MUMBAI:The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Iatas) announced at the television trade event MipTV in Cannes, France, the winners of the International Digital Emmy Awards.
A ceremony was organised in partnership with Reed Midem, which was attended by over 300 international executives from the television, broadband and mobile industries.
Highrise: Out My Window (National Film Board of Canada), an interactive web documentary about high-rises and the stories of the people who live in them throughout 13 different cities, won in the Non-Fiction Category.
Battlefront II (Raw TV/Airlock for Channel 4), which follows 12 young people running campaigns to change the world, won its second Digital Emmy Award in the Children & Young People Category.
Shankaboot (Batoota films/BBC World Service Trust) a web series conceived as a vehicle for exploring social problems which are often overlooked by mainstream media in the Arab world, garnered the first Digital Emmy Award for Lebanon by winning the Fiction Category.
The Pioneer Prize was presented to Jon M. Chu, the creator and executive producer of the global online dance show The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers for innovative contributions to the field of digital entertainment.
Iatas president and CEO Bruce L. Paisner said, "This year‘s winners attest to the power of social media throughout the world. We congratulate them for being on the cutting edge of a vital new form of expression."
