Documentary about Bucha, interview with Zelenskyy and Ukraine Wartime Diaries win Emmy award
Pravda Ukraine
On Wednesday, 27 September, the first part of the 44th News and Documentary Emmy Award laureates were announced in New-York. Among the winners is the British Sky News TV channel with its coverage of the war in Ukraine and a documentary about a mass grave in the Ukrainian city of Bucha.
Over 2,300 submissions for the 44th News and Documentary Emmy Award were submitted in 2022, and more than 1,000 people involved in TV-news and documentaries production were nominated.
The biggest number of awards were won by CNN (10), Vice (9) and The New York Times (5).
The programme The Battle For Bucha & Irpin won the International Emmy Award for News. The programme aired on the UK Sky News channel on 5 March 2022.
“We managed to show a lot of stories about strong, courageous and incredible Ukrainians to the world. About the military, volunteers, civilians, parents and children, women and men, the captured and the liberated. We were chosen among 2,600 submissions by media outlets from all over the world and four nominees-finalists in the International Emmy Awards for News category,” said Azad Safarov, a director who has been working with Sky News as a producer in Ukraine for a year and a half.
The programme Off The Grid – Ukraine Wartime Diaries by the TRT WORLD channel won in the International Emmy Award for Current Affairs nomination.
The 2023 International Emmy Award for Current Affairs was presented to “Ukraine Wartime Diaries” produced by TRT World / Off The Grid, #Turkey#iemmyCURRENTAFFAIRS #iemmyWIN pic.twitter.com/NIu9cETbt2
— International Emmy Awards (@iemmys) September 28, 2023
The documentary The Lost Souls of Bucha about a mass burial site under a church in the city of Bucha in Kyiv Oblast won in the Outstanding writing: News category. It was released on CBS News.
“A documentary about a mass grave under a church in Bucha. This is about those whose bodies were found there, about those who loved them and still does. And about those who gave the victims their dignity back. I was the field producer of the movie…All our work is servitude. The heroes are those who opened their tortured hearts so that the world knew the truth,” explained producer Sofia Kochmar-Tymoshenko.
Other nominees connected with Ukraine that have won the award:
The CNN Worldwide channel has won in the Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage category for covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine: A Mother’s War by NBC News Now has won in the Outstanding Recorded News Special category.
The President Zelenskyy interview aired in the programme 60 Minutes on CBS has won in the Outstanding Edited Interview category.
The New York Times coverage Caught on Camera, Traced by Phone: The Russian Military Unit That Killed Dozens in Bucha has won in the Outstanding Editing: News.
Ira de Putin (The War of Putin) has won in the Outstanding Coverage Of A Breaking News Story In Spanish category.
About the Award
The News & Documentary Emmy Awards is a part of the Emmy awards for the achievements in the American TV-industry. It is awarded by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS).
The award ceremony is held two nights in a row: on 27 September the nominees of the Television News Programmes category are awarded, and on 28 September – those in the Documentary Movies category.
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