`Commanding Heights' Wins New York Film Festival Gold Medal; Chosen World's Top Documentary Series.Entertainment Editors/Energy Editors/Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2003 The New York Festivals has awarded Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy a Gold WorldMedal as the best television series on national and international affairs from around the world in its 2002 international competition. The documentary also claimed three others awards -- a Silver WorldMedal for direction and honors for best documentary writing and narration. The three-part, six-hour PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, series, based upon the book by Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, tells the inside story of our new world economy, the struggle between governments and markets, and the new battle over globalization. The documentary, originally broadcast in 2002, will have a new major national broadcast on PBS in April and May 2003. It is also slated to be seen on the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. and in 15 other countries over the next several months. Commanding Heights is the first in-depth broadcast look into the new global economy and what it means for individuals around the world. The series was created around dramatic narratives, unique film footage and interviews from world leaders and experts from twenty different countries, including former President Bill Clinton, Vice President Dick Cheney, former USSR USSR: see Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. President Mikhail Gorbachev, Mexican President Vicente Fox, Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew Lee Kuan Yew (lē kwän y  , yü), 1923–, prime minister of Singapore (1959–90). , British Chancellor Gordon Brown and many more. Commanding Heights has received wide acclaim. Calling it "A ringing affirmation of TV's still-limitless possibilities," The Washington Post described Commanding Heights as: "Stunningly ambitious, brilliantly successful," adding that "No more important program for making sense of our life and times has been seen on the air in at least a decade and possibly a good deal longer." The 44-year-old New York Festivals competition hosts approximately 1,600 entrants, awarding gold, silver and bronze medals in nine main categories. Commanding Heights was produced by InVision Productions in association with Heights Productions and WGBH Boston. The film's Executive Producers are Daniel Yergin, who received the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Prize, which was also made into a television series, and Sue Lena Thompson. Executive producer for WGBH Boston is Mike Sullivan. The series producer is award-winning filmmaker William Cran who won the New York Festival's Silver WorldMedal for direction. National corporate sponsors for the series are BP, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. and the FedEx Corporation. Funding is also provided by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a private non-profit corporation which is chartered and funded by the United States Federal Government to promote public broadcasting. The CPB was created on November 7, 1967 when U.S. president Lyndon B. , public television viewers, The Pew Charitable Trusts Pew Charitable Trusts, philanthropic foundation established (1948) by the children of Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew (1886–1963) of Philadelphia to provide funds for "general religious, charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes. and the John Templeton Foundation The John Templeton Foundation was established in 1987 by investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton; the current president is his son John M. Templeton, Jr. It is usually referred to simply as the Templeton Foundation. . Commanding Heights also recently won a "British Emmy" from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA Baf´ta n. 1. A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export. ) for the series Web site, which BAFTA commended as "a milestone in the development of broadband content." To view the documentary trailer, please visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights. |
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