RFI is a French public service radio station for international news around the clock. It provides French and foreign-language broadcasts through its offices in Paris and abroad.

Within the framework of Visa Pour l’Image Perpignan festival, the RFI Web Documentary Award rewards the best web documentary. This documentary should have an original outlook on a news topic and use new multimedia tools effectively.

RFI describes a web documentary as follows: an online documentary that uses image, text, sound and videos and has an interactive dimension.