“Daddy’s Girl,” an animated music video, featuring a poignant series of shared moments between father and daughter, has won four film festival awards for Best Animation: LA Indies and Best Music Video: London Filmmaker Awards, San Diego Art Film Festival and the International Manhattan Film Awards.
The video was produced by Jamie deRoy, legendary Broadway Producer, winner of 10 Tony Awards, and directed by Candy Kugel, award-winning filmmaker. Jamie also sings and co-wrote the music and lyrics forthe featured song, “Daddy’s Girl”, along with Lanny Meyers and Jane R. Snyder.
Link to the music video can be found HERE.
“Daddy’s Girl” has also received additional accolades at: New York Independent Cinema Awards, LA Independent Film Channel Festival, Paris International Short Festival, Palm Springs International Film Awards, Paris Women Festival, London Indie Short Festival, Vegas Shorts, Cannes International Shorts, Boston Independent Film Awards, California Indies, and Philadelphia Cinema Awards.
Daddy’s Girl Video Credits:
Animation By: Candy Kugel – Buzzco Associates, Inc.
Music and Lyrics: Jamie deRoy, Lanny Meyers, Jane R. Snyder
Publisher: Jamie deRoy & friends, inc (ASCAP), Nothing Plain About…this Jane! (ASCAP)
Vocal: Jamie deRoy
Piano: Lanny Meyers
Bass: Bob Renino
Drums/Percussion: Rex Benincasa Guitar: Larry Salzman
Backup Vocals: Margaret Dorn, Sara Kreiger, Paul Rolnick Artistic
Consultant: Barry Kleinbort
About Jamie deRoy
Jamie is a show business tour de force — an award-winning producer; cabaret, stage, film and TV performer; recording artist/producer and humanitarian. She has won 10 Tony Awards and is the prodigious producer of 85 Broadway shows and 58 off-Broadway shows.
Jamie has won eight MAC Awards, four Back Stage Bistro Awards, 11 Telly Awards and CaBMagazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She has been honored by Theatre Works/USA and Primary Stages.
A frequent presence on the New York night club scene, Jamie has produced nine CDs in the Jamie deRoy & friends series on Harbinger and PS Classics labels. Her long-running variety shows have played practically every cabaret in Manhattan.
About Candy Kugel
Candy Kugel, a longtime voting member of both AMPAS and the TV Academy, began her career at Perpetual Motion Pictures making political cartoons for NBC, ads, and TV specials. She is also very active in the independent film community having made over a dozen award-winning independent shorts which are all part of MoMA’s Film Archives. She just completed “I, Candy”, an independent film whose premiere was at New York Museum of Modern Art on April 23, 2018.
Candy is well known for creating the animation for the original two MTV “Top of the Hour” IDs (planting the MTV flag on the moon!) and the “I Want my MTV” national campaigns. Through Buzzco Associates, she has created TV programming, educational films & ads – most notably Talking About Sex for Planned Parenthood (Annecy Cristal), and WGBH’s Between the Lions (Emmy). It’s Still Me!” a 17-minute DVD, became a valuable resource about aphasia. Kugel recently acted as Executive Producer and developed “Angela’s Christmas”, a half-hour TV special in December 2018, for the Irish animation studio, Brown Bag.
About Lanny Meyers
Lanny Meyers is a Composer, Orchestrator, Musical Director. A six-time EMMY AWARD winner for network TV (w/Elliot Lawrence); Winner of the MAC Award Album of the Year (Jamie deRoy & Friends); CINE GOLDEN EAGLE awards (Buzzco Assoc.); Music Director Symphony Space (Isaiah Sheffer); Albums (w/Bruce Kimmel) vocalists: Laurie Beechman; Maude Maggart, Michelle Nicastro, Sandy Bainum; Featured albums: “Strange Meadowlark” Dave & Iola Brubeck; “Female Mystix” Simone Wells; “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet + Oklahoma City Ballet; “Unicorn” Long Beach Ballet
Film: “Beirut” Sundance winning Best Documentary; 1-Act Operas: “The Ironworkers’ Hayride” (Robert Olen Butler); “Yma Dream” (Thomas Meehan)
About Jane R. Snyder
Jane R. Snyder is a winner of the “President’s Award” for Excellence in the Art and Craft of Songwriting from the Songwriters Guild of America. An ASCAP songwriter/publisher (thisjane.com), her songs have been recorded and heard on TV and in films. A graduate of ASCAP’S Country Songwriting Workshop, Jane’s fiction, essays, and poetry appear in print and online (janersnyder.com). Her award-winning essay, “Dinner with My Dad,” (Writer’s Digest) is included in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Attitude of Gratitude.
Jamie deRoy & friends, inc.
Jamie founded her popular variety show, more than 30 years ago, becoming her popular TV Show. “Jamie deRoy & friends” airs every other Monday night at 8 p.m. ET on Spectrum HD Channel 1993 and VerizonFIOS Channel 37 as well as multiple times on East Hampton’s LTV.
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