bpg and Stun Creative win, respectively, Global Excellence and North America Agency of the Year distinction at 2017 Awards Show
FX Networks was named North America Marketing Team of the Year for the seventh consecutive year at the 2017 PromaxBDA Promotion, Marketing and Design Awards Thursday night (6/8), while CNN Worldwide won Marketing Team of the Year for the third straight year in the Global Excellence competition.
Stun Creative was named North America Agency of the Year, while bpg took home the Global Excellence Agency of the Year honors.
Longtime ABC marketing executive Marla Provencio was presented with the 2017 PromaxBDA Lifetime Achievement Award.
The ceremony at the JW Marriott Hotel at LA Live was hosted by 2 Broke Girls actor Jonathan Kite.
PromaxBDA’s annual awards honor outstanding achievement in entertainment marketing and design. Two separate competitions were held Thursday night: North America and Global Excellence. The North America competition celebrates the year’s best achievements in entertainment marketing across all screens. The Global Excellence Awards honor the best work in all categories from across the globe.
“PromaxBDA members around the globe produce creative, strategic, funny and compelling work every day that builds awareness, creates anticipation and compels viewers to watch” said Steve Kazanjian, PromaxBDA president and CEO. “The PromaxBDA Awards celebrate and honor the very best work of the year and we are proud to congratulate the talented teams and individuals who took home the Awards tonight.”
Among the other big winners in the North America competition were NBC Entertainment Marketing & Digital, Nickelodeon, Viceland, TBS, Fox Sports Marketing and Turner Sports.
In the Global Excellence competition, Comedy Central, Bell Media Agency (Canada), Fox Networks Group Latin America, France 3, ProSiebenSat1.TV (Germany) and RAI (Italy) were among those winning multiple awards.
Click here for a full rundown of PromaxBDA 2017 Award winners.
After 20 Years of Acting, Megan Park Finds Her Groove In The Director’s Chair On “My Old Ass”
Megan Park feels a little bad that her movie is making so many people cry. It's not just a single tear either — more like full body sobs.
She didn't set out to make a tearjerker with "My Old Ass," now streaming on Prime Video. She just wanted to tell a story about a young woman in conversation with her older self. The film is quite funny (the dialogue between 18-year-old and almost 40-year-old Elliott happens because of a mushroom trip that includes a Justin Bieber cover), but it packs an emotional punch, too.
Writing, Park said, is often her way of working through things. When she put pen to paper on "My Old Ass," she was a new mom and staying in her childhood bedroom during the pandemic. One night, she and her whole nuclear family slept under the same roof. She didn't know it then, but it would be the last time, and she started wondering what it would be like to have known that.
In the film, older Elliott ( Aubrey Plaza ) advises younger Elliott ( Maisy Stella ) to not be so eager to leave her provincial town, her younger brothers and her parents and to slow down and appreciate things as they are. She also tells her to stay away from a guy named Chad who she meets the next day and discovers that, unfortunately, he's quite cute.
At 38, Park is just getting started as a filmmaker. Her first, "The Fallout," in which Jenna Ortega plays a teen in the aftermath of a school shooting, had one of those pandemic releases that didn't even feel real. But it did get the attention of Margot Robbie 's production company LuckyChap Entertainment, who reached out to Park to see what other ideas she had brewing.
"They were very instrumental in encouraging me to go with it," Park said. "They're just really even-keeled, good people, which makes... Read More