Deadline: 15 October 2018
The OPEN Media Hub has launched a Call for Expression of Interest for Production Support, a scheme to enable TV and online video journalists in the European Neighbourhood to create content related to the European Union and their respective countries’ relations with the European Union.
The scheme is open for Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Jordan, Libya, Lebanon, Moldova, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, and Ukraine.
Topic: Identity and Gender
Individuals do not define their own identity and gender. The roles of men and women are constantly defined and redefined by societies and cultures, identities as well. Gender and Identity are also subject to contest by groups of individuals and social movements on issues pertaining to law and rights’ status. These issues are common to all societies, and cross borders. Tell them the story of the identity and gender that applicants have chosen. Through individuals’ personal experiences, illustrate applicant’s characters’ involvement in their environment, their actions, their knowledge, their behavioural choices and engagements, all elements constituting their identity and gender.
Length: 12’00” edited story
Example of questions to be answered:
- Identity:
- How does culture/ language /religion define applicant’s identity?
- Where else does applicant’s identity come from?
- How has migration and economics changed the definition of identities?
- Are there strategies for accumulating stronger identities?
- Does Identity have a potent political affect?
- Have traditional hierarchies of values collapsed?
- Gender:
- What does it mean to be a woman in applicant’s country?
- What is her role and responsibilities in her family and her society.
- Does male gender define female gender?
- Ask applicant’s interviewee what is that s/he thinks define her/him the most?
- What is the world around her/him like? (Choose a location and explain why?)
- how do political movement clear the playing field and define new definitions?
- Who are her major influences, politically, culturally…?
- What defines her generation in applicant’s country?
Budget Information
- The amount of support will always take the topic, media outlet, and country into account and be proportionate to the typical prices and rates in applicant’s country.
- The maximum disbursement for 12 minutes: up to 3000 €
Key terms
- Ethnicity
- Freedom of speech
- Language
- Employment / unemployment
- Child education
- Marriage/Divorce/Celibacy
- Social respect / prejudice
- Representation
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants are:
- News organisations (e.g., TV stations, online news companies);
- Journalistic organisations (e.g., associations, foundations) if they can demonstrate a publication commitment from a media outlet;
- Audio-visual production companies;
- Journalists acting on behalf of any of the above.
- Freelance journalists with a letter of intent signed by a broadcaster.
How to Apply
- All applicants must pitch their story and fill in the online application form ( available in English,Français, Arabic, and Russian) with the required details.
- If selected, applicants agree to submit all the required documents, including contract, letter of intent, intended budget, waivers and risk assessments together. Templates are available for download on the given website.
- Applicants need to demonstrate that they are duly authorised by the legal entity to produce and to publish their story by producing a letter of intent from an authorised representative.
- This letter must state an eligible media outlet’s intention to broadcast or publish the eventual production, including an indication of the date(s) and context(s) of the planned broadcast or publication.
For more information, please visit Open Media Hub.