The show has been nominated in the non-fiction series category, and makes Ahmer the only Kashmiri to have made it this far.
Kashmiri multimedia-journalist Ahmer Khan, and the team’s show ‘VICE’ which airs on Showtime has been nominated for the Emmy Awards.
Emmy awards recognise excellence in television industry, the status of which is comparable only to the Oscars.
Isobel Yeung, Jackie Jesko, Siddharth Bokolia, David Talukdar, Zach Caldwell, Sami Ullah and Ahmer Khan are part of the team that produced the show titled ‘India Burning’ as part of a series by Vice News.
Ahmer took to twitter to announce the nomination to this prestigious award.
I’m pleased and overwhelmed to announce that our film ‘India Burning’ – part of the #ViceonSHO series – has been nominated for an Emmy!
Thank you for everyone who helped us in this journey and helped me reach this moment. pic.twitter.com/LbKtctZWIQ
— Ahmer Khan (@ahmermkhan) July 28, 2020
Earlier this year, a short clip from the show had taken the social media by storm.
The show has been nominated in the non-fiction series category, and makes Ahmer the only Kashmiri to have made it this far.
The results of the awards, are usually announced in a mega-ceremony, but it remains to be seen how COVID will affect the event this year.
A reminder that @vicenews is releasing an extremely important documentary on India, a testimony of our times. Tomorrow 8 pm ET on @Showtime pic.twitter.com/pgVVof0moz
— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) April 4, 2020
Ahmer has earlier been awarded the prestigious 24th Human Rights Press Awards (2020) in short video category for a short-film shot during post-August 5 lockdown. The short-film titled Defending Kashmir: Anchar’s last stand against India’s control, won under the ‘Short Video’ category, was published by The Guardian. The team that worked on the film included Siddharth Bokolia, Sami Ullah, Rebecca Ratcliffe and Claudine Spera.
In 2019, Ahmer was named the winner of the Agence France-Presse Kate Webb Prize for his coverage on the ground in India-controlled Kashmir during Delhi’s lockdown of the region.
He has also been awarded the Lorenzo Natali Prize 2018 for his story ‘A school under metro bridge teaches Delhi children’ in 2018.
Ahmer is an independent multimedia journalist based in Kashmir, focusing on South Asia.
He has done photo and video commissions for The New York Times, The Guardian, TIME, SHOWTIME, Al-Jazeera, Radio France International, Amnesty International, The Christian Science Monitor, Vice News, and other publications.
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