International Digital Emmy Awards Presented to Programs from Kenya, Oz, U.K.

CANNES: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented the awards for this year's International Digital Emmys last night at a ceremony in Cannes, honoring winners that hailed from Kenya, Australia and the U.K.

Shujaaz.FM Reloaded (Well Told Story) from Kenya won in the children's and young people category for the second time. The first installment, Shujaaz.FM, won in 2012.

#7DaysLater (Australian Broadcasting Corporation/Ludo Studio), picked up the award in the fiction category. The Australian project is a digital crowd-sourced comedy.

From the U.K., D-Day: As It Happens (Windfall Films, Digit London) was the winner in the non-fiction category. The 24-hour event allows viewers to follow the lives of seven real people in 1944 across TV, the web and Twitter in real time.

Also at the Awards last night, the Pioneer Prize was presented to YouTube, with Alex Carloss, the head of entertainment, accepting on behalf of the company.

“This year’s Emmy winners masterfully demonstrate the perfect use of social media to leverage a great story, be it for social change, revisiting history or just pure entertainment,” said Bruce L. Paisner, the president and CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.