2011 International Digital Emmy Awards Winners Announced

Cannes, April 4, 2011 – The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced tonight the winners of the International Digital Emmy® Awards at a ceremony organized in partnership with Reed Midem and attended by over 300 international executives from the television, broadband and mobile industries.

HIGHRISE: Out My Window (National Film Board of Canada), an interactive web documentary about high-rises and the stories of the people who live in them throughout 13 different cities, won in the Non-Fiction Category. Battlefront II (Raw TV/Airlock for Channel 4), which follows 12 young people running campaigns to change the world, won its second Digital Emmy Award in the Children & Young People Category. Shankaboot (Batoota films/BBC World Service Trust) a webseries conceived as a vehicle for exploring social problems which are often overlooked by mainstream media in the Arab world, garnered the first Digital Emmy Award for Lebanon by winning the Fiction Category. Complete information on the winners follows this release.

The Pioneer Prize was presented to Jon M. Chu, the Creator and Executive Producer of the global online dance phenomenon The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, for innovative contributions to the field of digital entertainment.

“This year’s winners attest to the power of social media throughout the world,” said Bruce L. Paisner, President & CEO of The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. “We congratulate them for being on the cutting edge of a vital new form of expression.”

Click here to read the full press release from the International Digital Emmy Awards.