Congratulations to alums Sam Hampton, Steven Holloway, and Jessica Graziano for their awards at the 2009 TIVA Peer Awards which celebrates excellence in local media production. Hampton won a Bronze Award for Best Documentary Over 30 Minutes for MY MOTHER’S JOURNEY. Holloway won a Gold Award for Director of Photography for a Non-Dramatic Short (for IN A STILL SMALL VOICE, formerly titled STILL CALLING). Graziano won a number of awards for work she did with Maguire Reeder.
Jehan Harney, who has participated in various Docs In Progress programs with her films DOUG’s BARGAINS and FRIENDS OF AMERICA was selected for the prestigious CPB/PBS Producers Academy in Boston.
OUT IN THE SILENCE (alum of Peer Pitch , consultation, and screening programs) was one of eight films selected for The Good Pitch at the SILVERDOCS International Documentary Film Festival. Filmmakers Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer will have the opportunity to pitch the project and its outreach campaign to potential funding and outreach partners.
YOO-HOO MRS. GOLDBERG (screening alum) made its World Premiere at the High Falls Film Festival in Rochester, New York in May 2009. This was followed by a theatrical run in New York, Washington DC, and other cities starting in July 2009. Congratulations to filmmaker Aviva Kempner.
UN-NATURAL STATE (screening and consultation alum) sold out two screenings at its premiere at the FilmFest DC in April 2009. Congratulations to filmmakers Kirk Mangels and Brad Mendelsohn.
PRICE OF PARADISE (titled PRICE OF FREEDOM when it screened at Docs In Progress in July 2007) won an Emmy Award by the Capital Area National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Congratulations to filmmaker Jeffrey Kramer.
