The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has revealed the nominees for The PGA Innovation Award ahead of the 33rd Annual Producers Guild Awards. The PGA Innovation Award recognizes the production of a noteworthy, impactful new media program that significantly elevates the audience’s viewing experience.
The recipient of the 2022 PGA Innovation Award, as well as the PGA Award-winners of the Short Form, Sports and Children’s categories will be announced during the New York Nominees Celebration on Monday, March 14, at the Bryant Park Grill Garden.
The PGA Awards ceremony will be held on the evening of Saturday, March 19, at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The winners of the Innovation Award, as well as the Short Form, Sports and Children’s categories, will also be highlighted at the ceremony.
Nominees for the 2022 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.
2022 PGA Innovation Award Nominees:
- Artificial: Factions (96 Next)
- Breonna’s Garden (YesUniverse)
- Eschaton (Chorus Productions Holdings, INC)
- Eternals: AR Story Experience (Walt Disney Studios)
- For All Mankind: Time Capsule (Apple)
- Live @ Expo (Hovercast)
- Madrid Noir (Atlas V / No Ghost)
- Namoo (Baobab Studios)
- Pacha Mama (Noitom International, Inc.)
- The MetaMovie Presents: Alien Rescue (The MetaMovie)
- The Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite (Ferryman Collective)
- Tutankhamun: Enter The Tomb (CityLights)
The award honors exceptional distinctiveness, inventiveness, and the 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 vetted by a nominating committee and reviewed and voted-on by a blue-ribbon jury of experts. Programs released between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2021 were eligible for the honor.
“As the PGA Innovation Award enters its third year, we are continuously blown away with the creative and technological advancements that each of our nominees represent. We’re honored to shine a light on the amazing artists and producing teams that not only define excellence in the immersive medium, but showcase to audiences all over the world the emotional and storytelling magic that these experiences present,” said Eric W. Shamlin, Committee and Jury chair of the PGA Innovation Award.
In 2019, the PGA awarded the inaugural PGA Innovation Award to the team behind “Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series – Episode 1.” Last year, the team behind “BRCvr,” an official virtual Burning Man Experience hosted on AltSpaceVR, was honored with the prize.
SMPTE elects board officers, regional governors
SMPTE®,the home of media professionals, technologists, and engineers, has revealed the board officers and regional governors who will serve terms beginning in January 2025.
Three new officers--Richard Welsh as SMPTE president, Eric Gsell as SMPTE executive VP, and Polly Hickling as SMPTE Education VP--have been elected for a two-year term from Jan. 1, 2025, to Dec. 31, 2026. One SMPTE officer, Lisa Hobbs, will be continuing her service as SMPTE secretary and treasurer for another two-year term. Additionally, Raymond Yeung will be stepping into the role of standards VP on Jan. 1, 2025.
“SMPTE’s membership has spoken,” said SMPTE interim executive director Sally-Ann D’Amato. “These officers have been tasked with an important responsibility, one each of them is prepared to tackle head-on. These next two years are looking bright for SMPTE!”
In addition to the officers, 10 regional governors were elected by the Society to serve two-year 2025-2026 terms.
These include the following regional governors, re-elected to continue their service:
Asia-Pacific Region Governor
Tony Ngai, Society of Motion Imaging Ltd.
EMEA - Central & South America Region Governor
Fernando Bittencourt, FB Consultant
United Kingdom Region Governor
Chris Johns, Sky UK.
USA - Central Region Governor
William T. Hayes, Consultant
USA - Eastern Region Governor
Dover Jeanne Mundt, Riedel Communications
USA - Western Region Governor
Jeffrey F. Way, Open Drives
Also elected were four newcomers to the SMPTE Board:
Canada Region Governor
Jonathan Jobin, Grass Valley
USA - Hollywood Region Governor
Allan Schollnick, Voxx... Read More