Awards

AFP's multimedia documentary, "Nothing is Impossible: The Odyssey of a Migrant from Venezuela to the United States" won in the "Claudio Paolillo" category for Migration Journalism.

The IAPA awarded this multimedia story, produced in 2023, "for its effective use of journalistic resources on a current issue. The story highlights the human impact of the Venezuelan catastrophe accross Latin America."

This is the first time the IAPA has handed out an award in this category.

In this multimedia story, we follow a Venezuelan migrant, Marcel Maldonado, who represents the humanitarian disaster of the migration crisis. A team of around fifteen video, photo, and text journalists based in Venezuela, Central America, Mexico, and the United States took turns following his two-month journey with his wife and son, who, due to his prosthetic right leg following an accident, relied on a cane.

Through the narrative of their 4,300 km journey across nine countries until their arrival in North Carolina in the United States, the story addresses the harsh reality faced by half a million Venezuelans, Haitians, Ecuadorians, Asians, and Africans who, in the hope of a better future, crossed the Darien jungle, the "hell of migrants," in 2023.

The team behind the story included:

• Video: Iván Pisarenko, José Osorio, Rudy Quiroz, Alberto Peña, Orlando Sierra, François Picard et Bastien Inzaurralde.  
• Photo: Iván Pisarenko, Orlando Sierra, Víctor Mendiola, Ezequiel Becerra, Oswaldo Rivas, Federico Parra, Bastien Inzaurralde.  
• Text: Alexander Martínez, Moisés Avila, Francisco Jara, Margioni Bermúdez.

The awards ceremony will take place during the 80th General Assembly of the IAPA, from 17th to 20th October 2024, in Córdoba, Argentina.