Zee Entertainment's Sunita Uchil joins Venice TV and Branded Content Festival 2023's jury panel

Sunita Uchil, Executive VP, Zee Entertainment, is going to be a part of the jury panel for the Venice TV and Branded Content Festival 2023.

The Venice TV and Branded Content Awards follows the Venice Film Festival every year.

The awards body is calling all media companies and TV Channels, ad film and content producers, program production and content companies, digital and branded content companies to participate in the festival.

Indian companies have done well in winning awards in recent times. Viacom has won Golds every year in the last 4 years for Nickelodeon and Big Boss, while Zee, Sony and Freemantle have also won awards in previous years.

In 2021, Viacom Nickelodeon's ‘Identity’ won a Gold, while Zee 5 and Freemantle won Finalists for Barot House TV Film and Ted Talks Nayi Baat, respectively.

There are 19 categories with key ones being Branded Content, Documentary, News, Reality TV, Comedy, Sport, Light Entertainment, Program Promotion, Performing Arts, Children/Youth, Best of Technical, New Talent, Best Soap / TV Novella, Animation, Cinematography, Direction, Cross Platform Programming, etc.

Many top professionals from global TV networks like Disney, BBC, ITV, Sky Italia, Fox, Kansai TV etc, are on the jury for the awards every year.

This year’s Jury includes - Carlo Arturo Sigon, President Italian Directors Guild; Alan Holland, Head of Documentary, BBC Studios; Arild Erikstad, President IMZ; Virginia Lim, Chief Content Officer, Mediacorp Singapore; Paula Kirchner, Unscripted Content Director, Warner Bros Discovery, Latin America.

The festival is supported by Egta (Brussels), ACT and the City of Venice.

The Venice TV and Branded Content Festival is open for entries. The deadline for submission of entries is June 30, 2023.

More details can be found on VeniceTVAward.com.