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LEGO Duplo, WWF-UK and Sesame Workshop have been named among the winners at this year’s Kidscreen Awards, a high profile awards ceremony that celebrates the best in children’s television and digital media.
Hosted by actor and comedian, Emma Hunter, this year’s awards took place virtually as the global kids entertainment community gathered to highlight and applaud the best that the business has to offer. Winners were determined by two panels of esteemed industry judges who selected winners across more than 50 categories.
Among the winners at this year’s awards were Sesame Workshop who took home the award for Best Live Action Series, Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie, Best in Class, and Best Web/App Series – Branded. Other winners included the likes of BBC Studios’ Bluey, LEGO Duplo, and WWF-UK who partnered with Kids Industries to develop its Amazing Planet app.
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Actors Shamier Anderson (left) and Stephan James arrive ahead of the screening of Homecoming during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, on Friday, September 7, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov January 28, 2021 - 4:33 AM
TORONTO - After launching The Black Academy in early December, actor-brothers Shamier Anderson and Stephan James are now planning an awards show to celebrate and uplift Black talent across Canada.
But getting financial backing is proving to be a challenge, they say.
The Toronto-raised performers say they want to debut the live, national telecast in the latter half of 2022 in their home city so they can have an in-person audience hopefully without COVID-19 fears.
Canada Media Fund president and CEO Valerie Creighton.
The Canada Media Fund has translated its new visual identity into an initial 12 Indigenous languages and dialects to encourage greater investment in First Nation creators.
The Canada Media Fund, the country s top TV financier, has unveiled a new visual identity to expand investment and inclusion for the country s Indigenous creators.
The redesign includes translating the organization s name and spark-themed logos into an initial 12 Indigenous languages and dialects to reflect homegrown TV content funded by the CMF in the Dene, Gwich in, Inuvialuit, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Michif, Northern East Cree, Ojibwe, Oji-Cree, Plains Cree, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Sníchim (Squamish) Woods Cree languages.