Bisping the big Edmonton winner at AMPIA's 47th annual Rosie awards

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The 2021 Rosie results are in, and 10 of the 55 Alberta Media Production Industries Awards have gone to Edmonton-based productions — five in class categories, five in craft.

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The annual provincial awards are often tipped in favour of Calgary’s more active and muscular film industry — some years more than others — but any recognition of our cinematic ecosystem is a win for creative innovation and economic diversification.

The 10 Edmonton wins are wide ranging, though three went to a single production.

Score G Productions, which often creates sports-related movies, took home Best Unscripted Production Over 30 Minutes for Bisping, the documentary story of UFC middleweight Michael Bisping directed by Michael Hamilton. Over in craft, Scott Dodds took the Screenwriter (Unscripted Over 30 Minutes) Rosie for the same movie. And Best Overall Sound (Unscripted Over 30 Minutes) joins many Rosies on the shelf of Johnny Blerot and Carey Opper.

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Also sports-related, the FC Edmonton cooking show Eat Like an Eddie episode with Tomi Ameobi took Best Information or Lifestyle Series.

Another class category win, Best Educational Production, went to BearPaw Media and Education’s (Re)claiming Indian Status documentary.

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On the corporate side, Geffen Media’s Mother & Daughter ad for Alberta Dental Association & College took Best Television Commercial Under $50k, while Best Corporate Production Under $30k went to the Aasttha Khajuria and Prasann Patel- produced, When We Give Back, Edmonton Grows.

Back to the craft categories, Frederick Kroetsh and Neil Grahn won Best Screenwriter (Unscripted Under 30 Minutes) for their episode of Queen of the Oil Patch, Lost Sisters.

Best Host – Web Program, Series or Stand-Alone Production went to Steve Jodoin for his explorer role in CBC’s Cow-boy Urbain — “La Grande Aventure.”

Gord Marriott took Best Narrator Host on The Adventures of Chase Duffy’s Fields of Home episode.

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Outside of Edmonton, expat, now-Calgary-based Prairie Dog Films won Best Unscripted Production Over 30 Minutes for its series Tribal, Secret History of the Wild West took Best Unscripted Series, and Range Roads won Best Scripted Feature.

Barry Bilinski and Kyle Thomas took the Best Director Scripted Rosies, Under 30 Minutes for the former, Over 30 Minutes for the latter.

The full list of the 47^th annual AMPIA winners is at ampia.org.

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