In 2024, the IRI Prize was awarded for the third time, and it was held in two stages.The first stage was held on 5 March as part of the World Youth Festival on the federal territory of Sirius, and awards were given in 14 categories related to youth.The winner in the vertical format project category was the web series Vanya, Save!, starring singer Vanya Dmitrenko. The animated series became the best animation project, and the final episode of the series Real Boys was named best viral content. First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration of Russia, Sergey Kirienko, presented a statuette for the Making the World a better place category to a documentary about volunteers, #nevserravno. Multimedia educational Project 1812 (part 2) was also awarded as the best project for preserving historical memory.
The winners of stage two were announced on 30 May at the Mosfilm cinema and concert complex in Moscow, where they were awarded in over 20 categories, including video content up to three minutes, feature films, and others.Among the winners in 2019 are the firstever film shot in outer space, The Challenge, the comedy series Cool Change starring Nikita Efremov, clips by young performer Dima Om from Donbass called Dima at home, the game Atomic heart, a series of videos Working Class!, the podcast by online news outlet Mash Without Leaving the Room, the project Exemplary Reading with writer Konstantine Obraztsow, the webseries About People and War, and many more.
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