Donald Silverman of Silverman Productions was recently honored with a prestigious Gold Remi Award at the 46th Annual WorldFest International Film Festival. Silverman won the Gold in the Health and Wellness category, for his visually stunning promotional video for Primland Spa, a luxury resort in Virginia.
Directed by Silverman, the award-winning promotional video features a sumptuous high-definition video journey through the amenities and surroundings at Primland, a luxury Virginia spa nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Through a series of images emphasizing the spa’s superb services along with panoramic views of its 12,000 acres of natural beauty, Silverman’s promotional video promises renewal, rejuvenation, and relaxation, deftly communicating the soothing natural beauty of Primland without a single spoken word, and in just over two short minutes. The video generated enthusiastic response for Silverman, with especial praise for its gorgeous visuals, superb editing, and musical choice (a simple, gently relaxing piano piece that served as the perfect accompaniment to the video’s serene vistas).
“I’m delighted to receive the Gold Remi Award in the Health and Wellness category,” comments Donald Silverman, “Especially the opportunity to be singled out from a field of so many distinguished competitors this year.” Silverman was one of a handful chosen out of more than 4,200 category entries in all film and video competitions for the 2012 Remi Awards, with less than 12% of submitted entries placing for WorldFest Remi awards honors.
As the staff director and founder for Silverman Productions, Donald Silverman offers nearly 40 years of experience in the production business as a seasoned director with proven skills in video creations for a variety of top agencies, corporations, and causes. In addition to the new Gold Remi Award, Silverman’s awards mantel also includes multiple Telly Awards and honors (including a Telly Classic Award), and numerous national and regional Gold Awards for additional marketing and promotional videos.
The Remi Awards honor outstanding creative excellence in film and video, and were presented at the Gala Remi Awards Dinner on Saturday, April 21, 2012, during the 45th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, which took place from April 13 – 22, 2012. This year’s international juries in ten major categories evaluated each submission’s success by scoring entrants on a variety of artistic and technical aspects, from Concept to Storyline, Directing, Cinematography, Editing, Pacing, and more.
Silverman’s Gold Remi Award-winning video for Primland can be viewed immediately by visiting here.
Credits
Donald Silverman, Producer/Director
Bunt Young, Director of Photography
Scott Inge, Camera Assistant
Derrick Brown, Gaffer
John Dombroski, Grip
Rob Powell, DIT
Lindsay Mann, Editor
About WorldFest International Film Festival
Founded in 1961, Houston’s WorldFest International Film Festival is one of the original three film festivals in North America, following San Francisco and New York. The 45th Annual WorldFest offered International Competition in Features, Shorts, TV production, TV commercials, unproduced Screenplays & Teleplays, Experimental, Student, Documentary, Business & Industry, New Media, and Music Videos. WorldFest is the largest film & video competition in the world in sheer number of actual category entries, with more than 4,300 category entries received in 2011. For more information, please visit www.WorldFest.org.
About Silverman Productions
Shooting on RED ONE, HD and 35MM film formats, Silverman Productions has been producing and shooting award-winning TV commercials, marketing films, PR videos, investor relations films, and educational videos since 1981, and for a wide range of clients that includes top advertising agencies, large and small corporations, universities, and trade associations. For over ten years Silverman directed numerous award-winning marketing films for The Greenbrier, a National Historic Landmark resort located in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
The studio also offers a stock footage branch, Silverman Stock Footage, which represents over 500 stock footage suppliers throughout the world, on almost any subject or format, licensing film and HD footage to feature films, TV programs, documentaries, advertising agencies, web producers, and more. Silverman Stock Footage clients include “Gossip Girl,” “Drive,” “Beastly,” “Monk,” and “Sleeper Cell,” as well as a host of independent films, TV spots, websites, and corporations. After three decades of providing superlative production, post and stock footage, Silverman understands on an intuitive level what producers, editors, directors and post-production supervisors need in order to tell their stories. www.silvermanproductions.com
