DIG announces 2019 Festival with Naomi Klein, Charlie Phillips and Avi Lewis in Riccione
The 5th Festival edition will take place from May 30th to June 2nd.
DIG Festival will return to Riccione in 2019 with a new Jury that will include journalism giants such as bestseller author Naomi Klein, award-winning documentarists Avi Lewis, The Guardian’s commissioning editor Charlie Phillips and a group of outstanding investigative reporters.
The 5th edition of the Festival will take place from May 30th to June 2nd and bring to the Italian coastal city its signature formula of premieres, screenings, talks, workshops, interactive exhibitions and networking activities.
Once more, DIG Festival will award some of the most impressive pieces of investigative reporting of 2018 and fund the script and pre-production of an unreleased documentary with a prize of €15.000 (“DIG Pitch”). The new call for entries is now online and the window application is open for all categories (help us spread the news!) including the Pitch. Download the call for entries here.
Our 2019 jury President will be Naomi Klein. Naomi is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author, and her books have been translated into over 35 languages. We also welcome into the new Jury Avi Lewis. Documentary filmmaker, journalist, and activist, Avi is a lecturer in Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey and the director and producer of the 2015 feature documentary ‘This Changes Everything’ and ‘The Take’. It’s an honour to add to our network of international jurors also Charlie Phillips, the Head of Documentaries at The Guardian, commissioning and acquiring new short documentaries from all around the world.
Also our former president Jeremy Scahill will be part of the 2019, Riccardo Chiattelli (laEffe), Kim Longinotto (documentarist), Andrea Scrosati (Fremantle), Juliana Ruhfus (Al Jazeera), Alberto Nerazzini, Marco Nassivera (Arte), Jean Philippe-Ceppi (RTS), Alexandre Brachet (Upian), Claudine Blais (Société Radio-Canada), Nils Hanson (SVT). Discover the full jury here.
