29TH ANNUAL CEMA AWARDS TO BE PRESENTED JUNE 22

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The 29th annual Canadian Ethnic Media Association (CEMA) Awards will be presented Friday, June 22 to journalists from Vancouver, Edmonton, Ottawa and the Toronto area.

This year, eight CEMA Awards will be presented at a gala held in the Velma Rogers Graham Theatre, 333 Bloor St. E. at 7:15 p.m. In addition, the Sierhey Khmara Ziniak Award, named for CEMA's founder, will be presented to the person who has championed Canadian multicultural journalism.

CEMA (formerly the Canadian Ethnic Journalists' and Writers' Club) which was founded in 1978 as an inclusive organization for print, radio and television media, now includes internet categories. CEMA publishes a website: www.canadianethnicmedia.com.

RADIO

News or feature

ERNIE TANNIS, CHIN Radio, Ottawa.

 

For three submissions of his ongoing interview series on Cross Talk dealing with conflict resolution in the fields of Pakistan earthquake, Dawson College and world values systems.

Editorial opinion piece

HERMAN SILOCHAN, Viewpoint, CHIN Radio, Toronto

 

For a moving opinion piece on the plight and exploitation of illegal immigrants to Canada.

PRINT

News or feature

PETER CZINK, The New Hungarian Voices, Vancouver quarterly magazine.

 

For his series calling attention to the need to preserve heritage reminders of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution which brought so many to Canada.

Editorial or opinion piece

ARNIM JOOP, The Albertaner, Edmonton, monthly German/English newspaper.

For his editorial on treatment of Filipino domestics throughout the world.

TELEVISION

News or feature

MARCUS KOLGA, producer/director

 

For the OMNI documentary Gulag 113, telling the story of his Estonian grandfather's imprisonment in Siberia by the Soviets. 89-year-old Grandfather is seen travelling from Canada to revisit the camp.

Editorial or opinion piece

LALITA KRISHNA producer of TV documentary for TVO

 

Move Your World, showing the physical and spiritual experiences of three Canadian teenagers visiting AIDS-wracked Tanzania and their resolution to share their opinions with their peers.

INTERNET

Editorial or opinion

SUSANNE PACHER, Webmaster/editor Travel and Transitions, 60 years after -- some personal history questions

 

The introduction to Susanne's site states her aim in publishing, based on personal experiences in her native Austria.

News or feature

Two Toronto-based women create a documentary based on a Holocaust education trip. Esther, of German origin and Heather, Chinese, found the trip life-altering and in interviews speak of their hope to use their documentary as a means of showing children the horror of genocide, wherever it may occur.

SIERHEY KHMARA ZINIAK AWARD

JOHN F. NICHOLLS

 

Who, in his years as a representative of both the federal and Ontario governments, encouraged and supported formative and productive relations with Canada's ethnic media.

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