The competition is now open!

2025 Edition

June 12, 2025 to September 12, 2025

What if your eyes could change the story? Beyond the grand speeches, there are lives, faces and voices that carry the echoes of our changing world. Stories of urgency, resilience, and sometimes hope in the face of environmental and climatic challenges.

The ePOP contest is your space to give these voices the reach they deserve. We challenge you to become the spokesperson for these human vibrations.

How do you do it? Create the spark with an ePOP film đź’Ą

Imagine: three intense minutes. Pure testimony, captured by your lens, where the spoken word reigns supreme. No tricks, no music, no text on the screen. Just the raw authenticity of an encounter, in horizontal format (16:9). This is the very essence of an ePOP film: a concentrate of humanity that challenges, moves and enlightens.

From June 12 to September 12, 2025, we invite you to reach out, open your eyes, and create that unique bridge between a person and the world.

After the competition, the films are archived on epop.network and made available to all.

Make your film an open window. Join the ePOP community and make reality vibrate.

How do you get involved?

From June 12 to September 12, 2025, prepare and produce your video: 

three minutes maximum
in horizontal format 16:9
without text on the screen
without music

The preparations

  • You can find tutorials here
  • You can find inspiration from previous winners here
  • You can read the rules here

The day of your deposit 

You gather all the necessary information (your contact details, the description of your video, its translation if your video is not in French or English ...).

Complete the online application form to submit your project.

What's next?

An acknowledgement of receipt will be sent to you automatically when you submit your application.

The shortlist will be announced at the end of October, and the final rankings will be revealed at the Awards ceremony in December 2025.

PRICES

There are four prizes in the ePOP 2025 Competition.
All videos submitted are eligible for the various prizes if they meet the conditions and themes for the awards.
The winners of the various prizes will receive production or equipment grants to continue their work.
For this seventh edition, the competition renews the ePOP+ Grand Prix! Past ePOPers nominated in previous editions, now it's your turn!
ePOP+ GRAND PRIZE

For the winner
3,000€ production grant & 3,000€ production support

For the top 5
ePOP promotional kit (ePOP certificate and goodies)

Award conditions: the person submitting the video must have been nominated at least once for the ePOP+ Grand Prize in a previous edition.
With a strong community of committed ePOPers, the ePOP+ Grand Prize is aimed at rewarding a candidate who has already been nominated in previous editions, and who is once again mobilized to raise awareness of the urgent need to deploy solutions to tackle the environmental crisis.
With a grant and support for production and broadcasting, this prize will enable the winner to progress with his/her audiovisual project, via the production of a short film that could be showcased at international festivals.
GRAND PRIZE

For the winner
Equipment grant of 2000€.

For the top 10
ePOP promotional kit (ePOP certificate and goodies)

Award conditions: the person submitting the video must never have been nominated for the competition's Grand Prix in a previous edition.
The Grand Prix is the prize that allows new faces and new issues to emerge. For some, it's the culmination of an entire process. For others, it's the first step. By receiving a €2,000 equipment grant, our Grand Prix 2025 winner will be able to progress towards the realization of his or her personal and professional ambitions.
The winning film will be distributed on ePOP and partner networks on a large scale in order to continue to promote the winner's work.
YOUNG DIRECTOR'S AWARD

For the winner

A €1,000 equipment grant 

For the top 5
ePOP promotional kit (ePOP certificate and goodies)

Conditions of award: the person making the video must be a woman and no older than 29 on the day the video is submitted.

Young women are still under-represented among their male video colleagues. ePOP is therefore once again committed to promoting female talent, and will be offering the winner of this award a €1,000 equipment grant to help her pursue her projects in the best possible conditions.
RFI Clubs Award 

In partnership with RFI Clubs

Club RFI

For the winner

A €1,000 equipment grant

Conditions of attribution: the video must be submitted by a member of an RFI club. If you are a member of an RFI club, please indicate this when submitting your video.

The Jury

The 2025 edition of the ePOP Contest has four juries made up of personalities from different horizons. Because if the issue is universal, so is the commitment.

Women and men of the media, scientists, artists, project leaders, each brings his or her own sensibility to the table, with the aim of selecting together the most compelling testimonials.
ePOP+ GRAND PRIZE

Dieudonné Hamadi
Director and documentary filmmaker

Anne-Claire Lainé
Director of the Longueur d'ondes association, general delegate of the Festival de la radio et de l'écoute

Flore Gubert
Economist, Director of Research at IRD

François Morgant
President of the Deauville Green Awards Festival

Max Bale
Head of RFI Planète Radio

GRAND PRIZE

Pierrot Men
Photographer

Agathe Duparc
Investigative journalist with the NGO Public Eye

Jhan-Carlo Espinoza
Climatologist, Director of Research at IRD

Pierre Tainturier
Doctor in Sociology of commitment and mobilization

Marie-Eve Migueres
Scientific mediation project manager at IRD

YOUNG DIRECTOR'S AWARD

Julien Blanco
Ethnoecologist, IRD research fellow

Samira Ben Ali
Climate justice activist

Cesar Moreno-Triana
Programme Specialist - Culture Sector - UNESCO

Anne-Cécile Bras
Editor-in-Chief of "C Pas du Vent" magazine on RFI

Caroline Vilatte
Deputy Director of IRD's Scientific Culture Mission

RFI Clubs Award 

Maimouna Cissoko
Plant biotechnology researcher at IRD (and plant improvement, Senegal)

Melissa Chemam
Journalist, RFI English Service

Salim Azim Assini
Founder of the WenakLabs incubator (Chad)

Susan Owensby
Editor-in-chief of RFI's "The Sound Kitchen" program

Audrey Iattoni
Production Manager and RFI Club Projects Coordinator