SINGAPORE: CNA bagged four trophies – one gold and three silver – at the prestigious Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards on Thursday (Sep 26). All four awards were for documentaries. Women of the Wetlands took gold in the Current Affairs category, while The Untold Legend of Vickie Dutton, Reaching the Unreached and Walk the Line clinched silver in the History and Personalities/Portraits, Ethnology and Sociology, and Investigative Documentaries and Reports categories respectively.
CNA's parent company Mediacorp also took home a silver in the Trailers and Teasers for Documentaries and Reports category – Chinese info-ed series Tuesday Report picking up the trophy for its trailer for its series 7 Essentials. The company received a total of five "Dolphin" trophies at this year's awards ceremony, which was held in Cannes, France, on Thursday. Women of the Wetlands is a story about how climate change has impacted the women of the Sundarbans and how they are fighting back.
In the aftermath of tropical cyclones which frequently hit the area, opportunistic criminals prey on the families and women in these devastated communities, where some of these girls are kidnapped and sold to brothels. The lucky few who manage to escape or are rescued return home only to confront the social stigma attached to their traumatic experience. Produced by Peddling Pictures, The Untold Legend of Vickie Dutton, meanwhile, traces filmmaker Larissa Ong’s intimate journey to rediscover the life of Vicki.
