2023 WINNERS

Actor – Award of Excellence

Reveille

Bernd Wittneben

 

Actor  – Award of Achievement

Chinese Food & A Movie

Demian Alan Mancino

 

Actress – Award of Excellence

Rot

Mara Rothman

 

Actress – Award of Achievement

Chinese Food & A Movie

Alannah Swenka

 

Animated Entertainment – Short Form (under 5 minutes)  – Award of Excellence

The Honey War

Dick DeAngelis, Bonita Versh

 

Animated Entertainment – Long Form (Over 5 minutes) – Award of Achievement

The House on the Borderland

Director/Animator Paul Huenemann Music by Ross Huenemann Models by Bill Rosell

 

Animation – Tag or Logo  – Award of Achievement

Systems to the Rescue

Chris Corkery, Bus-Stop Productions

 

Art Direction  – Award of Excellence

Reveille

Michael Akkerman

 

Art Direction  – Award of Excellence

Shut The Box

Lorelai Sheperd

 

Art Direction  – Award of Achievement

Between the Lines (Feature Film)

Shelby Hagerdon

 

Commercials (Under $1,000)  – Award of Excellence

Banker Ball

First Security Bank & Trust

 

Commercials (Under $1,000)  – Award of Achievement

Forest City Ford

Leslie Nelson Market Place Media

 

Commercials (Under $1,000)  – Award of Achievement

Larson’s Hardware Hank

Leslie Nelson Market Place Media

 

Commercials (Under $1,000)  – Award of Achievement

Meet Andy

First Security Bank & Trust

Commercials ($1,000 to $4,999)  – Award of Achievement

Boeing Speltz and Wernimont Family Dentistry

Leslie Nelson Market Place Media

 

Corporate & Community Marketing  – Award of Excellence

Retiring Today: Back to the Future Edition

Merkle Retirement Planning

 

Corporate & Community Marketing  – Award of Achievement

RRD

Leslie Nelson Market Place Media

 

Corporate & Community Marketing  – Award of Achievement

WCTA “We’re 100 per cent Fiber”

Leslie Nelson Market Place Media

Corporate Internal Communications  – Award of Achievement

NASW 2021 Social Worker of Excellence & Catherine G. Williams Awardee Video

Eric Benson & Kevin Thorn Bus-Stop Productions

 

Digital Marketing  – Award of Excellence

Banker Ball

First Security Bank & Trust

 

Digital Marketing  – Award of Achievement

Rudd House of Horrors

First Security Bank & Trust

 

Direction – Documentary – Long Form (over 30 minutes) – Award of Excellence

Ahead of Their Time

Dick DeAngelis, Fair Field Productions

 

Direction – Documentary – Long Form (over 30 minutes) – Award of Achievement

Combined Efforts: Changing Perspectives of Disabilities through Performance

Jacob Daniels

Direction – Documentary – Short form (under 30 minutes) – Award of Excellence

Bare Metal

Brandon Gries

Direction – Long Form (60 minutes +) – Award of Excellence

Mickey Spillane’s Encore for Murder

Max Allan Collins

Direction – Long Form (60 minutes +) – Award of Achievement

You Should Have Killed Me

Michael James Minard

Direction – Medium Form (30 minutes-59 minutes)  – Award of Excellence

Rot

Carrsan T. Morrissey

 

Direction – Short Form (less than 30 minutes)  – Award of Excellence

The Tower

Carrsan T. Morrissey

 

Direction – Short Form (less than 30 minutes)  – Award of Achievement

Riviera

Jason Fragale

 

Director of Photography  – Award of Excellence

The Tower

Carrsan T. Morrissey

 

Director of Photography  – Award of Excellence

You Should Have Killed Me

Michael Huntington

 

Director of Photography  – Award of Achievement

TORCH

Benjamin Schmidt

 

Documentary – Long form (30 minutes or longer) – Award of Excellence

Ahead of Their Time

Dick DeAngelis, Fair Field Productions

 

Documentary – Long form (30 minutes or longer) – Award of Achievement

A Long Way From Nowhere

Chris Ward

Documentary – Short form – (Under 30 minutes) – Award of Excellence

Caitlin Miranda

#ChooseHopeStory

 

Documentary – Short form – (Under 30 minutes) – Award of Achievement

Bare Metal

Brandon Gries

 

Editing – Documentary – Long Form (30+ minutes) – Award of Achievement

Ahead of Their Time

Jason Strong, Dick DeAngelis

Editing – Documentary – Short form (under 30 minutes)– Award of Excellence

Bare Metal

Brandon Gries

Editing – Documentary – Short form (under 30 minutes)– Award of Excellence

The Honey War

Jason Strong

Editing – Documentary – Short form (under 30 minutes)– Award of Achievement

Systems to the Rescue

Michael Huntington Bus-Stop Productions

Editing – Music Video – Award of Excellence    

Moonlit Masquerade

Kristopher Gathercoal Tyler Gathercoal, Tollef Sorenson

 

Editing – Narrative Long Form (60 minutes +) – Award of Achievement

Between the Lines (Feature Film)

Shelby Hagerdon

 

Editing –  Narrative Short Form (less than 30 minutes) (excludes music videos)– Award of Achievement

Shut The Box

Michael Huntington

Educational Production  – Award of Achievement

Places to be Wild

Kelly Rundle & Tammy Rundle, Fourth Wall Films

 

Episodic or Web Series – Award of Achievement

Systems to the Rescue

Eric Benson & Kevin Thorn Bus-Stop Productions

 

Graphic Art Direction/Design  – Award of Achievement

The Honey War

Bonita Versh

Live Action Entertainment – Long Form – Includes Feature Films – Budgets $50,000 and over (60 minutes +) – Award of Excellence

Reveille

Michael Akkerman

 

Live-Action Entertainment – Long Form – Includes Feature Films – Budgets Under $50,000 (60 minutes +)  – Award of Achievement

Silent Night In Algona

Anthony Hornus

 

Live-Action Entertainment – Long Form – Includes Feature Films – Budgets Under $50,000 (60 minutes +) – Award of Achievement

Between the Lines (Feature Film)

Shelby Hagerdon

Live-Action Entertainment – Long Form – Includes Feature Films – Budgets Under $50,000 (60 minutes +) – Award of Achievement

Mickey Spillane’s Encore for Murder

Max Allan Collins

Live-Action Entertainment – Medium Form (30-59 minutes)  – Award of Excellence

Mercy

Erica Faye & Brittany Benedict, Erica Faye Productions

 

Live-Action Entertainment Medium Form (30-59 Minutes)  – Award of Achievement

The Bridge

Courtney Ball

 

Live-Action Entertainment – Short Form  – Award of Achievement

Chinese Food & A Movie

Cintree Films Dojolo Films

 

Live-Action Entertainment – Short Form  – Award of Excellence

Riviera

Jason Fragale, Michael Long, Jayvo Sco

 

Live-Action Entertainment – Short Form  – Award of Excellence

Shut The Box

Cintree Films Dojolo Films

 

Music Videos  –  Award of Achievement

Black Excellence by Tone Da Boss

T1 Entertainment

 

Original Music Score  –  Award of Achievement

TORCH – Score

Timothy Gelhaus

 

Production (Graduate) –  Award of Achievement

Between the Lines (Feature Film)

Shelby Hagerdon

Screenplay (Produced) (Over 20 pages) –  Award of Achievement

Between the Lines

Shelby Hagerdon

 

Screenplay (Unproduced) (Over 20 Pages) –  Award of Excellence

The Salvages

Carrsan T. Morrissey

 

Screenplay (Unproduced) (Over 20 Pages) Award of Achievement

Until the Music Fades

Kevin Isaacson

 

Screenplay (Unproduced) (Under 20 Pages) – Award of Achievement

Watching

Dave Stuck

 

Script Writing (Produced) (Under 20 Pages) –  Award of Excellence

RIVIERA

Jason Fragale, Christopher Fragale

 

Script Writing (Produced) (Under 20 Pages) Award of Achievement

TJ – A Waterworks Park Mystery

Dave Stuck

 

Student Production (K-12)  –  Award of Excellence

What Once Was

Abrianna Hilson

 

Student Production (K-12)  –  Award of Achievement

(Un)alarmed

Logan Westin

 

Student Production (K-12)  – Honorable Mention  

Ring

Luke Garcia

 

Student Production (Undergraduate)  – Award of Excellence

The Way It Was

Nate Kaiser and Jake Heelein Loras College Media Studies

 

Student Production (Undergraduate)  –  Award of Achievement

DUCKED

Michael D. Allen

 

Student Production (Undergraduate)  –  Award of Achievement

Penny Road

Chase Alexander Guerdet

 

Student Production (Undergraduate)  – Award of Achievement

Why Not Me?

Matthew Williams, Loras College Media Studies

 

Student Production (Undergraduate)  –  Honorable Mention

A Profile of the Maquoketa River Watershed

Andrew Senneff

 

Supporting Actor  – Award of Achievement

Shut The Box

Cam Everett

 

Supporting Actress  – Award of Excellence

Rot

Linnea Sumner

 

Supporting Actress  – Award of Achievement

The Tower

Jenna Greve

 

TV News Feature or Series – Award of Excellence

Alex Jackson Trial

Eric Benson & Kevin Thorn Bus-Stop Productions

Visual Effects (Mechanical)  – Award of Excellence

Reveille

Mike Burch, Doug Strong

 

Voice Over Narration  –  Award of Excellence

Ahead of Their Time

Dick DeAngelis

2023 NOMINEES

ACTOR, ACTRESS, SUPPORTING ACTOR, SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

DIRECTION, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

 

 

EDITING, VISUAL EFFECTS, LIGHTING

 

 

PRODUCTION

LIVE ACTION

 

 

 

DOCUMENTARY

 

 

SCREENPLAY

ANIMATION

 

 

 

ART DIRECTION

 

 

EPISODIC OR WEB SERIES, MUSIC VIDEO

ORIGNIAL MUSIC SCORE

 

 

 

TV NEWS FEATURE OR SERIES

 

 

COMMERCIALS, MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS