Austin's Movie wins a National Award!!

Here's the latest from Tim Nagae, filmmaker mentioned in an earlier post:

Dear Friends:

I would like to inform you that "Austin's Movie" won a national award for film and TV programs called, the "Accolade Award - the Award of Excellence: short documentary." The Accolade's website is www.theaccolade.net and they are going to post the name of "Austin's Movie" on this site soon.

There is another one above the "Award of Excellence," called "Best of Show." But there was no Best of Show for TV programs for this time, which means the "Award of Excellence" is supposed to be the best....? By the way, "Haley and Madonna" won the 2004 Best of Show 4 years ago. If "Austin's Movie" won the Best of Show, a short clip of the movie would be posted on their website, though. But I'm very very happy with this award!

This is a great honor to me, Austin, Austin's family, those who were involved in the production of "Austin's Movie," especially John Sauve, Donna, Matt, CTN and WFUM that broadcast the program. And of course, Lucy for inspiring me to make this movie. Thank you for supporting the production of "Austin's Movie"!

Sincerely,

Tim Nagae

P.S. As always, the link to the promo video of "Austin's Movie" is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FShuvD8MGGY

Austin's Movie to show on WFUM

Tim Nagae, a Michigan filmmaker sent this to us:

I would like to inform you that "Austin's Movie" will will be broadcast on WFUM Flint Michigan Television on Tuesday, November 18 at 10:30 pm and Monday, November 24 at 10 pm. It premiered on November 2nd. Since I didn't do a good job to get media attention, I haven't received any feedback from those who watched the program on TV. So if you can forward this information to your friends and family it will be very helpful.

By the way, I previously sent you the information that "Austin's Movie" won a Philo Farnsworth Award from the Alliance of Community Media, the cable TV's organization. I have just received the evaluation sheets for the program from them. Two out of three judges scored perfect "100." The total score was 297!

As always, visit the link to the promo of "Austin's Movie" on You Tube. Thank you. Tim Nagae