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Record-Breaking 27 Los Angeles Area Emmy® Nominations Announced for PBS SoCal in 14 Categories For Locally Produced Content

Leading all other LA broadcasters for most recognition this year, 27 nominations represents the most number of nominations in history of PBS SoCal.
June 4, 2025

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Los Angeles, Calif. – June 4, 2025 – PBS SoCal, Southern California’s flagship PBS organization, announced the 27 nominations announced yesterday for the 77th Annual Los Angeles Area Emmy® Awards presented by the Television Academy, more than any other LA-based broadcast organization and the most nominations ever in PBS SoCal’s history. The 27 nominations for 13 different programs/series produced as PBS SoCal were spread across 12 different categories. The locally produced content/productions were recognized in a variety of categories that ranged from “L.A. Local Color” to “Live Special Events” and “Education/Information” to “Crime/Social Issues.” The 77th Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards will be presented Saturday evening, July 26, 2025, 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 the most nominations with 7 in total, highlighting a variety of season 15 episodes including 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. Also recognized was content highlighting the impact of Leimert Park’s Brockman Gallery on Black artists as well as a historical look at Compton’s Paul Robeson Players, one of the longest-running black theater companies. Additional nominated episodes from ARTBOUND looking at the rise of West Coast Modernism and the once-popular “Case Study Homes” as well as the fusion of art and science at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The award-winning, locally-produced environmental series EARTH FOCUS received five nominations for its fifth season that presented fresh perspectives on how nature and communities throughout the state of California can thrive together as well as provide long-term ecological solutions in order to protect the natural world. While season six of the locally produced, historical documentary series LOST LA, a co-production with the University of Southern California Libraries, garnered three nominations.

Additional nominations also went to PBS SoCal specials that included the 2024 MEDIA ACCESS AWARDS and the L.A. COUNTY HOLIDAY CELEBRATION (for the live 65th annual concert in December of 2024) as well as documentaries that included WOMEN OF FIRE, POSSIBLE SELVES, SNAPSHOTS OF CONFINEMENT and BIRTH OF THE ENDLESS SUMMER. Remaining nominations went to Original digital series REBEL KITCHENS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, OUTSIDE THE LYRICS and STOP SAVING THE PLANET? as well as PBS SoCal’s short weekday regional news series SOCAL MATTERS in collaboration with non-partisan newsroom CalMatters.

A full list of nominations for PBS SoCal are listed alphabetically by program within each category:

L.A. Local Color

  • “Arts & Architecture: The Case Study House Program” (ARTBOUND) - Tamara Gould, Executive Producer; Angela Boisvert, Executive Producer; Nic Cha Kim, Producer; Corbett Jones, Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer; Anna Rau, Director, Producer; Ryan Carmody, Director of Photography; Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer; Luis Alfonso De la Parra, Associate Producer
  • “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
  • “Transforming the Los Angeles River” (EARTH FOCUS) - Tamara Gould, Executive Producer; Angela Boisvert, Executive Producer; Jon Christensen, Executive Producer; Matthew Crotty, Director, Editor, Producer, Writer; Francesca Roth, Producer; Clarissa Guy, Producer; Corbett Jones, Director of Photography; Robert McDonnell, Supervising Producer; Luis Alfonso De la Parra, Associate Producer

Independent Programming

  • BIRTH OF THE ENDLESS SUMMER - Richard Yelland, Director, Producer; Matthew Johnston, Editor
  • 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

  • “Blended Worlds: The Fusion of Art & Science at JPL” (ARTBOUND) - Tamara Gould, Executive Producer; Angela Boisvert, Executive Producer; Nic Cha Kim, Producer; Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer; Luis Alfonso De la Parra, Associate Producer; Richie Kulchar, Director, Producer; Daniel Baghdasarian, Producer; Ben Boyd, Director of Photography, Editor
  • “The Tortoise, the Raven, and Us” (EARTH FOCUS) - Tamara Gould, Executive Producer; Angela Boisvert, Executive Producer; Jon Christensen, Executive Producer; Matthew Crotty, Director, Editor, Producer, Writer; Clarissa Guy, Producer; Corbett Jones, Director of Photography; Robert McDonnell, Supervising Producer; Luis Alfonso De la Parra, Associate Producer; Emily Mraz, Writer; Ella Hatamian, Editor; Francesca Roth, Producer
  • 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

Crime/Social Issues

  • “How Big Business Broke Recycling (And Blamed You)” (STOP SAVING THE PLANET?) - Rae Wynn-Grant, Host; Angela Boisvert, Executive Producer; Justin Cram, Executive Producer; Jaime Morgan Muñoz, Producer; Jenny Price, Coordinating Producer; Blanca Begert, Co-Producer; Suzanne Méjean Pinney, Editor; Eric Waldron, Director of Photography; Niki Alilovic, Associate Producer; Nico Giles Wiggins, Associate Producer; Robert McDonnell, Supervising Producer

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

  • “Black Art: A Brockman Gallery Legacy” (ARTBOUND) - Tamara Gould, Executive Producer; Angela Boisvert, Executive Producer; Nic Cha Kim, Producer; Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer; Luis Alfonso De la Parra, Associate Producer; Monesha Madison Lever, Producer; Carol Paik, Producer; Shannon Sun-Higginson, Producer; Bryant T. Griffin, Director; Zheyu Liang, Director of Photography, Editor
  • 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
  • SOCAL MATTERS

Informational Series (more than 50% studio)

  • STOP SAVING THE PLANET? - Angela Boisvert, Executive Producer; Robert McDonnell, Supervising Producer; Suzanne Méjean Pinney, Editor; Jaime Morgan Muñoz, Producer; Rae Wynn-Grant, Host; Justin Cram, Executive Producer; Blanca Begert, Co-Producer; Eric Waldron, Camera; Niki Alilovic, Associate Producer; Nico Giles Wiggins, Associate Producer; Jenny Price, Coordinating Producer

Entertainment

  • 2024 MEDIA ACCESS AWARDS - Deborah Calla, Executive Producer; Paul Miller, Director; Allen Rucker, Writer; Amanda Hang, Producer; Daryl "Chill" Mitchell, Host; Lauren Selman, Producer; Kali McIver, Producer; C. Drew Unser, Editor; Michelle Merker, Producer; Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer
  • “How This West Coast Dance Style Took Over America” (OUTSIDE THE LYRICS) - Robeson Taj Frazier, Host, Producer; Angela Boisvert, Executive Producer; Jaime Morgan Muñoz, Producer; Colin Taylor, Producer; Robert McDonnell, Supervising Producer; Daniel Leonard, Editor; Gene Sung, Director of Photography

Live Special Events - Programming

  • 65TH ANNUAL L.A. COUNTY HOLIDAY CELEBRATION - Lindha Narvaez, Executive Producer; Letitia Fernandez Ivins, Executive Producer; Taylor Comen, Executive Producer; Jeff Atlas, Producer; Michelle Willrich, Producer; Michelle Merker, Producer; Leon Knoles, Director; Tyler Taylor, Associate Producer; Patrick Traylor, Associate Producer; Jamie Marshall-Bennett, Associate Director; J.D. Orozco, Technical Director; Melissa Villaseñor, Host; Queen Noveen, On-Camera Talent; Alex Hernandez, Camera; Austin Rock, Camera; Damien Tuffereau, Camera; Ed Horton, Camera; John Porter, Camera; Kevin Michel, Camera; Mike Carr, Camera; Nate Payton, Camera; Zeke Hernandez, Camera; Brett Noborikawa, Editor; Brad Allen Wilde, Editor; Muhammad Khan, Graphic Designer; Waranya Chuencheevit, Graphic Designer; Vance Burberry, Director of Photography

Music Composition

  • ARTBOUND “The Cheech” - Ameya Saraf, Composer
  • Lost LA - Tyler Sabbag, Composer; Steve Gernes, Composer

Feature Segment

  • “The Legacy of The Paul Robeson Players in 1970s L.A. Black Theater” (ARTBOUND) - Tamara Gould, Executive Producer; Angela Boisvert, Executive Producer; Nic Cha Kim, Producer; Robert McDonnell, Senior Supervising Producer; Paula Kiley, Associate Producer; Matt Bass, Director of Photography; Suzanne Méjean Pinney, Editor; Jenise Miller, Associate Producer
  • “YTT Tribe Reclaims Ancestral Land” (EARTH FOCUS) - Tamara Gould, Executive Producer; Angela Boisvert, Executive Producer; Jon Christensen, Executive Producer; Matthew Crotty, Editor, Producer, Writer, Director; Francesca Roth, Producer; Clarissa Guy, Producer; Emily Mraz, Writer; Corbett Jones, Director of Photography; JT Smith, Editor; Robert McDonnell, Senior Supervising Producer; Luis Alfonso De la Parra, Associate Producer

Information Segment

  • Reimagining the Los Angeles River (EARTH FOCUS) - Tamara Gould, Executive Producer; Angela Boisvert, Executive Producer; Jon Christensen, Executive Producer; Matthew Crotty, Editor, Producer, Writer, Director; Francesca Roth, Producer; Clarissa Guy, Producer; Corbett Jones, Director of Photography; Robert McDonnell, Senior Supervising Producer; Luis Alfonso De la Parra, Associate Producer

Short Promo - News/Topical

  • ARTBOUND - Olivia Cox, Editor, Producer
  • EARTH FOCUS - Numa Pelissier, Editor, Producer
  • LOST LA - Numa Pelissier, Editor, Producer
  • This Is PBS SoCal - Olivia Cox, Editor, Producer

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