The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) right now introduced the dates, places and Lifetime Achievement honorees for the 2022 Daytime, Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle, News & Documentary, and Children’s & Family Emmy Award ceremonies. The Academy had beforehand introduced Lifetime Achievement honorees in Sports and Technology & Engineering however had postponed the presentation of these honors as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. All NATAS occasions are scheduled to return to being in-person this 12 months following digital ceremonies in 2020 and 2021.
The 1st Annual Children’s & Family Emmy Awards (theemmys.television/childrens-family-emmy-awards) will likely be held Sunday, December 11 on the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles.The first-ever Lifetime Achievement Honoree for Children’s & Family Television is LeVar Burton. The longtime literacy advocate and host of Reading Rainbow, who taught a era concerning the joys of studying, has gained greater than 20 Emmy Awards. Burton at the moment hosts his personal podcast, LeVar Burton Reads, and has a YouTube collection, This Is My Story, which highlights racism in America.
Those who wish to keep on the innovative can even mark their calendars for the 73rd Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards on Monday, April 25 on the Wynn Encore, Las Vegas. Receiving the 2022 Lifetime Achievement award in TV tech will likely be know-how entrepreneur Yvette Kanouff.
Image from ‘The Witcher: Becoming Nivellen’ featurette (Netflix)
BAFTA introduced the winners of the 2022 British Academy Television Craft Awards on Sunday, celebrating the perfect behind-the-scenes expertise of 2021. The ceremony was hosted by Mel Giedroyc, and featured visitor presenters together with Ade Adepitan, Aisling Bea, Mary Beard, Olivia Colman, Natalie Emmanuel, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Tony Robinson and Harry Trevaldwyn. Crime drama Landscapers and musical comedy We Are Lady Parts scored essentially the most wins with three every.
The award for Special, Visual & Graphic Effects went to Netflix fantasy adaptation The Witcher, particularly S2 premiere episode “A Grain of Truth,” which sees Geralt (Henry Cavill) and Ciri (Freya Allan) break up the poisonous relationship between the cursed beast-man Nivellen (Game of Thrones‘ Kristofer Hivju) and a bloodthirsty Bruxa (Agnes Born). The award went to Dadi Einarsson, Gavin Round, Aleksandar Pejic, Oliver Cubbage, Stefano Pepin and Jet Omoshebi, representing the groups at Cinesite, Hivemind, Platige Image and Pioneer Stillking Images.
Also nominated have been Earth at Night in Colour (Apple TV+), Intergalactic (Sky One) and Black Holes: Heart of Darkness (BBC Two). The Witcher additionally gained for Make Up & Hair Design (Barrie Gower & Sarah Gower). See the complete record of winners at bafta.org. Check out Cinesite’s work on the three terrifying Basilisks for The Witcher S2 finale right here.
The twenty ninth Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) introduced the nominees for the Trickstar Professional Awards, which will likely be introduced at a gala on the night of Wed., May 4 in the course of the German animation celebration (May 3-8, itfs.de/en).
The Trickstar Business Award honors animation corporations and initiatives with an revolutionary and groundbreaking enterprise mannequin. The €7,500 prize is sponsored by the Verband Region Stuttgart. The 2022 nominees are: interactive museum collection ArtworkMinute (Die Asta Experience, Zentropa Prod.), AR set up Colored (Noire) (Novaya), VR expertise Yullbe GO (Mack NeXT, KG). The initiatives will likely be introduced May 7 within the ONLINE PRO part.
The German Animation Screenplay Award for an animated function movie bestows a €2,500 prize, sponsored by Animation Media Cluster Region Stuttgart (AMCRS). The award for the German screenplay with the most important worldwide market potential (€1,500) is sponsored by Pink Parrot Media. The nominees are Bird of the Year (Wolfgang Lauenstein, Christoph Lauenstein), Dino Mite (Armin Prediger, Andreas Völlinger), Little Miss Santa (Jasmina Kallay), Mr. Wiggles (André Heeger) and The (Mostly) Marvelous Murray (Christian Kaps).
The Animated Games Award Germany 2022 for the very best and most revolutionary animation-based laptop recreation from Germany comes with a money prize of €5,000, sponsored by MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg. The nominees are: A Juggler’s Tale (kaleidoscube / Mixtvision Mediengesellschaft), Minute of Islands (Studio Fizbin / Mixtvision Mediengesellschaft), Dorfromantik (Toukana Interactive), OMNO (Studio Inkyfox UG) and Lacuna (DigiTales Interactive / Assemble Entertainment).
Love, Dad
SIFF closed out its forty eighth Seattle International Film Festival Sunday, saying the winners of the 2022 Golden Space Needle Audience and Juried Competition Awards. The awards have been introduced at a ceremony and brunch held at Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Seattle on April 24. The 11-day pageant, which started April 14, screened 263 movies, together with 28 world premieres (15 options/13 brief movies). Animated winners included:
Love, Dad | Diana Cam Van Nguyen (Czech Rep.) | Grand Jury Prize – Animated Short.
Jury Statement: “… A powerfully uncooked and tender brief, one which skillfully and compassionately explores complicated household dynamics by artfully combining an array of animation and stay motion strategies.”
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Dean Fleischer Camp (U.S.) | Golden Space Needle – Best Film First Runner-Up & Best Director Third Runner-Up
Battery Daddy | Seung-bae Jeon (S. Korea) | Golden Space Needle – Best Short Film Second Runner-Up
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Battery Daddy
The Advanced Imaging Society introduced the winners of the twelfth Annual Entertainment Technology Lumiere Awards. The group acknowledged 9 distinguished technical achievements driving the leisure trade ahead with influence via innovation at a brunch sponsored by AMD on the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas.The 2022 honorees are:
AMD – AMD EPYC
Brompton Technology – Tessera SX40 LED Processor
Cinionic – Barco Series 4 SP4K-55 Cinema Laser Projector
HP – HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition
Prysm Stages/Lux Machina/NEP Virtual Studios – Advanced In-Camera VFX LED Volume
Qualcomm Technologies – Snapdragon Spaces
Tencent Media Labs – Holographic Live Streaming
V-Nova Limited – V-Nova Point Cloud Compression
Weta FX – Weta FX Face Fabrication System
Image courtesy of the Advanced Imaging Society
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Tickets at the moment are on sale for the 2022 hybrid VIEW Conference (Oct. 16-21) for in-person and on-line attendees. In addition to talks, panels, workshops and masterclasses, this 12 months there will likely be an on-site Recruiting Fair (see web site for particulars). Buy Tickets
SCAD GamingFest takes place this week (April 28-29), providing an on-demand animation showcase, a digital Uncharted screening, making-of SCAD pupil recreation Home Is Where the Hearth Is and discussions overlaying the metaverse, NFTs, inclusive character design and extra.
The creators of Sun Pass Film Festival are launching the queer-focused Anita’s Film Festival (named after notorious antigay activist Anita Bryant). Submissions at the moment are open for the Miami, Florida occasion. Deadline: May 9, 2022.
After the success of the primary version, Golaem is launching a brand new spherical of free on-line crowd sime coaching: Golaem Academy 2 takes place May 10-18.
The subsequent MAF Presents will hop on the Catbus for a guided tour of all issues Studio Ghibli because the Ghibliotheque podcasters current “The Z-A of Studio Ghibli”. Live at HOME in Manchester, U.Ok. on Wed., May 18, ebook signing to comply with. Buy Tickets
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