22 July is the topic for the Fritt Ord Foundation Competition
Fritt Ord invites schools to address the topic of 22 July, and to submit entries for the Fritt Ord Foundation Competition for Upper Secondary School.
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Free Media Awards 2020 honour courageous journalists in Russia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine
The Fritt Ord Foundation, Oslo, and the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg, are this year honouring three Eastern European media entities, a photo journalist, and a print journalist with the Free Media Awards 2020 – supporting independent journalism in Eastern Europe.
Online seminar 14 August: Advocating for the under-represented through photography
Based on his new book “Decolonising the Camera” and his work with many different historical photo libraries including Magnum Archive, curator and cultural historian Mark Sealy uses photography to advocate for the under-represented.
Prize to Anders Hammer for the film "Do not split"
This week, the documentary film “Do not split” about the protests in Hong Kong in 2019 won the jury’s special prize for AFI Docs, the American Film Institute’s documentary film festival.
Grand Prize to "My Favorite War" at the animated film festival in Annency
On Saturday, 20 June, the animated documentary film “My Favorite War” won one of the grand prizes at the animated film festival in Annecy, France, which is considered to be the world’s largest festival for animated films.
Support for non-fiction prose
The list of Fritt Ord’s grants has been updated to include major projects that received support in June 2020. Among the roughly 100 allocations on the list are 24 grants for the development of non-fiction prose manuscripts.
Call for applications: Come join the Young People's Freedom of Expression Council!
Are you between the ages of 16 and 26 and interested in freedom of expression and social debate?
Breakfast webinar
The impact of the corona crisis on Norwegian journalism + launch of the media survey ‘2020 Digital News Report’
Time: Thursday, 18 June, 8.30-10.00 a.m.
Place: live streaming on www.frittord.no
Fritt Ord Tribute awarded to Sara Johnsen and Pål Sletaune
Press release, 27 May 2020, Oslo
On Wednesday, the Fritt Ord Tribute was awarded to film-makers Sara Johnsen and Pål Sletaune for the TV series July 22nd.
Sara Johnsen and Pål Sletaune to be awarded the Fritt Ord Tribute
Oslo, 13 May 2020
PRESS RELEASE
Film-makers Sara Johnsen and Pål Sletaune will be awarded the Fritt Ord Tribute for the TV series July 22nd, an eminent artistic contribution to critical reflection about the tragic event that occurred in Norway on 22 July 2011. The protagonists of this drama series are the people who worked at key institutions in Norway, a welfare state based on the rule of law: the public health service, the media, the school system, the church and politics.
The first grants from Fritt Ord's crisis allocations
The first awards from the Fritt Ord Foundation’s extraordinary grants totalling MNOK 40 in response to the corona crisis are now ready. A total of MNOK 15.5 will be distributed to 119 projects.
The Fritt Ord Foundation's Grants for Critics 2020 - 2021
The Fritt Ord Foundation announces a call for applications for 10 annual grants of NOK 200 000 each for critics who write for Norwegian daily or weekly newspapers, or who write reviews for TV/radio.
The Fritt Ord Foundation's deadlines for applications in spring 2020
In connection with the corona pandemic, on 17 March 2020, Fritt Ord announced a call for applications for MNOK 40 in extraordinary grants. The call is for applications for projects related to the situation created by the corona crisis. The first deadline for the extraordinary call for applications was 31 March.
Money and Life - Grants for library literature programmes, 2020–2022
Fritt Ord is announcing grants of NOK 60 000 for communications activities and exchanges of views based on works of non-fiction and fiction on the topic of economics.
The corona crisis: Fritt Ord earmarks an additional MNOK 40 for projects
The virus epidemic has put Norway’s cultural life and public discourse in an extremely difficult situation. In response, the Fritt Ord Foundation will be making an extraordinary contribution to projects that can safeguard the spaces for public discourse, develop new arenas for public discourse and help promote dynamic, vital public discourse.