Bridge Produces Accessibility for International Emmy-Winning Film

Audio Description Expands the Reach of International Emmy Award-Winning Film

Bridge Multimedia produced audio description, with partial funding by the U.S. Department of Education, for Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On which received an International Emmy Award in the Arts Programming category. The award was presented by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on November 20^th in New York. The film celebrates the musical legacy of folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie with an emphasis on the struggles of female artists and entertainers in the mid 20^th century. The film aired on American Masters which is produced by THIRTEEN PRODUCTIONS LLC for WNET and broadcast nationally on PBS stations.

Bridge has created audio description for numerous past episodes of American Masters, including films about Helen Keller, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Protactile communication, and two short films about Indigenous artists, broadcast for Native American Heritage Month which occurs annually during November. To ensure that this audio description reflected the vibrancy of Native American culture and creativity, Bridge commissioned two Native American audio description narrators, who brought their Indigenous experience and cultural vocabulary to their audio description performances.