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Announcing the Winners of the 2013 Awards of Excellence!
Montreal, May 29, 2013 – The winners of this year’s Awards of Excellence were revealed at the gala held last night at CBC/Radio-Canada’s Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. Sean Cullen served up a spectacular, laugh-a-minute show in tribute to Canadian youth production. Joined onstage at various times by Next Step Dancers, Dudley the Dragon and Super Why, he showcased the impressive range of talent in this booming industry.
Over 250 people were on hand for this grand celebration, which honoured the country’s best television and digital content in the following 15 award categories:
Grand Prize for Best Production Degrassi (Never Ever, Part Two) – produced by: Epitome Pictures Inc., aired on: Much Music
Award of Excellence for Best Television Program, All Genres, Ages 3–5 Category Kids’ CBC (Wowie Woah Woah!) – produced by and aired on: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Award of Excellence for Best Television Program, All Genres, Ages 6–8 Category Giver (Newmarket - Car Park) – produced by: Sinking Ship Entertainment, aired on: TVO
Award of Excellence for Best Television Program, All Genres, Ages 9–12 Category Cross Country Fun Hunt (Nova Scotia to PEI) – produced by: Apartment 11 Productions, aired on: CBC
Award of Excellence for Best Television Program, All Genres, Teen Category IN REAL LIFE 3 (Marine Survivalists) – produced by: Apartment 11 Productions, aired on: YTV
Award of Excellence for Best Television Program, Interstitial, All Ages Category Gisele’s Big Backyard (Fun and Friends in the Backyard!) – produced by and aired on: TVO
Award of Excellence for Best Television Program, Animation, Ages 3–5 Category Stella and Sam (Night Fairies) – produced by: Radical Sheep Productions Inc., aired on: Disney Junior Canada
Award of Excellence for Best Television Program, Animation, Ages 6–8 Category Jack (Sleepwalking Jack) – produced by: Groupe PVP inc., Sparky Animation, aired on: TVO
Award of Excellence for Best Television Program, Animation, Ages 9–14 Category Jimmy Two-Shoes (Toast Busters/Beezy 2.0) – produced by: Breakthrough Entertainment, aired on: Teletoon
Award of Excellence for Best Original Digital Content
i Learn With Boing: Ocean Adventures! – produced by: Tribal Nova
Award of Excellence for Best Convergent Website Cross Country Fun Hunt Interactive – produced by: Apartment 11 Productions
Award of Excellence for Best Convergent App The Degrassi Mobile Game – produced by: Epitome Pictures Inc.
YMA Parents’ Award TVOKids - Mark’s Moments (Braun Brothers) – produced by and aired on: TVO
Outstanding Achievement Award to Chris and Martin Kratt, founders and principals of the Kratt Brothers Company, who have created and produced over 200 episodes of television including the hit children’s television series Kratts’ Creatures, Emmy-winning preschool series Zoboomafoo, the National Geographic/CBC wildlife adventure series Be The Creature, and most recently, the Emmy nominated, PBS/TVO/Télé-Québec/Knowledge hit series in its third season, Wild Kratts.
Emerging Talent Award to Kristen McGregor, producer, researcher, and writer. She currently works as part of The Michael Cohen Group’s research team for Season III of the Nick Jr. show The Bubble Guppies, and the U.S. Department of Education’s UMIGO. Kristen is also the producer of the Canadian Screen Award-nominated TVO Kids/Sinking Ship Entertainment hit, Giver. She is the “voice” behind the Kids’ CBC Twitter account.
The Awards of Excellence is made possible thanks to generous support from our sponsors: CBC/Radio- Canada, 9 Story Entertainment, the Canada Media Fund, the Independent Production Fund, Sinking Ship Entertainment, Apartment 11 Productions, Epitome Pictures, Family Channel, Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, Mercury Filmworks, TVO, Breakthrough Entertainment, Nerd Corps Entertainment, Guru Studio, Big Jump Productions, marblemedia, Distribution360 and Technicolor.
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Contact: Lyne Côté, Coordinator, Special Events and Communications [email protected] 514-597-6809