One World Media Fellowship 2025 ($3,000 grant) – YOA

Deadline: August 20, 2025

Applications are open for the One World Media Fellowship 2025. The One World Media Fellowship is a flagship programme to help and champion international journalism and documentary filmmaking. Every 12 months, OWM selects a cohort of proficient fellows who obtain mentoring, business help, and funding to provide unique tales from the worldwide south.

Since 2001, One World Media has supported practically 300 rising journalists and filmmakers to report from over 100 international locations. OWM gives every Fellow with a reporting grant, one-to-one mentoring, invaluable workshops and occasions by business specialists.

They search to champion numerous rising expertise and significantly encourage submissions from underrepresented teams (folks of color, ethnic teams, girls, LGBTQ+, or folks with disabilities). This 12 months, the Fellowship is rising – with new funding companions, extra tailor-made alternatives, and a spread of grants obtainable to help totally different sorts of tasks. More information coming quickly.

Benefits

• £1-3k reporting grant
• Mentoring and Executive Producer for the challenge
• Workshops and occasions by business specialists
• OPPORTUNITY to attach with international retailers
• Network of like-minded Fellows & alumni
• Membership to OWM neighborhood of storytellers

Eligibility

• Open to mid-profession filmmakers and journalists from the worldwide south, with inventive and fascinating non-fiction tales in regards to the international south.
• They are in search of:
  • Projects in pre-manufacturing that inform partaking tales from low- and center-earnings international locations throughout the worldwide south
  • Non-fiction media throughout all platforms: movie, print, audio, photojournalism, and multimedia
  • Proposals the place majority of the funds is in place or achievable in a short while-body
  • Projects that may be delivered inside a 12 months – 10 minutes in movie, 1500 phrases in print, 30 minutes in audio/multimedia
  • Stories which are robust sufficient to be revealed or broadcast in established media retailers. We are in search of real journalism or documentary and can fund media that might finally seem in present newspapers, magazines, radio, TV channels, skilled information web sites and on-line platforms, and so forth.

Beyond this, they’re significantly thinking about proposals that:

• Seek to inform underreported tales in a approach that can interact the meant viewers 
• Highlight the voices of individuals dwelling within the international south, significantly voices that aren’t typically heard.    
• Have established contacts/contributors who’ve confirmed their willingness to take part 
• Have thought-about security 
• Demonstrate an understanding of accountability and truthful observe in reporting 
• Employ moral filmmaking practices when working with contributors

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to One World Media Fellowship.