LACOE’s Public Affairs and Communications’ Education Technologies Network (ETN) video production team won six Telly Awards for their work on the Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Duardo’s short biography, An Education: The Debra Duardo Story. As a Los Angeles County native and a Mexican American, first-generation college graduate, Dr. Duardo’s inspiring story serves as a message to students across L.A. County that regardless of their background, a good education can help them succeed in life. The short documentary was filmed and edited during the COVID-19 pandemic and even through a global pandemic, the team produced award-winning work. Watch Dr. Duardo’s biography here. 

Below is the list of the awards: 

• Gold Telly Winner in Non-Broadcast - Directing 
• Silver Telly Winner in Non-Broadcast - Documentary: (Under 40 Minutes)
• Silver Telly Winner in Non-Broadcast - Editing
• Silver Telly Winner in Non-Broadcast - Biography
• Bronze Telly Winner in Non-Broadcast - Videography / Cinematography
• Bronze Telly Winner in Non-Broadcast - Use of 2D Animation

About the Telly Awards

The Telly Awards was founded in 1979 to honor excellence in local, regional and cable television commercials with non-broadcast video and television programming added soon after. With the recent evolution and rise of digital video (web series, VR, 360 and beyond), the Telly Awards today also reflects and celebrates this exciting new era of the moving image on and offline. 

The Telly Awards annually showcases the best work created within television and across video, for all screens. Receiving over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents, Telly Award winners represent work from some of the most respected advertising agencies, television stations, production companies and publishers from around the world. The Telly Awards recognizes work that has been created on the behalf of a client, for a specific brand and/or company (including your own) or self-directed as a creative endeavor.