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More than 300 industry identities descended on The Westin Hotel in Dubai last night to attend the sixth annual Digital Studio Awards.
This year’s expanded awards programme, which was staged in conjunction with sister titles Digital Broadcast and DigitalProductionME.com, recognised excellence in the Middle East broadcast, production and creative technology sectors.
The winners roll-call recognised a diverse selection of regional projects, leading organisations and top individual talent.
For a picture gallery of all the winners, click here: www.digitalproductionme.com/article-2432-digital-studio-awards-2010-winners-roll-call/
Eighteen winners were honoured from more than 350 nominations. Each winner was selected by a peerless independent judging panel consisting of the IABM’s John Ive; freelance director of photography Paul Mongey, Giorgio Ungania of the SAE Institute and members of ITP’s Broadcast editorial team.
Highlights of the awards included the ASBU’s landmark content exchange network MENOS receiving the Most Innovative Project of the Year award; twofour54 intaj taking out Studio of the Year award; and UAE director Ali Mostafa being named Young Filmmaker of the Year.
The full list of winners is as follows:
Manufacturer of the Year: Hitachi Kokusai Europe
RUNNERS-UP: NETIA; Vislink
Distributor of the Year: Advanced Media Trading
RUNNERS-UP: Oasis Enterprises, Dubai; First Gulf Company, Saudi Arabia
Systems Integrator for the Year: Sony Professional Solutions Middle East
RUNNERS-UP: Salam MediaCast; Tek Signals
Technology Implementation of the Year: Al Jazeera Sport by Qvest Media
RUNNERS-UP: twofour54 by Sony Professional Solutions Middle East; Al Jazeera Children’s Channel by Salam MediaCast
Content Delivery Service of the Year: Du for du TV plus IPTV service
RUNNERS-UP: Qtel for the Mosaic TV plus platform; Mobision for the DVB-H mobile TV service in Iraq; Al Jazeera for Al Jazeera dot net
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Most Innovative Project of the Year: MENOS by Arabsat, ASBU and Newtec
RUNNER-UP: twofour54
Animation of the Year: Blink Studios for Quaker Oats TVC
RUNNERS-UP: Infosys, for the Good Year Manual; Rolling Thunder, for Dubai 2010
Production of the Year: Boomtown Productions for the Dubai Metro promo in 3D AND Real Image Productions, for Saudi Arabia’s Knowledge Economic City short film (joint winners)
RUNNERS-UP: DejaVu, for its execution of the ‘balls of fire’ Mobily TVC; E-motion, for Mutaheda, a film celebrating UAE National Day
Studio of the Year: twofour54 intaj
RUNNERS-UP: Al Ikhbariya Studio; Dammam TV complex
Post Production House of the Year: Blackstone Studios
RUNNERS-UP: Rolling Thunder; Real Image Productions
Most Innovative Broadcaster of the Year: Orbit Showtime Network (OSN)
Outstanding Industry Contribution Award: Newtec CTO Dirk Breynaert for MENOS
Young Filmmaker of the Year: Ali Mostafa
Broadcast Engineer of the Year: Ihab El Baba
Industry Identity of the Year: Saudi Arabia MOCI Assistant Deputy Minister for Engineering and ASBU president Dr Riyadh Najm
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