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    Producers Guild Unveils Innovation Award Nominees For VR, AR, Experiential, Emerging Media

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    LOS ANGELES --

    The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has unveiled the 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,” 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 Nominees

    • 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 Presents

    The 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.

    The 2021 Producers Guild Awards event chairs are Chris Thomes, VP, 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. 

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    Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died

    Saturday, December 21, 2024
    Suchir Balaji poses for a photo in Hawaii in 2018. Balaji was a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who died in November 2024. (Balaji Ramamurthy via AP)

    Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26.

    Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August. He was well-regarded by colleagues at the San Francisco company, where a co-founder this week called him one of OpenAI's strongest contributors who was essential to developing some of its products.

    "We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news and our hearts go out to Suchir's loved ones during this difficult time," said a statement from OpenAI.

    Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26 in what police said "appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation." The city's chief medical examiner's office confirmed the manner of death to be suicide.

    His parents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy said they are still seeking answers, describing their son as a "happy, smart and brave young man" who loved to hike and recently returned from a trip with friends.

    Balaji grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and first arrived at the fledgling AI research lab for a 2018 summer internship while studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned a few years later to work at OpenAI, where one of his first projects, called WebGPT, helped pave the way for ChatGPT.

    "Suchir's contributions to this project were essential, and it wouldn't have succeeded without him," said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman in a social media post memorializing Balaji. Schulman, who recruited Balaji to his team, said what... Read More

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