The broadcast series “Jane the Virgin,” “Mr. Robot” and “UnREAL” and the streaming series “Transparent” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” have received the Gotham Independent Film Awards’ first Breakthrough Series awards, the Independent Feature Project announced on Tuesday.
Two categories that encompass traditional television and streaming were created for the formerly film-only awards this year because, said the IFP, “the spirit and vision of the best of ‘independent film’ is also realized in content created for a variety of platforms in a variety of lengths and formats.”
In the short-form category, the nominees were Cartoon Hangover’s “Bee and PuppyCat,” seriesofimpossibilities.com’s