Filmmakers Amit Madheshiya and Shirley Abraham have won the 2023 Rory Peck Award in the News Features category for their powerful Guardian Documentary The Great Abandonment, which follows the exodus of India’s migrant labourers during the 2020 covid lockdown.
Multimedia journalist Ahmer Khan, who is based in India and has worked extensively with the Guardian video news team, has also won the Rory Peck Trust Martin Adler Prize, which honours a local freelance journalist or field producer whose work with international media outlets has made a significant contribution to newsgathering. Ahmer’s recent video The Hunt for India’s Stolen Children investigated the rise in human trafficking in cyclone-hit east India.
