International. At the 73rd Engineering Emmy Awards ceremony, the Television Academy presented an award to ARRI for the development of its SkyPanel family of LED soft lights.
At the ceremony, held at the JW Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles on October 21, 2021, the judges recognized that the efficient and versatile family of ultra-bright LED luminaires with multiple control options had optimized production lighting workflows and was now firmly established throughout the television industry.
John Gresch, senior vice president of sales and marketing for ARRI Inc., received the Engineering Emmy Award for ARRI, Inc. "This is truly a great honor. On behalf of ARRI, especially our lighting engineers in Stephanskirchen in Germany, the management team in Munich and all our locations around the world, I thank the Television Academy for this," he commented in his speech.
Since its introduction in 2015, the ARRI SkyPanel was immediately adopted for television and feature film productions around the world and was frequently used in numerous broadcast studios, live events, fashion shows and even art exhibitions. Some notable shows lit up with SkyPanel include the recent four-time Emmy winner "Ted Lasso" (Apple TV+), the Netflix series "Dark," "The L Word: Generation Q" (Showtime), "First Ladies" (CNN) and "Genius: Aretha" (National Geographic), along with the multi-award winning feature film "Blade Runner 2049" and the last two "Star Wars" productions. and many more.
