[press release from AAP Medianet]
Producers Marcus Gillezeau and Ellenor Cox and their collaborators Michael O’Neill and Brad Hayward were last night awarded the International Digital Emmy® Award for Digital Program: Fiction by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for their all-media drama Scorched. It is the first time an Australian project has won this prestigious award.
Set in 2012 in a world ravaged by climate change, the Scorched project consists of a star-studded telemovie, an integrated episodic online prequel and sequel drama and an online news network with extensive bulletins and weather reports from 2012.
Scorched received finance from Screen Australia, the Nine Network, ITV International and the New South Wales Film and Television Office and was developed through the Australian Film Television and Radio School’s Laboratory of Advanced Media Production (LAMP).
“We congratulate all those involved in Scorched on this historic achievement, and are particularly delighted to see Australian work identified at the forefront of trans-media production internationally” said Ruth Harley, Screen Australia’s Chief Executive Officer. “Screen Australia is enormously proud to have supported both the Emmy® Award winning site and the telemovie.”
The awards were announced at a ceremony organised in partnership with Reed Midem during the MIPTV opening festivities in Cannes. They were attended by over 200 international executives from the television, broadband and mobile industries.
Firelight Productions in association with Goalpost Pictures / Essential Media and Entertainment Australia
Director/ Producer: Marcus Gillezeau
Producer: Ellenor Cox
Co-Producer/ Writer: Michael O’Neill
Writer/ Editor: Brad Hayward