Our Recent International Awards & Honours Summary May 2001
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During 1997 - 99, Goldi Productions Ltd. won 88 international television broadcast awards and honours, in competition with leading production companies and television broadcasters from around the world.
These awards include 13 First/GOLDS, 16 Second/SILVERS, 31 Third/Bronzes, 14 FINALISTS, 4 AWARDS OF MERIT, and 10 SELECTIONS FOR SHOW, in a wide variety of categories, including: documentary, nature & wildlife, history, science, research & technology, ethnic & cultural, oceanography, environment & ecology, television sports, travel documentary, geography & transportation, leisure & recreation, underwater & marine sciences, and conservation and energy.
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pleased that distinguished international jurors have honoured us by giving 80 of those awards to 17 different episodes, or 66% of the programs in our all-Canadian documentary series "OUTDOOR ADVENTURE CANADA" OUTDOOR ADVENTURE CANADA" - a show that tells stories of the Canadian experience in the outdoors and featuring our unique style of documentaries - at the following international film and television documentary program competitions: |
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The
Latest
News
1999
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Bronze Worldmedal at the
New York Television Programming Awards
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Sure we're pleased we've just won a "Bronze World Medal" at the prestigious New York Film & Television Festival, for "In Search of the Colossal Fossil", in the heavily contested Science and Technology category, which included other competitors from A&E, BBC, The History Channel, PBS, The Discovery Channel, NFB, & from German, French, American, and Australian Television.
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1999
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"JOAN GOLDI Top Canadian Series Producer Nominee
Second Year in a Row, at New York Festivals
With a Bronze Worldmedal and 3 Finalists, Joan Goldi is the top Canadian award winning producer at New York Festivals.
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We had earlier won THREE FINALIST NOMINATIONS at the NY Festival. One of them was for "What an Ice Canoe!", one of two shows we did on the Québec Winter Carnival. (It was a Finalist in the same category as the mega budget "Hitman Hart")
Radio-Québec (Québec's counterpart to TVO) recently called about the other show we did, "The Magic of Winter", to say:
"We have, of course, seen many, many programs done on Québec's Winter Carnival, but yours is by far the best we have ever seen. It was wonderful, and easy to see that the people who made it have great affection for Québec and its people. Merci!"
***** We are pleased that "The Magic of Winter" has also just won a Bronze Plaque at Houston.
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Final
Awards for OAC are GOLD & SILVER The final awards for "Outdoor
Adventure Canada" have come in, bringing
our
Total Awards for 1997-99 to 89 including
29 GOLD & SILVER PLAQUES. |
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GOLD
PLAQUE AWARD for "Ho for the Klondike"
SILVER PLAQUE AWARD for "Sailing into the Past"
CERTIFICATE OF MERIT for "Loose on the Bruce"
at the Chicago International Television Festival's
INTERCOM (The International Communications Video Festival) |
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Certainly We're Proud of Joan Goldi,
Producer for Goldi Productions
During 1997 - 1999 Joan Goldi was the Top Festival Award Winner
(the most awards won by a producer) at 8 leading American international television
festivals and the Top Canadian Award Winner at 6 others. |
- For the second year in a row we were honoured as the top Festival Award winner
at the Chicago Film Festival's INTERCOM, having been awarded 1 Gold and 3 Silver Plaques
in 1998, when our total awards (6 for 6 shows) were double those of the nearest
competitor. In 1999 we won awards for all three shows we sent.
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May |
SILVER PLAQUE
AWARD for "The Field Behind the Plow"
at the US International Film & Video Festival
and a
"Certificate of Creative Excellence" for "Fish Story" |
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Apr |
Goldi
Productions wins 4 Medals at
Houston Worldfest International Television Festival*
Gold Star Plaque for "The Field Behind
the Plow"
Gold Star Plaque for "A Whale of a Tail"
Silver Star Plaque for "Sailing into the Past"
Bronze Plaque for "The Magic of Winter"
Fourth Place/Finalist for "Ho for the Klondike!"
& "The Saskatchewan Will Never Die"
J. Hunter Todd, President, Worldfest:"You people sure do fine work, very fine work. In a tough field of 53
entries two of your shows won medals. Congratulations!"
*With a repeat of last year's 4 Medals, we are again, the
top Canadian documentary medal winner at Houston (out of 51 Canadian producers &
broadcasters who participated). |
- For two years in a row, Goldi Productions, was honoured
as the Top Canadian Medal Winner for documentaries, in all winning 11 awards (2
Gold, 3 Silver, 3 Bronze, and 3 Finalists) for 11 different shows. In both years Joan
Goldi was the Festival's top award winner, winning more awards than any other producer at
the Festival (out of 1100 competitors who sent in 4000 shows in 1999.
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Apr |
"TWO
PRESTIGIOUS NEMN SILVER APPLES"
in Oakland, California
for
"Wilderness Playground" & "Ho for the Klondike" |
- Winning "double" Apples (extremely rare) in three successive years,
Joan Goldi is, for the third time, the top Canadian documentary award winner, at the
world's largest and most prestigious educational film & television festival (the
National Educational Media Network Apple Awards). Among the few other double apple winners
are A&E's Bill Kurtis and the History Channel's Charlie Maday.
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Apr
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Missoula,
Montana, International Wild Life Festival
Honours Goldi Productions with "Special Award of Merit"
for Publicizing Watchable Wild Life
for "Spring Fever"
"An awesome educactional film .....
I wish more films were as educational as this one." Festival Juror, Missoula,
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Apr |
"JOHN
GOLDI csc, AWARDED SILVER PLAQUE
at the Chicago International Television Festival
for
"Special Achievement in Cinematography" |
John Goldi csc, has been
awarded the SILVER PLAQUE for SPECIAL
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY for his work in "Go Fly a Kite". Fellow
Cinematography Medal Winners were "The Dragons of Galapagos" from ABC
Television's Natural History Unit, and "A Footprint on Everest". John Goldi shot
his images at Kortright, Ontario, and Verdun, Quebec.
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"JOAN
GOLDI, TOP CANADIAN SERIES PRODUCER NOMINEE,
SECOND YEAR IN A ROW AT NEW YORK" |
We have just received a
congratulatory phone call from Gerald Goldberg, President of New York Festivals, notifying
us that we have won a
"Bronze World Medal" at this
prestigious festival for "In Search of the Colossal
Fossil" in the extremely heavily contested Science & Technology category.
Goldi Productions also won 3 Finalist Nominations,
1 more than last year, when Outdoor Adventure Canada
was the only independently-produced Canadian television series to win double Finalists.
(Out of the 33 Canadian producers and broadcasters who had won Finalist Nominations.)
(Dec/98)
We are
honoured that, in this year's competition, Joan Goldi has been selected to receive more
awards than any other Canadian producer.
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"GOLDI
PROD'S TOP FESTIVAL MEDAL WINNER"
at Houston/Flagstaff |
At the 1998 32nd WORLDFEST
HOUSTON (FLAGSTAFF) INTERNATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL, at Houston, TX, and
announced at Flagstaff, AZ on Nov. 21,
Goldi Productions, has won 4 Gold, 3 Silver, 3 Bronze and 1 Finalist for 11 programs. We are honoured to have been awarded
more medals than any other producer at the festival. (l. (Nov/98)
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"GOLDI
PRODUCTIONS SECOND - TWICE!!!
TO
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TELEVISION SPECIALS" |
- At the 1998 46th COLUMBUS INTERNATIONAL FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL, in
Columbus, OH, whose purpose is "the encouragement of
the arts and sciences of film and video making .... the improvement of public education
.... and to encourage and promote the use of film and videotape in all forms of education
and communication, not only in the local community but throughout the world," Over 800 entries from over 30 countries included over 250 entries, from
over 180 producers, from Canada. Submitting programs were over 20 producers from the NFB
and some 100 CBC producers from Witness, Venture, Market Place, 5th Estate, Man Alive,
Undercurrents, Country Canada, On the Road Again, The National, and Adrienne Clarkson
Presents.
Joan Goldi won more awards than any other producer at the
festival, earning two 2nd
Place/Bronze Awards (both "second" in categories won by National Geographic
Television specials), and eight 3rd Place/Honourable Mentions, winning honours for all 10
shows she submitted.
Out of the more than 180 participating producers from Canada, only 6 won double medals (1st & 2nd Place), 3 from the CBC, 2
from the NFB, and 1, Joan Goldi from the private sector.
(Oct/98)
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"GOLDI
PRODUCTIONS WINS HONOURS
AS TOP EXHIBITOR"
at Inaugural Wild Life Film Festival
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At the 1st annual
CARNEGIE WILD LIFE FILM FESTIVAL, founded by the Carnegie Museum of Natural
History, in Pittsburgh, PA, to showcase "the best outdoor films of 1998" and "the winning films and other notable
entries"
from the 1998 North American
Outdoor Film and Video Awards, 23 programs from 15 producers were selected for screening (Canadian invitees included the NFB, CBC,
and Great Canadian Parks), before audiences at the Carnegie Museum of Art Theatre and the Carnegie Museum
Lecture Hall, Oct. 1, 2, & 3, 1998.
Goldi
Productions was honoured with having more programs "Selected for Show" than any other producer. Four of our programs (including three from Outdoor Adventure Canada) were
chosen by the Film Committee from the Carnegie Museum. (Sept/98)
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"JOAN
GOLDI, WINS UNIQUE EXHIBITOR HONOURS"
at
Prestigious International Science Documentary Festival |
At the 9th FESTIVAL
TÉLÉSCIENCE, in Montréal, PQ, presented by Radio-Canada Television, and
billed as "one of the largest scientific
documentary festivals in the world" which is "primarily a competition to determine the best recent scientific
documentaries" from among 175 entries from over 17 countries,
Goldi Productions received two "Selections for Show" for two different science documentaries, out of only 5 English language programs selected from Canada, a group which included two Gemini Nominees, the Gemini Winner, and shows from CBC "Witness" and "The Nature of Things", and The Discovery Channel USA.
Joan Goldi was
the only English language producer (out of 27 world-wide) to receive two "Selections
for Show".
One of our programs is one of the
remaining few of the original 175 entries that has also received the highly coveted "Finalist Nomination", for a possible Medal. (Aug/98)
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"GOLDI
PROD'S TOP FESTIVAL AWARD WINNER"
at Chicago |
At the 34th INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNICATIONS FILM AND VIDEO COMPETITION (INTERCOM), operated by the Chicago
International Film Festival, in Chicago, IL, whose aim is to
"celebrate excellence in the art of communication, and to honour the most
original, technically superior and visionary independent film and video productions from
around the world" and which attracted competitors
from 23 countries,
Goldi Productions was awarded more
Gold & Silver Plaques (1 Gold & 3 Silver) than any other production company from any other country. Our total awards (6 for 6 different shows) were double those of the nearest competitor. (July/98)
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"GOLDI
PROD'S TOP CANADIAN WITH 1 GOLD & 2 SILVER"
at Chicago International Television Festival |
At the 31st US INTERNATIONAL
FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL, in Chicago, IL, billed as "the
world's leading competition for business, television, industrial & informational
productions", there were over 1600
entries from 28 countries. 14 Canadian producers received 19 Gold & Silver Plaques.
Goldi Productions was the leading
Canadian production company, being honoured with the highest number of Plaques: three (1 GOLD and 2 SILVER), among 10 awards it won for 8 different shows.
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"GOLDI
PRODUCTIONS Takes BOTH GOLD & SILVER"
in
"ASTONISHING ACHIEVEMENT" |
At the 40th NORTH AMERICAN
OUTDOOR WRITER'S FILM/VIDEO FESTIVAL, in Chicago, IL, billed in the United States as "the nation's most prestigious outdoor film/video
competition", and held annually by the 2,000 member Outdoor
Writers Association of America, Inc., Canadian participants included the NFB, Great Canadian
Parks, KEG
Productions, and the CBC which sent 7
entries.
Goldi Productions won more awards
(three*) than any other
participant in the festival, including, both the 4 STAR First Place
Plaque and 3 STAR Second Place Plaque, for two different shows, the first time, astonished organizers informed us, that a producer has achieved this feat in the 40 year history of the festival. (*Including a Special Award of Merit for Videography.) (May/98)
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"Goldi
Productions Top Canadian Medal Winner for Documentaries"
in Texas |
At the 31st WORLDFEST
HOUSTON (TEXAS) INTERNATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL, billed as "the world's largest film & video competition, with
more than 4500 entries," 38
Canadian broadcasters and production companies won awards in 1998.
Goldi Productions, which won 6 awards (2 Silver, 2 Bronze, 2 Finalists) for 6 different shows, was honoured with more medals for documentaries than any other Canadian producer. (Apr/98)
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"Goldi
Productions Scores "Double Bronze" Coup AGAIN"
at Top US International Educational Festival |
At the 28th NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL MEDIA NETWORK AWARDS in Oakland, CA, billed as the "largest educational media competition in the world" and "the largest and oldest competition for nontheatrical film and television, and educational media in the United States", over 1000 competitors
took part in 1998, including PBS's Ken
Burns (Silver), A&E's Bill Kurtis
(Silver), The History
Channel's Charlie Maday (Silver),
and the CBC's Mark Starowicz (Bronze). Only
a very few won double awards, including Bill Kurtis, Charlie Maday, and Joan Goldi.
It is the second year in a row that
Joan Goldi has won two Apple Awards
of Excellence . (Apr/98)
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"Goldi
Productions Places Two Finalists - CBC Witness One"
in Prestigious Competition Category |
At the 40th NEW YORK FESTIVALS
TELEVISION PROGRAMMING AWARDS, over 2300 entries from 39
countries were in competition. 33 Canadian broadcasters and production companies received Finalist Nominations.
"OUTDOOR
ADVENTURE CANADA" was the only
independently-produced Canadian television series to be awarded two Finalist Nominations, for two different programs, an international recognition of Canadian
program excellence only matched by CBC's flagship documentary series, Witness. (Jan/98)
We are proud that shows made for a cable channel
series, and entirely shot and produced in Canada, have won such an unprecedented number of
medals for quality in international competition with the best television programs from
around the world.
