Exceptional Minds Among Marvels of Media Award Winners
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans EditorExceptional Minds, a not-for-profit professional training academy and studio designed to prepare individuals on the autism spectrum for careers in the digital art is among the inaugural winners of the Marvels of Media Awards presented by the Museum of the Moving Image.The awards will be presented on March 31.
The country’s very first media awards ceremony, film festival and exhibition celebrating media-makers on the autism spectrum.
The open call for the first edition of this annual program received 3,071 nominations from 117 countries, from which 20 media works were chosen for awards in 12 categories including animated short, collaborative innovation, digital art, documentary, experimental film, mockumentary, narrative feature, narrative short, series, video game, student animated short and student video game. “Through the Marvels of Media Awards, the Museum is further affirming our commitment to supporting the creative endeavors and pursuits of neurodiverse media-makers of all ages and backgrounds, and to help forge pathways within the media and entertainment industries through which these makers can have a substantive impact on our culture,” said Carl Goodman, the museum’s executive director.
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