, and pressure to lie to inspectors.
📺Watch: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Kill Zone: Inside Gaza: Dispatches Through the eyes of kids, journalists and doctors, the story of the assault on Gaza

🎥One World Media Awards 2025-Current Affairs Winner 🎉
Kill Zone: Inside Gaza follows medics, families & journalists amid the aftermath of the Oct 7 Hamas attacks & Gaza’s relentless bombardment.
📺 Watch: www.channel4.com/programmes/k...
#OWMAwards2025 #Gaza

Poison PR: The Secret Network Keeping Harmful Herbicides On Sale - Part 1 YouTube video by Africa Uncensored

🎥One World Media Awards 2025-Environmental Report Winner🎉
Poison PR exposes how the U.S. pesticide risks globally. It follows two Kenyan farm workers who developed Parkison’s after exposure.
📺Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m11_...
#OWMAwards #Documentary #Pesticides

🎥One World Media Awards - Journalist Of The Year Winner🎉
Wei Du wins for her powerful 3-part CNA docuseries following Chinese citizens on the perilous migrant trail to America. A tribute to bold, impactful reporting. #OWMAwards

BBC World Service - Outlook, Finding freedom in the water: Gaza’s swimming teacher Amjed Tantesh’s enduring mission to teach Gazan children to swim

🎥One World Media Awards-Podcast & Radio Winner🎉
Finding Freedom In The Water: Gaza’s Swimming Teacher tells how Amjed Tantesh helps children heal through swimming.
📺Watch: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w....

🎥One World Media Awards-Student Winner🎉
Accused Number 41
This film is Maryam Haddadi’s self-portrait documentary which captures her turbulent journey through memories and a pivotal arrest, challenging her beliefs and identity within the Islamic Republic's hijab regulations.
#OWMAwards

A Teenager Lost Her Legs in Gaza. To Walk Again, She Had to Travel 6,000 Miles. The story of Layan Albaz, one of thousands of Palestinian children who have lost limbs in Israeli air strikes—and one of the very few evacuated to the U.S. for medical care.

🎥One World Media Awards-Refugee Reporting Winner🎉
Coming to America follows Layan Albaz, a young girl from Gaza who loses her family and legs before being evacuated to Chicago for care.
📺Watch: magazine.atavist.com/coming-to-am...

Songs from Inside: Women inside notorious Iran prison fight for their rights - BBC World Service YouTube video by BBC World Service

🎥One World Media Awards-Women’s Solutions Reporting Winner🎉
Songs from Inside tells the true story of 3 Iranian women jailed after hijab protests.
📺Watch:: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd7O...