It's here! The inaugural SCREEN NATION DIGITAL-iS MEDIA AWARDS presented in conjunction with Vox Africa (Sky218 ) and sponsored by Google and Afrinolly aims to showcase the best online content produced by black British and international digital media creatives across short film, web series, music promos, blogs, magazines, social networks and more. The ceremony takes place on Tuesday 17th December at Google HQ London.
The awards highlight the new media maker who can wake up, write, cast and fund a project online, record and edit with a mobile device, launch a YouTube channel to distribute the content, design a blog to publicise their work and find an audience via any one of a number of social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and more. Digital-iS our reality. With the constant debate about the lack of diversity across mainstream media channels, the Screen Nation Digital-iS Media Awards is a great way to give new voices a platform and recognise the wealth of talent succeeding in the digital arena. See below to see who made the 2013 nominations list and how to vote plus look out over the next couple of weeks for SceneProfiles on each of the nominees.
Favourite Web Series Actor:
Kingsley Amadi (Spin)
Michael Salami (Spin)
Samuell Benta (All About The McKenzies)
Wil Johnson (Sokorates)
Zephryn Taitte (Brothers With No Game)
Favourite Web Series Actress:
Busayo Ige (Unfamous)
Letitia Hector (Venus vs Mars)
Linda Adey (Dear Jesus)
Ria Horsford (All About The McKenzies)
Segilola Scott (Breach)
Tanya Vital (Sokorates)
Favourite Web Series Ensemble:
All About The McKenzies
Breach
Brothers With No Game
Spin
Unfamous
Favourite Web Series:
All About The McKenzies
Brothers With No Game
Dear Jesus
Redemptions End
Sokorates
Spin
Unfamous
Venus vs Mars
Favourite Short Film (to be judged by attendees on the day):
12 The Damaged Race (Aml Ameen)
Illegal Activity (Sebastian Thiel)
Jonah (Kibwe Tavare)
Sorry We Don’t Help Darkies (Travis Watson)
The Block (Michael Gouken Omonua)
Favourite Music Promo produced by Luti Media
Little Mix ft. Missy Elliot – How Ya Doing (Produced by Amalia Rosen Rawlings, Directed by Carly Cussen)
Lemar – Invincible (Produced by Amalia Rosen Rawlings, Directed by Carly Cussen)
JLS – Do You Feel What I Feel (Produced by Luti Fagbenle, Directed by Marcus Lundin)
Angel – The World (Produced by Ayo Davis, Directed by Director X)
Daps – Ian Wright (Produced by Luti Fagbenle, Directed by Fabien Montique)
Favourite Youth Entertainment/Lifestyle Site/Mag
Flavour
GRM Daily
Its Upshot
Link Up TV
Rep Dat
SB.TV
Soul Culture
Favourite Arts & Entertainment/Lifestyle Site/Mag
Afridiziak
ItsBlackcurrent
Mad News
Pappzd
The British Blacklist
The LaLa Report
Honorary Digital Vanguard Awards are to be presented to:
LUTI FAGBENLE, one of the UK’s top digital producers and founder of LUTI MEDIA – the top UK digital production company working across music promos, commercials and films.
JAMAL EDWARDS, the innovative digital entrepreneur, founder and CEO of SB.TV – the UK’s leading online youth broadcaster.
To cast your vote, go to www.screennation.net/digitalis Voting closes on Sunday 15th December at midnight. The winner of each category will be selected by a unique combination of peer review and public votes.
THE CEREMONY – TUES 17TH DECEMBER (3.30pm – 7.30pm
Limited tickets to the ceremony are on sale here: www.screennationdigitalis.eventbrite.co.uk
Tickets include entry to the official after-party which is also the SCREEN NATION CELEBRITY CHRISTMAS SOIREE. Guests will enjoy complimentary drinks, food, gift bags and music from Capital XTRA’s DJ Abrantee (see below).
SCREEN NATION CELEBRITY CHRISTMAS SOIREE – TUES 17TH DECEMBER (7pm – 12pm)
Select Guestlist VIP ACCESS: Pre-pay £25 to guarantee entry (£30 from 01.12.13)
Limited tickets on sale here: www.screennationxmas.eventbrite.co.uk
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