Winners 2024

CIR is proud to announce the winners of the first edition of the CIR Open Source Film Awards, organised in collaboration with the International Journalism Festival, to showcase the power and impact of Open Source Investigations (OSINV) in journalism.

Short-form Winner

The two gangs involved in a bloody drug trafficking war in Marseille

by France TV

Credit: Thomas Cuny, Jérémie Laurent-Kaysen, Marine Delrue, Alice Palussière,  Clément Legros, Emma Noël, John Montupet

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Mid-form category winner

Catching a Pervert: Sexual Assault For Sale

by BBC

Credit: Zhaoyin Feng, Shanshan Chen, Aliaume Leroy, Selena R., Ned Davies, Jake Tacchi, Chie Kobayashi, Ryuzo Tsutsui, Hanae Arrour Takahashi, Koichi Shikayama, Futa Nagao, Oana Marocico, Asher Isbrucker, Emile Costard, Katya Mihailova, Bettina Waked, Mustafa Khalili, Himari Semans, Shawn Chen, Steffan Roe Griffinths, Koo Nakano, Allen Wu, Baya Cat, Sharihan Al-Akhras, Blanca Munoz, Ali Turab Qazi, Ash Jenkins, Alessio Festuccia, Cecile Janet, Jake Roberts, Claudia Casasola, David Smith, Regan Wharton, Sameer Hussain, Siobhan Reed, Suzanne Luu, Caroline Hamilton, Dawn Macdonald, Marc Perkins, Liz Gibbons

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Long-form category winner

A year after Uvalde, officers who botched response face few consequences

by The Washington Post

Credit: Joyce Sohyun Lee, Sarah Cahlan, Arelis R. Hernández, Elyse Samuels, Christine Armario, Nadine Ajaka

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Special Recognition Award

The six-year old victim of Britain’s war in Iraq

by Airwars

Every year the CIR members of the jury want to highlight an investigation, from across all categories, to honour with a special recognition award for open source techniques.

This outstanding open source investigation was rigorous, incredibly detailed and time-consuming. The jury was particularly impressed with how the investigation managed to bring to life a human story, entirely hidden in documents, and how the event was reconstructed in a visual way, without any direct video evidence to start out with.

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Watch the 2024 CIR Film Awards Ceremony here: