Board Member
Candy Kugel, a longtime voting member of both AMPAS and the TV Academy, began her career at Perpetual Motion Pictures in the early 1970s.
Candy is very active in the independent film community, including her involvement with ASIFA. She’s made over a dozen award-winning independent shorts collected at MoMA’s Film Archives. After she completed I, Candy it premiered at New York Museum of Modern Art on April 23, 2018 – An Evening with Candy Kugel.
Candy is well known for creating the animation for the original two MTV Top of the Hour IDs (planting the MTV flag on the moon!) and the I Want my MTV national campaigns. Through Buzzco Associates, she has created TV programming, educational films & ads – most notably Talking About Sex for Planned Parenthood (Annecy Cristal), and WGBH’s Between the Lions (Emmy). It’s Still Me! , a 17-minute DVD, became a valuable resource about aphasia. Kugel acted as Executive Producer and developed Angela’s Christmas, a half-hour TV special which ran in December 2018, for the Irish animation studio, Brown Bag.
Her latest film, Market of Hate premiered at Woodstock in October 2024 and was nominated for Best Animated Short.