Miami, FL - South Florida PBS (WPBT & WXEL) is honored to announce 11 Suncoast 2022 Emmy Award nominations for programs produced by South Florida PBS staff and partners. Winners will be announced at the hybrid Emmy Awards Gala in Orlando, Florida on December 10, 2022.
“We are very honored to have several of our original productions recognized by The Suncoast Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences including two nominations in the new category of Equity/Diversity/Inclusion,” stated president and CEO Dolores (Sukhdeo) Fernandez Alonso.
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 the winning entries:
South Florida PBS Original Productions
Magazine Program
Check, Please! South Florida # 1905
Nathalia Lemos, Joyce Belloise, Michelle Bernstein
Diversity/Equity/Inclusion - Short Form Content
Minorities in Shark Sciences (MISS) is Making Waves
Jacquelyn Hurtado, Sergio Figuera
Diversity/Equity/Inclusion - Long Form Content
On the Town in the Palm Beaches with Frank Licari “Caribbean Connection”
Sally Lewis Heims, Nicole Malanga, Frank Licari, Yoandy Vidal
Environment/Science - Long Form Content
Changing Seas “Humpback Health”
Alexa Elliott, Sean Hickey, Norman Silva
Changing Seas “Kelp: Hidden Treasure of the Salish Sea”
Liz Smith, Sean Hickey, Norman Silva, Florian Graner
Partner Productions which aired on South Florida PBS
Arts/Entertainment – Short Form Content
The Perpetual Loop
Rodrigo Arauz, Ed Talavera, Dennis Scholl WPBT-TV, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Are You Down?
Juan Matos, Ed Talavera, Ellie Konn, Dennis Scholl WPBT-TV, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Nostalgia - News
1402 Pork n’ Bean Blue
Juan Matos, Amanda Bradley, Javier Labrador, Dennis Scholl
Documentary Historical
Finding Tyler
Christopher Brannan, Diana Reichenbach, Dennis Scholl
Nostalgia - Long Form Content
The Grand Lady
Michael Anderson, Fabian Cardenas, Mia Laurenzo
Director
The Grand Lady
Fabian Cardenas
About South Florida PBS:
SOUTH FLORIDA PBS is Florida’s largest public media company, including Public Broadcasting stations WXEL-TV, serving the Palm Beaches and the Treasure Coast and WPBT2, serving Miami-Dade and Broward counties, and the Health Channel, a 24/7 television and multi-platform health and wellness service. SOUTH FLORIDA PBS 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 tells different local stories across a variety of digital media platforms. Some of our award-winning productions include James Patterson’s Kid Stew, Changing Seas, Art Loft and Your South Florida. For more information, visit https://www.southfloridapbs.org.
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