DORSET DESIGNERS URGED TO ENTER MEDIA & INNOVATION AWARDS
The Media & Innovation Awards 2011 are run in association with Creatvie Industries (Innovation Network)
The Media & Innovation Awards will celebrate and honour the very best creative and innovative work produced by media and design companies during 2010. This year the awards will be held in Plymouth, on the 9th June.
Businesses from across the South West are being urged to enter the competition, which opens for entries on the 4th January and will close on the 31st January. It is open to all members of members of Dorset Design Forum, South West Screen and South West Music Forum. You can enter online or download an entry pack from www.mediainnovationawards.com. Media and design companies and their clients can enter up to five categories and nominate for the new talent and outstanding contribution awards.
The Media & Innovation Awards will also run alongside a two-day conference and a showcase event to be held at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth. The conference is expected to attract major international speakers, and will be a valuable tool for anyone looking to grow their creative business. Full details of the conference programme will be released later in the New Year.
Karen Stockdale, from the Media & Innovation Awards said: “We are delighted to be hosting a major international event in the South West, that will enable us to put the spotlight on the world-class creative companies based in the region.”
Sequoia Films won at the 2010 awards, Sari Stories was the winning entry in the TV category. A film about women’s contemporary rural life in southern India, it was broadcast by Al Jazeera English. Producer and Director Sue Sudbury asked the Indian women to film their everyday lives and then used this footage alongside her own to produce a unique view on life in India.
Sue says: “This award has made me realise the importance of being innovative and it is important to feel that the work you do has recognition. Very often television documentaries are produced in a vacuum. Winning awards is a very valuable way to achieve recognition and reward for the hard work involved.”
Sue has been able to demonstrate how the award has benefitted her company: “It has given a lot of credibility to my work and raised my profile as a producer/director. Recently I attended the Guangzhou Documentary Festival in China and was asked to make a presentation about my company’s work and it was very good to be able to mention this award.”
Sue continues: “It is very important that innovative and creative work being produced in the region is being recognised in this way.”
The awards feature 16 categories, which are:
· TV
· DVD or CD Rom
· Community Web Use
· Corporate Web Use
· Mobile Communications
· Independent Film or Video
· Graphics
· Installation/Exhibition/Live Event
· Radio/Audio/Music
· Games Design
· Branding
· Collaboration between business and young people
· International Trade
· Graduate Entrepreneurship
· New Talent
· Outstanding Contribution to Innovation
