South Florida PBS Celebrates Suncoast Emmy Winners
Boca Raton, FL – South Florida PBS (WPBT & WXEL) is honored to have received 10 Suncoast 2020 Emmy Awards during the virtual ceremony on Saturday, December 12th.
“We are humbled, and it is very gratifying to be recognized by the Suncoast Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for our local productions, especially during this very difficult period. We are particularly proud of Changing Seas, now on its 13th year, for garnering three awards in the Environment category out of the four programs we produced this year,” expressed CEO and president Dolores Sukhdeo.
The Suncoast Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is the standard-bearer for excellence in the television industry and the gatekeeper of the prestigious regional EMMY® Awards in the Suncoast Region. The Suncoast Chapter represents the best and brightest television and media professionals from all disciplines of the industry and from all of the Suncoast region’s television markets.
– Below is a list of winning entries that are South Florida PBS original productions:
- Environment-Program
Changing Seas “American Samoa’s Resilient Coral Reefs”
Alexa Elliott, Sean Hickey
Changing Seas “A Decade After Deepwater”
Sean Hickey, Liz Smith, Norman Silva
Changing Seas “Peru’s Desert Penguins”
Alexa Elliott, Sean Hickey, Luis Marrou, David Diez
- Interactive Media
Walking the Florida Wildlife Corridor with Carlton Ward, Jr.
Charlotte Cushing, Norman Silva
– Below is a list of Independent Productions which aired on South Florida PBS:
- Arts & Entertainment-Program Feature/Segment
Jen Clay: The Texture of Anxiety (featured in Art Loft)
Dennis Scholl, Juan Matos, Ed Talavera
- Arts/Entertainment – Program/Special
Uncanny: The Dolls of Mariana Monteagudo (featured in film-maker)
Elaine Minionis, The Lunch Box Studio
- Documentary – Cultural
Singular
Dennis Scholl, Marlon Johnson
- My Survivor
Jerry Levine, Mindy Hersh, Bonnie Reiter-Lehrer
Levine & Co. Creative Television and Film
- Magazine Program
Dock & Dine
Amanda Prince, Jim Gallagher, Michelle Flores, Jason Pereira
Ko-Mar Productions
- Director
My Survivor
Jerry Levine
Levine & Co. Creative Television and Film
About South Florida PBS
South Florida PBS, Florida’s largest public media company, connects organizations and institutions across our region and preserves South Florida’s history. Leading the way in this global society, SOUTH FLORIDA PBS serves diverse communities from Key West to the Sebastian Inlet and from the Atlantic Ocean west to Lake Okeechobee. SOUTH FLORIDA PBS is committed to creating and presenting unique arts, education and cultural heritage programming, and serves as a model for telling unique local stories across a wide variety of media platforms.
