The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced that Blackbird Media Group, Inc., is a 2007 Mid-Atlantic Emmy nominee for it’s production of “The Once and Future Newark”. The documentary, which has aired on New Jersey Public Television, was produced for Rutgers University in Newark, and focuses on the city’s cultural, social and historic treasures. Part travelogue, part documentary and part history lesson, the film engages viewers’ interest for personal exploration and discovery of the city.
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is the single largest television industry professional organization in the world. It’s been recognizing excellence in television with the coveted Emmy Award since its founding in 1957, and is dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of television and the promotion of creative leadership for artistic, educational and technical achievements within the television industry. Final EMMY winners will be announced at a gala gathering in Philadelphia this September.
Admissions Marketing Report has announced the winners of the Twenty-Second Annual Admissions Advertising Awards and Blackbird Media Group, Inc. of State College has received two Gold Awards and one Bronze Award. The Gold Awards are given in recognition of Blackbird’s production of a recruitment DVD for Brooklyn College and for the production of a thirty second commercial for SUNY Oswego. The bronze award was for the production of a series of commercials for SUNY Oswego.
The Admissions Advertising Awards is the oldest, largest and most prestigious national competition recognizing the field of admissions marketing and advertising, with over three thousand-five hundred entries submitted last year from every state in the country and multiple foreign countries.
Blackbird Media Group’s recently completed “The Once and Future Newark” debuted on New Jersey public television in early October, following a gala premiere at the Newark Museum. The documentary was produced for Rutgers University in Newark, and focuses on the city’s cultural, social, and historic treasures.
Hosted by Clement Alexander Price, a noted scholar of Newark history and a professor at Rutgers University, the video is an affectionate and engaging tour of an often-overlooked city that is home to more than a quarter-million people representing an unusually diverse mix of cultures, races, and religions.
“Clement Price GSNB'75 was walking his dog near his home in Newark's Lincoln Park neighborhood when he had what he calls "a wonderful civic exchange. A guy I don't know from Adam rolled down his car window and shouted, 'I loved your film! I grew up in Newark and didn't know the city had so much going for it,'" Price recalls with a hearty laugh. That spontaneous and heartfelt reaction to a new documentary hosted by Price, The Once and Future Newark, is typical of what the Newark history professor is hearing from others who have seen the film.” excerpt from “Revitalized Newark Subject of Documentary” By Amy Vames for Rutgers Monthly Alumni NewsletterViewers learn about the history of the city from colonial through modern times, about the social forces that have molded and changed the city as it progressed through industrial growth and the dramatic changes of the 20th century, and about the hope and promise of the 21st century Newark.
Blackbird Media Group Inc. has been recognized with the 2005 Crystal Award of Excellence from The Communicator Awards, an international competition highlighting quality in communications. The Crystal Award is the competition's top honor. Of the thousands of entries received in 2005 from throughout the U.S. and other countries, only 15 percent merited this prestigious honor.
Blackbird received the award for a DVD produced for Stryker Navigation, one of the largest medical instrument companies in the world. Completed early last year, the DVD outlines the use of Stryker's new navigation system for the Expanded Endonasal Approach (EEA) to neurosurgery. The DVD is being used by Stryker as an international marketing tool.
Stryker Navigation is a division of Stryker Corporation, headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Stryker Corporation, a global leader in developing improved surgical technologies, instruments, and equipment, has facilities throughout the U.S. and several other countries, and is traded on the NYSE. Their EEA neurosurgical navigation system is a high-tech, minimally invasive procedure on the cutting edge of medical technology.
Blackbird shot much of the DVD's footage in Pittsburgh, Pa., with the cooperation of neurosurgeons at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
The honor of Top 100 Business for 2005 has been bestowed upon Blackbird Media Group by Pennsylvania Business Central, a business newspaper covering 16 counties in central and western Pennsylvania.
According to Pennsylvania Business Central, each Top 100 company has “done plenty to improve the quality of life and economic success of central Pennsylvania.” Blackbird has been recognized for its multiple awards and community service.
In September, Blackbird moved its headquarters into a new and exciting production facility. One of two tenants in the facility, Blackbird now has a much larger office space as well as access to a 3,000-square-foot production studio onsite.
The Lewis A. Black Building, located at 700 E. Beaver Avenue in State College, Pa., was conceived, designed, and built by commercial photographer Michael Black of Black Sun Studio.
Producing the concept for a reality-TV series about an all-female valet parking service wins Blackbird Media Group, Inc., a Finalist Award in the 26th annual Telly Awards competition.
The Telly Awards, a widely known and highly respected international competition, annually showcases the best work of the most respected production companies, advertising agencies, TV stations, cable operators, and corporate video departments in the world. The Telly Award is the industry's premier means of honoring excellence in local, regional, and cable TV programming and commercials, as well as the finest in video and film.
Out of more than 10,000 entries received across the U.S. and other numerous countries, "Valet of the Dolls," created for Slant Six Productions in L.A, stood out among the rest. Not only for pitching the idea for a series beautiful and stylish “dolls” that valet at parties and events of high-profile L.A. and Hollywood, but for the dynamic and personal flair in which it was done.