The AMIs 2009
The Interactive Media Award
An interactive project which illustrates the impact of sentencing on offenders and combines drama and analysis in strikingly original and effective ways.
The Web Based Media Award
V2V is a social networking website where employees and customers can post service opportunities and best practices to address the issues they care most about both locally and globally.
The Corporate Video Award
Dignity's video raises attention of the mistreatment of elderly and disabled patients within our care system, making an important attempt to inspire a fresh understanding of patient dignity.
The News and Information Media Award
Over 33 million people live with HIV worldwide, and around 7,000 new HIV infections occur daily. Standard Chartered Bank's new portal was launched to raise young people's awareness to the threat of HIV, as part of its commitment to educate one million people on HIV and AIDS by 2010.
The Local Hero Award
Earlier in the year, celebrated author and poet Ann Pilling and composer David Gordon, created a new musical play, inspired by William Watson's popular poem, 'The Ballad of Semmerwater'. It was performed at the festival at Swaledale, in the heart of the Yorkshire countryside. The work showed how inclusive and affirmative, community productions can be.
The Photography Award
The first AMI Award for Photography is for Offscreen, an outstanding social enterprise which specialises in fostering cross cultural understanding between the UK, the Middle East and the Islamic world through the use of visual arts, to transcend linguistic, religious and political barriers.
The Literature Award
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey, published by Jonathan Cape, is a justly celebrated, but totally unsentimental, portrayal of dementia. Rich in both atmosphere and beauty, The Wilderness is a moving paean to the dignity of the human spirit.
The Visual Arts and Exhibitions Award
This exhibition brings together the most outstanding works from entrants of all ages in The Cancer Council Arts Awards from Victoria Australia. All artists have shared their cancer experiences through visual art, short stories, films, and poetry as well as children's writing and art.
The Theatre Award
The Tempest was an African production, starring two of South Africa’s leading actors, Antony Sher, as Prospero and John Kani as Caliban. It was a new, inclusive and strikingly relevant interpretation of Shakespeare’s last and deeply resonant play.
The Dance Award
Described by critics internationally as bold and wonderful, Signdance Collective performs a unique blend of theatre, live music, sign language, dance and film, which is both fully inclusive and of the very highest artistic standards.
The Opera Award
Doctor Atomic is a richly multi-layered work which unites complex issue of science, art and human responsibility, in an accessible and immediate way. The large and talented company realised Adams' powerful and compelling testament to the real and existential horror of the nuclear threat.
The Radio Award
Ability Media is aiming to have its own radio station shortly which will broadcast the best of our students’ work.
British Radio is probably the finest in the world and the best work of the BBC and some independent stations provide case studies for students on our Ability Media radio training courses.
The Television Award
Jimmy McGovern’s critically acclaimed television series, The Street, presents a complex and compelling insight into the lives of individuals from diverse backgrounds. In this fascinating series, McGovern forcefully and directly portrays the harshness, challenges and rewards of the reality of inclusive life.
The Film Award
The new feature film Skin is the thought provoking and moving tale of Sandra Laing, who in 1955, through genetic factors, was born with dark skin to white Afrikaner parents in South Africa. Skin follows Sandra's thirty-year journey as she struggles to define her place in a changing world. It is an inspirational call for a more inclusive, tolerant and civilized world.
The New Talent Award
The New Talent Award is presented to newcomers to the media industries who display outstanding aptitude and whose achievements encapsulate the vision and mission of Ability Media. The winners, Crazie Productions embody that sentiment perfectly.
Champion Awards - Alison Walsh
Behind the scenes at Channel Four, Alison Walsh has made a major impact on both how the channel is structured and operates, and the nature of the programmes it produces. She works to ensure that Channel Four is fully inclusive which indirectly impacts on other broadcasters too.
Champion Awards - Cerrie Burnell
Working as a presenter, Cerrie Burnell has displayed a consummate professionalism, which demonstrates there are few limits to what can be achieved by people who are traditionally not represented on our television screen.
Champion Awards - Janine Roebuck
Janine Roebuck is an Opera singer – who early in her career became profoundly deaf and was told she could never hope to sing professionally. The award is given for her outstanding musical artistry and her clear demonstration that there are no limitations to what can be achieved if an artist has ability, passion, and determination.
The Fellowship Awards: Frank Gardner
Frank Gardner is a distinguished and much respected journalist and broadcaster, who, through the integrity of his work, and his sheer determination and commitment to his craft, inspires not only the respect and admiration of his colleagues today but will also inspire the journalists of the future.
Fellowship Awards: Sue Townsend
Sue Townsend has had an outstanding literary career as a playwright and novelist. Her works combine both comedy and shrewd social commentary, with a compassionate observation of the foibles and follies of the human condition. Such rare ability has led her to be regarded by many as the country’s foremost practicing comic novelist.
