KCET and PBS SoCal Nominated for 16 Los Angeles Area Emmys
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Los Angeles, Calif. – June 8, 2022 – PBS SoCal and KCET, Southern California’s flagship PBS stations, announced today that they received 16 nominations for the 74th Annual Los Angeles Area Emmy® Awards presented by the Television Academy. The nominations were spread across 10 different categories and honored locally produced productions from KCET and PBS SoCal. An entire sweep in one of the categories – Music Composition, ensures at least one Emmy® win when all 35 categories are presented during a ceremony on Saturday, July 23 at the Academy’s campus in L.A.’s NoHo Arts District.
The locally produced original arts and culture series ARTBOUND received the most nominations with eight in total, highlighting a variety of season 12 episodes that include a tribute to Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara with “Con Safos,” an exploration of international art exhibition “Desert X 2021” and more. The fourth season of TENDING NATURE (produced in partnership with the Autry Museum of the American West) was also recognized with three nominations for the series that shines a light on the environmental knowledge of Indigenous Peoples across California.
In a first for the show, SOCAL WANDERER garnered two nominations this year. A KCET Original that explores the rich culture, history and landscape of Southern California with host Rosey Alvero, the most recent season examined Los Angeles neighborhoods guided by women business owners of color who are trailblazers in their community.
Single nominations went to THE 62nd ANNUAL L.A. COUNTY HOLIDAY CELEBRATION (a co-production with The Music Center in association with CDK Productions) as well as acquired programs EDDY’S WORLD, an engaging portrait of a 100-year-old toy inventor, and LIVES, NOT GRADES, where a team of USC college students travels to Moria Camp in Greece to design and build innovations for refugees.
Nominations for KCET and PBS SoCal are listed alphabetically by program within each category:
L.A. Local Color
ARTBOUND “Con Safos”
Juan Devis, Executive Producer; Rubén Guevara III, Executive Producer; Dan Kwong, Executive Producer; Nic Cha Kim, Producer; Moni Vargas, Director, Producer; Michael Vargas, Director, Director of Photography, Editor; Angela Boisvert, Co-Producer; Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer; Marley Lister, Associate Producer; Amanda Marie Pinedo, Associate Producer.
Independent Programming
EDDY’S WORLD
Lyn Goldfarb, Director, Producer
LIVES, NOT GRADES
Daniel Druhora, Producer, Director, Writer; Yannis Yortsos, Executive Producer; Sonny Astani, Executive Producer; Burçin Becerik-Gerber, Co-Producer; Brad Cracchiola, Co-Producer; David Gerber, Co-Producer; Adam Smith, Co-Producer; Rommel Villa, Editor; Teodora Totoiu, Cinematographer.
Education/Information
ARTBOUND “Arts Education”
Matt Bass, Director, Director of Photography; Juan Devis, Executive Producer; Angela Boisvert, Producer; Jacqueline Reyno, Producer; Matthew Crotty, Co-Producer; Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer; Bradley Bischoff, Editor; Amanda Marie Pinedo, Associate Producer
Arts
ARTBOUND “Corita Kent: The Pop Art Nun”
Juan Devis, Executive Producer; Suzanne Méjean Pinney, Editor, Producer; Amanda Marie Pinedo, Producer; Angela Boisvert, Co-Producer; Matthew Crotty, Co-Producer; Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer
ARTBOUND “Desert X 2021”
Dylan Robertson, Director, Producer; Zoe Lukov, Producer; David Markun, Director of Photography; R. Brett Thomas, Editor; Caroline Gomez, Associate Producer; Katie Robertson, Associate Producer; Juan Devis, Executive Producer; Nic Cha Kim, Producer; Angela Boisvert, Co-Producer; Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer; Marley Lister, Associate Producer; Amanda Marie Pinedo, Associate Producer
Culture/History
ARTBOUND “Imagined Wests”
Juan Devis, Executive Producer; Nic Cha Kim, Producer; Laura Purdy, Producer; Corbett Jones, Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer; Anna Rau, Director, Producer; Angela Boisvert, Co-Producer; Jacob Ritley, Director of Photography; Alex Pelly, Editor; Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer; Josh Garrett-Davis, Associate Producer; Amanda Marie Pinedo, Associate Producer; Marley Lister, Associate Producer
TENDING NATURE “Indigenous Land Stewardship”
Juan Devis, Executive Producer; Matthew Crotty, Executive Producer; Laura Purdy, Executive Producer; Anna Rau, Director, Producer; Corbett Jones, Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer; Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer
Informational Series (more than 50% remote)
ARTBOUND “Graphic Design”
Juan Devis, Executive Producer; Suzanne Méjean Pinney, Editor, Producer; Amanda Marie Pinedo, Producer; Angela Boisvert, Co-Producer; Matthew Crotty, Co-Producer; Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer
SOCAL WANDERER
Juan Devis, Executive Producer; Jaime Morgan Muñoz, Producer; Rosey Alvero, Host; Terra Gutmann-Gonzalez, Director of Photography; Tom Salvaggio, Editor; Marley Lister, Associate Producer; Robert McDonnell, Supervising Producer
Music Composition
ARTBOUND “Life Centered: The Helen Jean Taylor Story”
Emily Bear, Composer
TENDING NATURE “Indigenous Land Stewardship”
Marcus Bagala, Composer; Mark Baechle, Composer
Live Special Events - Programming
62nd ANNUAL LA COUNTY HOLIDAY CELEBRATION
Kenneth Shapiro, Director, Executive Producer; Nick Schwartz-Hall, Executive Producer; Ming Ng, Executive Producer; Brian White, Co-Host; Suzanna Guzmán, Co-Host; Derek Browell, Co-Producer; Gabe Uhr, Writer; Michelle Merker, Producer; Patrick Traylor, Associate Producer; Jill Dove, Associate Director; Shiran Stotland, Technical Director
Feature Segment
SOCAL WANDERER “Yuca’s Tacos”
Juan Devis, Executive Producer; Jaime Morgan Muñoz, Producer; Rosey Alvero, Host; Terra Gutmann-Gonzalez, Director of Photography; Tom Salvaggio, Editor; Marley Lister, Associate Producer; Robert McDonnell, Senior Producer
Short Promo – News/Topical
TENDING NATURE “Indigenous Land Stewardship”
Kathleen Abing, Editor, Producer
ARTBOUND “Season 12”
Olivia Cox, Editor, Producer
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