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Hollywood in Pixel's 6th Silver Pixel Awards

The non-profit, which celebrates the best and brightest of digital Hollywood, will host its sixth awards ceremony on October 19th, 2023. Variety returns as the media sponsor for the fifth year in a row.

LOS ANGELES - Californer -- Hollywood in Pixels has announced October 19th, 2023 as the date of its next Silver Pixel Awards, bringing together the digital Hollywood community to celebrate and honor the best and the brightest leaders for their contributions in digital and data marketing innovation.

This year's Silver Pixel Honoree is Jessica Thurber Hemingway, Head of Social and Influencer Marketing at Amazon Studios, formerly of Warner Bros. Pictures. She leads a global team responsible for social and influencer campaigns for all Amazon Original Movies and Series releases. Most recently she led the campaigns for AIR, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER, and SWARM. Thurber has over 15 years of entertainment marketing expertise, including 11 years at Warner Bros, where she last served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Digital Marketing. During her tenure there, she oversaw the digital marketing efforts for WONDER WOMAN, FANTASTIC BEASTS and WHERE TO FIND THEM, POKEMON DETECTIVE PIKACHU, MAGIC MIKE and THE CONJURING / ANNABELLE film series.

"I have been a strong supporter of HIP and its vision since its inception many years ago. This event celebrates the creativity and contributions of the entire digital Hollywood community – past, present and future. To be recognized by friends and colleagues that I so deeply respect and admire is both an honor and a privilege."

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- Jess Thurber

The Rising Pixel honoree is Eric Dachman, Director of Digital Marketing at Lionsgate. Dachman has been at the studio for over 4 years, previously at IMAX. At Lionsgate, his current responsibilities include developing and implementing the digital strategies for the upcoming slate of theatrical movies. One of his greatest and most recent accomplishments has been growing the Lionsgate TikTok account to over 5M followers. When there's spare time, you'll find him deep into Adobe Premiere, cutting and editing TikToks.

"Being selected as this year's Rising Pixel is an absolute honor. I was completely shocked when I heard the news and now I am beyond excited to be part of such an incredible group of honorees."

- Eric Dachman

Jim Evans, founder of Division 13 Design Group, is the Visionary Pixel honoree. Evans is an artist and owner of the digital design group Division 13, an entertainment industry creative powerhouse. Under his leadership the team has worked with nearly every studio in town to build a portfolio of award-winning digital campaigns, for some of the biggest films of the last two decades, running the gamut from THE RING and HELLBOY to KUNG FU PANDA and the MADAGASCAR franchise.

"Being honored for my digital work by Hollywood in Pixels feels like a dream come true."

- Jim Evans

Founded in 2015, The Silver Pixel Awards honors groundbreaking campaigns from the past and present that set a new path in the evolution of digital marketing. Attendees of The Silver Pixel Awards are over 300 of digital Hollywood's leaders - studio digital marketing executives, heads of digital entertainment creative agencies, as well as digital platforms and media.

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Previous honorees include Elias Plishner, EVP Worldwide Digital and Data Analytics at Sony Pictures; Amy Elkins, currently Content to Commerce NBCU, formerly President Media and Marketing Innovation, STX; Doug Neil, Chief Digital Officer for the Freedom Forum, formerly Global Digital Marketing at Universal Pictures; and Dwight Caines, currently President of Domestic Marketing Universal Pictures, formerly Sony Pictures.

Bettina Sherick, Founder of Hollywood In Pixels, Inc, comments:

"I'm thrilled to once again honor our leaders and achievers. Each Silver Pixels event has been uniquely special, and I look forward to gathering our digital community together for a festive evening."

For sponsorship opportunities: sponsorships@hollywoodinpixels.org

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About Hollywood in Pixels:

Hollywood In Pixels, Inc. is a 501(c)3 founded in 2015 to ensure that the seminal digital film campaigns that help drive digital marketing into the lexicon of Hollywood are recovered and preserved, as well as to ensure that the incredible campaigns of today and tomorrow are not lost to time.