Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards 2024 - The Shortlist

Broadcast Tech has revealed the shortlist for the Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards 2024.

Many congratulations to everyone who has made the shortlist.

The winners will be announced at the gala dinner Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards night at The Brewery, London on 28 November 2024.

The Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards 2024 are sponsored by Appear, East On Media Solutions, EIZO, ERA, Films at 59, HHB Communications, Jigsaw24 Media, LucidLink, Netflix and SanDisk Professional.

For category or event sponsorship enquiries, please contact charlotte.wheeler@broadcastnow.co.uk

A panel of industry experts will now decide which of the shortlisted entries will win a Broadcast Tech Innovation Award on 28 November.

You can now book your seat at the Awards dinner  – for table enquiries, please contact shane.murphy@mbi.london, visit https://www.broadcasttechawards.co.uk/ or click the ‘Book Now’ box below.

BROADCAST TECH INNOVATION AWARDS 2024 - THE SHORTLIST

 

BEST AI INNOVATION (CREATIVE)

• AI Composure (dock10)
• An Interactive, Generative AI Metahuman (TARGET3D in partnership with Digital Catapult)
• Cross-Lingual Prosody Transfer (Papercup)
• GenAI Ad Production (ITV Creative Production)
• LTX Studio (Lightricks)
• Vertical Production for ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 - QuickFlip (International Cricket Council)

 

BEST AI INNOVATION (WORKFLOW)

• AI Pipelines with MK.IO (MediaKind)
• AI-Powered Workflows (Picture Production Company and Dalet)
• Cuez (TinkerList)
• Kigasho (Yes 2011)
• Smart-AD Breaks (Synchronized)
• Telestream Vantage (Telestream)

 

BEST INDUSTRY SKILLS INITIATIVE

Sponsored by Films @ 59  

• ENVY Academy (ENVY Post Production)
• Final Pixel Academy (Final Pixel)
• Pixel Pathway (Residence Pictures & Coffee & TV)
• Post Production Technical Operator Apprenticeship (London South Bank University)
• Rise Academy (Rise)
• Waterloo Road (Rope Ladder Fiction & Wall to Wall)

 

BEST INNOVATION PROJECT

Sponsored by Jigsaw24 Media  

• Euro 2024 Live Streaming (ITVX)
• Freely (Everyone TV)
• LIV Golf Plus, powered by ViewLift (ViewLift)
• Max App for Apple Vision Pro (Warner Bros. Discovery – Streaming)
• Virtual Reality Over RF Wireless Solution for A2RL Series (Vislink Technologies in collaboration with FocalPoint VR)
• Watch Your Count Live (BBC)

 

BEST INNOVATIVE USE OF CLOUD

• Edit Cloud Fuels BYD’s Electrifying Middle East Launch (Edit Cloud & Arduina)
• Formula 1: Drive to Survive (Creative Remote)
• LucidLink Unbound Series – Cloud-Powered Remote Collaboration (AWS, LucidLink & Versus)
• Self Service Cloud Innovation Platform (ITV)
• Sky Sports Super League Rugby (Sky Sports)
• Watch Your Count Live (BBC)

  

BEST SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT

Sponsored by Appear  

• Ad Signal’s Carbon Reduction Innovation: Match Product for a Sustainable Digital Future (Ad Signal)
• Ethical Renders: Post Production Waste Heat Upcycled for the Community (Dirty Looks & Deep Green Energy)
• Project Hydrogen Power (European Tour Productions & IMG)
• RaceTech - Driving Sustainability Through Remote Production (ES Broadcast & RaceTech)

 

BEST TECH INNOVATION IN LIVE PRODUCTION

• ITV Daytime’s Bespoke In-House Studio Display Platform (ITV Daytime)
• Count Cam Innovation: Transforming Election Coverage with Cellhire’s IoT Solution (Cellhire)
• Digital Multiplex Virtual Lighting (DMX-VL) (dock10)
• Air TV Mobile Production Unit (Air TV)
• X Platform (Appear)

 

BEST TECH INNOVATION IN LIVE PRODUCTION (SPORT)

• Bundesliga In-Match Analysis (DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH)
• E1 Series (Aurora)
• Euro 2024 Live Streaming (ITVX)
• LiveU Production Workflow at European Athletics Championships (Actua Sport)
• Next-Level Remote Production at The Summer Games (MRMC, AE Live, Nine Network)

 

BEST USE OF GRAPHICS

• 2024 Paralympics Classifiers (Chapter 3 Graphics for Channel 4)
• BBC General Election 2024 (BBC News for BBC)
• Shark Attack 360 (Arrow Media for National Geographic)
• Sky News Election (Sky Creative for Sky News)
• Stolen Gold (Blue Spill for ESPN)
• UEFA Champions League (Deltatre for Prime Video)

 

BEST VIRTUAL PRODUCTION

Sponsored by LucidLink  

• Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder (REALTIME, Painting Practice & Mo-Sys)
• Euro 2024: Mixed Reality Studio (BBC Sport)
• Olympics 2024: Studio (BBC Sport)
• The Exponential Era (Bloomberg Media Studios and CUBE Studio)
• Those About to Die (Dimension & DNEG 360)

 

EXCELLENCE IN AUDIO POST-PRODUCTION (NON-SCRIPTED)

• Arran Mahoney & Billy Mahoney of Arrow Media & Mahoney Audio Post (In The Eye of the Storm)
• Ben Newth & Lawrence Westacott of Clear Cut Pictures (Wilderness with Simon Reeve)
• David Fluhr, Ben Peace, Kate Hopkins, Tim Owens, Paul Ackerman, Ellie Bowler, Jack Cheetham & Barnaby Malins of Wounded Buffalo (Tiger)
• Finn Curry & Tom Nursey of Sky Post Production (Klitschko: More Than A Fight)
• Gary Kelly, Elliott Bowell & Michal Maletz of Splice Post (Six Nations: Full Contact)
• Gavin Allingham & Richard Gallagher of Fifty Fifty (The Greatest Night in Pop)
• Paul Donovan, Brian Moseley, Ian Bown, Adam Palmer, Alex Short, Tom Chilcott, Roy Noy, Jonathon Cawte & Andy Devine of Films at 59 (D-Day: The Unheard Tapes)

 

EXCELLENCE IN AUDIO POST-PRODUCTION (SCRIPTED)

Sponsored by HHB  

• Fitzrovia Post & Snafu Pictures (Bad Dinosaurs)
• Harry Tulley of dock10 (Domino Day)
• Jules Woods & James Drake of Splice Post (Audio) (Boiling Point)
• Jules Woods & James Drake of Splice Post (Audio) (The Responder)
• Paul McFadden, Robert Ireland, Matt Cox, Jamie Talbutt, Gareth Rhys Jones, Robert McFadden, Richard Wills & Emilie Thomson of Bang Post-Production (Doctor Who)
• Sound Team at Blazing Griffin (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)

 

EXCELLENCE IN GRADING (NON-SCRIPTED)

Sponsored by EIZO

• Alex Beards of LA Post (Merseyside Detectives - The Murders of Ashley and Olivia)
• Connor O’Neill of Splice Post (Lover Stalker Killer)
• Enge Gray of Racoon (007: Road To A Million)
• Joe Stabb of Fifty Fifty (The Greatest Night in Pop)
• Katherine Jamieson of halo (Alexander: The Making Of A God)
• Tim O’Brien of Evolutions Media (The Detectives: Taking Down an OCG)

 

EXCELLENCE IN GRADING (SCRIPTED)

Sponsored by EIZO

• Colin Brown Colin Brown of BQUARED Post, graded at Blazing Griffin (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
• Dan Coles of UNIT Film & TV (This Town)
• Gareth Spensley of Company3 (Doctor Who)
• Jamie Parry of dock10 (Domino Day)

 

EXCELLENCE IN VFX

Sponsored by ERA  

• Alan Church, Simon Giles, David Schneider & James Hattsmith of Union VFX and Untold Studios (The Tattooist of Auschwitz)
• Jim Solan & dock10 team (Domino Day)
• Michael Illingworth & Vine FX (After The Flood)
• Rob Hifle, Paul Silcox & Clive Llewellyn of Lux Aeterna (Secrets of the Neanderthals)
• Steve Murgatroyd of Freefolk (Kaos)
• Will Cohen, David Houghton, Sean Varney of Bad Wolf, Automatik, Goodbye Kansas, Painting Practice, Egg VFX, Windmill Lane, Pixomondo & BBC Wales Graphics (Doctor Who)

 

POST PRODUCER OF THE YEAR

• Ceres Doyle (Bad Wolf)
• Charlie Marsh (The Edit)
• Emily Brauders (Quay Street Productions)
• Kate Wallace (Arrow Media)
• Kelly Grant (Racoon)
• Oliver Bramley (Sky Post Production)

 

STANDOUT TECH OF THE YEAR

Sponsored by East On   

• Artimo (Ross Video)
• Cloud Based Cutting Rooms (Creative Remote)
• HW Connect (Hireworks)
• tanooki (tanooki)
• Ultra-Low Latency Streaming & Data Synchronisation (Mobii)

 

TECH TEAM OF THE YEAR

Sponsored by SanDisk   

• BBC Graphics & Automation Team
• BT Media and Broadcast & British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) Team
• dock10 Innovation Team
• ENVY Capture Team
• Painting Practice Team
• The Collectv Team

 

YOUNG TALENT OF THE YEAR (LIVE PRODUCTION)

Sponsored by Netflix  

• Ben Killackey (Sonar Events)
• Chrissy Agius (Limitless Broadcast)
• Lara Mepham (Buzz 16)
• Sean Jones (Channel 4)
• Taz Addison (Aurora)
• Tia Shenton (Channel 4)

 

YOUNG TALENT OF THE YEAR (POST-PRODUCTION)

Sponsored by Netflix

• Amy Newlove (dock10)
• Ben Colbert (dock10)
• Ella Soryl (Platform Post Production)
• Ellie Goodall (ITN Post Production)
• Max Gauntlett (Arrow Media)
• Sam Dynamou (Arrow Media)
• Yousf Shojahmirabad (Aurora)

 

YOUNG TALENT OF THE YEAR (TECHNICAL)

Sponsored by Netflix    

• Chloe Wood (ITV)
• Katie Bayman (dock10)
• Katriona Watkins (Jigsaw24 Media)
• Luke Spencer (The Collectv)
• Stephen McLaren (QTV)
• Will Greenlees (Wildstar Films)