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GuardianFilms Awards

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Winner - Broadcast Award, 2009

GuardianFilms' undercover video report revealing vote rigging by Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF party during last year's Zimbabwe election won best news programme of the year at the Broadcast Awards.

"Brave and brilliant" reporting allowed GuardianFilms to stand head and shoulders above the competition in the judges' minds, with one saying: "It was an example of outstanding journalism with amazing evidence."

Winner - One World Media award, 2008

Katine project

The Guardian's Katine website has been awarded for its outstanding new media output at the One World Media awards.

The Katine site won the New Media award for its ongoing coverage of the three-year development project being implemented by international NGO Amref, with funding from Barclays and Guardian and Observer readers, in Katine – a sub-county of rural Uganda.

"Katine does a brilliant job of bringing ordinary people from a small African village into global conversations," the jury said.

Winner - Royal Television Society Award (RTS), 2008

Photographer and film-maker Sean Smith won the Royal Television Society award for best international news film, Inside the Surge (produced by Teresa Smith) - the first time a newspaper has won such an award.

The film was described by the judges as "raw, brave, atmospheric and profoundly memorable. An important story very powerfully realised".

Official honoree - Webby Awards, 2008

We're excited to announce that yourgreenham.co.uk has been selected as an Official Honoree in the Activism category. "The Webby Awards honors the outstanding work that is setting the standards for the Internet," said David-Michel Davies, executive director of The Webby Awards. "Your Greenham's Official Honoree selection is a testament to the skill, ingenuity, and vision of its creators."

Finalist - Bafta, 2008

Channel4 News was shortlisted for best news programme of which Sean Smith's Inside the Surge (produced by Teresa Smith) was the feature.

Winner - International Emmy Awards, 2007

Ben Summers
Ben Summers

GuardianFilms has received an Emmy Award in the Best International Current Affairs Film category for Baghdad: A Doctor's Story (for BBC This World, produced and directed by Omer Salih and Ben Summers).

Finalist - Bafta, 2007

GuardianFilms' Baghdad: A Doctor's Story (for BBC This World, produced and directed by Omer Salih and Ben Summers) was shortlisted for the prestigious award in the best single documentary category.

Finalist - One World Broadcasting Trust Awards, 2006

GuardianFilms investigative documentary Iraq's Missing Billions (for Channel 4 Dispatches, Ali Fadhil) was short listed for this award.

Finalist - Royal Television Society Award (RTS), 2006

Iraq's Missing Billions (for Channel 4 Dispatches, by Ali Fadhil).

Winner - Amnesty International Media Awards, 2005

Ali Fadhil
Ali Fadhil

GuardianFilms won the Gaby Rado Memorial Award for the second year running for The Guardian's Ali Fadhil (for Channel 4 News, produced and directed by Teresa Smith). This award is for a journalist at the start of their career, in memory of Gaby Rado who died in Iraq 2003.

Winner - Amnesty International Media Awards, 2005

GuardianFilms won a second award at Amnesty this year in the TV News category for Fallujah Forensics (for Channel 4 News, directed by Tara Sutton).

Winner - Amnesty International Media Awards, 2004

The Guardian's James Astill (for BBC Newsnight, produced by Fiona Lloyd-Davis) won the Gaby Rado Memorial Award.

Winner - Royal Television Society Awards (RTS), 2005

Salam Pax
Salam Pax

The Baghdad Blogger: Salam Pax (for BBC Newsnight, produced by Fiona Lloyd-Davies). The judges said: "This winning entry took us to places and people in Iraq which could not be reached by other coverage... it was also highly inventive in turning what might have appeared to be only a print idea into a fascinating and stylish piece of television."

Winner - Foreign Press Association Awards 2005

GuardianFilms' Ali Fadhil won the Young Journalist of the Year award.

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