Homestead National Monument of America - Homestead Film Wins Award (U.S. National Park Service)

Date: January 26, 2009
Contact: Merrith Baughman, 402-223-3514

Homestead National Monument of America Wins Prestigious
Golden Eagle Award

Homestead National Monument of America is pleased to announce that Land of Dream: Homesteading America a film produced by the National Park Service’s Harpers Ferry Center for the monument, has won a prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award. The CINE Golden Eagle awards, distinguishing excellence in professional, independent and student works, are recognized internationally as symbols of the highest production standards in film and television production. Since its founding in 1957, CINE has been dedicated to discovering, rewarding, educating and supporting established and emerging talent in film and video. Among great talents whose first major awards included the CINE Golden Eagle are Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard, and such great documentarians as Ken Burns, Charles Guggenheim, Stanley Nelson, Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman.

In the Fall 2008 Competition, over 300 judges viewed and evaluated hundreds of distinguished entries. Experienced professionals in the field of film and video production, as well as subject matter experts, serve in a volunteer capacity. They judge the entries using standards of overall excellence, evaluation such criteria as storytelling, production value, artistry, the extent to which the film meets its stated goals and communicates with its intended audience, and overall excellence.

CINE conducts two competitions each year, and the current one began in July 2008. In addition to the Golden Eagle awards, CINE has established two levels of competitive awards. The Special Jury Award recognizes the best films in the 27 CINE Golden Eagle categories. The Cine Masters Series Awards (for the Professional and Independent Division winners), and the CINE Award of Excellence (for the Student Division winner) recognize the best of the best in the CINE competitions.