Emmy for Best PSA Campaign!

 I just won an Emmy award for best PSA campaign for Literacy Together.

You can watch a video of the whole campaign here: https://vimeo.com/699220793

Homeward Bound PSA

Emmy Nominations

My Toxic Backyard has been nominated for 4 Southeast Regional Emmys!  They are:

Best Documentary: Katie Damien, Jaime Byrd, Michael Klatt, Bob Peck
Best Cinematography: (Non-news Photography) Katie Damien
Best Editing: Jaime Byrd, Katie Damien
Best Audio Post: Bob Peck, Jaime Byrd, Katie Damien

It's such an honor to be nominated, not once, but 4 times!  Emmys are given out once a year for the best work in broadcast television.  The awards are in the beginning of June and Michael and his girlfriend and I are all going.  Wish us luck!

UPDATE: Unfortunately we did not take home any Emmys this year.  It is really an honor to be nominated though, because just getting nominated means that your work is held in high esteem by industry professionals.  The night was really fun and we had a good time anyway.  It's always fun to get dressed up.  I had a stylist do my hair and it's my favorite hairdo ever!

I won 2 Emmys!

I just picked up two Emmys this year for a news promotion I worked on with David Saich and short form directing!  I'm so excited to be honored for my directing work.  I've always loved being a director and to get that kind of acknowledgement from my peers, feels amazing! 

I'm so blessed and so grateful to all my family and friends who have given me their love and support my whole life. Every artist has to survive their share of rejection and criticism and through it all, it's friends and family that lift us up so we can keep striving for excellence.  If you know an artist of any kind, give them a hug and tell them they are awesome because sometimes they forget and it's you who keeps them going.

I went down to Atlanta for the awards with my good friends David Ostergaard and Tina Herring.  They are both tons of fun and we had such a great trip.  David also won that night for a commercial he worked on and you can see the elation in this behind the scenes video I put together:

4 Emmy Nominations!

Last night I was nominated for writing, directing, and photography!  I was also nominated for a News Promotion Campaign with David Saich.  I watched with David Ostergaard (who also got a nomination for a commercial he worked on,) Tina and Erin at the Battery Park Book Exchange.  When the people around us heard our cheering and found out what it was about, they stared cheering with us and someone bought us a bottle of champagne to celebrate.  It was a great night!

The Awards are in June and both David and I are going.  So stay tuned for lots of red carpet action.

Katie

I Won 3 Emmys!!!

I just won three Emmy awards: one for writing, one for News Image Campaign and one for special effects make-up. The official event photos aren't out yet, but these pictures were posted by a woman taking a few at the Southeast Regional Emmy Awards. I'll post some that I took later on.

Katie