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Follow the race
Chase the leaders, catch the checkpoints, find riders in the middle of nowhere at 3 a.m. You live in the media car and move with the race.
On the road12 days
Open call / 2027 · Media crew
we're looking for aWe're looking for you: videomaker, filmmaker, cinematographer, storyteller.
Trans Balkan Race 2027 — 1,500 km of off-road racing from Trieste to Risan, Montenegro, told as it happens.
Race dates27.05 – 07.06.2027
Distance1,500 km off-road
RouteTrieste → Risan (MNE)
ApplicationsMid-Nov → 31.01.2027
03:12 — SOMEWHERE IN BOSNIA
A headlamp comes over the ridge. The rider hasn't slept in thirty hours, the next village is forty kilometres away, and the light is about to turn blue. There's one camera out here. It's yours.
this is the job.
1,500km off-road
5countries
0support for riders
1seat in the media car
The route · based on the 2025 trackTrieste → Risan · 27.05 → 07.06.2027
Elevation gain~25,000 m
Highest point1,898 m
Lowest pointSea level
01 — The race
Across theDinaric Alps
The Trans Balkan Race is an unsupported, off-road bikepacking race that starts in Trieste, Italy, and crosses Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina all the way to Risan, on the Bay of Kotor in Montenegro. Riders carry everything they need, follow a GPS track and decide for themselves when to eat, sleep and push on.
Remote mountain roads, karst plateaus, abandoned villages, heat by day and cold by night. It's one of the toughest — and most beautiful — races in Europe, and every edition is full of stories worth telling.
02 — The role
Shoot it. Cut it.tell it.
You'll be part of the Quota Zero media crew, following the race from the media car alongside photographers and drivers, in coordination with the organizers.
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Deliver fast
Short edits for social — reels and stories cut on a laptop between stages, while the race is still live and people are watching the dots.
TurnaroundSame dayif possible
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Help write the story
Spot the moments, the faces and the small stories along the route. Your eye and your footage help us shape what we tell — during the race and after the finish.
StorytellingWith the crew
03 — The fit
Who we'relooking for
Not just a camera. A teammate for twelve days on the road — someone who sees the story before it happens.
Skills
You bring
- 01A showreel that shows how you see sport and people
- 02Field experience shooting and editing — sport or outdoor is a big plus
- 03Fast hands in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve
- 04Your own camera kit and a laptop that can edit on the move
- 05Good spoken English
Mindset
You're ready for
- 01Little sleep and long hours in the car
- 02Rain, heat, dust and unpredictable mountain weather
- 03Plans that change every few hours, following the race
- 04Working as one team with the rest of the media crew
- 05Full availability from about 27 May to 7 June 2027
+ Bonus points
- Drone pilot with an EU A1/A3 or A2 certificatepreferable. It opens up shots nobody else gets.
- Sony camera system & Apple workflowbonus points. It's what the crew shoots and edits on, so files, batteries and lenses can be shared on the road.
- Italianbonus points. The crew speaks Italian, and under stress, at 3 a.m., it's easier to understand each other on the fly.
- Driving licence (B)a plus. You won't be driving: it's only for emergencies.
04 — Next steps
How it works
Applications open
From your application to the start line
- OpensMid-Nov
Applications open
Send your showreel and portfolio through the form. About 5 minutes.
- Deadline31.01
Applications close
Last call at 23:59 CET. No extensions.
- NextFeb
Shortlist & call
We watch every reel and get in touch with the shortlisted candidates.
- Race27.05
Start in Trieste
Briefing with the crew, then twelve days on the road.
05 — The crew
Who you'llwork with
Twelve days on the road together. Here's who'll be next to you.
Lead
Founder & director · Quota Zero
Nicolò Blasi
Bio
Photographer and filmmaker from Trieste. He's spent years following ultra-endurance races across Italy, Slovenia, Norway and the Balkans, and founded Quota Zero to tell them properly. Off the bike, he's shot live productions like Cirque du Soleil. On the TBR he'll be your lead on the road.
Photographer & filmmaker · Quota Zero
Marco Valentinuzzo
Bio
Photographer and filmmaker from Trieste. A former enduro MTB rider, he's spent years shooting action sports — lately sailing — and co-founded 3011 Project. He's worked with Nicolò on live productions for Cirque du Soleil, and ran our second media crew at Istra Land 2026, his first ultra. On the TBR, he'll be right in the middle of the action.
and the riders
More than a hundred of them — each one with a story worth telling.
06 — How we work
What westand for
Skills can be learned on the road. These can't — they're what we look for first.
The truth, not the highlight reel
We tell what really happens out there — the beauty and the hard parts. When something went wrong at the Trans Balkan Race, we didn't look away: we made Connecting Dots.
The race comes first
This is an unsupported race. We never help, guide or get in the way of a rider — no food, no water, no lifts, no shortcuts. The best shot is never worth someone's race.
Respect the effort
Riders give everything to be here. We film them with respect, at their worst moments too, and we never fake a story they didn't live.
One crew
Operators, photographers, drivers: one team, no egos. We share the car, the sleep we don't get and the credit.
Fast, never sloppy
We deliver while the race is still live — and still hold every frame to the standard of the final film.
Guests on the road
We cross places and communities that aren't ours. We leave them as we found them, and we tell them with care.
Safety first. Then everything for the shot.
Nobody gets hurt for a frame — not us, not the riders. But inside that line, we don't back down: cold, rain, 4 a.m., a ridge to climb on foot, a night without a bed. If the shot is there, we go and get it.
APPLICATIONS OPEN MID-NOV · CLOSE 31.01.2027
Ready toride along?
Send us your showreel, tell us about your work and why you want to tell the story of the Trans Balkan Race.
Apply now
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