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City of Seattle
Gregory J. Nickels, Mayor
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NEWS ADVISORY
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| SUBJECT: Seattle’s Cable Channel wins 5 awards at national video festival
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
7/15/2002 10:15:00 AM |
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Gary Gibson - (206)684-8328
Katherine Schubert-Knapp (206) 684-0909
Kathy Sugiyama (206) 684-0909
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Seattle’s Cable Channel wins 5 awards
at national video festival
SEATTLE — TVSea, Seattle’s municipal cable channel, picked up four first
place and one honorable mention awards in the Alliance for Community Media’s
annual "Hometown Video Festival," the largest and longest running
video festival for local cable programming in the northern hemisphere. A fifth
program received an honorable mention. Judges reviewed more than 1,500 entries.
The Hometown Video Festival, held this year in Houston, Texas, honors and
promotes community and local cable programs that are first distributed on
public, educational and government access television channels. Awards are
presented to creative programs that address community needs, develop diverse
community involvement, challenge conventional commercial television formats and
move viewers to experience television in a different way.
Seattle’s award winners are:
- Seattle Spotlight: Chief Seattle’s Memorial
Producer: Kelly Guenther
Videographer: Ralph Bevins
Category: News
Description: Kelly Guenther spotlights Chief Seattle’s gravesite, the
ceremonies marking the city’s sesquicentennial and showcases the chief’s
pivotal role in helping Seattle’s early settlers.
Producer: Chris Darden
Videographer/Editor: Ralph Bevins
Category: Documentary Profile
Description: A moving profile of one of Seattle’s homeless men.
Lessons from the Past: The Lost Elshin Murals
Producer: Peggy Lycett
Category: Arts
Description: The story of how Jacob Elshin’s lost WPA murals depicting the
historic Alki landing and other early Seattle scenes were recently found at
West Seattle High School and their restoration.
Seattle Spotlight: Seattle Parks Canoe & Kayak Club
Producer: Kelly Guenther
Videographer: Ralph Bevins
Category: Sports
Description: Kelly Guenther spotlights Seattle’s Canoe and Kayak Club, a
Department of Parks and Recreation group that recently swept the National
Championships in paddling sports.
Supported Workers (Honorable Mention)
Producers: Ralph Bevins and Peter Clark
Category: Government Profile
Description: Supported Workers focuses on a program initiated by the city of
Seattle in 1992 to provide job opportunities to those with developmental
disabilities. Begun as an experiment with only a couple of employees, it has
now grown to a full-fledged program with 50 supported positions within city
departments.
These and other videos may be viewed on TVSea’s streaming video web: http://www2.ci.seattle.wa.us/media/
For TVSea’s weekly program schedule and other information, visit the station’s
main web site: http://www.cityofseattle.net/TVSea/
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