The Digi Awards (formerly know as the Canadian New Media Awards) were handed out last night and I am very proud to announce that two of our projects took home the hardware.

Truth & Lies – The Last Days of Osama Bin Laden, won the Digi for Best in Cross-Platform: Factual. Fulscrn worked with producers at CBC’s flagship investigative program, the fifth estate and cbcnews.ca to create an innovative interactive documentary that examines the hunt for Osama bin Laden and brings the raid on his Abbottabad compound vividly to life.

Welcome to Pinepoint, a project I worked on with long-time collaborators, Mike Simons and Paul Shoebridge (The Goggles) and the NFB, won the Digi for Best Web Series Documentary. A nice cherry to top off a string of national and international awards this project has won over the past year.

I should also mention that Loc Dao (a long-time colleague of mine at the NFB and at CBC Radio 3) won the Digi for Top Digital Producer. It is well deserved as he continues to lead the NFB in the creation of some of the web’s most innovative and moving work.

The awards wrapped up the 2011 nextMEDIA conference with winners named in 17 digital media categories. They were handed out at a gala ceremony at The Carlu in Toronto.

Here’s a nice story from RealScreen which talks about both projects.