A little self-bragging! COM/media is an AWARD WINNING program

Robert Seagle, Paul Spencer, and Trahern MacLean in Maynooth, Ireland.

We have to admit that we’ve been a bit remiss in bragging about ourselves. Here at UNCW COM/media we’re kind of humble and just do great work, year after year. But, we think it’s time to change that a bit and catch everyone up on our success.

Just last month COM/media students won 3 Awards of Excellence from the Broadcast Education (BEA) Festival of Media Arts (FoMA):

  • Digital Drip: – ENJ & Louis, Season 4, Episode 3. Multi-camera - Thaddaeus Freidline & Will Matthews (multi-camera live-to-tape), Executive Producer - David Pernell

  • Demon’s Advocates. Audio Production Special Category - Fiona Johnston & Caleb Olsen, Executive Producer - David Pernell

  • Cincinnati Alchemyfest: Building Brands and Building Community - Thaddaeus Freidline & Will Matthews (Video production, short Spot category), Executive Producer - Bill Bolduc

In case you missed it, though, here are some other awards that students in the UNCW COM/media program have garnered:

  • 2022 - BEA FoMA - 1st Place, Student Film & Video: Studio (Multi-Camera or Live-to-Tape), Digital Drip: Moe SOS DCAbby Winstead, Savannah Prince, and Matthew Stott, EP - David Pernell

  • 2021 - 3rd Place, Student Film & Video: Studio (Multi-Camera or Live-to-Tape) 2021, Digital Drip: Annalee BeckBrittany Garshnick and Madison Lancaster, EP - David Pernell

  • 2020 BEA FOMA: 1st Place, Student Film & Video: Studio (Multi-Camera or Live-to-Tape), Digital Drip: Rebels No Savage, Cody Critcher, Dylan DeVore, Sara Izzy, and Emma Korpics, EP - David Pernell

    2020 BEA FOMA: Award of Excellence, Student Film & Video: Studio (Multi-Camera or Live-to-Tape) 2020, Digital Drip Animal Behaviour, Cody Critcher, Dylan DeVore, Sara Izzy, and Emma Korpics. EP - David Pernell

  • 2020 NC in Paris: Beyond the Eiffel Tower – Silver Telly, Student Producers by Brittany Garshnick, Jordan Bell, Kendyl Bradley, Bryan Harden, Joseph Schumacher. Executive Producer, Director Bill Bolduc. Study-abroad production promoting the NC in Paris program for the Office of International Programs. EP - Bill Bolduc

  • 2020 Silver Telly - Hard Drive Eulogy, Jordan Lovell & Brea Perry, EP - Bill Bolduc

  • 2020 BEA, Award of Excellence: Brittany Garshnick, Eduardo Corgos& Jacob Russell, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Hope for Abaco: How One Family Survived and Will Return Home
    Faculty Advisor: William Bolduc

  • 2019 BEA On Location Creative Competition Winner, short documentary - Chronic, Maddie Peterson, Riggan Cope, Mallory Austin, Timber Tate.

  • 2018 BEA FoMA Award of Excellence-Mixed/Pedagogical category, One-hundred Thousand Welcomes: The UNCW-Maynooth FYSA Program, Trahern MacLean, Robert Seagle, Cassie Danforth, Emily Krochmal, Gabe Moore, Bradley Reynolds, Mary Benton (Heronemus), Abbi Hoover, Lauren Schultz, Karli Grant, Paul Spencer, Kevin Macksey.

  • 2015 National Communication Association Special Selection - Memories that Matter: Elders’ Narratives of Love and Loss - co-authored and directed by Julie-Ann Scott & Frank Trimble, filmed and edited by Bill Bolduc

  • 2013 Official Selection of the NCA film festival - Cripping: A film about Disability Within and Beyond the Workplace. Directed, written, & conceived by Julie-Ann Scott, filmed and edited by Bill Bolduc.

  • 2013 BEA Division 2 student production competition:

    • Promotional video – Seahawk Adventures Camping, Luke Brown, Connor Buss, et al.

    • Documentary – Nesei Story, Andrew Asaki & Becca Burleson. Story of Andrew’s grandparents’ internment in US POW camps during WWII.

    • Artistic/Experimental – Anna Dancing, Carly Tanner & Trevor Bray