2004’s Best Media Representations of Mixed Race People, Interracial Couples and Interracial Families Are Honored by 1st Annual Mixed Media Watch Image Awards
Media watchdog organization Mixed Media Watch announces that Jennifer Beals, The Rock, Showtime’s The L Word, UPN’s Girlfriends, and Verizon’s “The Elliotts” ad campaign are among its Image Award honorees.
New York, NY (PRWEB via PR Web
Direct) February 9, 2005 -- Mixed Media Watch, an organization that seeks to
promote more realistic, three-dimensional portrayals of mixed race people,
interracial couples and interracial families in the media, today announced the
honorees for its 1st annual Mixed Media Watch Image Awards.
The Mixed
Media Watch Image Awards recognize efforts by film, television, radio and print
media to promote more realistic, three-dimensional portrayals of mixed race
people, interracial couples and interracial families.
“Mixed race
individuals have become much more visible in the media recently,” said Carmen
Van Kerckhove, Co-Director of Mixed Media Watch. “Marketers increasingly favor
racially ambiguous models in their ad campaigns and many famous actors,
musicians and athletes now openly identify themselves as biracial or
multiracial.”
“But most media representations of mixed race people,
interracial couples and interracial families are still too simplistic or
sensationalistic,” added Jen Chau, the other Co-Director of Mixed Media Watch.
“Media images have great cultural power. We hope that the Image Awards will
inspire others to emulate and even surpass the work of 2004’s
honorees.”
Below is the complete list of honorees for the 1st annual
Mixed Media Watch Image Awards:
Special Honoree: Jennifer
Beals
Honorable Mention: The Rock
Outstanding Television Drama Series: The
L Word
Outstanding Television Comedy Series: Girlfriends
Outstanding
Fiction: Country of Origin, The Love Wife, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades,
Symptomatic
Outstanding Advertising Campaign: Verizon’s “The
Elliotts”
Mixed Media Watch Image Award honorees were
published, released or broadcast between January 1, 2004 and December 31,
2004.
For additional information, visit http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/1stimageawards.htm or contact
Jen Chau, Co-Director of Mixed Media Watch at e-mail protected from spam bots or
917-291-5227.
About Mixed Media Watch
Mixed Media Watch is a
collaborative weblog and grassroots coalition that works to promote more
realistic, three-dimensional portrayals of mixed race people, interracial
couples, interracial families and transracial adoptees in film, television,
radio and print media. Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove serve as its
Co-Directors.
Contact:
Jen Chau
Co-Director of Mixed Media Watch
New York, NY
Tel:
917-291-5227
e-mail protected from spam bots
www.mixedmediawatch.com
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