IBC has announced it will bestow its International Honour for Excellence (IHFE) award on Ukrainian journalist and filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov.
He will receive the award during the IBC Innovation Awards ceremony at 18.30 CEST on Sunday, 15 September at the RAI Amsterdam.
Chernov is best known for directing Academy Award-winning documentary, 20 Days in Mariupol, which he and his team from Associated Press (AP) shot as they covered the siege of the Ukrainian city by Russian forces in early 2022.
“In honouring Mstyslav Chernov with this year’s IHFE for his work as a war correspondent, video journalist and filmmaker, we are recognising the courage, creativity, skill and determination he has shown in capturing some of the most affecting stories we have seen in the last few years,” said Mike Crimp, IBC CEO.
“At a time when it is critical to produce video that reveals the reality of conflicts around the world and challenges the fake news and disinformation being disseminated, Mstyslav and the teams he works with exemplify integrity and the best in our industry.”
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IBC has also announced the winners of its Best Technical Paper award, Joshua Maraval, Nicolas Ramin, and Lu Zhang are being honoured for their paper Advancements in Radiance Field Techniques for Volumetric Video Generation: A Technical Overview.
The authors, who are from the Institut de Recherche Technologique, b<>com, and the Institut d’Electronique et des Technologies du numéRique, both near Rennes, France, were seeking to find an efficient solution to capturing and rendering volumetric video.
Paul Entwistle, chair of the IBC Technical Papers Committee and Peer Review Panel, said: “The review team unanimously agreed that this was an outstanding paper. It is an exceptionally well-written and a very readable introduction to this fascinating field.”
The Best Technical Paper will be presented at the IBC Innovation Awards ceremony. It and the 23 other successful Technical Papers were chosen from 327 submissions and will be presented as part of the IBC2024 Conference from 13-16 September.
