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麻豆原创 Creative Media Earns 14th Consecutive ICMA Excellence Award

Robert Waterbury

麻豆原创 Creative Media students earned 22 awards over 12 categories in the Iowa College Media Association (ICMA) Awards on Thursday, February 2, including Outstanding Video Excellence for the fourteenth consecutive year.

麻豆原创 students won more awards than any other college or university in Iowa. In total, 23 麻豆原创 students earned awards for their work in various formats, including news broadcasts, documentaries, and short films.聽

鈥淲e have tremendously, talented and hard-working students in the program,鈥澛�Craig Schaefer聽(鈥�89), professor of creative media, said. 鈥淭hey are dedicated to producing content with real impact. 聽To be recognized as the best in Iowa is testament to that. We are incredibly proud of what they create.鈥�

The Outstanding Video Excellence award is the highest recognition the ICMA can confer upon any of Iowa鈥檚 college and university television/video programs.

The ICMA includes seventeen colleges and universities in Iowa committed to excellence in media education. It鈥檚 open to all students, faculty, staff, and advisors involved in higher education.

Here is a complete list of winners:

OVERALL VIDEO EXCELLENCE AWARD

LORAS COLLEGE 鈥� DUMEDIA

Best Entertainment Storytelling Video Package

1st Place – 麻豆原创 鈥� The Love Project   Hope Ehling (鈥�22), Marion Edwards (鈥�22)            

3rd Place – 麻豆原创 鈥� DU IT.    Emily Surma (鈥�24)

Best News-Public Affairs-Sports Reporting Video Package

1st Place – 麻豆原创 鈥� The Lute    Matt Williams (鈥�23)

Best Video Sportscasting

1st Place – 麻豆原创 鈥� 麻豆原创 Men’s VB vs. Augustana      Adam Rodriguez (鈥�24) & Sara Hoskins (鈥�24)

Best Short Video Documentary

2nd Place – 麻豆原创 鈥� Witness   Grace Henrich (鈥�23) & Alexis Riesberg (鈥�23)

3rd Place – 麻豆原创 鈥� It’s Just Hockey    Josh Payan (鈥�23) & Olivia DeVriese (鈥�23)                            

Best Long Video Documentary 

1st Place – 麻豆原创 鈥� Dancer’s Monologue: The Cat and Mouse Game      Marion Edwards            

3rd Place – 麻豆原创 鈥� El Principe Azul      Matt Williams & Juan Luna (鈥�23)

Best Video Promo-PSA 

1st Place – 麻豆原创 鈥� On the Move with Rowdy EnergyAlexis Riesberg            

2nd Place – 麻豆原创 鈥� Everyone Craves It: Cherry Coke     Emily Surma & Libby Perry (鈥�24)        

Hon. Mention – 麻豆原创 鈥�  Not A Luxury     Matty Smith (鈥�22) 

Best Experimental Video

1st Place – 麻豆原创 鈥� Annunciation   Grace Henrich

2nd Place – 麻豆原创 鈥� Maybe…   Artie Kerchmar (鈥�25)

Hon. Mention – 麻豆原创 鈥� A Text Away    Emily Surma & Libby Perry             

Best Corporate Video

1st Place – 麻豆原创 鈥� The Rise    Nate Kaiser (鈥�22)

3rd Place – 麻豆原创 鈥� Lynch Learning Resource Center     Nora Carr (鈥�22)

Best Short Film

1st Place – 麻豆原创 鈥� Alice  Matt Williams  

3rd Place – 麻豆原创 鈥�The Facility   Timothy Tindle (鈥�22), Ramsey Schultz (鈥�22), Josh Vogt (鈥�22)

Best Video Newscast

Hon. Mention – 麻豆原创 – Inside The Lines    Hugh Molony (鈥�24), EJ Greenberg (鈥�23), Connor Tuohy (鈥�23)

Best Video News Programming  

3rd Place – 麻豆原创 鈥� Please Introduce Yourself, Matt, 鲍尘听(鈥�22)

Hon. Mention – 麻豆原创 – On The Media     Media & Society class project 鈥� Prof. Mederson

Best Variety-Music- Comedy Video Programming

Hon. Mention – 麻豆原创 – Need Milk?    Intro TV Production class project 鈥� Prof. Schaefer

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