Venice TV Award Announces 'New Talent' Category

A special concern of the first Venice TV Award is the promotion of new talents in order to introduce tomorrow’s creatives to international standards and new challenges. The category New Talent has been introduced and is open for entries.

The first VENICE TV AWARD supported by egta, ACT (Association of Commercial TV), is seen as a statement that the TV Industry remains active and successful in today’s social media based society. The International Creative Community believes that in a changing media landscape, TV is still very effective. 

This award, a tribute to TV Masterpieces, has been started at a time when UHD contributes to the nobility of images and sounds, a current tendency that pushes television work to a level of cultural reference, more than any other artistic product in its time.

And new talents are needed more than ever. New Talent Entrants must have had no more than three years professional experience. Entries must be one of the entrants first 5 pieces of work ever made. Submissions may include all genres and be feature length (max. 60 min.) or short-form (min. 1 minute).

It will bring national and international recognition for the quality content of  directors, producers and broadcaster.

The International Creative Community believes that Venice has always inspired the best of creativity, and therefore it can be seen as the perfect stage outside the screen. This award also highlights that  the TV industry is $260 billion industry worldwide, around 38,500 TV channels in operation, reaching 1.6 Billion TV households worldwide. 

Other prizes are assigned in: Documentary, News, Light Entertainment, Program Promotion, Branded Entertainment, Sport, Performing Arts, Children/Youth, Comedy, Reality TV, Best Of Technical High Quality, Cross-Platform Programming, Best New Talent, Best TV Series, Best TV Film. These are focused on quality content for TV with a Grand Prix for the best production. 

The jury at the international VENICE TV AWARD is composed of leading international TV experts, judging the entries of their peers, among them Anke Greifeneder, Director Original Productions, Turner Central and Eastern Europe; Malin Häger, TV 4 Sweden, President of egta; Rohit Gupta, President, Sony Pictures Network India; André Takada, Vice President Creative Services Fox Network Latin America; Ute Biernat, CEO UFA Germany Show and Factual; Igor Tavares, Producer TV Globo Brazil; Sapangeet Rajwant Senior Vice President, Viacom18 Media Lothaire Burg Creative Director, ARTE; Michal Pacina, Creative Director Prima TV, director Paul Black and other personalities in the TV industry.