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This summer, I had the great honor to be a part of the winning team for two Southeast Regional Emmy Awards. What a pleasure it was to spend the evening with my wife and associates and walk away with two statuettes … surreal in so many ways. In some ways perhaps not a surprise,  given the excellent people and quality work I have somehow been blessed to be a part of this past couple years.

Congrats to producer, Amy Kossover, writer,  Lisa Cheater, and to the North American Mission Board Media Services Staff for a huge win in the Television Programming Excellence – Magazine Format for “On Mission Xtra”.  What a thrill to see a faith-affirming show chosen as a winner. I had the privilege of working as senior editor for the show and segment editor for the episode entered into the competition.  A sample clip from “The Main Event”can be viewed here.

ALSO, another big congratulations to  A. Troy Thomas of Inertia Films, Dr. Eric Groce, Salute America Inc. and the Museum of Aviation for an Emmy win in the Television Crafts Achievement – Photographer (Non-News) category for “Papa said, We should never forget.“  A fantastic thrill to see a piece I produced and Troy’s outstanding work as director of photography be honored by the NATAS Southeast chapter. Special thanks to many associates who helped along the way including:  Melissa Spalding, Marilyn Ashmore, Phil Walker, Darryl Mitchell and Michael Lines for their assistance with the project.

An interesting use of the web.

HD doc style clips combined with sincere stories of faith.

Aside from the content which appears to be quite good, of particular interest is how Deidox is selling the films “for church use” and “for personal use”. While this is certainly not new given the vast number of sites out there that are serving up sermon starter videos, this site and its creators seem to have much more style and focused thought to it, and the underlying purpose also deserves a look. I wonder how they are funded?

Rob Bell certainly broke new ground with his “Nooma” series and it has been interesting to see the evolution of this genre. I still remember seeing the “BMW Films” on-line for the first time and being amazed that so much budget was being thrown at “web” clips, that most people did not even have the processing power to view. But now look how far where we’ve come with iTunes, Hulu, Vimeo, YouTube and a host of other sites on the way.

Perhaps the larger question in this is will sites like Deidox eventually be able to generate a revenue stream that could then in turn fund more films? From an independent film production standpoint this is a good question to consider. Could the internet truly take over at some point as the distribution and viewing method of choice … perhaps even surpassing theatrical distribution, say in a couple generations … possible?