{"id":124533,"date":"2020-06-17T15:32:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T21:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=124533"},"modified":"2020-06-17T15:57:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T21:57:10","slug":"samone-roberts-19-earns-two-silver-telly-awards-for-animated-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=124533","title":{"rendered":"Samone Roberts ’19 earns two Silver Telly Awards for animated film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Samone Roberts \u201919 has won two Silver Telly Awards for her\nshort animated film \u201cThe Gardener.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roberts, who earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in communication from UCCS in December 2019, won a Silver Telly Award in the student non-broadcast category and a People\u2019s Silver Telly Award in the general non-broadcast category. Only 20 Silver Telly Awards were granted in the student non-broadcast category, which receives entries from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film was funded by a grant offered through the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences that awards funds for student-faculty research and creative work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roberts previously presented a short, animated predecessor to \u201cThe Gardener,\u201d titled \u201cThe Farmer,\u201d at the Colorado Springs Undergraduate Research Forum in 2019. According to Roberts and faculty mentor David Nelson, professor and chair of the Communication department at UCCS, \u201cThis project looks into the process of creating a two-dimensional, frame by frame, hand-drawn film. The goal of this research was to take a deeper and more personal look into what creating an animated film like this entails, such as skill sets and time management. Another goal of this project was to tell a heartwarming and complete story of parenthood in the short duration of a minute.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Telly Awards annually showcases the best work created\nwithin television and across video, for all screens. The initiative was founded\nin 1979 to honor excellence in local, regional and cable television commercials\nwith non-broadcast video and television programming added soon after. Receiving\nover 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents, Telly Award winners\nrepresent work from some of the most respected advertising agencies, television\nstations, production companies and publishers from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2008, 13 UCCS productions have earned Telly Awards.\nMostly recently, season three of the student-produced TV and web series \u201cThe\nBluffs\u201d earned a Silver Telly Award in the student online category in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roberts’ short animated film “The Gardener” won a Silver Telly Award in the student non-broadcast category and a People\u2019s Silver Telly Award in the general non-broadcast category. (More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":124536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,45],"tags":[107,86,131,332],"class_list":["post-124533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-arts-and-culture","tag-alumni-relations","tag-college-of-letters-arts-and-sciences","tag-department-of-communication","tag-more-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/680x450-Communique-11.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-woB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124537,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124533\/revisions\/124537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}