The Banff World Media Festival has announced its list of nominees for this year’s Fiction, Non-fiction and Interactive Rockies, to be held during the 32nd annual edition of the event, from June 12 to 15. Twenty-nine awards are to be handed out in total.

On the non-fiction front, multiple broadcast and cable companies up for honors include HBO, BBC, CBC, Channel 4, History, ARTE, NHK, and SBS. Interestingly, the UK practically dominated the reality category with five of the six nominees coming from UK broadcasters and the sole exception being the CBC’s Dragon’s Den. No US programming made the cut for that category.

In the interactive department, The NFB has four out of six nominations in the best online program – documentary category, and FremantleMedia is a multiple nominee for best online program – entertainment.

Canadians looking to make some noise in non-fiction this Festival include:

Documentary-Style Reality Programs
6 Rides to Sunday (White Iron Pictures for Rogers Broadcasting Limited/OMNI)

Environmental Programs
Architects of Change – “To Innovate is to Imitate” (Les Productions Vic Pelletier and Lato Sensu Productions for RDI, TFO, TV5 Monde, Ushaïa TV and TV8 Mont-Blanc)
Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands (Clearwater Documentary for the CBC)

Political Documentaries
Remote Control War (Zoot Pictures in association with DocBot Films for CBC Doc Zone)
The Fence (Moxie Firecracker Production in association with HBO Documentary Films for HBO)

Social & Humanitarian Documentaries
Life with Murder (JS Kastner Productions in association with the NFB, for CTV)

Wildlife & Natural History Programs
Beasts of the Bible (Associated Producers for Animal Planet and Vision TV)

Reality Programs
Dragons’ Den – Season 5, Episode 8 (CBC for CBC)

Lifestyle & Information Programs
Income Property – “Mike & Antoinette” (RTR Media in association with HGTV, for HGTV US & HGTV Canada)
X-Weighted: Families – “Adrienne” (Anaïd Productions for Slice)

The 2011 Interactive Rockie nominees include:

Best Cross-Platform Project
Museum Secrets (Kensington Communications for History Television )
One Ocean Interactive (Merit Motion Pictures with Tactica Interactive for CBC)
The Dating Guy (marblemedia for Teletoon)

Best Online Program – Children & Youth
Ruby Skye P.I. (Golick Enterprises)

Best Online Program – Documentary
Highrise/Out My Window (NFB)
Holy Mountain! (NFB)
This Land (NFB)
Welcome To Pine Point (NFB)

Best Online Program – Drama
Being Erica Season III Webisodes – “The Road Less Travelled” (Temple Street Productions in association with CBC for cbc.ca)
En audition avec Simon / Casting Call – “Julie Le Breton” (a_ media for tou.tv)
Temp mort:Saison 2 – Episode 1 (Productions Babel in association with CBC/Radio-Canada)

The 2011 Fiction Rockies include:

Comedy Programs
CAUTION: May Contain Nuts – “Blowed Up Zombie Real Good” (Mosaic Entertainment for APTN)
lol 🙂 – Season 1, Episode 2 (Quebecomm for TVA)
TV With TV’s Jonathan Torrens – “Freak Shows” (TV Torrens 2 Productions in association with Canwest Network for TVTropolis)

Music & Variety Programs
Battle of the Blades – “Finale Performance Show” (Insight Production Company in association with CBC for CBC)
Season of Song: Canadian Tenors and Friends (Suddenly SeeMore… Productions in association with CBC for CBC)

Mini-Series
The Pillars of the Earth (Tandem Communications and Muse Entertainment in association with Scott Free Films for Starz, The Movie Network, Movie Central and CBC-TV)

Sitcoms
Call Me Fitz – “The Pilot” (Amaze Film + Television in association with Entertainment One for TMN/Movie Central)

Children’s Programs (2+) – Fiction
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More To Life (NFB in association with Warner Home Video
for The Movie Network)
Stella and Sam – “Night Fairies” (Radical Sheep Productions for Family Channel and Playhouse Disney)
Wingin’ It – “Hold the Dressing” (Temple Street Productions in association with BBC Worldwide for Family Channel)

Youth Programs (13+) – Fiction
Anash and the Legacy of the Sun-Rock – “Death and Peace” (Panacea Entertainment and The Thing With Feathers Productions for APTN, ACCESS and SCN)
Vacation with Derek (Shaftesbury Films for Family Channel Canada)

A full list of nominees is available at the site.

With files from realscreen magazine.