The Canon Video Grant – Short Film Documentary offers the recipient �8,000 and a loan of video kit to produce a documentary project. ? Lieve Blancquaert
Applications are now open for the Canon Video Grant – Short Film Documentary, an annual award recognising the best emerging image-making talent worldwide, sponsored by Canon in association with Images Evidence.
Responding to an ever-changing media landscape in which video is becoming an increasingly essential tool for photographers, Canon launched the Grant in 2020. "This grant aims to celebrate and support up-and-coming champions of this new age of visual storytelling by giving them funding and a platform to be heard," says Richard Shepherd, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Canon EMEA.
"Canon is also arming storytellers with the innovation they need to further propel their careers in video. Just as the stills and video capabilities of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II marked the beginning of a shift in the market that enabled visual storytellers to move between stills and motion, the Canon 365bet体育投注_365bet体育娱乐场-app官方下载@5 with 8K video takes this a step further."
Juan Vicente Manrique Gomex was the recipient of the fourth Canon Video Grant for his short-film documentary project 'Looking for a donkey', which will be shot in Venezuela. With a bold satirical view, Juran will tell the story of two firefighters from a little town in the Venezuelan Andes, who were arrested and subsequently jailed after releasing a video in which they caricatured Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro.