SINGAPORE: CNA bagged four trophies – , one gold and three silver – , at the prestigious Cannes Corporate Media &, TV Awards on Thursday ( Sep 26 ).
All four honors were for films.
People of the Wetlands took metal in the Current Affairs group, while The Untold Legend of Vickie Dutton, Reaching the Unreached , and Walk the Line clinched gold in the Past and Personalities/Portraits, Ethnology and Sociology, and Investigative Documentaries and Reports groups both.
Mediacorp, the parent company of CNA, even won gold in the category of Trailers and Teasers for Documentaries and Reports, with the Chinese info-ed collection Tuesday Report taking home the award for its series 7 Essentials trailer.
The company received a total of five” Dolphin” trophies at this year’s awards ceremony, which was held in Cannes, France, on Thursday.
People of the Wetlands is a tale about how the people of the Sundarbans have been affected by climate change and how they are fighting again.  ,
Opportunistic scammers prey on the people and ladies in these destroyed communities, where some of these girls are kidnapped and sold to brothels, after tropical cyclones usually strike the place.
The fortunate few who escape or are saved only to challenge the social stigma associated with theirtraumatic experience.  ,
The Untold Legend of Vickie Dutton, a film that was produced by Peddling Pictures, follows director Larissa Ong’s personal journey to retrace Vickie Dutton’s living, who was Singapore’s initial Malay design and fashion designer, who had been widely admired in the 1960s.
On the other hand, Reaching the Fluid concentrates on the issue of great healthcare inequality in Asia, where there is only one doctor per 1,000 people in some of the least created nations on the continent, on average.
The series follows regular doctor soldiers on their adventures to remote areas, which was produced by Kraken Films.
In spite of the risks and challenging journeys, Walk the Line shines a light on Chinese people who cross the US improperly via its southern borders in an effort to improve their quality of life.
It follows CNA editor Wei Du as they cross China’s border to try to know why they were driven to this plight and if the American Dream is all that it claims to be.
Mediacorp CEO Tham Loke Kheng stated in a speech on Friday that he and other executives are “honoured that our information continues to be recognized on prestigious global stages like the Cannes Corporate Media &, Television Awards. Our five victories this year confirm our ability to tell compelling stories with an decidedly Asian perspective.
My sincere thanks to our generation groups and partners for their excellent work! I hope that these victories will serve as inspiration for us to keep producing excellent material that appeals to viewers both domestically and internationally.
The four award-winning CNA films are applicable on mewatch.