Stunt skilled Jayson Dumenigo, a Santa Clarita resident and enterprise proprietor, and his firm Action Factory LLC, shall be honored on Tuesday, Oct. 14, with an Emmy Award for Engineering, Science & Technology for his groundbreaking work in fireplace stunt gel improvement.
The 77th Annual Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards shall be offered on the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center in North Hollywood.
The Television Academy introduced the winners of the 2025 Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards on Tuesday, Sept. 2.
The Television Academy press launch introduced Dumenigo and Action Factory’s Play’n with Fire Hydrogels
Recipient: Jayson Dumenigo for the event of Action Factory’s Play’n with Fire Hydrogels with the next assertion:
“Action Factory’s Play’n with Fire Hydrogels are innovative, high-performance polymers engineered to provide unmatched protection against extreme heat during the performance of fire stunts. Designed for durability and application at 74-76 degrees F; not iced, these gels maintain exceptional stability and require minimal reapplication even under the most intense conditions, significantly cutting down on the time it takes to accomplish a fire stunt on set. In a record-breaking stunt, it withstood direct flame exposure for five minutes and 25 seconds and temperatures upward of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Its reliability, ease of use and groundbreaking heat-protective technology make Play’n with Fire gels a game-changer for television and stunt professionals, setting a new standard in safety and performance.”
This tv recognition comes simply months after receiving recognition from the Academy for his characteristic movie contributions.
On April 29, Dumenigo was acknowledged by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with an Academy plaque for creating a hydrogel that burns hotter on digicam for longer intervals of time. His product, by his Action Factory LLC, is a transparent gel that may be smeared on pores and skin or garments. He created the product 15 years in the past.
The Motion Picture Academy recogniton got here for his fireplace work on the upcoming John Wick spinoff “Ballerina.”
Dumenigo is a stunt coordinator and motion designer with greater than 28 years of expertise and over 300 movie and tv credit.
His fireplace particular improvements are showcased in high-profile initiatives such because the flamethrower sequences in “Ballerina” (2025), starring Ana de Armas, “9-1-1,” “The Rookie” and “Lost.”
Dumenigo is a 2011 Guinness World Record holder for the “Longest Duration Fully on Fire Without Oxygen” (5 minutes, 25 seconds).
His firm Action Factory fireplace applied sciences have additionally contributed to reside leisure occasions together with Feld Entertainment, Cirque du Soleil and Universal theme parks.
A six-time Taurus World Stunt Award nominee and winner of the 2023 Taurus for Best High Work, Dumenigo designed each performer and manned digicam rigs working over 150 ft within the air for the characteristic movie “The Man from Toronto,” starring Woody Harrelson and Kevin Hart. He can be a a number of Screen Actor Guild Award nominee.
Dumenigo has supervised, designed and coordinated motion for a few of the business’s most formidable initiatives together with “Blade Runner 2049,” “Black Widow,” “Terminator: Dark Fate,” “Halo” (Season 2), “Jupiter’s Legacy,” “Daredevil,” “Hocus Pocus 2,” “NCIS: Origins,” “9-1-1: Lone Star” and the upcoming “The Naked Gun” reboot starring Liam Neeson.
A multi-patent holding inventor, Dumenigo develops authentic merchandise for the stunt group and is now increasing these improvements into mass-market purposes.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has introduced it is going to introduce a brand new aggressive class for Best Stunt Design. This marks the primary time stunt professionals shall be acknowledged on the Oscars, with the primary award offered on the one hundredth Academy Awards in 2028, honoring movies launched in 2027. The new class is a fruits of a long time of lobbying by the stunt group to acknowledge the integral, artistic and collaborative function of stunt design in filmmaking.
For extra data on the winners of the 2025 Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards go to www.televisionacademy.com/features/news/awards-news/2025-engineering-250902.
(Photos on prime of put up and above) On April 29, stunt skilled Jayson Dumenigo, a Santa Clarita resident and enterprise proprietor, and his firm Action Factory LLC have been acknowledged by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with an Academy plaque for fireplace stunt gel improvement. Photo credit:2025 Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences; Science and Technology Awards.