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8 Los Angeles Area Emmy® Wins for PBS SoCal Marks 9th Consecutive Year Leading All Other LA TV Stations, An Unparalleled Accomplishment in Awards’ 77-Year History

PBS SoCal locally produced content takes top honors in 8 of the 14 nominated categories, including 2 awards each for Original series ARTBOUND and LOST LA.
July 28, 2025

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ARTBOUND’s “The Cheech” filmmaking team takes home trophies in the “Arts” category at the 77th annual LA Emmy Awards®. (Photo Courtesy of PBS SoCal)

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Los Angeles, Calif. – July 28, 2025 – PBS SoCal Southern California’s flagship PBS organization, announced today a total of 8 wins out of 14 nominated categories at the 77th Annual Los Angeles Area Emmy® Awards presented on Sat. July 26 by the Television Academy and its Los Angeles Area Peer Group. The total tally marks the 9th consecutive year that the organization was honored more than any other LA-based broadcast organization – an unprecedented achievement in the awards’ 77-year history. After receiving 27 nominations earlier this summer, the organization’s original series ARTBOUND and LOST LA each took home two trophies including key categories “LA Local Color” and “Arts.” All 33 categories were presented during a ceremony at the Skirball Cultural Center, hosted by Kelvin Washington, Host/Anchor for Spectrum News 1 in Los Angeles.

The award-winning, locally produced original arts and culture series ARTBOUND received two wins in total, highlighting last fall’s premiere episode following the creation of a world-class art museum and education center dedicated to Mexican-American artists – The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum (aka “The Cheech”) featuring interviews with actor and art collector Cheech Marin.

While season six of the locally produced, historical documentary series LOST LA, a co-production with the University of Southern California Libraries, also garnered two wins for “Fast Food and Car Culture” which explored how car culture and the restaurant industry collided in the LA region, forever shaping the way Americans dine and drive.

Additional wins also went to PBS SoCal for documentaries that included WOMEN OF FIRE, POSSIBLE SELVES, SNAPSHOTS OF CONFINEMENT while a remaining win went to Original digital series REBEL KITCHENS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

The recipients honored for their work on PBS SoCal content were as follows in the designated categories:

L.A. Local Color

  • “Fast Food and Car Culture” (LOST LA) - Tamara Gould, Executive Producer; Nathan Masters, Executive Producer, Host; Matt Bass, Director, Director of Photography; Angela Boisvert, Producer; Bill Dotson, Co-Producer; Anne-Marie Maxwell, Co-Producer; Rick Pratt, Editor; Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer; Micaela Rodgers, Associate Producer

Independent Programming

  • POSSIBLE SELVES: OVERCOMING THE ODDS IN FOSTER CARE - Shaun Kadlec, Camera, Director, Producer; Grace Zahrah, Editor, Producer; Jamie Wolf, Executive Producer; Sarah Feeley, Producer; Doug Blush, Producer; Bill Resnick, Executive Producer; Pablo Bryant, Camera

Education/Information

  • WOMEN OF FIRE- Michelle Merker, Executive Producer; Georg Kallert, Producer; Moses Norton, Producer; Maris Malejs, Co-Producer, Editor; Anna Agadjanyan, Associate Producer; Zoe Lubeck, Camera

Arts

  • “The Cheech” (ARTBOUND) - Tamara Gould, Executive Producer; Angela Boisvert, Executive Producer; Nic Cha Kim, Producer; Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer; Luis Alfonso De la Parra, Associate Producer; Varda Bar-Kar, Director; Alessandra Pasquino, Producer; Matthew Wilder, Director of Photography; Edgar Sardarian, Editor

Culture/History

  • SNAPSHOTS OF CONFINEMENT- Michelle Merker, Executive Producer; Esteban Gómez, Producer, Writer; Whitney Peterson, Producer, Writer; J.D. Gonzales, Camera, Director

Informational Series (more than 50% remote)

  • REBEL KITCHENS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - Tamara Gould, Executive Producer; Angela Boisvert, Executive Producer; Antonio Diaz, Director, Editor, Executive Producer, Director of Photography; Jaime Morgan Muñoz, Producer; Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer; Robert McDonnell, Supervising Producer

Music Composition

Short Promo - News/Topical

  • Lost LA - Numa Pelissier, Editor, Producer

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About PBS SoCal

PBS SoCal uses the power of public media for good, strengthening the civic fabric of Southern California and providing our community with an essential connection to a wider world. As a local, donor/member-supported non-profit organization, PBS SoCal is available to stream on the PBS app and the PBS Kids App and reaches nearly 19M viewers across 7 Broadcast channels — including 2 primary channels, PBS SoCal and PBS SoCal Plus and 5 digital subchannels. With a commitment to make content available anytime and anywhere for free, PBS SoCal offers programming that reflects the diversity of Southern California and showcases the full schedule of beloved and trusted PBS content spanning Education, News, Environment and Arts & Culture. PBS SoCal also sparks the sharing of ideas at in-person cultural events and community conversations as well as prepares children for kindergarten and beyond by bringing bilingual, hands-on learning experiences to the community for free.

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