Digital Studio Awards honour industry's top talent

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Digital Studio Awards honour industry's top talent


Mar 4, 2010

More than 500 industry identities descended on The Westin Hotel in Dubai last night to attend the sixth annual Digital Studio Awards.

This year’s expanded awards programme, which was staged in conjunction with sister titles Digital Broadcast and DigitalProductionME.com, recognised excellence in the Middle East broadcast, production and creative technology sectors.

The winners roll-call recognised a diverse selection of regional projects, leading organisations and top individual talent.

Eighteen winners were honoured from more than 350 nominations. Each winner was selected by a peerless independent judging panel consisting of the IABM’s John Ive; freelance director of photography Paul Mongey, Giorgio Ungania of the SAE Institute and members of ITP’s Broadcast editorial team.

Highlights of the awards included the ASBU’s landmark content exchange network MENOS receiving the Most Innovative Project of the Year award; twofour54 intaj taking out Studio of the Year award; and UAE director Ali Mostafa being named Young Filmmaker of the Year.

The full list of winners is as follows:

Manufacturer of the Year: Hitachi Kokusai Europe
RUNNERS-UP: NETIA; Vislink

Distributor of the Year: Advanced Media Trading
RUNNERS-UP: Oasis Enterprises, Dubai; First Gulf Company, Saudi Arabia

Systems Integrator for the Year: Sony Professional Solutions Middle East
RUNNERS-UP: Salam MediaCast; Tek Signals

Technology Implementation of the Year: Al Jazeera Sport by Qvest Media
RUNNERS-UP: twofour54 by Sony Professional Solutions Middle East; Al Jazeera Children’s Channel by Salam MediaCast

Content Delivery Service of the Year: Du for du TV plus IPTV service
RUNNERS-UP: Qtel for the Mosaic TV plus platform; Mobision for the DVB-H mobile TV service in Iraq; Al Jazeera for Al Jazeera dot net