VANCOUVER March 2, 2007 — The 2nd Annual Canadian Awards for the Electronic and Animated Arts (CAEAA) have completed their list of Official Categories for the three industries the Elans award: Video Gaming, Animation, and Students of the Digital Arts.
On Monday, February 26th, the Producers of the CAEAA held panel discussions with Vancouver representatives from each industry individually. The Producers then took the resulting Category and Criteria selections from those meetings and sent them to all three sectors throughout Canada in order to further ensure that the 2007 Elans truly reflected the desires of the industries they were awarding. “The panels constituted a perfect cross-section of many companies and institutions from each industry,” reports Holly Carinci, CAEAA Owner and Elans Producer. “I was very impressed with the way they determined the best categories for this coming year’s awards. I observed Heads of Departments cut categories from their own field of expertise in order to make certain the awards best reflected their industry.”
Each industry not only chose the Categories they wanted to see for the Canadian Awards, but also for the new International Awards that have been added to the 2007 Elans. “Including the rest of the world into our awards is an incredibly exciting addition for all involved,” says Carinci. “The mere nature of these three sectors involves global technology and while we are setting out to define Canada’s important role in these booming industries, we recognize the fact that communication between the countries is key, and what better way to accomplish that than through accolade.”
This year the Submission for Nomination process will be held in two separate segments: Student Submission for Nomination opens Monday, March 5th and closes Friday, June 1st in order that they may have the assistance of their teachers with their work. The Animation and Video Game Submission for Nomination opens Monday, June 4th and closes Friday, August 31st.
The 2007 Elans will be held on Friday, November 2nd at The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts. The state-of-the-art structure, regarded as the premiere entertainment facility in the city, will host the nearly 2000 worldwide guests and participants of this year’s Elans, tripling the attendance of its inaugural year in 2006. The day following the glamorous Awards Night, the CAEAA Producers, along with their Event Partners Ernst & Young, Electronic Arts (EA), Autodesk and the British Columbia Provincial Government will host a very high-end networking day at their Official Hotelier The Sutton Place Hotel, Vancouver (one of only two AAA Five Diamond Hotels in all of Canada) for the CEOs and Upper Management of companies and institutions from around the world who attended the 2007 Elans.
Other important players already onboard to support the 2007 Elans includes: Foundation 9/Backbone Entertainment, Radical Entertainment, next level games, Studio B Productions, Mercury Filmworks, Western Imperial Magnetics, David Kaye Productions, Selkirk College, The Art Institute of Vancouver, Emily Carr Institute, Sheridan College, Vancouver Film School, and Elan statuette artist Dean Lauzé of D’Arts as well as the Awards Auditing firm, Buckley Dodds.
“As the Movie Industry goes to Hollywood for its Oscars, so will the world of Video Gaming and Animation come to Canada for their Elans.”
— Holly Carinci, CAEAA/Elans Founder & Producer |
