Museum of the Shifting Picture on Friday unveiled the winners of its second annual Marvels of Media Awards, which acknowledges the achievements of content material creators on the autism spectrum.
Winners embody Jorge R. Gutiérrez for the Netflix restricted collection Maya and the Three; filmmaker Devon Leaver for her experimental movie Galoot; Chloe Hayden for her performances within the Netflix collection Heartbreak Excessive and her viral social media video “A Day within the Lifetime of a Netflix Actor;” and Steven Fraser for his animated brief Coming Out Autistic.
The winners had been chosen by a panel of judges together with Cheryl Henson, president of the Jim Henson Basis; creator Louis Chesney; Carl Goodman, president and CEO of The Florida Holocaust Museum; actor Sue Ann Pien; and MoMI director of training Leonardo Santana-Zubieta.
The winners shall be honored at an awards ceremony and reception on the museum on March 30, which can kick off the annual Marvels of Media pageant and exhibition working by means of April 30.
“The second version of Marvels of Media furthers our dedication to enhancing the visibility of neurodiverse media creators within the audiovisual galaxy,” Santana-Zubieta stated. “The media works featured on this version radiate creativity and originality. They shine from totally different ages, backgrounds, and nations. For almost all of awardees and artists, that is their first expertise exhibiting their work in a museum setting. This initiative additionally broadens the cultural horizons of all museum guests, offering them with a glimpse of the colourful media-making panorama of ASD creators.”
Added museum trustee Josh Sapan: “The most effective work of neurodiverse media-makers is unconstrained by normal social norms, giving them a pure energy of invention. It’s fantastic that Museum of the Shifting Picture devotes an exhibition to their work — appropriately titled ‘Marvels of Media.’”
The exhibition and occasions will happen on the New York-based museum. As a part of the pageant programming, the museum will current screenings, a digital administrators’ roundtable and a puppetry workshop. See under for a full pageant schedule. The occasion was organized by visitor curator and filmmaker Carrie Hawks. For a full schedule, go to movingimage.us/series/marvels-of-media-2023/.
In the meantime, the Marvels of Media Awards will acknowledge 21 media works in 13 classes out of a complete 200 submissions.
Stated Hamish Steele, 2023 Marvels of Media Awardee: “It means the world to be honored by the Marvels of Media Awards for a present which helped me as a lot as I hope it’s helped others. Useless Finish was made solely in lockdown, a time which was exhausting for everybody’s psychological well being. To work on one thing that celebrates and empowers neurodivergent folks was wonderful and I’m so glad it linked with the folks we made it for.”
A full listing of winners follows.
Marvels of Media Restricted Sequence Award
Winner: Maya and the Three – Director Jorge R. Gutiérrez
Marvels of Media Sequence Award
Winner: Useless Finish: Paranormal Park – Creator Hamish Steele
Marvels of Media Efficiency in a Sequence Award
Winner: Actor Chloe Hayden (Heartbreak Excessive)
Marvels of Media Animation Award
Winner: Coming Out Autistic – Animator Steven Fraser
Honorable Point out: Little one of Témoin – Animator Cody Fordham
Marvels of Media Documentary Function Award
Winner: Tape Over – Director Mary Rhymer
Marvels of Media Documentary Quick Award
Winner: Hospice – Distinctive Minds with Animators Andrew Turney, Craig Hills, Dean Julien, Dylan Carbonell, Liam Brosnan, Sam Hardin, Shad Wilde, Stephen Storti, Veronica Dolcich
Honorable Point out: Pay attention – Creators Jordyn Zimmerman and Tania Melnyczuk
Honorable Point out: Inside Wound Actual – Director Carrie Hawks
Marvels of Media Social Media Video Award
Winner: “A Day within the Lifetime of a Netflix Actor” – Content material creator and actor Chloe Hayden Honorable Point out: ASTROLOGY FOR DUMMIES – Content material creator Paige Layle
Marvels of Media Experimental Movie Award Winner: Galoot – Director Devon Leaver
Honorable Point out: FACE – Director Sophia Kyriacou
Marvels of Media Kids’s Quick Award
Winner: Mr. Copycat – Director Kieran Firth-Bernard
Marvels of Media Video Recreation Award
Winner: Ava – Creators Vanessa Castañeda Gill, Lucas Harrington Psy.D., Jessica Scott
Honorable Point out: Automobile Machine – Developer Shane McKaskle
Honorable Point out: Playground – Developer Marcus Ansley
Marvels of Media Pupil Narrative Quick Award
Winner: Them – Director Samara Huckvale
Marvels of Media Pupil Animated Quick Award
Winner: You Don’t Acknowledge the Faces on TV – Animator Daniel Oliver Lee
Honorable Point out: Cleaning soap Opera – Animator Cameron Carr
Marvels of Media Collaborative Innovation Award
Winner: Use Your Creativeness – Spectrum Laboratory
