The final round of judging for an International Emmy Award nomination will take place at international television fair, Mipcom, in early October 2007, with the finals to be held in New York in November.
Produced by Penguin Films, Home Affairs is about a diverse group of South African women whose lives are linked together by the force of synchronicity as each undertakes a journey of self-discovery and reflection. It is a story about women, told primarily by women, with a talented creative team featuring women in key creative positions – producer, directors, writers, director of photography, production designers and cast.
“The success of Home Affairs, I think, is that it tells stories which reflect the diversity of millions of women in our country with pathos, complexity and humour, confronting head-long the challenges they face,” says creative director and Penguin Films producer Roberta Durrant.
“That is has achieved international recognition is a big plus for the prestige and the acknowledgement of our television industry as being on par with the best in the world.”
Brenda Ngxoli plays the role of Vuyo in Home Affairs (the second series was also nominated for an International Emmy Awards last year), alongside other stars including Nthathi Moshesh, Lerato Moloisane and Therese Benade.
In the International Emmy Award final round selection, Home Affairs is up against six other series from around the world, including BBC1's The Street, while fellow finalists with Brenda Ngxoli in the Best Actress Award finals are from as far afield as Hong Kong, the UK, France and Norway.
The preliminary judging round of the International Emmy Awards took place earlier this year, when more than 200 judges comprising television industry experts (producers, directors, executives and distributors) from the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the International TV Academy) judged over 10 programme categories from comedy to drama, television movie/mini-series, documentary, arts programming, non-scripted entertainment, children and young people and news coverage.
The International TV Academy is a division of the National Television Academy, one of the largest organisations of global broadcasters with members and representatives from 61 countries and over 250 companies. Its mission is to honour and encourage excellence in television programming outside the US by presenting the International Emmy Award.
