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First Place
Poul Madsen
Bombay Flying Club
"SERVING THE WHOLE PERSON"
Second Place
Miquel Dewever-Plana, Isabelle Fougère, Hugues Micol, Sébastien Brothier, Greg Corsaro, Lydia Decobert
Arte / Upian / Agence VU
"ALMA, A TALE OF VIOLENCE"
Third Place
Ed Kashi, Julie Winokur, Elissa Pelligrino, Michael Curry
Talking Eyes Media
"PHOTOJOURNALISMS"
Award of Excellence
Drea Cooper & Zackary Canepari
California is a Place
"SUPERMAN"
Award of Excellence
Joshua Davis, Spencer Bakalar, Stephanie Bullins
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"FRACTURED"
Second Place
Miquel Dewever-Plana, Isabelle Fougère, Hugues Micol, Sébastien Brothier, Greg Corsaro, Lydia Decobert
Arte / Upian / Agence VU

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"ALMA, A TALE OF VIOLENCE"

For five years, Alma belonged to one of the most violent of the Guatemala City maras, or gangs. She has committed murder, battery, and brutality. Brutalized herself, she has been jailed many times. In a country undermined by violence, there are eighteen murders a day, Alma is typical of her generation, youths who grew up in a world where laws and justice were flouted with impunity. Families mired in poverty, despair, and alcoholism destroy each other in gang warfare that has become an ordinary way of life – and death. She was sentenced to death by her “homies” the day she wanted to quit the gang. Yet she survived the bullets. Although she will never walk again, she is striving to rebuild her life. An ex-criminal, a victim of her surroundings, a young woman in search of redemption… Alma is all of these, at once. She chose to tell her story to Miquel Dewever-Plana and Isabelle Fougère. In a moving confession, Alma tells her story in a unique interactive web/tablet concept in which the viewer moves between two screen levels, a face-to-face experience and a visual evocation of Alma’s recollections.

 

 

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