14 November 2018: The Financial Times feature Cape Town: Life Without Water, directed and produced by Juliet Riddell and Tom Hannen, won the short documentary category at the 2018 AIB International Media Excellence Awards in London this week.

The AIBs, now in their 14th year, celebrate success and outstanding achievement of factual video, audio and interactive productions.

The documentary showed how the crisis has forced Cape Town residents to change their relationship with water forever, and  judges found the report’s style “compelling”, adding that it was “a challenging piece of journalism that intelligently exposed various, related social issues through nuance and clever editing.”

Find the full list of winners can be viewed here.

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