AIPS Sport Media Awards: Video Top 10

LAUSANNE, December 10 - With less than one month left to the celebration of world's sport media excellence, AIPS is proud to announce the names of the top ten journalists who competed in the Video categories of the AIPS Sport Media Awards: Athlete Profile, Documentary, Short Feature. The chosen journalists passed a strict selection and will be the roster of the potential finalists, expecting the three names will be unveiled on January 15, 2020.

 

The list may contain more than 10 journalists because of ties after the vote.

 

 

 

 

 

Here’re the top 10 published in alphabetical order by surname:

 

VIDEO ATHLETE PROFILE

 

Matthew Allen (USA), Birthright: becoming Toby Dawson - NBC Sports Group

Matthew Allen (USA), Drive like Andretti - NBC Sports Group

Ivo Costa (Portugal), Sea sound - Sport TV

Claus Frederiksen (Denmark), The gold Jacket - From Struer to Hall of Fame - Nordisk Film Cinemas, TV 2 sport Denmark

Wenxiu Jia, Hongtao Liu, Boxuan Sun, Jing Zeng, Wei Xu (China), This is me - Tencent Sports

Stuart Pollitt (United Kingdom), The making of Tommy Fleetwood - BBC

Gounou Ikilirou Séro (Benin), Diane Beldose l'Arc-en-Ciel of Parakou - ORTB         

Zabihullah Shahzaad (Afghanistan), Who is Rohullah Nikpa? A star was born in a war-torn country and became the legend of Afghanistan - Afghanistan Sports Journalists Federation     

Viktor Tihany (Hungary), Mum, The champion - MTVA

Ben Unger (Germany), Pelé from Neubrandenburg - NDR TV

 

VIDEO DOCUMENTARY

 

Omar Boudi (Algeria), Documentary on youth and stadiums in Algeria - Ways of expression - Echorouk TV

Hui Fang (China), Chinese traditional sports project documentary series: martial arts in Emei - new-sport.cn           

Mohammad Farahpour (Iran), I'm Roberto Baggio, From IRAN - IRIB Varzesh

John Felling (USA), 1968 Roundtable- NBC Sports Network

Stan Grant (Australia), The Australian dream - Lorton Entertainment

André Keil (Germany), Kraftakt - NDR TV

Joanna Lester (United Kingdom), Power Meri (Powerful Women) - Media Stockad

Sandy Mair (United Kingdom), ‘Derby Days Superclásico - The biggest game of all time’- COPA90

Benoit Pensivy (France), Home field advantage (3W - What a Wonderful World) - La Chaine L'Equipe

Stuart Pollitt (United Kingdom), The Kennedy who changed the world - BBC

 

VIDEO SHORT FEATURE

 

Giulia Bassi (Italy), Happy birthday Sic: dad Paolo tells about Marco Simoncelli - Primopiano, Tgcom24.it, Blitztv - Fcinternews.it

Andrew Binner (United Kingdom), Ramla Ali: the Somali boxer who escaped war to become a champion - Olympic Channel

Marissa Boyajian (USA), Hope: The Gabe Grunewald story - NBC Sports

Bawuah Juliet (Ghana), In the fist of a young talent: the 'Mayweather' story - TV3 Network

Andrew Leibman (USA), Sign at all times: A film about Brian Estrada - Leibman Production

Maziyar Koopidar (Iran), Iranian girls outside stadium - Youtube

Maher Mezahi (Algeria), How Algerian football fans helped topple a dictator - Copa 90

Basile Roze (France), Legends live on: Matthias Steiner - Olympic Channel

Zhe Sun (China), Eagle on tightrope - Xinhua News Agency

Diego Vivanco (Spain), Modern football – Sombrero

 

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