POLYCHROME

POLYCHROME inaugural round
winners announced
POLYCHROME inaugural round
winners announced
POLYCHROME inaugural round
winners announced
POLYCHROME inaugural round
winners announced
Cash prizes

Cash Prizes upto RS. 10,000

  • First place - Rs. 10,000
  • Second place - Rs. 7,500
  • Third place - Rs. 5,000
* Winners also get their pieces featured on our website and social media

RECENT WINNERS

smiling man sitting on chair inside roomby Sayo Garcia
Alok nanda
If my photos are useful to you, consider a donation. Paypal: https://www.pexels.com/@jonaskakaroto/donate/by Jonas Kakaroto
Rishi Sundar
Portrait a young lady having a beautiful smile and wearing a black dressby Angshu Purkait
Smriti Goswami

Polychrome winners announced

The Reporters’ Collective invites videos for the linked story

Rency is a multidisciplinary artist based in Bangalore, working as a theatre-maker, actor, puppeteer and scenographer for the last 15 years. She also teaches drama in schools and facilitates workshops for corporates.
RENCY PHILLIP
FIRST PRIZE
Rency is a multidisciplinary artist based in Bangalore, working as a theatre-maker, actor, puppeteer and scenographer for the last 15 years. She also teaches drama in schools and facilitates workshops for corporates.
RENCY PHILLIP
FIRST PRIZE
Rency is a multidisciplinary artist based in Bangalore, working as a theatre-maker, actor, puppeteer and scenographer for the last 15 years. She also teaches drama in schools and facilitates workshops for corporates.
RENCY PHILLIP
third PRIZE
CHECK OUT THE STORY

Adani Group complained against farm law. Gov’t diluted it to allow hoarding by corporates

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SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

The videos have to be uploaded in the form at the end of this page. The resolution has to be 1080 p vertical at 25 fps, video codec H.264, sound codec AAC @10 Mbps.

ELIGIBILITY

All Indian citizens who reside in India are eligible.

CAVEATS

Should not infringe on copyright requirements or use abusive language. 

DEADLINE

We will accept submissions till November 06 | 11: 59 P.M.

PRIZE

Cash reward of Rs 10,000, Rs 7,500 and Rs 5,000 for the first, second and third top selections.

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* Please read all terms before applying.
About the Competition

The Reporters’ Collective produces stories in the written format. Our stories are full of details that many people simply do not care about. Some friends tell us they prefer listening to podcasts. Some tell us we should experiment with videos. Some still try to push us towards immaculate infographics. And we would love to incorporate all the requests in our work, but for the lack of resources, we are stopped short.

We realise the need to engage with other media to tell our stories better for diverse audiences. We are specifically interested in youthful innovation that broadens the scope of journalistic storytelling. 

And this is our first step in that direction. 

The call is for visual artists across India to send us videos of less than 60 seconds to tell the story linked on the page. The videos should touch the core of the issue. 

We appreciate newness and bold experiments! We are open to any and all the elements that you wish to creatively use- text, images, live footage, drawings, animations and sounds. The Collective does deep-dive investigative work with cost-efficiency. We would like a similar approach with video-creation- videos should be innovative, not expensive.

The top three videos will receive an award of Rs 10,000, Rs 7,500 and Rs 5,000.

They will also be displayed on our website and our social media. 

Submission requirements: The videos have to be uploaded in the form at the end of this page. The resolution has to be 1080 p vertical at 25 fps, video codec H.264, sound codec AAC @10 Mbps.

Eligibility: All Indian citizens who reside in India are eligible. 

Evaluation Criteria: The jury will select winning entries based on presentation of the content, creative quality and innovation.

Prize: Cash reward of Rs 10,000, Rs 7,500 and Rs 5,000 for the first, second and third top selections.

Copyright: The copyright of the three winning entries will remain with The Reporters’ Collective. If the Collective earns any direct revenue from the sale of the winning entries, it will share 40% of the revenue (net of taxes) with the author/artist. The creator will have moral rights to their work and can use it for non-commercial purposes.

Deadline: We will accept submissions till November 06, 11:59 pm.

For any queries, write to us at polychrome@reporters-collective.in with “Polychrome Query” in the subject line.

INAUGURAL ROUND WINNERS

First winner
Rency Philip

Rency is a multidisciplinary artist based in Bangalore, working as a theatre-maker, actor, puppeteer and scenographer for the last 15 years. She also teaches drama in schools and facilitates workshops for corporates.

Second winner
Saloni Thakur

Saloni is a visual artist and designer based in Dehradun, with 5 years of experience as an art director in advertising agencies, including BBC Media Action.

Third winner
Janhvi

Janhvi is a Delhi-based designer and illustrator working in the non-profit sector. She has created comics, infographics, animations to shed light on evidence based research in a way that everybody can understand.

Polychrome: BIMONTHLY VIDEO CONTEST winners announced

Rency is a multidisciplinary artist based in Bangalore, working as a theatre-maker, actor, puppeteer and scenographer for the last 15 years. She also teaches drama in schools and facilitates workshops for corporates.
RENCY PHILLIP
1ST POSITION
Saloni is a visual artist and designer based in Dehradun, with 5 years of experience as an art director in advertising agencies, including BBC Media Action.
SALONI THAKUR
2ND POSITION
Janhvi is a Delhi-based designer and illustrator working in the non-profit sector. She has created comics, infographics, animations to shed light on evidence based research in a way that everybody can understand.
JANHVI
3RD POSITION
CHECK OUT THE CONTEST STORY

Adani Group complained against farm law. Gov’t diluted it to allow hoarding by corporates

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