Sisimpur Wins International Telly Award

After winning the Kidscreen Award and the Anthem Award, Sisimpur has now won the prestigious International Telly Award. Sisimpur was honored at the 45th Telly Awards for introducing the new character Julia and incorporating sign language into the episodes, which conveyed messages of diversity, equality, and inclusion, contributing to positive societal change. This popular children’s series from Bangladesh has won three world-renowned awards in less than three years. The popular children’s series has been produced with financial support from USAID Bangladesh since its inception.

The Telly Awards, celebrated worldwide since 1979, recognize meaningful work in visual media that brings about positive change in society and the world. For this year’s award, nearly 13,000 programs from 56 countries were submitted. Along with Bangladesh’s Sisimpur, other notable winners include The News Week, LinkedIn, Al Jazeera, Disney, Pepsi Foundation, NBC Television, National Geographic, Sky News, NASA Television, Clinton Foundation, Walmart, and Warner Brothers.

Notably, in 2022, Sisimpur won the Kidscreen Award, often referred to as the Oscars for children’s programming. Then, in January 2024, it won the renowned Anthem Award. Earlier, in 2010, a survey conducted by the BBC World Service Trust found Sisimpur to be the best children’s program in Bangladesh and the third most popular program overall. Since 2005, Sisimpur, the Bangladeshi version of Sesame Street, has been working under the pre-primary child development program with the goal of helping children become more capable, stronger, and kinder.

Expressing his delight at the news of winning the International Telly Award, Mohammad Shah Alam, Managing Director of Sesame Workshop Bangladesh, the producer of Sisimpur, said, “This is undoubtedly delightful news. The Telly Award is a highly prestigious accolade. It is a matter of great pride and will greatly inspire our future work. For 19 years, Sesame Workshop Bangladesh has been implementing the Sisimpur program to enhance the education of pre-primary children and make their childhoods more enriching, enjoyable, and fun. I believe this success is not ours alone. Our production partners, broadcast partners, writers, illustrators, puppeteers, crew members, and all the children of our country share in this achievement.”

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