Breakrough Entertainment Rules the 05 YMA Awards with Four Nominations

Max & Shred, The Adventures of Napkin Man, My Big Big Friend and Rocket Monkeys Each Receive A YMA Award of Excellence Nomination

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TORONTO (April 1, 2015) - Canada's prestigious YMA (Youth Media Alliance) Award of Excellence nominations have been announced and Breakthrough Entertainment leads the way having received four nominations for its critically-acclaimed original children's series programming.

The Adventures of Napkin Man has been nominated for Best Television Program, All Genres, Ages 3-5; Rocket Monkeys received a YMA nomination in the Best Television Program, Animation, Ages 9-14 category; Max & Shred received a YMA nomination for Best Television Program, All Genres, Teen ; and My Big Big Friend was nominated for a YMA Award of Excellence in the Best Television Program, Animation, Ages 3-5 category.

We are deeply honored to have received a YMA Award of Excellence nomination for each of our top original children's series. Canada continues to reign as a major global center for the best in children's television entertainment, and we are extremely proud to be part of this vibrant production community, said Ira Levy, President of Breakthrough Entertainment.

Max & Shred chronicles the hilarious and unlikely friendship between Max Asher (Jonny Gray), a celebrity snowboarder, and Alvin Shred Ackerman (Jake Goodman), a science whiz-kid, who become roommates and instant bros when Max moves to Colorado to train for the Winter Cup. The two boys must work to become friends and learn to navigate the trials of teenage life from completely opposite points of view. The series is executive produced by George Doty IV along with Breakthrough Entertainment's Joan Lambur, Ira Levy, Peter Williamson, Nat Abraham and Michael McGuigan.

My Big Big Friend celebrates the imaginations of preschoolers which takes them anywhere, allows them to be anyone and to do anything. Sometimes their imaginations can even create new playmates - which is exactly what happened to three young friends; Yuri, Lili and Matt. The result is an engaging animated series for preschoolers where BIG problems shrink down to size with the help of a big, big friend. The series executive producers are Andr Breitman, Ira Levy and Peter Williamson.

Rocket Monkeys stars brothers Gus and Wally. Inexplicably charged with carrying out all kinds of important missions, these hapless monkeynauts tend to cause more intergalactic calamity than they could ever prevent. Luckily they have plenty of help from YAY-OK, their dashing and devoted (if slightly outdated) robot. While they may be operating on limited brainpower and even less guts, Gus and Wally do have a hunger for adventure -- and by adventure we mostly mean bananas. The show is created by Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson and developed by Alex Galatis and Mark Evestaff (who also serves as the show's producer). Executive Producers include Ira Levy, Joan Lambur and Peter Williamson.

The Adventures of Napkin Man combines live action and animation to address children's everyday challenges and concerns through nurturing main characters, age appropriate comedy and catchy original music. Series star, celebrated actor Yannick Bisson, takes the role of Mister Anthony, a preschool teacher who draws a superhero named Napkin Man for his students - a character who magically comes to life in an animated world to help young children better understand and manage their feelings. The series is created by Tone Thyne and Josh Selig. Executive Producers are Ira Levy and Peter Williamson.

Youth Media Alliance (YMA) seeks to enrich the lives of Canadian children and teens by helping improve the quality of the content created for them on all screen-based media. The Alliance pursues its mission of encouraging high-quality content by presenting annual awards of excellence to the best productions targeting young English- and French-speaking Canadians. In addition, the organization offers ongoing training tailored to the special needs of youth production professionals through workshops, seminars, and special events such as the Children, Youth & Media and M dia-Jeunes conferences. YMA is also known for its original research investigating the impact of screen-based media on young people and for its government lobbying efforts to generate interest in all matters concerning screen-based content for young Canadians.

About Breakthrough Entertainment

Headquartered in Toronto, Breakthrough Entertainment Inc. (BEI) is a world class studio, being a leading global producer and distributor of acclaimed primetime comedy and drama series, as well as factual entertainment, documentaries, television movies, feature films, family entertainment and children's animation. As one of Canada's largest television production and distribution companies, BEI has licensed programs to major broadcasters in over 200 territories. With a catalogue of over 3000 half-hours of programming, the company handles distribution as well as worldwide pre-sales, co-productions and third-party acquisitions. In addition to its dedicated program development, production and distribution divisions, Breakthrough's digital media division ranks among one of the industry's most respected producers of high quality digital entertainment including ebooks, webisodes and online and mobile games. www.breakthroughentertainment.com. Follow us on Twitter @breakthru_ent.

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