Women in Animation has set Rebecca Sugar, Marko Dješka’s short film All Those Sensations in my Belly and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative as the recipients of the fifth annual WIA Diversity Awards, which are being presented as part of Spark Animation 2021.The festival and conference kicked off yesterday and are running virtually this year through November 7, out of Vancouver, Canada.
Awards were presented by WIA President Marge Dean in a taped presentation, which is now available for viewing online.Sugar, who helmed Steven Universe as the first non-male solo show runner at Cartoon Network after several years writing, storyboarding and songwriting for Adventure Time, is being presented with the award for Individual Achievement.
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