The BAFTA Scotland Awards 2009
For the third year running, BAFTA Scotland commissioned MultiStream to provide live webcast coverage of the 2009 BAFTA Scotland Awa
rds 2008. Television presenter Lorraine Kelly delivered the awards, held at Glasgow Science Centre on the banks of the River Clyde.The ceremony, began with a glittering red carpet arrival that welcomed 800 guests, stars and celebrities including Robert Carlyle and Daniela Nardini.
Twenty awards were presented across a diverse range of categories including Interactive, Short Film, Writing, Documentary and best actor and actress for both Film and Television. The 2009 awards include three digital media awards. These awards recognise the increasing contribution played by Scotland’s games, web and interactive markets to the nation’s moving image industries.
In The Loop, directed and written by Scot Armando Iannucci and starring Scots actor Peter Capaldi won a hat trick of awards, with wins in Writing in Film or Televison, Directing in Film or Television and Acting Performance in Film.
Robert Carlyle (The Unloved) won Acting Performance in TV (Male) category and Daniela Nardini wonin the Acting Performance in TV (Female) category.
Other television winners on the night included Rab C Nesbitt Christmas Special, acclaimed drama New Town and in the field of factual programming; Sighthill Stories scooped the Factual Programme award and Terry Pratchett: Living with Alzheimer's took Factual Series.
MultiStream provided broadcast quality onsite encoding services that took the two hour show and reliably delivered it to record numbers of viewers worldwide. Subsequent to the event concluding, MultiStream also made the on demand content available in record time allowing archive viewing of the evening’s proceedings less than 60 minutes after the show concluded.
Full archive coverage of the BAFTA Scotland Awards is available on the BAFTA Scotland website.