(PRWEB) August 29, 2006 -- Savadelis Films walked away with the Gold Medal for Creative Excellence for their video entitled “Memoirs of a Wedding”,
www.savadelis.com/movies/memoirsofawedding.mov at the 16th Annual WEVA Wedding and Event Video Expo Special Awards Presentation.
“ As President of the San Francisco Bay Area Professional Videographers Association, Chuck Savadelis has long been recognized on the local level for his leadership as well as his technical and artistic achievement... ”
The WEVA Expo is the world’s largest convention and trade show for wedding videographers. The Creative Excellence Awards are the wedding video industry's most exclusive and most coveted award for peer recognition of outstanding wedding videography. Only one Gold Medal is presented in each of fifteen categories annually.
"Memoirs" was filmed at Hakone Gardens in Saratoga, California, where scenes from Memoirs of a Geisha were filmed. The tone and texture perfectly matched the Asian cultural influences of the bride’s and groom’s wedding. The WEVA judges especially enjoyed the subtle effect of transforming bare branches into an arbor laden with blossoming wisteria as the groom walked under the arbor on his way to meet his bride.
Roy Chapman, Founder and President of WEVA commented, “As President of the San Francisco Bay Area Professional Videographers Association, Chuck Savadelis has long been recognized on the local level for his leadership as well as his technical and artistic achievements. Now, we are delighted he and his wife Jewel have received the international recognition they richly deserve for raising the bar for quality in our industry.”
The Creative Excellence Award will be placed beside their recently acquired Telly Award, which they won for excellence in cinematography for their short film, "A Perfect Day". The Tellys are to video what the Oscars are to movies and the Emmys are to television. The Telly Awards showcase the best work of the most respected advertising agencies, production companies, and television stations. Judges received over 12,000 entries. This year's winners include NBC, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios, Nike, the San Francisco 49ers, the History Channel and Universal Studios.
Savadelis Films specializes in producing high definition wedding videos and movies of other social occasions in the San Francisco Bay area and internationally. They are included in the exclusive Grace Ormonde Wedding Style Magazine Five Star Directory, Here Comes the Guide and By Recommendation Only. All three are resources of hand selected event professionals who have received highly enthusiastic reviews from clients and peers and are judged to be the best in their field. Savadelis Films has been featured in Daily Candy, Papercity and Countdown to Your Perfect Wedding. Chuck and Jewel Savadelis have been credited with coining the phrase ‘bridepod’, which is a wedding video adapted for play on an Apple iPod.
Savadelis Films is available for consultation by appointment and can be reached at 408-749-1211 or by visiting their website at
www.savadelis.com.
