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Submissions are open for the 2025 Ron Kovic Peace Prize.

Final Deadline: SEPTEMBER 1

 What is the Ron Kovic Peace Prize? 


The Ron Kovic Peace Prize is presented each year by artist, author and peace advocate Ron Kovic, a former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant who was paralyzed during his second tour of duty in the Vietnam war. Kovic's autobiography Born on the Fourth of July became a New York Times bestseller that was adapted into a film of the same name by Kovic and director Oliver Stone. The film earned Academy Awards for Stone and Tom Cruise, who portrayed Kovic, and a Golden Globe for Kovic and Stone for the screenplay.

Kovic continues his four-decade quest for peace by sponsoring the annual Ron Kovic Peace Prize at the MY HERO International Film Festival. The award goes to filmmakers whose short films (up to 10 minutes) reflect peace and nonviolent solutions.

Submit your film and help promote peace in our world! ✨


Click here to download the PDF Postcard.

VIEW THE RON KOVIC PEACE PRIZE SIZZLE

View all of the 2024 Finalists here

2023 Ron Kovic Peace Prize Winner - WAR

2023 Ron Kovic Youth Peace Prize Winner - Shalom Ukraine

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE 2023 RON KOVIC PEACE PRIZE FINALISTS

2022 Ron Kovic Peace Prize Winner - Alan Magee - Art is not a Solace

VIEW ALL OF THE 2022 FINALISTS HERE

2021 RON KOVIC PEACE PRIZE WINNER - OutSwing by Samar Minallah Khan

2020 Winner - The Peace of Wild Things by Katy Wang Poet: Wendell Berry

2020 Winner - The Curious Scroll: How Does Something Ugly Become Beautiful by Andrew Purchin

Congratulations to ALL of the 2020 Peace Prize FInalists

2019 Winner - Bullets to Books featuring Jok Abraham Thon

View the 2019 Ron Kovic Peace Prize Finalists

2018 Winner Kim Phuc [excerpt] -The Sunrise Storyteller by Kasha Sequoia Slavner

View the 2018 Ron Kovic Peace Prize Finalists

2017 Winner - Reclaiming Pakistan by Lisa Donato

2016 Winner - Post War Machismo: Be A Man by Liz Mermin

2016 peace prize winner

2015 Winner - Defying Death in Sough Sudan by Francis Mead

2015 peace prize

2014 Winner- Blessed is the Peacemaker by Taqi Juba

2014 peace prize

2013 peace prize

2012 peace prize

2011 peace prize

2010 peace prize

2009 peace prize

2008 peace prize