Last Thursday evening, the Alliance for Community Media (ACM) held their annual Hometown Media Awards ceremony, this year in a virtual setting. The Hometown Media Awards is the Foundation of the ACM’s yearly awards program. It is established to honor and promote community media and local cable programs that are distributed on Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access cable television channels. Proceeds go to ACM Foundation which is exclusively used for facilitating, preserving and promoting education in community media.
This year, Wendy and Charles are honored to have won in the Cultural Perspectives (Access Professional) category! They received this honor for their piece, "The Healing Garden Behind Prison Walls”.
The video celebrates the opening of the Oregon State Penitentiary’s Memorial Healing Garden. It was the dream of members of the OSP Asian Pacific Family Club who raised all funds needed to create a Japanese Garden to be enjoyed by those inside and outside OSP's walls. It is the only such prison garden in the United States.
Each year thousands of entries are submitted. These entries, or programs, are both submitted and evaluated on several factors resulting in over 150+ award winners. A panel of judges evaluates the entries from the industry. Awards are presented to the most 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.
Watch the complete Hometown Awards celebration on CCTV Channel 22/322 at the following times:
7/15 at 6:00 PM
7/18 at 8:00 PM
7/19 at 7:00 PM
7/20 at 4:00 PM
7/22 at 12:00 PM
Congratulations, Wendy and Charles!
