Pacific Crest's 'The Broken Column' to honor 'FRIDA' winning a News & Doc Emmy Award

I made a promise in the middle of 'Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy' leads Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary nominees at the News & Doc Emmy Awards.

FRIDA earned nominations for Direction – Documentary and Music Composition – Documentary in addition to Outstanding Graphic Design – Documentary. I might get to those before June 26th if I have time. If I don't, I will certainly cover any awards it wins, and I have a drum corps show to celebrate them. Yes, really.

Carla Gutierrez won Outstanding Direction – Documentary for FRIDA. Here's the tweet announcing the award from The Emmys.

The #DocEmmys Award for Outstanding Direction – Documentary goes to Frida (@PrimeVideo). pic.twitter.com/ijWlH2mW54

— The Emmys (@TheEmmys) June 27, 2025

Here is Gutierrez accepting her award.

"A heart that is broken is also broken open."
Congratulations on Outstanding Direction, Carla Gutierrez! ??? #DocEmmys pic.twitter.com/sgNeYjJCCT

— The Emmys (@TheEmmys) June 27, 2025

Congratulations to Gutierrez and the crew of FRIDA! Also, congratulations to the winners in the other categories in which FRIDA earned nominations, Daniel Pemberton, who won the Emmy for Music Composition – Documentary for his score for Endurance, and the graphics team of Omnivore, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Graphic Design – Documentary.

I plan on covering more News & Doc Emmy nominees in future posts. In the meantime, follow over the jump for videos about Pacific Crest's "The Broken Column," the corps 2024 program, which honors Frida Kahlo.

I begin with Drum Corps International's Inspiration behind Pacific Crest's "The Broken Column", which explains how the show theme connects to Frida.

Pacific Crest's 2024 production, "The Broken Column," is inspired by the life and art of Frida Kahlo.

Next, an official upload of the show from FloMarching, DCI 2024 Highlight: Pacific Crest, 'The Broken Column' at DCI World Championship.


Those were the visual highlights. Now for the full performance, LET'S GO PACIFIC CREST DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS from Oliven Lee, an unofficial upload.

DCI World Champions Semis | Pacific Crest 2024

With a score of 86.35, highest in [C]rest history

Also 13th place, the highest during championship week in the corps history. Congratulations! May Pacific Crest make finals this year!

As I mentioned yesterday, the 2025 drum corps season begins tonight, and this is my way of recognizing it. Besides, I love it when two of my fandoms collide.

Previous posts about the 46th News & Doc Emmy Awards

• 'Apollo 13: Survival' leads nominees for Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary at the News & Doc Emmy Awards for Wayback Wednesday
• 'Tsunami: Race Against Time' leads nominees for Outstanding Historical Documentary at the News & Doc Emmy Awards for Throwback Thursday
• 'Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story' leads nominees for Outstanding Nature Documentary at the News & Doc Emmy Awards
• 'King Coal' vs. 'Hollywood Black' and 'Madu' for Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary at the News & Doc Emmy Awards
• 'The Grab' leads both Outstanding Investigative Documentary and Best Documentary at the News & Doc Emmy Awards
• 'Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal' and 'The Truth vs. Alex Jones' lead nominees for Outstanding Crime and Justice Documentary
• 'The Sixth' leads nominees for Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary at the News & Doc Emmy Awards
• 'Mammals' and the remaining nominees for Best Documentary at the News & Doc Emmy Awards
• 'Daughters' and 'Death Without Mercy' lead nominees for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary at the News & Doc Emmy Awards
• 'We Will Dance Again' leads Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary nominees at the News & Doc Emmy Awards
• 'Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy' leads Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary nominees at the News & Doc Emmy Awards
• 'Blink,' 'Brats,' and 'Patrice,' nominees for Outstanding Promotional Announcement Documentary at the News & Doc Emmy Awards
• 'The Dirty Business of Monkey Laundering' and 'Apes,' two nominees at the News & Doc Emmy Awards for World Rainforest Day