Amazon Studios to
Receive Innovation Award For Transgender Show
by Kipp Jones 14 May 2015Los Angeles, CA
After a successful awards season, Amazon’s half-hour
original drama about a family coping with its father’s gender identity issues
is not finished.
In addition to honoring producer/director Jill Soloway with
the Showrunner of the Year award this June for the transgender series Transparent,
the Canadian 2015 Banff World Media Festival plans to present Amazon Studios with Banff’s Award of Innovation, according to a
press release obtained by TheWrap.
Transparent stars Jeffrey Tambor as transgender
woman Maura Pfefferman (born Mort), who realized at an early age he identified
as female. Struggling with shame, Mort hid his feelings from his wife and
children, but came out as Maura once he felt the time was appropriate.
“Jill Soloway has made history with ‘Transparent,’ a game
changing series which has really shifted the traditional television landscape,
while Amazon Studios has really revolutionized the current entertainment
climate with their innovative programming model,” said Ferne Cohen, executive
director of the Banff World Media Festival, via TheWrap.
He continued: “We are delighted to honor them both at this
year’s Banff World Media Festival …We are delighted to welcome them to BANFF
and give our delegates access to such incredible talent and creativity.”
Tambor was presented with
the 2015 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television
Series – Comedy or Musical, while the series brought home the award for Best
Television Series – Comedy or Musical, becoming the first online series to do
so.
The show has also won a Directors Guild of America award, a
GLAAD Media Award, multiple Gay and Lesbian Entertainment
Critics Association (GALECA) awards, and a Satellite Award, in addition to
multiple other awards and nominations.
Transparent has been praised by critics, and has
performed well as one of the studio’s first original shows. A second
season was ordered last
October, which made it only the second Amazon series to receive a second
season order, the other being the political satire comedy Alpha House.
Amazon Studios
Amazon Studios
Amazon
Studios is Amazon.com's division that develops television shows,
movies and comics from online submissions and crowd-sourced feedback.[1] It was started in late 2010.[1] Content would be distributed through Amazon Instant
Video, Amazon’s digital video streaming service, and a competitor to
services like Netflix and Hulu.[2] For film, Warner Bros. is a partner.
Note:
Nicolas J.
Hanauer was an early investor in Amazon.com,
Inc, a director at the Democracy Alliance, and is an advisory
board member for Everytown for Gun
Safety.
John Stocks is the
chairman for the Democracy Alliance,
and an executive director for the National
Education Association.
John I. Wilson was
an executive director for the National
Education Association, and is a director at the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.
Warren E. Buffett
is an advisory board member for Everytown
for Gun Safety, a trustee & major donor for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a life trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), an adviser
for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), and Howard G. Buffett & Susan A. Buffett’s father.
Patricia Q.
Stonesifer was the CEO for the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation, and is a director at the Amazon.com, Inc.
Jamie S. Gorelick
is a director at the Amazon.com, Inc., a trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), and was a
trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Urban Institute (think tank), the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), the International
Rescue Committee, Aspen Institute
(think tank), the Harlem Children's
Zone, and the Robin Hood Foundation.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a member of
the Democracy Alliance, and a benefactor
at the Harlem Children's Zone.
Nicolas J.
Hanauer is a director at the Democracy
Alliance, an advisory board member for Everytown
for Gun Safety, and was an early investor in Amazon.com, Inc.
John Stocks is the
chairman for the Democracy Alliance,
and an executive director for the National
Education Association.
John I. Wilson was
an executive director for the National
Education Association, and is a director at the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Howard G. Buffett
is Warren E. Buffett’s son, and a
director at the ONE Campaign.
ONE Campaign is
a partner with the International Rescue
Committee.
Clifford S.
Asness is a director at the International
Rescue Committee, was a leadership council member for the Robin Hood Foundation, and supported same-sex
marriage in New York.
Susan A. Buffett
is Warren E. Buffett’s daughter, and a director at the ONE Campaign.
Michelle Obama is
an advocate for the ONE Campaign.
L. John Doerr is a
director at the ONE Campaign, a
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and was a director at Amazon.com,
Inc.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is an advocate for the ONE
Campaign, the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety, the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, was the New York
(NY), mayor, a benefactor at the Harlem
Children's Zone, and a donor for the Robin
Hood Foundation.
Nicolas J.
Hanauer is an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety, and was an early investor in Amazon.com, Inc.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a donor for the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation.
Patricia Q.
Stonesifer was the CEO for the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation, and is a director at the Amazon.com, Inc.
Warren E. Buffett
is a trustee & major donor for the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation, an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety, a life
trustee at the Urban Institute (think
tank), an adviser for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and Howard
G. Buffett & Susan A. Buffett’s father.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jamie S. Gorelick
was a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank), a trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), and is a director at the Amazon.com, Inc.
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