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About the Accolade

The Accolade is unique; it is an awards competition, not a traditional film festival. Awards go to those filmmakers, television producers, videographers and new media creators who produce fresh, standout productions. It is a showcase for cinematic gems and unique voices.

The Accolade recognizes producers, established and emerging, who demonstrate exceptional achievement in craft and creativity. Undiscovered and first-time producers are often recognized.

The Accolade has recognized productions from all over the world including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Columbia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Guam, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Martinique, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela.

Annually, a special award is given to a filmmaker, television producer, videographer or new media creator who makes a significant contribution to social change or a humanitarian effort.
 
 
Get Involved

It’s a given that filmmakers want to gain as many viewers as possible. The Accolade is an award well known to buyers and distributors. Winning an Accolade gives buyers and distributors the confidence that your production is of high quality. The Accolade is an award recognized for its rigorous evaluation process.

This competition is designed to help winners achieve the recognition and viewers they deserve. Accolade staffers frequently share distribution ideas and industry contacts that help promote the careers of the winning filmmakers. The Accolade helps generate publicity and buzz. The Accolade has a strong online presence and shines the spotlight on top winners at The Accolade website and via press releases to a list of over 25,000 industry professionals.

An additional advantage of participating in the Accolade Competition is that our awards qualify for listing in the IMDb when submitted to IMDb by the producers.

We welcome your participation in The Accolade. Please submit your best work.
 
 
  
 Drawing with Chalk

By Laurie Smith

There’s a new kind of up-and-coming filmmaker in town. Not the dreamy-eyed, angst-ridden just-out-of-film-school types, but the regular “Joe,” who went to school 20 years ago, got a regular job, married their college sweetheart, had kids, and moved to suburbia. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but first-time filmmakers Todd Giglio and Christopher Springer decided to take a huge plunge as they neared the big four-oh, and live a long-dormant dream.

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Filmmaker Tim Carr wins for Watching the Detectives

Written by Wendy Helfenbaum

Writer/actor/director Tim Carr likes to simplify all of his official titles into one simple one. “I always call myself a storyteller,” says the creator of the Accolade award-winning television pilot program, Watching the Detectives, a quirky comedy about a group of misfit department store security guards trying to impart their collective wisdom upon a clueless newcomer (played by Carr).

He currently...

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Broken Dreams
by Yayoi Lena Winfrey

In Broken Dreams, feature film, Johnny (Eddie Navarro) is a documentary filmmaker whose best friends are about to marry each other. Unfortunately for Johnny, he’s in love with one of them, Elisabeth (Kelsey Ford). While he helps Julie (Nicole Gerth), a little person who’s the subject of his film, move past the trauma of her mother’s death and her fear of open spaces, Johnny also begins to rely heavily on drugs to mask his own pain.

Writer/director David Crabtree and actress Nicole Gerth share their thoughts about the making of Broken Dreams...

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It’s All Done with Mirrors:
The making of Mirror, Mirror

By: Laura Lee

Mirror, Mirror, winner of a Best of Show award at the Accolade, was a thesis project by graduate students Raven Thibodeaux and Cydney Tucker of the Stephen F. Austin State University’s new Master of Fine Arts in Film making program.

Thibodeaux and Tucker were both inspired by the ....

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Three-way with Shelly
By Laurie Smith

Remember as a kid, reading comic books with voracity, and then being sorry that you did so because you had to wait for what seemed like an eternity for the next installment? Accolade award-winning, live action short, Three-way with Shelly, evokes that same sort of feeling, leaving the viewer yearning for more of Shelly McIntyre, and her quirky world as she....

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