Bionic Buzz® got cover the red carpet of the 2022 Sentinel Awards which honors visionary small-screen storytelling across broadcast, cable and streaming that makes a difference.
Honored shows touch on powerful and timely topics such as abortion, healthcare and economic disparities, aging and caregiving, artificial intelligence, the climate emergency, mental health and racism.
This year’s previously announced honorees include Dopesick, Abbott Elementary, Hacks, A Million Little Things, Never Have I Ever, Upload, The First Lady, Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, Resident Alien, The White Lotus and Harlem.
Reservation Dogs, co-created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, will receive the special Culture of Health Award, which recognizes TV’s transformative power to affect audiences with storytelling that addresses important issues of health, well-being and equity in society. The series is being honored for its season one work.
Funding for Hollywood, Health & Society comes from the California Dept. of Water Resources, the California Health Care Foundation, End Well, Future of Life Institute, John Pritzker Family Fund, Ogilvy, the Plastic Pollution Coalition, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The SCAN Foundation, and the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute. The program, now celebrating more than 20 years of service to the TV entertainment industry, serves as a free resource by providing expert consultations and briefings, panel discussions, screenings, custom research trips, social media and more.
Our host Virag Vida got to interview actress Meagan Good (‘Camille Parks’ in Harlem), Funny Bone & Lil Mike (Rapers & Actors from Reservation Dogs), Alice Wetterlund (‘D’Arcy Bloom’ in Resident Alien), Tommy Pico (Writer and ’Drew’ in Resident Alien), Nastaran Dibai (Executive Producer & Writer for Resident Alien), Sara Tomko (‘Asta Twelvetrees’ in Resident Alien), Josh Banday (‘Ivan Spelich’ in Upload), Lee Rodriguez (‘Fabiola Torres’ in Never Have I Ever), Christina Kartchner (‘Eve’ in Never Have I Ever) and Marcella Guerriero ( Writer & Winner of the Blue Sky Scriptwriting Contest 2023).
Camera work and edits by Virag Vida. Additional edits by Steve Sievers of Bionic Buzz.