Stony Brook Resident Nominated for 41st College Television Awards

Jinuk Choi, of Stony Brook, NY, has been nominated for the prestigious Television Academy Foundation’s 41st College Television Awards. The College Television Awards recognizes and rewards excellence in student-produced programs from colleges and universities nationwide. Winners in the competition will be announced by television stars at the awards ceremony on March 26.

Choi is nominated in the Animation Series category for producing, writing and directing “Beyond The Line", a project he created while attending the School of Visual Arts in New York City, NY.

Choi’s animated piece is a story about a wheelchair that dreams of one day being as fast as a racing car. One night, the wheelchair decides to have a race in the hospital hallway.

“I went to a children's hospital to visit a sick young cousin and the experience inspired me,” said Choi. “It was sad to see the children filled with a kind of downcast air. Then I saw the children watching animation as if they were looking at the sky from inside a well. I realized the animations weren't just killing time, but a channel to imagine and dream beyond the hospital space. I decided to make an animated story for people who need hope and joy.”

“Being nominated for a College Television Award has motivated me to continue making animation,” said Choi. “I wish to contribute to the television industry by promoting more diversity in stories and characters that haven’t received a lot of attention from society.”

The virtual College Television Awards show will feature celebrity presenters including Dove Cameron (Schmigadoon!), Rick Glassman (As We See It), Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows), Sam Heughan (Outlander), Jordan L. Jones (Bel-Air), Rose McIver (Ghosts), Sue Ann Pien (As We See It), Danielle Pinnock (Ghosts), Logan Shroyer (This Is Us) and Hannah Zeile (This Is Us).

The 41st College Television Awards will be streamed globally at TelevisionAcademy.com/CTA on Saturday, March 26, at 6:00 PM PST, 9:00 PM EST.

A total of 54 students have been nominated in 6 categories for the 2022 awards selected from 185 entries submitted from 58 colleges nationwide.

Designed to emulate the Emmy Awards, student entries are judged by Television Academy members. Criteria for the College Television Awards reflect industry standards of excellence, imagination, and innovation.

The awards ceremony will be held in conjunction with the Foundation’s College Television Summit, a three-day, educational event featuring panel discussions with media-industry leaders to be held March 23-25. The Summit is made available virtually and free of charge to media arts students across the country.