MontanaPBS Garners 13 Regional Emmy Nominations

The Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has announced nominations for this year’s Emmys, and MontanaPBS has earned 13 nominations for its outstanding programming over the past year.

The nominations span nine different categories including documentary, writing, photography, audio and editing.

The winners will be announced in June in Seattle.

The full list of the MontanaPBS nominees and the categories follows:

·         Arts/Entertainment – Feature/Segment
“Backroads of Montana,” featuring centenarian bugler Ray Zell. John Twiggs, producer.

·         Arts/Entertainment – Program/Special
“11th & Grant with Eric Funk featuring Angella Ahn & Friends.” Scott Sterling, director; Aaron Pruitt, executive producer; Paul Gomez Routhier, producer; Eric Funk, artistic director; and Jeremiah Slovarp, audio director.

·         Documentary – Cultural
“Bard in the Backcountry.” Cindy Stillwell, director; Tom Watson, director; Aaron Pruitt, executive producer; Chris Seifert, executive producer.

·         Documentary – Topical
“Concussion: Answers in the Blood?” John Twiggs, producer.
“Finding Traction.” Jaime Jelenchick Jacobsen, director; Aaron Pruitt, executive producer; Charles Dye, director; Rick Smith, director of photography; Daniel Schmidt, director of photography.

·         Director – Post Production
“Finding Traction.” Jaime Jelenchick Jacobsen.

·         Writer – Program
“Finding Traction.” Jaime Jelenchick Jacobsen, writer; Stefanie Watkins, writer.

·         Photographer – Program
“Finding Traction.” Daniel Schmidt; Rick Smith.

·         Editor – Program
“Finding Traction.” Stefanie Watkins.
“Concussion: Answers in the Blood?” John Twiggs.

·         Audio
“Finding Traction.” Jeremiah Slovarp.
“Bard in the Backcountry.” Original music, Ian Hatton, composer.
“11th & Grant with Eric Funk featuring Angella Ahn & Friends.” Jeremiah Slovarp, audio director.

MontanaPBS is composed of KUFM-TV Missoula and KUSM-TV Bozeman, each a noncommercial educational licensee of UM and Montana State University, respectively.