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Los Angeles, Calif. – December 4, 2023 – PBS SoCal and KCET, Southern California’s flagship PBS stations, introduced right now 5 wins (plus a number of 2nd and third place honors) from the Nationwide Arts and Leisure Journalism Awards offered by the Los Angeles Press Membership. With nominations unfold throughout 13 totally different classes honoring domestically produced content material from KCET and PBS SoCal, winners had been introduced in all classes offered throughout a ceremony in downtown Los Angeles on the Millennium Biltmore on Sunday, December 3. The occasion additionally paid tribute to PBS’s Discovering Your Roots, writer and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. who obtained the 2023 “Luminary Award for Profession Achievement” in addition to to actor, director, producer, educator and lifelong literacy advocate (PBS’s Studying Rainbow) LeVar Burton who accepted the Distinguished Storyteller Award. An entire listing of winners could be discovered at lapressclub.org
KCET Authentic arts and tradition sequence ARTBOUND obtained probably the most recognition going into the night time with 11 nominations and profitable within the Enterprise/Tech Arts class for what the judges referred to as a “Nicely-produced piece and inventive storytelling and enhancing by the KCET workers concerning the NFT phenomenon.” Receiving 2nd and threerd place accolades had been ARTBOUND documentaries “A New Deal for LA” that checked out publicly funded arts packages throughout the town in addition to “Big Robotic: Asian Pop Tradition and Past” which celebrated the long-lasting journal that created an urge for food for Asian and Asian American popular culture.
PBS SoCal’s LGBTQ+ themed DEAR IKE: Misplaced Letters to a Teen Idol received high honors within the Class of Documentary or Particular Program, Function, (over half-hour). The animated documentary from filmmaker Dion Labriola recounts his childhood quest to contact his teen idol Ike Eisenmann.
Within the Comfortable Information Function, Arts/Tradition (Underneath 5 Minutes) class, KCET’s digital group was honored for his or her work “Homosexual Males’s Refrain of L.A.: Elevating Voices of Pleasure” which mixed poignant interviews with Homosexual Males’s Refrain members with historic footage of the refrain throughout the peak of the HIV epidemic, displaying the significance of the refrain to the homosexual neighborhood.
Two extra wins went to photojournalist Osceola Refetoff for “Photojournalist of the Yr” — his second time profitable this award from the LA Press Membership — and a second 1st place award within the “Picture Essay” class.
PBS SoCal/KCET 1st place honors are listed under:
Documentary or Particular Program, Function, over half-hour
Comfortable Information Function, Arts/Tradition — Underneath 5 Minutes
Enterprise, Tech/Arts
Picture Essay
Photojournalist of the Yr
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