“When we added ten categories for social justice content last year, filmmakers and storytellers from around the world responded with thought-provoking work,” said Rose Anderson, VP/executive director of New York Festivals Television & Film Awards. “This year, we are thrilled to announce the debut of our new trophy, the iconic NYF Tower in hand-polished Gold, Silver, and Bronze.”
2021 Social Justice medal winners included CBS Sports Presents 8:46(CBS Sports), A Most Beautiful Thing (50 Eggs Films), The Psychologist of Aleppo (CRTVE), The Price of Poverty (DW Deutsche Welle), MLB Tonight: A Conversation (MLB Network), The Time Is Now (The Edge Picture Company), Momma Lonnae O'Neal Essay (ESPN), Witness - St. Louis Superman (Al Jazeera English), I Am Not A Commodity (Antenna 3), and Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning (Kreativ Inc. for Lifetime).
View all the New York Festivals 2022 TV & Film Awards categories here.
Although the 2021 in-person NAB Show was cancelled due to pandemic quarantine restrictions, NYF pivoted with a 90-minute virtual ceremony Storytellers Gala featuring highlights and acceptances from 100 winning teams of men and women coming from their homes in 40+ countries.
The 2022 TV & Film Awards Storytellers Gala will take place at the annual NAB Show in Las Vegas on 26 April 2022. This is the 12th year of NYF’s strategic partnership with NAB Show. All NYF TV & Film Award winners have access to the multi-day event which is the world’s largest global gathering for the media and entertainment industry.
For the second year in a row, New York Festivals welcomes JusticeAid, an organisation that promotes justice through the arts and public engagement, as a partner.
The deadline to enter the 2022 Television & Film Awards competition is 1 February 2022.
All Entries in the 2022 competition will be judged online and screened by NYF’s TV & Film Awards Grand Jury of 200+ producers, directors, writers, and other creative media professionals from around the globe. Award-winning entries will be showcased on the TV & Film Awards winners gallery.
For more, go to https://tvfilm.newyorkfestivals.com/Competition/Rules
