{"id":12408,"date":"2017-06-01T11:19:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/youth-media-alliances-excellence-award-winners-revealed\/"},"modified":"2017-06-01T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:23:55","slug":"youth-media-alliance-excellence-award-winners-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/youth-media-alliance-excellence-award-winners-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Media Alliance Excellence Award Winners Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 Youth Media Alliance gala, hosted by <em>Studio K<\/em>&#8216;s Tony Kim, Janaye Upshaw and Victor Verbitsky, took place\u00a0yesterday in Toronto, where the winners of this year&#8217;s Awards of Excellence were unveiled.<\/p>\n<p>The grand prize for best production in all categories went to <em>The Incredible Tales of Weirdwood Manor<\/em>, produced by All Play, No Work and Relish Interactive. The award for best live-action program for ages 3 to 5 went to <em>The Adventures of Napkin Man<\/em> (Bye Bye Boogaloo), made\u00a0by Breakthrough Entertainment and Little Airplane and broadcast on CBC Kids. The live-action winners for 6 to 9 and 9-plus were <em>Annedroids<\/em> (The Mother of Invention) and <em>Giver<\/em> (Amherstberg Sports Park), respectively. Both come from Sinking Ship Entertainment and aired on TVO Kids, with the former also on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>In the animation category, the best program for ages 3 to 5 was the second season of <em>Peg + Cat<\/em> (The Disappearing Art Problem), produced by 9 Story Media Group, The Fred Rogers Company and 9ate7 Productions, and broadcast on YTV, Treehouse and PBS Kids;\u00a0while the prize for ages 6 to 9 went to <em>Fangbone!<\/em> (Cavity of Terror\/The Sickness of Home), which comes from Radical Sheep Productions and aired on Family CHRGD and Disney XD.<\/p>\n<p>The awards for best original digital content, best original interactive content and best cross-platform interactive content were respectively given to <em>mathXplosion<\/em> (GAPC Entertainment, TVO Kids, TFO), <em>The Incredible Tales of Weirdwood Manor<\/em> and <em>Dotopedia<\/em> (Industrial Brothers).<\/p>\n<p>Steven DeNure, the president and chief operating officer at DHX Media, which he also co-founded, took home the outstanding achievement award. The emerging talent award went to Mars Horodyski, a director whose credits include <em>The Next Step<\/em>, <em>Odd Squad<\/em> and <em>Dino Dana<\/em>, to name a few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 Youth Media Alliance gala, hosted by Studio K&#8217;s Tony Kim, Janaye Upshaw and Victor Verbitsky, took place yesterday in Toronto, where the winners of this year&#8217;s Awards of Excellence were unveiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":12410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2688,2397],"class_list":["post-12408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-awards-of-excellence","tag-youth-media-alliance","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Youth Media Alliance Excellence Award Winners Revealed - 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