BANFF – Canada picked up seven awards at the 2019 Rockie Awards International Program Competition that recognizes and celebrates excellence in television and digital media content from around the world.
One of the largest competitions of its kind, the Rockie Awards International Program Competition handed out awards in 26 categories spanning the Documentary & Factual, Arts & Entertainment, Children & Youth and Scripted genres, as well as the Rogers Prize for Excellence in Canadian Content, the Rockies Francophone Prize and the Jury Prize.
The International Program Competition winners include:
– Comedy & Variety Program: Baroness von Sketch Show, Frantic Films, Canada
– Limited Series: Sharp Objects, HBO/eOne/Tiny Pyro/Blumhouse/Fourth Born/crazyrose, USA/Canada
– Drama Series: Non-English Language: Can You Hear Me? Trio Orange, Canada
– Preschool Program: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Fred Rogers Productions/9 Story Media Group, USA/Canada
– Interactive Content: Children & Youth: MarcoPolo World School, MarcoPolo Learning/Mad Snow/KeyFrame/Beat Street, Canada/USA/UK
– Lifestyle Program: Employable Me, Employable Me Productions/Thomas Howe Associates, Canada
– Interactive Content: Damaged, Yellow Bear Studios/Insight Productions, Canada
– Drama Series: English Language: Bodyguard, World Productions/BBC, UK
– Comedy Series: English Language: Barry, HBO/Alec Berg/Hanarply, USA
– Comedy Series: Non-English Language: Arthur's Law, good friends Filmproduktions/TNT Comedy, Germany
– Children & Youth Fiction Series: Katy, BBC, UK
– Reality Program: RuPaul's Drag Race, World of Wonder, USA
– Science & Technology Program: One Strange Rock, Nutopia/National Geographic, USA/UK
– History & Biography Program: The Clinton Affair, Jigsaw Productions/Instinct Productions/A&E, USA
– Serials, Soaps & Telenovela: Tangled Lives, SP Televisão/SIC, Portugal
– Sci-Fi & Genre-Based Series: Doctor Who, BBC Cymru/BBC One, UK
The $25,000 Rogers Prize for Excellence in Canadian Content, awarded to the highest-scoring Canadian program or property in the Rockies International Program Competition across two rounds of independent jury review, was awarded to Baroness von Sketch Show (Frantic Films).
Boomerang, from Canada’s Encore Télévision, was the Rockies Francophone Prize winner, and the Jury Prize was awarded to You Are Here from MDF Productions/HBO Canada.
Click here for the full list of winners.
