The Alliance for Community Media, Northeast Region (ACM-NE) pleased to release our list of winners for the 17th Annual Video Festival. Programs produced all around New England and New York, by students, professionals and senior citizens competed in 20 categories. We wish to express our congratulations to everyone who entered the contest this year. We also wish to thank Peabody Access Telecommunications for handling the competition and all of the volunteer judges who took the time to review and score each program. All winners need to carefully review the spelling of the names of the show,  producer(s) and station and let us know by September 29 if there are any errors.
This is the list that the awards are created from. If we were not notified of spelling errors, it will be the winner’s responsibility to pay for a corrected award.
The winners list is HERE!

Whether you won an award or not, program producers are welcome to attend our 17th Annual Video Festival on Saturday, November 21, 2015 at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, CT.  Here’s what the Festival will look like:

1 pm:  Workshop “Always A Winner – Improving The Content of Your Videography”,  Peter Pijoan, Wolfeboro Community Television
This workshop is a new approach to instruction re. the previous workshop of last year “The Five C’s of Videography” by Peter Pijoan.  One hundred and eighty (180) clips have been copied from 58 of the 2015 Video Festival entries from 8 categories (no 1st place winners), clips that demonstrate originality, awesomeness and problems. The subjects covered are: headers, jump cuts, wandering, missing body parts, background clutter, talks with hands, b-roll, transitions, zoom/pan, graphics, audio, lighting, green screen, shot selection, establishing shot, 2 shots, motion, trailers and irrelevant shots. The first 20 persons attending the workshop will be given a DVD copy of the workshop material to take back to their staff for instruction purposes.

2:30pm:  The Video Festival Awards Ceremony

4:30pm:  RECEPTION with a hot buffet, desserts and non-alcoholic drinks (Cash Bar is available) 

Mark Twain published “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” from this grand home. Tours of the Mark Twain House will be available – please check off if you are interested in taking a tour when you sign up for the Festival.

Winners, you can bring up to two guests with you to share in your victory. Please note that ALL WINNERS will be announced. FIRST PLACE winners will have a clip of their entry played, be photographed and can make a brief thank you speech. SECOND and THIRD PLACE winners will be presented their awards by ACM-NE Board members and photographed.

The Winners clip reel will be posted on line after the ceremonies.

There is NO COST to attend, but we do need to know whether you will be attending the VIDEO FESTIVAL so that we can have refreshments for everyone. Please register HERE for the VIDEO FESTIVAL ONLY.

17th Annual ACM-NE Video Festival Re-order Form

We want to thank our presenting sponsor – Tightrope Media Systems – for their support!