The Internet’s possibilities for good are endless, and the stories featured in The Lovie Letters demonstrate just that.
The Lovie Letters, presented in partnership with Google, gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the best work being made for the European Internet—from lessons learned to proudest moments and more. We sat down for exclusive video interviews with some of the 2019 Lovie Winners who are actively using digital to make the world a better place.
Check out videos below featuring Lovie Winners including: Lovie Creator for Change Award Winner Grace F Victory, Raspberry Pi creator Eben Upton, Lovie Best Actor Ashley Walters, Lovie Special Achievement Award Winner Evanna Lynch, and Founder of Our World in Data Max Roser.
And read more of the stories on this year’s Lovie-winning projects at lovieletters.eu
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Grace F Victory, Lovie Creator for Change Award Winner
Grace F Victory is recipient of the 2019 Lovie Creator for Change Award. Her YouTube channel is a well of open and outspoken videos spreading a message about body positivity, self-acceptance, and often taboo topics, that taken as a whole, serve as a support for viewers everywhere seeking to better understand themselves. Watch our Lovie Letters video all about Grace’s work.
Ashley Walters, Lovie Best Actor
Ashley Walters won the 2019 Lovie Best Actor Award for his incredible work in the role of Dushane, in Netflix’s Top Boy Series 3.
In this video (above), Ashley talks more about how the streaming internet is so vital to telling stories of communities often overlooked, and how a dinner with Drake led to the Netflix revival of the show.
Watch Ashley’s 7 Words of Lovie speech at the 9th Annual Lovies.
Eben Upton, Creator of Raspberry Pi
Eben Upton is the creator of Raspberry Pi and The Raspberry Pi Foundation, and the 2019 Lovie Lifetime Achievement Winner for his pioneering work in computing. Check out our special interview with Eben .
Watch Eben Upton’s 7 Words of Lovie speech at the 9th Annual Lovies.
Evanna Lynch
Evanna Lynch won a 2019 Lovie Special Achievement Award for her work using the social web to promote the vegan lifestyle and environmental health.
In this video (above), Evanna shares more about how the internet is vital to her efforts in spreading the message about being vegan, especially with her company KinderBeautyBox, and her podcast, The Chickpeeps.
Watch Evanna’s 7 Words of Lovie speech at the 9th Annual Lovies.
Max Roser, Founder, Our World in Data
The Lovie Awards honoured Our World in Data with the Lovie Be Greater with Data Award at the 9th Annual Lovie Awards, for their outstanding use of data and the Internet to make huge sets of data accessible, and understandable, to anyone. Here, Founder Max Roser explains Our World in Data’s mission: to show that our world is improving for the better.
Watch Our World in Data’s 7 Words of Lovie speech at the 9th Annual Lovies.
Jamie Nicoll, Founder, Phantom
Phantom took home multiple Lovie Awards for their agency website phantom.land, and a fun game called “Rick Ross: Born to Drive” that was made for Messenger.
In our interview, Founder Jamie Nicoll talks about why being an independent agency gives Phantom unusual creative freedoms (read: projecting their logo animation onto the Tate Museum), and shares what winning a Lovie Awards means to the team.
Watch Phantom’s 7 Words of Lovie speech at the 9th Annual Lovies.
For more behind-the-work stories from this year’s Lovie Winners, visit lovieletters.eu