Zinzendorf Documentary Series Wins National Awards!
We are proud that the Zinzendorf series has been recgonized by several national and international awards programs.
Aurora Award – Biographical Documentary (2001)
The Aurora Awards is a professional filmmaker’s recognition company designed to recognize brilliance internationally in the media industry… specifically creations in film, video and motion media which do not air in all 5 major network feeds. The Aurora Awards is an international program recognizing artistic creatopns of independent and commercial filmmakers around the world.
Zinzendorf was one of the top scoring productions reviewed in 2001, and as a result director John Jackman was asked to serve as a judge for the 2003 and 2004 Aurora Awards.
Aegis Award (2001) The Aegis Awards
The Aegis Awards are the video industry’s premier competition for peer recognition of outstanding video productions and non–network TV commercials.
“Your work on Zinzendorf has been recognized by your peers as being among the very best in all of North America. As an Aegis winner, you have joined the elite ranks of the most creative video production professionals in the industry.” – The Aegis Awards Panel of Judges
Gold Classic Telly Award (2009)
The Telly Awards were established in 1980 to recognize and honor regional, non-broadcast commercials. A few years later, the Telly Awards were expanded to include non-broadcast film and video commercials and programs. Entries do not compete against each other, but are scored on a 10-point scale based on overall concept, overall quality, acting, cinematography, script, and several other technical aspects.
In the annual Telly Awards, entrants that score 7.0-8.9 receive a bronze Finalist Telly Award, and entrants scoring 9.0 and higher receive a silver Winner’s Tellly Award.
For their Twentieth Anniversay, the Telly Awards held a special competition: The Classic Telly Award. The special competition allowed any work done in the last 20 years to compete; this included past winners in the annual Telly Awards to see if their work could stand the test of time and new competition. Nearly 1700 entries were received in The Classic Telly Awards, most from past winners.
But unlike the annual Telly Awards, only those entries scoring 9.0 and higher in The Classic Telly Awards competition received a trophy; a Gold Telly Award created specially for this event by the same company that make the Oscars ©.
We were pleased to be recognized with this “Classic” Gold Telly, which is a credit to the many people who worked on the documentary series.
Zinzendorf was broadcast nationally in the US on The Hallmark Channel in 2002; it has been broadcast by several PBS stations, and has been played repeatedly on numerous faith-related cable and satellite networks in the US, Canada, South America, Europe, and Australia.
