EMMY Award

National Academy of Television Arts EMMY Award for Animation
I am always pleased to write about talented people, especially if they are immigrants like us, who came to a country of unlimited opportunities, where all doors are open for talented people, as they say, if there is a desire.

And I am happy that I work for a newspaper that was able to show the uniqueness of our community by telling on its pages about people who have done a lot of good for the country that has sheltered us.
I found out that Maya and her parents came to the United States from Rostov-on-Don when she was 12 years old. Maya Edelman is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Film/Video and BFA Animation and currently teaches in the School of the Arts. Dreams, Memories & Gallucinations Studio is an immersion into the moving image arts (film, video and animation) that depict our inner lives, while Fx, Tricks + Pix explores the "emotional - design, sound, effects, masks" primarily using Adobe After Effects and similar post-production software as tools that bridge the creative gap between live action and animation.
She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at the 75th Creative Arts Awards at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. in Animation 2024, for his work on the color design of the short animated documentary "More Than I Care to Remember." The 75th Creative Arts Emmy Awards category winners were broadcast live at the ceremony on January 6th and 7th in Los Angeles. Categories for the awards include animation, costume design, new media programming, hair and makeup and emotional design.
More Than I Want to Remember tells the heartbreaking story of a family in south-eastern Congo who are separated after a bomb explodes. The narrator, 14-year-old Mugeni, seeks to reunite with her family, and her quest is conveyed through lush, fast-paced animation full of vibrant color and emotion. The cartoon is voiced by a girl who herself tells what she had to endure.
In addition to working on color design, Maya Edelman also directed the animated film. When I asked how the cartoon was technically made, she emphasized that she drew with a group of four artists and did not use the services of artificial intelligence.
In an interview, Maya said that the concept of immigration is not just words for her. This is what she and her family experienced firsthand. And the bomb explosion with which the film begins is perhaps the personification of all explosions during military operations, turning the 21st century into a century of wars and humanitarian disasters, when people flee to save themselves and their children. The film very sensitively shows how kind people sheltered a girl in a church, and then in Detroit a white woman became her mother, and touchingly shows how the two women who became her mothers hug each other.
This is the second such prestigious award for Maya. In 2018, she was part of the Pratt Institute team and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animation Design on an episode of Broad City.
Maya Edelman is a prolific illustrator, animator, and director who has worked on more than a dozen film and television projects, including for The New York Times, Pop Sugar, Zagat, and UCLA. “I am drawn to telling stories that describe reality, leaving room for imagination.”
Marina Lagunova