NRK Super and the production company Fabelaktiv have won an Emmy award in the category best non-scripted entertainment for their TV show Energikanpen ("Energy Survival").
This was the first year for The Emmy International Kids Awards, which were awarded in New York on Friday evening.
"We are overjoyed! This is crazy!" says the producer of Energikampen, Arild Halvorsen, This is the first time Norway wins an Emmy award; known to be the "Oscars" of television.
Minister of Culture, Hadia Tajik, calls the award "historical." "This is an important recognition that shows that Norwegian television shows for children can also lead the way internationally," Tajik tells Aftenposten.
A total of three different Norwegian television shows for children were nominated in three different categories. The nominations in themselves are fantastic, says Tajik.
Besides Energikampen, NRK Super was nominated for their own production of Lesekorpset ("The Reading Band") in the preschool category, as well as the kids' series Stick ("Leave me Alone"), produced Nordisk Film.
NRK and the Norwegian Film Institute have spent their time in New York promoting Norwegian children's television and movies during the trade show Kid Screen Summit, which took place during the week leading up to Friday's award show.
"The most important to us is to produce good TV for Norwegian children. This type of visibility makes it more attractive to work with television for kids. We are concerned with children's TV not having lower status than TV for adults," says head of NRK Super, Nils Stokke, to Aftenposten.
(Aftenposten)
Julie Ryland
