The Impact Media Summit has announced the nominees for its upcoming 2013 Impact Media Awards, recognizing significant achievement in history, current affairs and documentary-style reality programming.
Awards will be presented on January 24, 2013, during the Impact Media Summit (formerly History Makers International) at New York’s Crowne Plaza Hotel.
The awards nominees are as follows:
Best History Production:
American Experience: Clinton (pictured) – Ark Media, PBS, USA
Code Breakers: The Lost Heroes of Bletchley Park – BBC Wales, United Kingdom
MLK: The Assassination Tapes – 1895 Films, Smithsonian Channel, USA
Best Use of Archive in a History Production:
American Experience: Jesse Owens – Firelight Films, PBS, USA
MLK: The Assassination Tapes – 1895 Films, Smithsonian Channel, USA
Mussolini – The Living Corpse – Rai Educational – Rai Storia; Cinecittà Luce – Archivio Centrale dello Stato; Rai Storia, Italy
Best Historical Drama Production:
Hatfields and McCoys – Thinkfactory Media, History Channel, USA
Downton Abbey – Carnival Films, ITV UK, PBS USA
The White Guard – Non Stop Production Film Company / Russia TV and Radio, Russia 1
Best Current Affairs Production:
Tahrir 2011: The Good, The Bad And The Politician – Film Clinic, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Egypt, Germany
Money, Power and Wall Street – Kirk Documentary Group, Frontline, WGBH, PBS, USA
The Battle For Syria – Clover Films, ABC Australia, ZDF, Frontline, WGBH, Syria, Australia, USA, Germany
Best Interactive Production:
Embarrassing Bodies: Live From The Clinic – Maverick Television, Channel 4, United Kingdom
Kidnapped: The Hunt for Graham McMynn – CBC News, CBC, Canada
D-Day to Victory Interactive – Secret Location, Entertainment One, Impossible Pictures, History Television, Canada
Best Documentary-Style Reality Production:
Der Aidskrieg / The AIDS War – Boomtown Media GmbH, WDR, ARD, Germany
Standing on the Edge of a Thorn – Elemental Productions, Indonesia, USA
Space Odysseys of the 21st Century – Roscosmos TV Studio / Russia TV and Radio; TV Channel Russia – TV Channel Culture; SOVTELEEXPORT; Russia