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“I don’t see no future, first opportunity that I get, I’ll leave.” Hazim, 21 years old, Sarajevo, BiH

I am delighted to say that my multimedia project, After Jugo, the life of a generation, won the 1st prize ex-aequo of the Digital Heretics journalism award, which is part of the International Journalism Festival, that will be held in Perugia, from the 22nd to the 25th of April.

Read here the press release: Digital heretics 2010
See a video introduction to After Jugo

The first Digital heretics journalism award invites the submission of online reportages incorporating video, audio, text, photographs, animation (or a mix of these) which make innovative use of the internet (crowdsourcing, collaborative journalism, mash-ups, web 2.0, etc).

After Jugo is a multimedia project that documents the life of young people in Sarajevo today, the life of those who did not fight in the war, but remember it very well. Now, they are grown up and understand that the life in Bosnia is not like everywhere else in Europe. They feel stuck. They feel in a ghetto with no future. But they still love their country and suffer for it.

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The other winner ex-aequo is ELEVEN Catania, inchiesta collettiva a 11 voci, by the University of Catania.

And there are four honorable mentions for in.fondo.al.mar by David Boardman and Paolo Gerbaudo; The Berlin Project by Sheena Rossiter, Alex Wood, Dominique Heerden, Marco Woldt and Marcus Gilroy-Ware; Threatened Voices by Solana Larsen and Sami Ben Gharbia and Omofobia capitale by Pasquale Filippone and Federico Formica

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The award ceremony will be held in Perugia, 22nd of April, 10.30am at the Hotel Brufani.