AWARDS
Explore the IMI Awards, the Sloan Science Prizes, and a range of supported projects that celebrate and elevate independent creators. From honoring artistic and technical excellence to supporting innovative science storytelling on YouTube, this is where you’ll find the work we champion.
Creative Opportunities
Celebrating Independent Creators Who Shape the Internet
Independent media has a peculiar beauty. It is work created outside institutions, made with feeling, honesty, and craft. IMI was founded to build real support structures around creators who make that kind of work.
Our awards and supported projects reflect that mission. We support creators who demonstrate exceptional craft and public value. These programs help amplify their work and strengthen the independent media landscape they are building every day.
From the IMI Awards to the Sloan Science Prizes for YouTube to the projects we help incubate, each program exists to champion independent creators and the worlds they build. These initiatives help the right attention reach the right work and create space for new ideas to grow.
Discover the programs that celebrate the people who make the internet more thoughtful and more human.
IMI Awards
Annual awards recognizing outstanding independent storytelling.
Sloan Science Prizes
Supporting creators who bring science to life through original video storytelling.
Supported Projects
Work we have helped launch, produce, or develop through resources and collaboration.
Explore the IMI Awards, the Sloan Science Prizes, and a range of supported projects that celebrate and elevate independent creators. From honoring artistic and technical excellence to supporting innovative science storytelling on YouTube, this is where you’ll find the work we champion.
At IMI, we focus on projects and programs that create meaningful connections within our community. We don’t accept unsolicited requests because each initiative is carefully chosen to support creators making exceptional work. Every contribution helps us stay true to our mission and create positive change.
IMI AWARD SPEECHES
Look through our IMI Award speeches and learn more about the exceptional work that our award winners are doing. Along with a bronze award to recognize their achievements, each award winner receives a $50,000 no-strings-attached prize. Learn more here.