ABC leads way on world stage at Rockie Awards miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Rockie Awards offers prizes in 29 categories, and this year had 142 nominees from 37 countries.
“We’re ecstatic with the range of high-profile international and Canadian programs that entered and are nominated for the 2021 Rockie Awards,” said Jenn Kuzmyk, executive director of the Banff World Media Festival, which produces the long-running competition. “This year’s nominees are a showcase of the spirit, creativity and truly exceptional work the global entertainment industry continued to produce amidst a year of challenge and change.”
In addition to a Grand Jury Prize, the $25,000 Rogers Prize for Excellence in Canadian Content, awarded to the top Canadian production and The Francophone Prize for the top French-language production will also be awarded. And 29 awards will be given in categories such as Documentary & Factual, Arts & Entertainment, Children & Youth, Scripted, and Podcast, besides several Rockies Gala Awards yet to be announced.
How to Buy a Baby Picked Up By Warner Bros. International Television Production For Global
Manori Ravindran, provided by
FacebookTwitterEmail
Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP) has swooped for global distribution rights to International Emmy-nominated series “How to Buy a Baby.”
The digital original from Canadian public broadcaster CBC is produced by Toronto-based LoCo Motion Pictures and follows a couple struggling to conceive a baby. The series, created by Wendy Litner, provides a voyeuristic view of a marriage under pressure and shows just how much suffering a couple will endure for a child.
More from Variety
The format has already been adapted in Sweden by WBITVP, with season 1 of locally titled “Alla Utom Vi” (Everyone Except Us) having premiered on Sweden’s Discovery Plus platform in February as a 10 x 22′ series. A second season has also been commissioned.
Banff World Media Festival Details Plans for Virtual 2021 Event Etan Vlessing
The Banff World Media Festival will run as an online-only event from June 14 to July 16, 2021, organizers said Tuesday.
Any hope the 42nd edition of the TV festival could return to the Canadian Rockies for an annual industry retreat have been dashed by COVID-19 infection rates rising this winter in Alberta. “Banff has always been about bringing people together, and this year’s festival will do that on a grand virtual scale,” Jenn Kuzmyk, Banff fest executive director, said in a statement.
Banff will shorten its upcoming pandemic-era edition to just over one month, compared to a 2020 edition that spanned four months after also being disrupted by the COVID-19 crisis.