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Registration is free with a suggested donation of $25, but any and all amounts are welcomed and encouraged!
Best of the Northwest Awards – Friday March 1st 2024
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Best of the Northwest Awards are back!
The Best of the Northwest Awards is a chance for you to showcase exceptional community media programming. This prestigious awards contest honors outstanding programs produced by community media/PEG (public, educational, government) access TV and other non-commercial media in the Northwest region of the Alliance for Community Media (Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming).
This contest is looking for programs that you take pride in! Programs that people watched and appreciated, that made a difference in your community and demonstrated all that community access has to offer.
For over 20 years, Best of the Northwest has supported television programs that are made on a local level. With your entry, you’ll be joining a group of the Northwest’s most successful community and local access producers. You’ll also be supporting the Alliance for Community Media Northwest Region, an organization that works to preserve community access for future generations.
Entries will be judged at community media centers outside of the Northwest Region.
An awards presentation with clips from the winning entries will take place March 1, 2024 in Olympia, Washington!
Meet the ACMNWR Board of Directors
OCTOBER 20TH 2023 (COMMUNITY MEDIA DAY)
Community Media Day is an annual celebration of the importance of free speech and accessible media for all individuals to have their voices heard. To celebrate, we’re hosting the ACM Northwest Regional Board for a conversation about the present and future of community media, the upcoming Best of the Northwest Awards (applications open September 15th!), and next year’s regional ACM conference in Olympia, Washington.
The future of community media is you, and the Alliance for Community Media exists to support your work in a shifting landscape of cable franchises, FCC policies and emerging technologies. The ACM advocates on issues like net neutrality, broadband access and the distribution and protection/production of artists’ work everywhere.
Meet the Northwest Regional Board and learn more about how you can get involved in the ACM’s network of creatives and activists in this important conversation! The ACM Northwest Region represents and advocates on behalf of all media creators and providers throughout Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Board Chair Chris Lawn will facilitate a panel of current Regional board members:
- Adam Carpinelli,
- Kelly Frank,
- Jon Funfar,
- Robert Kam,
- Luis Mendoza,
- Candace Michel,
- Jamie Plakos (Open Signal),
- Melissa Salazar (Open Signal),
- and national board representative KatMeow García (Open Signal).
This event will take place from 3pm to 4pm PST in Open Signal’s Studio A. Afterwards, join us to mingle and network with board members and community producers over light refreshments. Register to attend in person at the link below!
The Importance of Community News
The Importance of Community News
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A GREATER NEED FOR LOCAL NEWS AND INFORMATION. ON OCTOBER 20TH 2022, JOIN US AS THE NORTHWEST REGION OF THE ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY MEDIA BRINGS YOU A FREE VIRTUAL PANEL ON THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY NEWS.
FEATURING JASMINE WHITE OF CAPITAL COMMUNITY MEDIA AND DANNY STUSSER OF THE JOLT NEWS. FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT ACMNWR TO LEARN MORE AND MEET US ON ZOOM ON OCTOBER 20TH 4PM PACIFIC TIME.
Zoom link
2019 Best of the Northwest Winners Announced
Congratulations to the winners of the Northwest Region’s 2019 “Best of the Northwest Awards”! The Best of the Northwest Awards honors outstanding programs produced by community media/PEG (public, educational, government) access TV and other non-commercial media in the Northwest Region (Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) of the ACM. The 2019 winners are:
Community Involvement/Empowerment/ Making a Difference
Winner:
Our Voice, Our World, Our Future
Honorable Mention:
Poor People’s Campaign Kicks off in Olympia
Democracy in Action
Winner:
Pasco League of Women Voters Candidate Forum, October 17, 2018
Honorable Mention:
Pasco City Council Workshop, May 29, 2018
Documentary
Winner:
Escape from Eagle Creek
Honorable Mention:
Behind Bars – The Making of Letters & Numbers
Experimental/Artistic/Abstract
Winner:
Time-Lapse Experiments
Forums and Events
Winner:
Mister Gresham: Todd Kirnan
Honorable Mention:
Clackamas County Participates in Pride NW Festival and Parade
Informative Feature
Winner:
Santa’s Holiday Cookies
Honorable Mention:
Behind the Blade
Inspirational and Religious
Winner:
Cha Cha the Clown Show
Honorable Mention:
Rex’s Recovery
Instructional, Training, and Educational
Winner:
I Am Native
Honorable Mention:
Take Action!
Local Performance
Winner:
SPARKY by molly BANG
Honorable Mention:
SLAM Living Room Sessions – Rebecca McDade
Produced by Youth
Winner:
Youth Production: The Oddity
Honorable Mention:
East Metro STEAM Partnership Promo
PSAs, Promos, and Station IDs
Winner (Tie):
2019 WFMC
CCTV Volunteer & Producer Party PSA
Honorable Mention (Tie):
Seattle Public Schools Open Enrollment
KPU 30 Second Advertisement
Shorts
Winner:
Doomed to Repeat
Honorable Mention:
Rescue 3
Shows for Children
Winner:
Flyers – or How the Wright Brothers Invented the Airplane
Honorable Mention:
Passport to Nature
Sports
Winner:
The Body*Smith Workout
Honorable Mention:
Mt. Hood Conference Basketball
Talk Show
Winner:
The Small Interview with Glamour Dave – Pilot Episode
Honorable Mention:
Behind the Curtain: Charlotte’s Web
Overall Excellence in PEG or Community Media Programming
Winner (Tie):
KPUtv Overall Excellence 2018
TCMedia Overall Excellence 2018
Honorable Mention:
CCTV 2018 Overall Excellence
Thank you to the judges from around the country who made the hard choices on just what programs were the Best of the Northwest! Award plaques and Honorable Mention certificates will be sent in the coming weeks. Thanks to all that submitted programs to the contest!
Best of the Northwest Update
Sorry for the tardiness! The Region sent the following out on March 21 regarding the Best of the Northwest Awards via FilmFreeway; many of these messages were evidently caught in spam filters. Here is what we sent:
“Thanks again for entering the Best of Northwest Awards! Due to unforeseen logistical issues, the Region will not be holding an in-person event/award ceremony this year. We apologize for any hardship this may cause. We appreciate the value of gathering and having a public ceremony for our winners, but there were too many internal hurdles for the Region to get a ceremony together for 2019.
We do invite you to attend the national Alliance for Community Media’s conference to be held in Portland from July 10-12. Registration will be open next month on the ACM’s all-new website, www.allcommunitymedia.org.
We will, of course, be announcing the winners of the Best of the Northwest on April 5, so watch your email inbox! Plaques will be mailed to winners by the end of April.
Again, our apologies and thanks again for entering.
Cheers,
Best of the Northwest Awards”
Most winners should have been notified via FilmFreeway; log into your FF account to see current status. Once we have all winners, we will post the list here. Again, our apologies for any confusion.
Best of the Northwest Media Awards Now Accepting Entries
The Best of the Northwest Awards is a chance for you to showcase exceptional media programs. This prestigious awards contest honors outstanding programs produced by community media/PEG (public, educational, government) access TV and other non-commercial media in the Northwest region (Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) of the Alliance for Community Media.
This contest is looking for programs that you take pride in! Programs that people appreciated, that made a difference in your community, and demonstrated all that community access has to offer.
For over 20 years, Best of the Northwest has supported programs that are made on a local level. With your entry, you’ll be joining a group of the Northwest’s most successful community and local access producers. You’ll also be supporting the Alliance for Community Media, an organization which works to preserve community access for future generations.
Entries will be judged at community media centers outside of the Northwest Region.
**PLEASE NOTE: Audio entries may be submitted by sharing a link to Soundcloud or another audio hosting site. Please do not use the upload feature.
The Best of the Northwest Awards will accept submissions until February 28th. Enter today.
Welcoming Luis Mendoza!
Luis works at Capital Community Television (CCTV) in Salem, OR as the Community Facilitator and loves helping people develop their ideas into programs. Video production started as a hobby for Luis, and has turned into his full time job.
He produces three different Spanish-language programs. CVEL PUNTO is a talk show that covers important information in the Spanish speaking community. The title of the show is a combination of the first letter of the hosts’ names, which combined with “Punto” means “We See the Point”. His second program is called Conexión con la Salud (Health Connection) which is about eating healthy, staying fit and preventing illness. The third program is Mini Concierto de Studio 77 (Mini concerts of Spanish music).
He is also the director for a monthly music series called Local Roots, where local bands perform 30 minutes of original music in CCTV’s studios. English is his second language, which he continues to work hard to master. He likes new challenges, because that’s how you learn and grow. In his free time, Luis enjoys spending time with family and friends, and working on cars, motorcycles, and electronics.
2019 Best of the Northwest Awards Now Open for Entries
The 2019 Best of the Northwest Awards are open for your entries!
The Best of the Northwest Awards is a chance for you to showcase exceptional media programs. This prestigious awards contest honors outstanding programs produced by community media/PEG (public, educational, government) access TV and other non-commercial media in the Northwest region (Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) of the Alliance for Community Media.
This contest is looking for programs that you take pride in! Programs that people watched and appreciated, that made a difference in your community, and demonstrated all that community access has to offer.
For over 20 years, Best of the Northwest has supported programs that are made on a local level. With your entry, you’ll be joining a group of the Northwest’s most successful community and local access producers. You’ll also be supporting the Alliance for Community Media, an organization which works to preserve community access for future generations.
Entries will be judged at community media centers outside of the Northwest Region.
Best of the Northwest grants awards in eighteen categories, as well as our highest award for Overall Excellence in P.E.G. Programming. Award winners are presented with a plaque for their outstanding program!
Awards will be presented at the 2019 NW Media Summit on April 13, 2019. Entries are due by February 28.
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