[cma-l] Media Against Hate video contest – Announcing the “Favourite 5”

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From: Nadia Bellardi <nadia.bellardi at icloud.com>

*Press release *

*March 21st, 2017*

Media – in all their forms – play a crucial role in the shaping of
identities, in the promotion or inhibition of dialogue, solidarity and
recognition. Which strategies and tools can empower counter-narratives and
challenge mainstream perceptions of refugees, of migration, of marginalized
groups in general?


The Media against Hate <http://www.mediaagainsthate.org/> campaign invited
professional journalists, community media practitioners and media students
in Europe to document how their daily work helps fight discrimination and
counter hate.


Participants from across the European Union sent their videos, including
Italy, Germany, Poland, Spain, Greece, Austria and Czech Republic. Entries
were evaluated for originality, impact, clarity of message, cinematography
and educational potential. The jury
<http://europeanjournalists.org/mediaagainsthate/video-contest-meet-the-jury/>
commented
that “It was difficult to choose, as contest entries demonstrated
countering hate and discrimination from a variety of well-informed and
relevant perspectives.”

On the *International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination*,
March 21st 2017, the Media against Hate
<http://www.mediaagainsthate.org/> campaign
is happy to present the selected* “Favourite 5” *videos:

   - Stereotypes <https://youtu.be/q0YG6MbeRP8> by Theofanis Kollias,
   Solomon
   - I am a humanist. Hate is not for me <https://youtu.be/Xy5oKQqjAX8> by
   Prof. Urszula Doliwa and students, University of Warmia and Mazury
   - Amir <https://youtu.be/rt4QN8kjgQM> by Francesco Conte, Termini TV
   - Okto goes loud <https://youtu.be/8Z-0h7Dx9bs> by Melanie Schiller,
   Okto Community TV
   - Najib <https://youtu.be/xBb2Th3e4Vk> by Michal Majzner with Refugee
   stories / We Can / Umweltzentrum Dresden

Solomon <http://solomon.gr/> are a group of people with different
backgrounds that, through media, aim to promote an alternative perspective
of the local community. The core team consists of talented people who live
in Athens, Greece and originate from many countries. One of their projects
is the Inclumedia Lab <http://solomon.gr/inclumedia-lab/>, where tandems of
im/migrants who are willing to become journalists or used to work as
journalists in their home countries pair up with local students of
journalism.


The video “I am a humanist. Hate is not for me” was produced by a group of
students of the Faculty of Humanities <http://www.uwm.edu.pl/en/> at the
University of Warmia and Mazury, in Olsztyn, Poland. The students of the
Department are studying history, philosophy, journalism, philology or
international relations and are thus called “humanists”. The second Media
against Hate international Media Literacy workshop
<http://europeanjournalists.org/mediaagainsthate/media-literacy-workshop-2/>
will
take place in Olsztyn on their wonderful academic campus, on June 8th and 9
th 2017.


Termini TV <http://termini.tv/en/> is “the only online channel in the
world specialized in narrating life stories from train stations”. They
explore the edge between travel and migration, travelers and migrants.
Francesco Conte is also one of the mentors of the Council of Europe Div-A
Diversity Accelerator
<http://www.coe.int/en/web/diversity-accelerator/in-brief> project.


Okto.tv <http://okto.tv/> is Vienna’s community television station,
training over 1000 volunteers yearly as video journalists, moderators and
studio producers, and engaged for an inclusive and intercultural society.


Michal Majzner is an industrial project engineer and civic activist. He has
co-founded several volunteer initiatives, including Prague Maidan,
“President, leave!” and Refugee Stories (“Příběhy uprchlíků”). Refugee
stories <http://pribehyuprchliku.cz/> records refugees’ stories for a Czech
audience, through volunteer visits to nearby Dresden
<http://visegradrevue.eu/back-in-dresden-a-return-to-normalcy/>. The core
of the project is built upon the We Can <http://www.we-can.cz/> organisation,
in cooperation with Umweltzentrum Dresden <http://www.uzdresden.de/de/>.


The producers of the “Favourite 5
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ6U_zQ7XENxjCoHwbxOACUbw4DILWJHp>”
videos will be invited to participate to the Media against Hate workshops
in 2017 and to the final conference in March 2018 – where they will meet
their jury.


Two more videos received an “honourable mention” for the educational intent
of the producers (Vincenzo Agosto and Gustavo Gomez).


*Follow the campaign activities at #MediaAgainstHate **www.mediaagainsthate.org
<http://www.mediaagainsthate.org/>*

*The project is financially supported by the Rights, Equality and
Citizenship (REC) Programme of the European Union, and co-funded by the
Broadcasting Board of Governors (U.S.) and the Media & Internet Division of
the Council of Europe.*

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Nadia Bellardi
CMFE ‘Media against Hate’ coordinator
email: mediaagainsthate at cmfe.eu
twitter: @cmfe_eu
#MediaAgainstHate
www.mediaagainsthate.org
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