Photo Gallery: LOS ARTISTAS Won 2019 Northwest Emmy® Award for Best Arts/Entertainment Program Special
Producer/Director Laila Kazmi accepting the Emmy for LOS ARTISTAS.
June 8, 2019 - At the 2019 Northwest Regional Emmy® Awards, LOS ARTISTAS, produced by Laila Kazmi for Seattle’s PBS television station KCTS 9 won the Emmy for Best Arts and Entertainment Program. This was Laila’s second Emmy Award and fifth nomination.
LOS ARTISTAS (The Artists) tells the story of four Northwest Latino artists, for whom art is not only a form of expression but also a proclamation of heritage. Meet visual artist Juan Alonso-Rodríguez, poet Claudia Castro Luna, folk musician Abel Rocha, and dancer and choreographer Alicia Mullikin. Stories in the show were produced by Laila Kazmi, Aileen Imperial, and Stephen Hegg.
2019 Photo Gallery:
Laila’s previous Emmy win was for IN Close: When Music is Medicine (2016). She was previously nominated for Heartwood (2015), Sending Help and Hope to Syrian Refugees (2017), Nidoto Nai Yoni (Let it Not Happen Again) (2018). Laila’s new documentary short A Healing Act, produced for Seattle Channel is nominated for a 2020 Emmy Award.
Watch LOS ARTISTAS online now at PBS:
LOS ARTISTAS TEAM:
Laila Kazmi, Producer/Director
Aileen Imperial, Producer/Photographer
Stephen Hegg, Producer
Greg Davis, Photographer
Valerie Vozza, Photographer
Amy Mahardy, Editor
Greg Cohen, Design Director
Madeleine Pisaneschi, Designer
Samantha Muscat-Scherr, Designer
Digital Director: Patty Lindley
Interactive Producer: Joseph Liu
