After meeting Santo at the awards last Tuesday night, it is an absolute pleasure to announce that one of DVInfo's very own, picked up 2 prestigous awards in the wedding catagories.

1st Award - Wedding Showreel
2nd Award - The AVPA Creativity Awards

Congrats & well deserved....

Yes - well done Santo. Richly deserved. Was very happy when I saw the results.

Cheers,

Matt.

P.S. He was also a finalist in the wedding highlights category :)

Congrats and well done!

As a fan of what Santo usually posts I'm happy to hear that earned a well deserved award.
Congrats Santo!
Steve

Thanks a lot guys! I learned a lot from this forum so thanks to you guys heaps

Another thank you to Rochelle for making me temporary celeb. hahahha :P

It was a beautiful night meeting fellow professionals in Australia. I had a good time in Melbourne and the trophies looks awesome! I can't wait to meet fellow professionals in other countries as well... can't imagine how fun would re:frame be...

What made me even happier, the fact that we got the ultimate award of the night, the "creative" award, shows that wedding videography is well recognised among other productions e.g. corporate, commercials etc

There has never been a better time in the industry!

PS: Here are the winning entries:

Wedding showreel: WEDDING (http://weddingvideosydney.net/?page_id=136)

the "Creative" award: Andrew & Lili Prewedding Film “IMAGINE” Same Day Edit Love Story (http://weddingvideosydney.net/?p=81)

Santo

Hi Santo,

Contratulations! You deserve it. Your Imagine concept video is one of my favorite concept videos I have ever seen.

Thanks heaps Mark!

The support from you has always been well appreciated. Not many people actually emailed me personally and suggested me to go for competitions. Thank you for taking the time to do such a generous thing

Santo

Hi Santo,

You are welcome. I hope you entered the WEVA CEA competition. If they call your name Monday night I will be cheering for you.

Mark:

My finger never been as crossed as right now...

Congratulations Santo! You won a Silver CEA at WEVA in the Demo Category.

Totally awesome....

Congratulations Santo :)

mark: did you cheer for me?????

:P

Thanks for the support guys. Much appreciated..

Fiel (mayad studio) was there and he messaged my fiancee about it. So funny!

Santo

Congratulations Santo and all WEVA recepients. Does anyone have the list? Hope you can share it.

Thanks in advance.

Congrats Santo on the WEVA Award!!!

Thanks guys!!! I haven't seen the list too... did someone had their 5d handy and shot the award ceremony??

:P

Here's the list of WEVA winners

http://www.wevaexpo.com/2009ceawinners.htm

It's been a while since my last visit to DVInfo.net and I just got back from shooting sessions in Singapore...

Congrats Santo! Great job, man! You really deserve those awards! Woo-hoo!! :D

Thanks Ian, much appreciated.

btw, Love the vintage prewedding video you made. I saw it on facebook. keep up the good work!

Santo

Hi Santo,

The WEVA CEA is the most coveted award in the wedding video industry. I don't know what it is like in Australia, but here in the states there are many "award competition companies". You send in your clip and most people automatically win some level of award. It's an easy way to advertise your business as "award winning". In any given category there could be dozens if not hundreds of winners.

This is where the WEVA CEA is different. There are very few winners per category, usually between 3-8. Each category always has one Gold, one Silver and one Bronze. Then the judges also have the option to award a Finalist award if they feel that an entree was very close to the Bronze winner. There have been as many as 5 finalist awards, but it is not common and many categories only have three awards given.

So when you win a WEVA CEA, you really have accomplished something.

Hi Santo,

The WEVA CEA is the most coveted award in the wedding video industry. I don't know what it is like in Australia, but here in the states there are many "award competition companies". You send in your clip and most people automatically win some level of award. It's an easy way to advertise your business as "award winning". In any given category there could be dozens if not hundreds of winners.

This is where the WEVA CEA is different. There are very few winners per category, usually between 3-8. Each category always has one Gold, one Silver and one Bronze. Then the judges also have the option to award a Finalist award if they feel that an entree was very close to the Bronze winner. There have been as many as 5 finalist awards, but it is not common and many categories only have three awards given.

So when you win a WEVA CEA, you really have accomplished something.

Wow... that really did encourage me... Thanks for that Mark.. no wonder you're one of the most respected wedding film-maker in the industry and trainer. I hope I get to see you sometimes... don't know when.. but yeah... somehow.. hahaha... maybe I'll come to reframe or weva next time!

aahh... wedding industry has never been as exciting... so happy...

Btw, congrats for your win as well mark! well deserved!

Santo