GOLDEN EAGLE AWARDS RECOGNIZE EXCELLENCE

CINE is now accepting entries for the Spring 2008 CINE Golden Eagle Film and Video Competition. Professionals in the fields of film, video, television and new media as well as student and independent filmmakers are invited to submit their work in consideration for the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award.

In addition to our existing categories, CINE will now also recognize work produced specifically for the Internet and for mobile devices through our newly-created Professional New Media Division. At CINE, our mission is to reward excellence in the field of film, video and new media, and for the past fifty years we have constantly evolved to best serve our constituency. We consider this both a crucial next step in our pursuit of excellence in every facet of our industry and a marvelous way to usher in CINE's next half century.

The Golden Eagle competition also features our traditional range of categories for programs including news, children’s programming, history, environment, arts, science and technology, and PSAs and commercials, among others. Programs for schools and colleges, museums, parks, businesses, hospitals and non-profit organizations compete in the non-telecast division, and independent and student filmmakers may submit both fiction and documentary shorts and features.

For more information on the CINE Golden Eagle Competition, including entry forms, rules and regulations, category information, frequently asked questions and more, please visit our website at www.cine.org or contact us at 202.785.1136 or info@cine.org. All entries are due by February 15, with an early bird discount for entries received by February 1.


More About CINE…

Founded in 1957, CINE’s original mission was to promote American values and ideals worldwide by sending the best American documentary films to overseas film festivals. Today, CINE mission is to serve emerging and established film, video, and new media professionals by honoring a wide range of talent worldwide through our prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Awards, and by providing ongoing opportunities for education, exposure, networking, and resources.

The list of CINE Golden Eagle Award-winners includes many of the best-known names in film and television, including Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Mike Nichols, Ken Burns, Spike Lee, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, Diane Sawyer, Christiane Amanpour, Matt Groening, David Chase and hundreds more.

Recipient organizations of CINE Golden Eagles include film studios such as Pixar Animation, Miramax, The Walt Disney Studios, and Twentieth Century Fox; television networks including HBO, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, Discovery, National Geographic, Showtime, The History Channel, A&E, CNN, MSNBC, Bravo, HGTV, Oxgen Media and American Movie Classics; museums and arts organizations such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the American Museum of Natural History, the Newseum and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; and business, government and charitable organizations such as NASA, the US Fund for UNICEF, AFSCME, Exxon Mobile, Merrill Lynch, the March of Dimes, Lockheed Martin, the NEA, the National Park Service, IBM, the Army/National Guard, and the US Information Agency.

The CINE Lifetime Achievement Award recent honorees have included: Ted Turner, Sheila Nevins, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, Roger Ebert, and Albert Maysles.

The CINE Leadership Award recent honorees have included: John Hendricks, Tim Kelly, Pat Mitchell, Bill Moyers, Ken Burns, Stanley Nelson, and Bonnie Hammer.

Tom and Dick Smothers received the CINE Trailblazers Tribute Award for their satiric commentary and career that has spanned 44 years, and for their courageous battles against censorship. The Trailblazers Tribute Award has also been presented to D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, pioneers in cinema verité documentary filmmaking and Alan and Susan Raymond, ground-breaking producers of the observational documentaries Police Tapes and The Loud Family Saga.