KCETLink Media Group Receives 15 National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award Nominations Presented by the Los Angeles Press Club

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Nominations Breakdown Includes Nine for ARTBOUND, Four for LOST L.A. and Two for SOCAL CONNECTED 

Burbank, Calif. – Nov. 17, 2016 - KCETLink Media Group, a leading national independent nonprofit public broadcast and digital network, is proud to announce that it has received 15 nominations for the 9^th annual National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards presented by the Los Angeles Press Club. The nominations include nine for the critically acclaimed multi-platform arts and culture series ARTBOUND, which provides critical in-depth analysis of how the state’s arts and culture affect society and shape California as the creative capital of the world. Four nominations were received for the debut season of the regional history series LOST L.A. (produced in partnership with the University of Southern California Libraries) and based on original “L.A. as Subject” archival material. Finally, two nominations were garnered for acclaimed original flagship program SOCAL CONNECTED, the multi-award-winning news magazine series that offers viewers substantive, in-depth reporting on vital issues that impact the region.   

LOST L.A. and SOCAL CONNECTED are broadcast on KCET public television in Southern California while ARTBOUND is telecast on both KCET and Link TV (available to all 87 million subscribers of Dish Network and DirecTV) nationwide. All three series are available for streaming and also available on Hulu, Apple TV and Roku.

The 2016 National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards will be presented on Sunday, Dec. 4 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel.

The 9^th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards nominations for KCETLink Media Group include: 

MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE MEDIA PLATFORMS - ACTIVISM JOURNALISM

• Lost L.A.

Juan Devis, Catherine A. Quinlan, Hugh McHarg, Matthew Crotty and Nathan Masters
FEATURE, OVER 5 MINUTES

• Artbound – “At the Epicenter: Cristopher Cichocki’s New Earth Art”

Juan Devis, Matthew Crotty and Matt Bass

• SoCal Connected – “Feathers of Fire: A Spectacular Shadow Play”

Nic Cha Kim

• SoCal Connected – “Tiny House is a Work of Art”

Nic Cha Kim
DOCUMENTARY OR SPECIAL PROGRAM, SHORT

• Lost L.A.  “Reshaping L.A.”

Juan Devis, Catherine A. Quinlan, Hugh McHarg, Matthew Crotty and Nathan Masters

• Lost L.A.  – “Before the Dodgers”

Juan Devis, Hugh McHarg, Catherine A. Quinlan, Matthew Crotty and Nathan Masters

• Lost L.A.  – “Wild L.A.”

Juan Devis, Catherine A. Quinlan, Hugh McHarg, Matthew Crotty and Nathan Masters
DOCUMENTARY OR SPECIAL PROGRAM, FEATURE

• Artbound  “Artesanos”

Juan Devis, Matthew Crotty, Jose Luis Figueroa, Paola Rodriguez and Omar Foglio

• Artbound  - “Beyond the Museum Walls”

Juan Devis, Christine Yuan, Matthew Crotty and Austin Simons

• Artbound  - “Charles Lummis, Reimagining the American West”

Juan Devis, Stephen Pagano, Matthew Crotty and Jaime Morgan Muñoz
PERSONALITY PROFILE/INTERVIEW

• Artbound – “Betye Saar: Reflecting American Culture Through Assemblage Art”

Shelly Leopold
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FEATURE

• Artbound – “Laguna Beach in the Sixties: A Colony for the Arts”

Liz Goldner
ENTERTAINMENT WEBSITE

• Artbound 

Melody Soto and Zoe Montana
BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

• Artbound  –  “Betye Saar: A Modern Art Iconoclast”

Melody Soto and Zoe Montana

• Artbound  –  “50 Years Later, Artist Dale Brockman Davis Reflects on the Watts Riots”

Melody Soto and Zoe Montana
ABOUT ARTBOUND

The critically acclaimed, multi-platform series ARTBOUND captures the spirit of the burgeoning arts and culture communities in Southern and Central California; exploring their impact on society at large. Illuminating the cultural issues of our times, ARTBOUND provides critical in-depth analysis of how arts and culture affect society and shape California as the creative capital of the world. Through one-hour documentaries and an expanded digital footprint, ARTBOUND (found at kcet.org/artbound and linktv.org/artbound) is the result of cultural tastemakers throughout the region and collaborations with LA’s top cultural institutions. Since its inception in 2012, the series has earned high industry praise including several Emmy^® Awards, LA Press Club awards, two Golden Mike awards and a National Entertainment Journalism award, among others. Most recently, ASCAP recognized ARTBOUND with the prestigious ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Multimedia Award for outstanding music.

ABOUT LOST L.A.

Created in partnership with the University of Southern California Libraries, LOST L.A. is based on KCET’s “L.A. as Subject” web series written by L.A. historian Nathan Masters. A digital destination for related content featured at kcet.org/LostLA hosts web-exclusive content and the most popular “L.A. as Subject” stories, allowing readers and viewe

viewers to rediscover the history of Los Angeles through written and video storytelling. The three-part television series, which Masters hosts, explores stories from the city's past that have been lost to folklore, including wildlife; the Elysian Hills before Dodger Stadium's construction; and the metropolis' now defunct tunnels, canals and hills. A variety of emerging regional filmmakers were selected to direct the films utilizing techniques that ranged from rotoscoping to cinema verité, in order to bring the primary sources of L.A. history to the screen in surprising new ways.

ABOUT SOCAL CONNECTED

SOCAL CONNECTED, winner of a Peabody^® two duPont Awards, 23 Emmy^® Awards, 23 Golden Mikes, 48 LA Press Club Awards, two Gracie Awards, as well as four regional and one national Edward R. Murrow Awards, including Best News Documentary and Los Angeles Magazine's "Best New Local TV Program" of 2009, airs exclusively on KCET. Hosted by anchor Val Zavala, KCET’s original flagship program just finished its seventh season offering viewers substantive, in-depth reporting on vital issues that impact the region. This weekly half-hour local news magazine is also available for streaming on KCET’s Roku and Apple TV channels. SOCAL CONNECTED is made possible through the generous support of The Ahmanson Foundation, Chapman University and the MaddocksBrown Foundation.

ABOUT KCETLINK MEDIA GROUP

KCETLink Media Group is a national independent, nonprofit, digital and broadcast network that provides high-quality, culturally diverse programming designed to engage the public in innovative, entertaining and transformative ways. With a commitment to independent perspectives, smart global entertainment, local communities, and opportunities for engagement and social action, KCETLink depicts people and the world through a lens unavailable elsewhere in U.S. media. A viewer-supported 501(c)(3) organization, KCETLink content is distributed nationally via satellite on Link TV -- DIRECTV channel 375 and DISH Network channel 9410 -- and on KCET in Southern and Central California via broadcast and cable, as well as through various digital delivery systems. For additional information about KCET and Link TV productions, web-exclusive content, programming schedules and community events, please visit kcet.org or linktv.org. Select programming from KCET and Link TV is also available for streaming on Hulu, Apple TV, and Roku platforms.