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Treetop Media, LLC has been working on a feature-length documentary on the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. We had been in pre-production for three weeks before the Transocean rig exploded because we were researching and developing a documentary aimed at exploring the dissappearing wetlands of Louisiana. This allowed us to quickly adapt and reframe our initial focus of wetland conservation to include the impact this new catastrophe will have on the environment and the people of Plaquemines Parish. For details click here.
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Treetop Media wins two Telly Awards for 2010! A silver Telly (the highest honor awarded) for an animated web video and a bronze Telly (runner-up) for a government relations piece for Plaquemines Parish Economoic Development District.
Telly again proudly honors the very best commercials, videos, and films.
www.tellyawards.com
New York City, NY -- (June 25, 2010) The Winners of the 31st Annual Telly Awards have been announced. With nearly 11,000 entries from all 50 states and numerous countries, this year’s Telly Awards has been one of the most successful and competitive in the long history of the Telly Awards.
Founded in 1979, the Telly Awards is the premier award honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, the finest video and film productions, and web commercials, videos and films. Winners represent the best work of the most respected advertising agencies, production companies, television stations, cable operators, and corporate video departments in the world.
This year’s Winners include companies, agencies and organizations of all sizes, from large multinational media companies to small ad agencies and local production houses. A sample of Winners includes: AEG Network Live, American Masters/WNET, AOL Media, Astrocast.tv, Bass Pro Shops Film & Video, Boehringer Ingelheim, Booz Allen Hamilton, CBS Television Distribution, Comcast Spotlight, Cox Sports Television, Discovery Channel, Eagles Television Network, Elvis Presley Enterprises, ESPN, Fox Sports International, Golf Channel, Harpo Studios, Hasbro, Hewlett-Packard, Learning Seed, Lockheed Martin, Miami Dolphins, Microsoft, NBC Universal, New York Jets, Outdoor Channel, PGA Tour Productions, State Farm Insurance, Suddenlink Media, The Weather Channel, TV Guide Network, Weber Shandwick, Women in Film.
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After winning two Telly Awards Chris Aaron was contacted by David E. Carter and asked to be an honorary judge for the 2010 EMPixx Awards, honoring excellence in the production of five categories of Moving Pixels:
•TV Commercials
•TV Programs
•Corporate Videos
•Internet Moving Pixels
•Independent Films & Videos
The EMPixx competition was created by David E. Carter, a multiple Emmy® and Clio® winner with a long history of innovation for the creative world.
Carter founded the Telly® Awards and American Corporate Identity, and edited the Creativity Annual. He is now the Executive Director of the American Pixel Academy.
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Chris Aaron has been asked to participate in the American Pixel Academy's 'Overachiever' program.
The American Pixel Academy has the goal of connecting creative visual professionals in the pixel media with educators who are giving wings to the next generation of creative professionals.
Aaron will be writing on synthesizing the pragmatic and creative side of production and animation. He will be writing about the rapidly evolving industry, the role technology has played in deterritorializing and democratizing the new industry, and illuminate the problems students can expect to face while they navigate the volatile waters of the transmedia field.
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"Untitled Video" selected for the Baton Rouge Gallery's Surreal Salon: A National Juried Exhibition. The exhibition will run from Jan. 3 - 28, 2010. For details click here.
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Treetop Media chosen to head video production for the Baton Rouge Ad Federation's annual ADDY's event. The awards ceremony will be held on Februaury 22, 2010. For details click here.
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The film, The Day the War Stopped, by BDepew Enterprises and Treetop Media is scheduled to air on LPB on June 6, 2009 at 7:30 pm.
The film explores the historical significance of the annual event in St.Francisville that pays homage to a unique cease-fire that occurred for one day during the Civil War. The project was partially funded by the Louisiana Endowment of the Humanities.
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Treetop Media awarded a 2009 Regional Gold Addy by District 7 which includes Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
Treetop was also awarded a gold Local Addy for a Promotional Web Video.
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Article from the magazine 225
Shooting under the gun
By Jeff Roedel |
Monday, November 24, 2008
Local filmmaker Chris Aaron’s Waiting for the Man recently won the audience award at the New Orleans 48 Hour Film Project.
Everyone else was jealous, but filmmaker Chris Aaron couldn’t believe his luck, or lack of it. Contestants in the annual New Orleans 48 Hour Film Project must draw their genres out of a hat, literally, and he couldn’t have been less thrilled with the style fate shackled him with. He doesn’t even like C.S.I.
“I hate the cop and detective genre completely,” Aaron says. “It’s just not my thing.”
But it had to become his thing, and fast. The short film was due two days later. His first attempts to sketch a plot with actors Dixie Taylor and Cheryl Singleton came out like jokes: “A cop walks into a bar…” After five hours of brainstorming, nothing solid stuck.
Aaron tried to sleep that night, but with the deadline approaching, he couldn’t. Then his wife Kameron suggested the subjects be former cops and middle-aged women who could comment on the prevalent discrimination of their day.
What resulted is Waiting for the Man, a rambling, Altman-esque black and white film that follows two former policewomen on a very unusual stakeout. Aaron shot the film at Teddy’s Juke Joint in Zachary one evening and stayed up editing all night.
Audiences loved its sly off-the-cuff humor. Waiting for the Man won the audience award and a best acting award before being named runner-up for best overall film out of dozens of other rapid-fire projects.
“We had to throw it all on the line and get it done, no time for rewriting, only a few takes,” Aaron says of the unusual nature of the project. “But I liked being forced into that situation. It was cool and productive, and it’s something—a cop movie—that I never would have done otherwise. I’m always trying to get out of my own head and try new things.”
Since then Aaron has developed two shorts and is prepping a feature-length drama for 2009. To see Waiting for the Man and more of his work, visit treetopmediaonline.com.
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