Baobab, BUCK, Narratively creative Get recognition for the Telly Award
The Telly Awards, the world's greatest honor for video and television content across all screens, announced this year's winners, including animation highlights Bonfire, an interactive Baobab Studios film voiced by comedian, actress and writer Ali Wong; BUCKET "One voice is all you need" for Amazon Music, voiced by Chance the Rapper; and narratively creative The history of your name, previewed at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Under the theme "This year's Telly Award winners tell great stories," highlights include directors, editors, animators, producers, technologists and more across a wide range of industries, company sizes and regions, including Viacom Velocity, Autodesk, HBO Latin America, Adult Swim, Condé Nast, BBC, CNN, Fast Company, Bone + Gold e Beauregard Mediatogether with the international work of people like Cultural travel e Christie's Auction House (UK.), Taxi (Australia), Al Jazeera (Qatar) e FJ Amsterdam (Netherlands).
Founded in 1979, the Telly Awards honor video and television made for all screens and are judged by the Telly Award Judging Council, a leading group of video and television experts from some of the most prestigious entertainment, publishing, advertising and technology companies emerging.
The animation winners selected include:
Immersive and mixed reality: General - Animation
Bonfire The | Baobab Studios (TRAILER)
Brand content: Craft - 2D animation
"One voice is all you need" for Amazon Music | BUCK (CLOCK)
Brand content: Craft - Fully animated piece
The history of your name The | Narratively creative (CLOCK)
See all winners of the 41st Telly Awards on www.tellyawards.com/winners
“Our work exists to highlight and honor exemplary storytelling across all screens,” explains Sabrina Dridje, Managing Director of the Telly Awards. "And now is the most important time ever to give a platform to those creators who bring us global stories. Last season we were impressed with the work that exposed social injustice and celebrated different cultures in the workplace, including pieces that showed us the excellent work done by humanitarian groups around the world and international communities fighting for fairer playgrounds for the marginalized. However, as our season ended during the pandemic, we were equally impressed by the work that was taking place in this difficult climate to continue highlighting stories that otherwise would not have found an audience ".
The diverse variety of this year's winners speaks to the continued growth of creative approaches to the growing landscape of digital video production, storytelling and distribution. To continue expanding its reach across social and digital artists and video spaces, the Telly Awards have expanded their industry alliances to include VidCon e Social media week.
This year's content was judged by a panel of judges from the most diverse and elite group of TV and video industry leaders in the history of the awards, including HP's global head of virtual reality, Joanna Popper, Vice President of Production at Complex Networks , David Weinstein and Edelman Creative. Editor in Chief Annie Granatstein.
Based on last year's categories, the 41st Telly Awards added a number of new ones Immersive and mixed reality categories. The winners of this suite include Star Wars: 5G Sith Jet Trooper from an immersive media company HEAVY INDIAN e Bonfire by the VR animation company Baobab Studios. Additionally, to better celebrate the rise of videos and documentaries on global issues, two new categories: "Social impact" and "Diversity and breadth"; Inclusion "- have also been added.
To further celebrate the storytelling on all screens, The Telly Awards also released the annual release. Evening of films and videos Series of screenings during the 41st season: curated by previous winners, judges and partners. The programming highlighted the outstanding work of the likes of CNN Great beautiful story, dope5, Square, WeTransfer, RadicalMedia and independent artist and entertainer Andrew Myers with highly successful screenings in New York, Toronto, London and Amsterdam. When the COVID-19 pandemic began to unfold, Tellys turned to share this work online in the form of a Facebook observation party, continuing to safely deliver engaging and relevant content to the community it serves. All this work can still be appreciated on the Telly Awards Facebook page.
