KOTV’s The Mediator (La médiatrice) has claimed the Short-Form Series prize at the 53rd International Emmy Awards.

The awards were presented at a ceremony in New York on Monday (Nov. 24), which saw nine countries taking home trophies across 16 categories. The U.K. collected the most awards with six wins, followed by Spain with two.

The Mediator is directed by Isabelle Garneau and created by Marie-Élène Grégoire and Marie-Hélène Lebeau-Taschereau. It follows a relationship mediator who seeks to avenge the victims of bad breakups after her partner of 20 years cheats on her.

The cast is led by Mylène Mackay (Casse-Gueule), Ariane Castellanos (Temps de chien) and Maxime de Cotret (The Dishwasher). The 8 x 12-minute series aired in Canada on ICI Tou.tv.

Executive producers on the series are Louis-Philippe Drolet, Louis Morissette, Lebeau-Taschereau and Mélanie Viau.

The series was up against three other projects for Short-Form Series, including fellow Canadian nominee in LoCo Motion Pictures’ My Dead Mom, Hong Kong and China’s Beyond Dancing and Argentina’s Change is Everything.

A third Canadian series, Insight Productions’ 12th and final season of Big Brother: Canada, was nominated for Non-Scripted Entertainment. Denmark’s Shaolin Heroes won that category.

Pictured (L-R): Marie-Élène Grégoire and Marie-Hélène Lebeau-Taschereau

Photo by David Bergman