PGA Innovation Award Nominees Announced
We see more than a few familiar names on there
The nominees for the Producers Guild of America’s Innovation Award for the 32nd Annual PGA Awards have been revealed.
Readers of No Proscenium will see more than one familiar title in here. Like, a LOT of familiar titles, actually.
Not gonna lie: it’s put a spring in our step this morning.
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THE PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA REVEALS
“THE PGA INNOVATION AWARD” NOMINEES FOR THE 32ND ANNUAL PGA AWARDS
Award Honors Outstanding Entertainment Endeavors Across VR, AR, Experiential,
and Other Emerging Media
LOS ANGELES (Wednesday, March 17) — The Producers Guild of America (PGA) today announced nominees for The PGA Innovation Award ahead of the 32nd Annual Producers Guild Awards taking place on Wednesday, March 24. The PGA Innovation Award recognizes the production of a noteworthy, impactful new media program that significantly elevates the audience’s viewing experience.
The Innovation Award winner, along with the winners of the Sports, Children’s and Short Form categories, will be announced during a nominee event entitled ‘A Day with the PGA Awards Nominees,’ sponsored by the Hollywood Reporter, being held virtually on Saturday, March 20.
Nominees for the 2021 PGA Innovation Award are listed below in alphabetical order. The PGA will honor the program as a whole, rather than the individual producers. As such, the producers of these programs are not required to go through the awards eligibility determination process.
The PGA Innovation Award
· Adventure Lab and Dr. Crumb’s School for Disobedient Pets
· Andrew Goes Outside
· Artificial
· Baba Yaga
· BRCvr
· Create Together
· Fragments
· Jettison
· Krampusnacht
· Oceanides
· The Line
· The Under PresentsThe award honors exceptional distinctiveness, inventiveness, and impact of the submitted work in expanding the conventions of program format, content, audience interaction, production technique and delivery. Such work may reflect a reimagining or reworking of existing concepts and approaches in a new way, or may be an entirely novel type of experience.
Entries are reviewed and voted on by a jury of blue-ribbon experts in the field of new media. Programs released between January 1, 2020 and February 28, 2021 were eligible for the honor. Last year, the PGA awarded the inaugural PGA Innovation Award to the team behind “Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series — Episode 1.”
The Innovation Award Committee is Co-Chaired by Jenni Ogden, VP of the PGA New Media Council and Chris Thomes, New Media Council Delegate.
In addition to General Motors, the Presenting Sponsor and Official Automotive Partner, Delta is the Official Airline Partner of the Awards.
The 2021 Producers Guild Awards Event Chairs are Chris Thomes, Vice President, Creative Services for Disney Television Studios and Julius Tennon, President and Co-Founder of Juvee Productions. The 2021 Producers Guild of America Awards are produced by Anchor Street Collective for the Producers Guild of America. Branden Chapman is executive producer, Carleen Cappelletti is supervising producer, Emily Poenisch is talent executive, and Jim Piccirillo is director. The PGA Awards team also includes sponsorship director Six Degrees Global, Marketing Consultant Julie Giles (greenHAT digital), and the PGA’s PR agency of record, Sunshine Sachs.
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