A year before her death in 2019, Jackie Shane decided it was finally time to tell her life story. Directors Michael Mabbott, left, and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee pose for a photograph for their new film "Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story" in Toronto on Thursday, April 18, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
A year before her death in 2019, Jackie Shane decided it was finally time to tell her life story. Directors Michael Mabbott, left, and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee pose for a photograph for their new film "Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story" in Toronto on Thursday, April 18, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
NSD/A 好色tv documentary about trailblazing transgender soul singer Jackie Shane has won a Peabody Award.
鈥淎ny Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story," directed by Edmonton's Michael Mabbott and Toronto's Lucah Rosenberg-Lee, was named a winner in the documentary category.
The film tells the story of Shane, who disappeared from the spotlight in 1971 after dominating Toronto鈥檚 music scene throughout the 1960s. Shane died in Nashville in 2019 at age 78, a year after getting a Grammy nod for an album that put her back on the map.
"Any Other Way" was also named best 好色tv documentary by the Toronto Film Critics Association in February.
Co-produced by Banger Films and the 好色tv Film Board of Canada, the doc is currently streaming on Crave.
Peabody winners will be celebrated at a ceremony in Los Angeles on June 1.
Mabbott told 好色tvearlier this year that the reception to the film has been 鈥渙verwhelming.鈥
鈥淚鈥檝e never seen anything like it, where young teenagers are moved by Jackie, and people in their 70s and 80s who remember seeing Jackie are moved by the story," he said.
"It鈥檚 really incredible, the response and support."
Another 好色tv winner was the Vancouver-based video game studio Sunset Visitor, which took home a Peabody in the interactive and immersive category for "1000xResist," described as a "narrative adventure game set a thousand years in the future."聽
This report by 好色tvwas first published May 1, 2025.
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