It's a double whammy on a Wednesday for our series 'A League of Extraordinary Makers'. Thrilled to announce that Tushar Ghogale & Aakash Vishwakarma have won a Silver for Editing at the New York Festivals - TV & Film Awards Gala last night. What makes it even more prestigious is that no one won the gold this year.

While international accolades are special, it also feels great to be recognised, here at home in India. Our series has notched up 4 nominations at the Indian Telly Awards in the Non-Fiction Technical & Programming categories - Best Cameraperson - Kiran Kunigal [US] & Chris Dickinson [Singapore] Best Direction - Dipti Chadha & me (Mayurca Biswas)

Best Documentary [Science] - for two eps that go up against each other.

This is truly a reflection of the fact that docs are team projects, where every department has to passionately believe in the story. Some of our core team members who are as deserving of these acclamations are the In-show Graphics gurus led by Patanjali Sharma Sanjeev Nag and Nitin Bhalla; our Singapore Producer who pulled off the impossible during Covid Namrata Chawla Kapoor and our title animations team - Prasad Kelkar, Saurabh Mail and Sameer Berde.

None of this happens if you don't have the most supporting and understanding Commissioning Editor at CNA- you can watch the series here (remember to enable the subtitles for a better viewing experience.

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From Mayurca Biswas:

A year ago, #ALeagueOfExtraordinaryMakers premiered on CNA and ever since, it's been a wonderful ride. It gives me immense joy to share that our series has been well received by both, viewers & critics and has won several accolades around the world.

The latest is a Gold at the 44th International Telly Awards - #BestSeries [Culture]. With over 13,000 entries from across the globe from content producers such as Disney+ Hotstar + National Geographic Society, Netflix, Paramount+, PBS Digital Studios, we're glad that #ALeagueofExtraordinaryMakers has made a mark!

This is on the back of a

Thank you everyone who made it happen, specially our broadcaster CNA, the

#Makers who let us into their universe and the #Storytellers at Storyteller Films.

It's also a good time to revisit what the series is all about and how it almost never got made. Our #logline describes it as a film that "deep dives into the curious world of #Makers and the Things that They #Make." Our production schedule spanned across the globe because we wanted to follow Makers of as many disciplines and ethnicities / nationalities as possible. We were particularly interested in observing how different countries & economies had taken to the movement and its culture.

But just as we started filming, the #Pandemic struck. From what was to be a feel-good anthology of Makers around the world, we suddenly found ourselves staring at what seemed like a complete shutdown of the #Makerverse. Did we even have a story to tell?

But as we'd soon discover, Makers never give up. They adapt, innovate and move on. It was almost as though the Maker Movement had suddenly found a fresh breath of life. And so did we.

What happened was that as global supply chains broke down, #Makers

started making for the need of the hour. The #narrative took on a life of its own - it transformed into the coming of age of a movement that had been in incubation for years. As

#storytellers, we couldn't have asked for a better graph - we continued to follow these fantastic tales of innovation, collaboration and resilience that were emerging all around the world.

We traced the rise, fall and evolution of the global #makermovement as it seeped out of the DIY garages of America to studios, streets, labs and factories in the rest of the world.

By the end of the series, we followed Makers exploring a brand new hypothesis - What if everyone can be a Maker? Making what we need, when and where we need it! How will it impact the way we work, learn, design, trigger social change and prepare for the future?