An Emmy statue is displayed at a "Sneak Peek" news conference featuring a replica layout of the upcoming 2011 Creative Arts Ball and the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards Governors Ball celebrations, at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011. AP
NEW YORK—Television productions that took viewers inside a Somali pirate stronghold and a Taliban unit fighting in Afghanistan are among the nominees for International Emmy awards in the current affairs and news categories.
The eight nominees from six countries and the United Nations announced Thursday include “Unter Piraten” on Germany’s Infonetwork GmbH in the current affairs category and Britain’s “Sky News Live at Five: Inside the Taliban” in the news category.
Brazil had two nominations — Discovery Networks Latin America’s “The Assassination of Jean Charles Meneses” (current affairs), about the fatal shooting of a Brazilian immigrant mistaken for a suicide bomber in London, and TV Globo’s “Jornal Nactional: War on Drugs” (news), about a raid by security forces on a drug dealer’s stronghold in Rio de Janeiro.
The winners will be announced by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at a September 28 ceremony in New York.