The Telly Awards has honored the best video and television work across all screens for 44 years. Alongside this mission, the awards strives to represent important and timely topics and examine the impact those have on the production industry and business. This time, we're focusing on perhaps the biggest of our time: environmental sustainability.Â
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In partnership with Green The Bid, this industry panel will feature four women representing different vantage points yet united for one massive yet attainable agenda: transitioning the advertising and production industry to sustainable and regenerative practices.
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It's about time the industry moved toward a greener future - let's talk about how to do it.Â
SCHEDULE
6:30PM - Doors Open
7:00PM - Panel
8:00PM - Drinks and Networking
A creative force with wit and charm, Samira is an international multi-award-winning creative who has worked across Fortune 500 brands and three continents, proving her ability to undertake and execute ground-breaking creative work while leading with high spirits. As part of the Deutsch New York leadership team, she leads the creative vision and culture for the agency and oversees creative for clients including Johnson & Johnson, Tata Consulting Services, PNC Bank, Cetaphil, and Johnson & Johnson among others.
Becky Morrison is an award-winning film and TV producer and an advocate for production innovation.
In 2015, Becky founded The Light, the premier production company for those looking to create systemic change in the film industry. She has spent years studying the history of Hollywood production and uses her research to inform a new framework for production that is grounded in inclusion, equity and sustainability.
Marsha Trainer has lived and worked on both US coasts, down south and now up north in the Twin Cities. A veteran of Target and mono in the ad world, she started her professional life as a Teach For America teacher in Mansura, Louisiana before moving into film production. She climbed the ladder at Miramax and Walden, and then segued into indie film as a production accountant and later a producer. These days she can be found managing the content development and production department at General Mills, imbuing her passion for diversity, inclusion, sustainability, and cats into everything she does.
Gloria Pitagorsky is the managing partner of Heard City, which offers sound design and mixing for the advertising, television, and film industries and works with brands including Google, Mercedes, Beats by Dre, and Target.Â
Gloria heads the Ambassador Program for Green the Bid, a non-profit helping lead the production industry to zero-waste, carbon-neutral, sustainable, and regenerative practices. Demonstrating her commitment to mentoring and supporting women in technology, film, and advertising, Gloria serves on the mentoring committee for She Runs It, and this past year, launched a Mentoring Program for AICP to promote Equity & Inclusion in the production industry.
Green the Bid is a non-profit grassroots organization bringing together the stakeholders of the global commercial production community to shift our industry to zero-waste, carbon neutral, sustainable and regenerative practices.
The 44th Annual Telly Awards is now open for entries.
Early Entry Deadline is December 9th, 2022 11:59PM
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The Telly Awards annually showcases the best work created within television and across video, for all screens. Receiving over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents, Telly Award winners represent work from some of the most respected advertising agencies, television stations, production companies and publishers from around the world. The Telly Awards recognizes work that has been created on the behalf of a client, for a specific brand and/or company, or self-directed as a creative endeavor.