In celebrating the first anniversary of Rtve.es, and in order to stimulate greater participation from users, the International Awards for Innovation in Audiovisuals and Internet have recently been organized and presented for the first time.

Their main objective is to reward audiovisual innovation on the internet through video creation in Spanish, especially intended for broadcast on the internet. The idea is to discover and promote new emergent talent on the internet, using new audiovisual languages and formats for this new medium.

You can take part in these three categories: Fiction, Non Fiction and Educational. Although video is the star format, external functionalities, characteristics and content can be included to enrich or complement the video.

The deadline to submit works is September 30th 2009. The management of Interactive Media at RTVE will carry out an initial selection filtering through all submitted pieces, after which a jury will announce a winner for each category, who will receive 8,000 euros in cash and RTVE’s promise that it will broadcast the winner’s piece and the names of the authors.

The Award ceremony will be part of FICOD 2009, the International Forum for Digital Content, taking place in Madrid in November 2009.
During the presentation of the awards, which took place on May 29th 2009 at the Casa de América in Madrid, various members of the jury gave their point of view regarding the new content and communication tools now challenging traditional media. Director, screenwriter and film producer Alex de la Iglesia declared: “Television and film are going to die, and their assassin is Internet”.

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