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Winners of the 2nd Annual Imagen Awards Short/Student Films & Web Series
The Imagen Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2nd Annual Imagen Awards Short/Student Film & Web Series Competition. This competition showcases some of the best short form content created by our Latino [...]
The Imagen Foundation Announces Special Honorees for the 33rd Annual Imagen Awards
The Walt Disney Company/Pixar for Coco to be honored with the Creative Achievement Award, Peter Murrieta to be honored with Norman Lear Writer’s Award, and Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto to be honored with Humanitarian [...]
DEADLINE EXTENDED: 2nd Annual Short/Student Films & Web Series Competition
The deadline for the 2nd Annual Imagen Awards Short/Student Films & Web Series Competition has been extended! The Imagen Foundation invites content creators, filmmakers, and students to submit their short films, student films, and web [...]
About the Imagen Awards
The Imagen Awards was co-founded by legendary television producer Norman Lear, who was acutely aware of the near absence of positive portrayals of Latinos in the entertainment industry and understood the importance of positive images. Lear met with the leaders of the National Conference for Community and Justice (formerly the National Conference of Christians and Jews, or NCCJ), a respected non-sectarian human relations organization committed to fighting prejudice and racial tensions. Out of this meeting emerged the Imagen Awards, which recognizes and encourages the entertainment industry to depict the Latino community in a meaningful and accurate manner.
The Imagen Awards attract key entertainment leaders as well as celebrities. Past honorees and attendees have included Lin-Manuel Miranda and Family, Rita Moreno, Guillermo Del Toro, Salma Hayek, John Leguizamo, Martin Sheen, Roberto Orci, Jenni Rivera, and former CBS Entertainment Chairman, Nina Tassler, among others.