bluecadet interactive’s Josh Goldblum wins Emmy

A Web-based multimedia package on living with AIDS in Jamaica is not done winning awards for the firm that designed it.
Josh Goldblum, founder of the Art Museum area’s bluecadet interactive, won a News & Documentary Emmy last week for his work as interactive producer on the project, called Live Hope Love.
The project, which combines photography, video documentation, poerty and interviews with the victims of AIDS, began in 2007 with a request from the Virginia Quarterly and became a broad partnership between the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, D.C.-based Joshua Cogan and South Carolina poet, activist and Jamaican native Kwame Dawes.


“Ultimately, poetry has given us a way to tell stories in strikingly new ways,” Dawes said, in accepting the prize for the entire group. “The music of Kevin Simmonds, the photography of Josh Cogan, the genius design work of bluecadet interactive – the dogged producing of the Pulitzer Center form this amazing team. This is exciting, very exciting. At the end of the day, the hope is that the inertia about HIV/AIDS and its impact on the world will be challenged by this and other such projects.”
It’s the cap for a rather award-ridden first year in Philadelphia for bluecadet, after Goldbum returned to his native region from Washington D.C.
Live Hope Love earned bluecadet one victory and another nomination at the 13th annual Webby Awards, as Technically Philly reported back in May. The firm also won a SxSW Web Award and were featured by HOW magazine since January.
Goldblum et al received their award at the 30th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences last Monday at Manhattan’s Lincoln Center.
More than 800 media industry executives, journalists and producers attended the event which honors outstanding achievement in television journalism by individuals and programs, distributed via broadcast, cable and broadband.
Oh, and Jane Pauley gave them their award. Classic.
Previously in May “bluecadet Web design firm nominated for two Webby Awards“