The Webby Awards has announced its nominees for 2012, and we’re excited that StoryCorps Shorts: September 11 Stories has been named an honoree in the Documentary Series category!
The animated shorts, directed by the Rauch Brothers, premiered online in September 2011 — You can watch them on POV’s website. It’s an exciting follow up to last week, when POV shared a Peabody Award with StoryCorps for its collection of 9/11 remembrances.
Public media received multiple nominations this year, spanning categories including Television, Entertainment, Documentary Series, Youth, Religion and Spirituality. You can see the full list at webbyawards.com, but we’ve pulled out the nominees from a few of the categories of particular interest to documentary filmmakers, web documentarians and artists interested in raising awareness for social issues below. (Descriptions come from the Webby Awards site.)
Online Film & Video: Documentary: Series
Series or shows of documentary content that premiered only online.
New York Close Up
Art21
Often Awesome The Series
All Aces Media
Sundance Channel – Beginnings
Sundance Channel
URBAN SURVIVORS
DARJEELING
Women, War and Peace Documentary Shorts
The Awards Group on behalf of Thirteen
Online Film & Video: Documentary Individual Episode
Single, one-time documentary films (of any length) should be entered, which premiered only online.
‘I will never be cut’: Kenyan girls fight back against genital mutilation
Guardian News & Media
A Thousand More
MediaStorm
Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
VICE
God’s Lake Narrows
National Film Board of Canada
Online Film & Video: Public Service and Activism
Original online content documenting public service issues, activism and societal concerns. Individual episodes or entire series may be entered.
Countdown to an AIDS-Free Generation
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Dear 16-year-old Me
Evidently
How A Virus Changes The World
TakePart
Living with Alzheimer’s
Relate Digital, LLC
Undercover at Smithfield Foods
The Humane Society of the United States
Online Film & Video: Best Use of Interactive Video
Only the interactive components of a video will be judged. Geared toward narrative and graphical elements that include selectable plotlines, choose-your-own-adventure type stories, and puts the action squarely in the hands of the user.
Asos Urban Tour
BBH Advertising
Bear 71
National Film Board of Canada
Endgame Interactive
Secret Location
Jameson1780.com
Martin Percy
Websites: People’s Special Achievement for Social Change
Websites that enable and foster social change proving themselves as invaluable tools for advocacy and protest, enabling people to easily spread ideas instantly, connect others to global issues, organize movements, help facilitate fundraising efforts, and directly address new social questions ranging from front page news to the hyper-local issues.
Websites: Activism
Sites facilitating political change, social movement, human rights, public education and reform, or revolution.
Bear 71
National Film Board of Canada
Book Burning Party
Leo Burnett Detroit
Counterspill
Counterspill
SPENT
McKinney
The Breathe Project
Citizen Group
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