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One World Media Fellowship

One World Media

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One World Media runs this fellowship as its flagship programme for international journalism and documentary filmmaking, work it has supported since 2001. Ten fellows are chosen each year and spend the following twelve months on one underreported story from a low- or middle-income country, working remotely from wherever they already live. Each fellow receives a reporting grant of up to £3,000, an executive producer attached to the project, industry workshops and events, and entry to an alumni network of nearly 300 journalists and filmmakers supported since 2001. The 2026 cohort was ten fellows reporting from nine countries, among them India, Mexico, Rwanda, Peru, Ecuador, Turkey, Kenya and Egypt, alongside a project on Myanmar’s young people living in Thailand. Partner-funded strands have run alongside recent rounds, including a grant for the Amazon region and a global health film grant made with the Financial Times. The same organisation runs the annual One World Media Awards.

Benefits & funding

  • Reporting grant of up to £3,000 for the proposed piece.
  • An executive producer working one to one with the fellow on the project.
  • Industry workshops and events across the year.
  • Entry to the fellowship alumni network, nearly 300 journalists and filmmakers since 2001.
  • Applying costs nothing.
  • Partner strands carry their own, larger awards. The Amazon Film Grant offers up to US$5,000 plus mentoring and executive producer support to journalists and filmmakers who are from and based in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela or French Guiana. The Global Health Film Grant, made with the Financial Times, offered up to £20,000 for a film under 25 minutes, and its grantee joins the fellowship cohort.
  • The fellowship lasts one calendar year from the date fellows are announced. After the opening workshops, fellows have nine months to deliver the finished piece.

Eligibility

  • Mid-career journalists and filmmakers. One World Media says it wants to hear from applicants from the global south reporting on stories from the global south, and that it prioritises mid-career applicants over aspiring ones with no experience in the field. Neither nationality nor place of residence is stated as a bar.
  • At least three years of industry experience. No technical training is provided, and applicants are expected to be able to deliver the media they propose.
  • The project must focus on stories, topics or issues in, about or related to low- and middle-income countries across the global south: Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia excluding Israel, Japan and South Korea, and Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand. The site publishes the full country list, which follows the World Bank classification of low- and middle-income economies.
  • Non-fiction only, across film, print, audio, photojournalism and multimedia.
  • Small-scale pieces deliverable within a year: film under 10 minutes, print of around 1,200 to 1,500 words, or audio and multimedia under 30 minutes.
  • Projects must be at pre-production or production stage, with the main reporting not yet done. Work already in post-production is not supported.
  • Stories must be researched and verified before applying, with contacts and contributors on the ground already agreed to take part.
  • One project per application; a second proposal needs a second application.
  • Submissions are particularly encouraged from people of colour, ethnic minorities, women, LGBTQ+ applicants and people with disabilities.

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Application process

  1. 1
    Wait for the call to open. Applications run through the One World Media submission portal at oneworldmedia.awardsplatform.com, which listed talent programme applications as closed at the last check.
  2. 2
    Register an account on the portal, or sign in with an existing one.
  3. 3
    Complete the online form for one project and upload the supporting material.
  4. 4
    Add a reference letter on headed paper from a tutor or lecturer, a commissioner, an employer, or an established practitioner in the same medium who knows the applicant’s work.
  5. 5
    Optionally attach the certificate from the free online international reporting course that One World Media points applicants to.
  6. 6
    Submit before the round closes. Applications are shortlisted in house, a jury panel of industry professionals selects the winning proposals, and new fellows are announced in June.

Program timeline

  1. Stated annual cycle

    the call opens in February, the deadline falls in March, and new fellows are announced in June.

  2. deadline of the Global Health Film Grant strand, whose grantee joins the fellowship cohort.

    20 August 2025

  3. partner strand grantees announced.

    November and December 2025

  4. 18 February 2026

    the ten fellows of the 2026 cohort are announced, reporting from nine countries.

  5. One year from that announcement

    the fellowship runs, with nine months to deliver after the opening workshops.

  6. Next round

    not yet posted. The fellowship page says new funding partners and a wider range of grants are coming with details to follow, and the submission portal lists talent programme applications as closed.