Awards
TO PEOPLE IN PUBLIC MEDIA
CINE Golden Eagles, presented fall 2008
Public TV stations and producers landed nearly 40 CINE Golden Eagle Awards, WGBH and WNET carting off more than half of them.
WGBH won for From the Top: Live from Carnegie Hall; A Walk to Beautiful (Nova/WGBH and Engel Entertainment); Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie; Absolute Zero: The Race for Absolute Zero (Nova/WGBH and Windfall Films); The Truth About Cancer; Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial (Nova/WGBH and Vulcan Productions, Inc.); Ghost in Your Genes and Secrets of the Parthenon (Nova/WGBH); and Teacher’s Domain for“Dengue Virus Visualization,” “Poetry Everywhere Collection” and “Polar Sciences Collection.”
WNET won for African American Lives 2; American Masters: “Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character” and “Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On”; Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women (American Masters/WNET and Nancy Porter Productions, Inc.); Nature: “The Gorilla King,” “Superfish,” and “What Females Want and Males Will Do”; Exposé: America’s Investigative Reports for“Quid Pro Quo”; and Music Under New York.
The following stations and producers also won awards:
WETA for The Jewish Americans.
Maryland Public Television for Lethal Landscapes: Canvases of the Combat Artist and The Transformation Age: Surviving a Technology Revolution with Robert X. Cringely, produced with the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Twin Cities Public Television for Rudy Maxa’s World: “Rajasthan” and “Tokyo,” produced with RMW Productions.
Idaho Public Television for Outdoor Idaho episodes“Wild Fire” and “25th Anniversary”; and Barbara Morgan: No Limits.
South Carolina ETV for Restaging Martha Graham’s “Sketches from Chronicle.”
WVIA in Pittston, Pa., for Frank Schoonover: The Authentic Artist.
Sesame Workshop for Sesame Tree; Here For You: Helping Children Cope with Serious Illness; Let’s Get Ready: Planning Together for Emergencies; and Talk, Listen, Connect: Deployments, Homecomings, Changes.
Capitol Concerts, Inc. for the PBS program 2008 National Memorial Day Concert.
Two Cats Productions for the PBS program The Jewish People: A Story of Survival.
The Gardner Documentary Group for The Last Ghost of War, distributed by WGBH International and funded by CPB and the Center for Asian American Media.
Motion Inc. for Alzheimer’s Disease: Facing the Fact, distributed by American Public Television.
Geovision for Our Disappeared/Nuestros Desaparecidos, which airs on Independent Lens in May.
Vaquera Films for Going on 13, funded by Latino Public Broadcasting, CPB and ITVS.
Posted March 2, 2009
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