A documentary presented at the Bermuda Film Festival (BIFF) has been nominated for a prestigious Emmy Award.

The film - `Blink' - competed in BIFF's documentary category in April but lost out to another film, Hybrid.

The Emmy recognises outstanding work in the field of television.

And the documentary has an even stronger Island connection - Bermudian Spencer Critchley served as the film's composer and audio producer along with his partner Marco D'Ambrosio.

`Blink' tells the story of Gregory Withrow, a former white supremacist who fell in love with a Latino woman and moved away from the violent White Aryan Resistance movement.

The film was nominated in the Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing News Story category in this year's Emmy competition.

`Blink' was shown on PBS television as part of the channel's critically acclaimed P.O.V. (Point of View) series in July of last year.

The P.O.V. film is nominated next to episodes of Nightline and Nova/Frontline.

ABC's Nightline is nominated for `AIDS in Africa' while the episode `What's Up with the Weather?' received the nod for Nova.

The awards will be presented on September 5.

`Blink' was produced by Elizabeth Thompson and Mr. Critchley - son of the Island's former Health and Social Services Permanent Secretary David Critchley - who had creative responsibility for its music, sound effects and dialogue.

Withrow's tale of violence and racial hatred had already received media coverage on show's like the Phil Donahue Show when the documentary makers picked up his tale and elaborated on his progress and continuing struggles.

Mr. Critchley used a wide variety of music - from Blues to Indian Ragas - to add emotional punch to Ms Thompson's film.

The Mount Saint Agnes Academy graduate told The Royal Gazette in April that the purpose of the score was to explore Withrow's spiritual evolution.

Mr. Critchley, 42, is living in Palo Alto, California where he works as a creative consultant.

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