ABC wins medals at NY Festivals awards

ABC has notched up several wins at the New York Festivals Worlds Best TV & Film 2014 awards with Gold World Medals for Kakadu, Foreign Correspondent, Shark Girl and Silver for The Doctor Blake Mysteries and Dance Academy.

Foreign Correspondent won a Gold for Ibrahim’s War and 23 Little Lives plus a Silver for Prisoner X and Bronze for India on Trial reports.

Kakadu by Northern Pictures and Beach House Pictures also won a Gold medal.

Documentary Shark Girl by Kaufmann Productions for the ABC also won Gold.

Dance Academy by Werner Films won a Silver medal.

The Doctor Blake Mysteries by December Media also won a Silver. Producer George Adams said, “This show just keeps giving. We are stunned by the reaction from local audiences but now this level of international recognition has blown us away. I am so delighted for our entire cast and crew who have worked so hard to create a worldclass drama. It appears we might just have done it.”