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    Producers Guild Unveils Innovation Award Nominees For VR, AR, Experiential, Emerging Media

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    LOS ANGELES --

    The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has unveiled the nominees for The PGA Innovation Award ahead of the 32nd Annual Producers Guild Awards taking place on Wednesday, March 24. The PGA Innovation Award recognizes the production of a noteworthy, impactful new media program that significantly elevates the audience’s viewing experience.

    The Innovation Award winner, along with the winners of the Sports, Children’s and Short Form categories, will be announced during a nominee event entitled “A Day with the PGA Awards Nominees,” being held virtually on Saturday, March 20.

    Nominees for the 2021 PGA Innovation Award are listed below in alphabetical order.  The PGA will honor the program as a whole, rather than the individual producers. As such, the producers of these programs are not required to go through the awards eligibility determination process. 

    The PGA Innovation Award Nominees

    • Adventure Lab and Dr. Crumb’s School for Disobedient Pets
    • Andrew Goes Outside
    • Artificial
    • Baba Yaga
    • BRCvr
    • Create Together
    • Fragments
    • Jettison
    • Krampusnacht
    • Oceanides
    • The Line
    • The Under Presents

    The award honors exceptional distinctiveness, inventiveness, and impact of the submitted work in expanding the conventions of program format, content, audience interaction, production technique and delivery. Such work may reflect a reimagining or reworking of existing concepts and approaches in a new way, or may be an entirely novel type of experience.

    Entries are reviewed and voted on by a jury of blue-ribbon experts in the field of new media. Programs released between January 1, 2020 and February 28, 2021 were eligible for the honor. Last year, the PGA awarded the inaugural PGA Innovation Award to the team behind “Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series – Episode 1.”

    The Innovation Award Committee is co-chaired by Jenni Ogden, VP of the PGA New Media Council, and Chris Thomes, New Media Council delegate.

    The 2021 Producers Guild Awards event chairs are Chris Thomes, VP, creative services for Disney Television Studios, and Julius Tennon, president and co-founder of Juvee Productions. The 2021 Producers Guild of America Awards are produced by Anchor Street Collective for the Producers Guild of America. Branden Chapman is executive producer, Carleen Cappelletti is supervising producer, Emily Poenisch is talent executive, and Jim Piccirillo is director. 

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    Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, shows up for Sean “Diddy” Combs’ trial but can’t get in

    Friday, June 13, 2025
    Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, leaves federal court during the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs in New York, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)

    Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, briefly showed up to the New York sex trafficking trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs on Friday to support the hip-hop mogul, a longtime friend. But he wasn't allowed into the courtroom and left after briefly watching the trial on a video monitor in another room.

    Ye, dressed in white, arrived at Manhattan federal court before noon while the trial was on a break and spent about 40 minutes in the building.

    After emerging from an airport-style security screening, Ye was asked if he was at the courthouse to support Combs.

    "Yes," he responded with a nod. He then hustled to an elevator and did not respond when asked if he might testify on Combs' behalf when the defense begins its presentation as early as next week.

    Courthouse security did not take him to the 26th floor where the trial occurs in one of the building's largest courtrooms. Admittance there is strictly controlled, with seats reserved for Combs' family and legal team, the media and spectators who wait in line for hours to get a coveted seat.

    The rapper was taken instead to a courtroom three floors below the trial floor. There, he briefly observed testimony on a large closed-circuit monitor in an overflow room that was one floor below the usual overflow room, which was packed with media representatives and courthouse employees who heard erroneously that he might be there.

    As word of his actual location spread and spectators trickled into the room where Ye sat in the front row with Combs' son, Christian, a bodyguard and another Combs' supporter on a side of the room that was otherwise kept vacant by a court officer, Ye looked around the room before abruptly getting up and leaving, along with the others with him.

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