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Of the 6 UPVA awards Giant Brothers received last week, here’s the 1st place Date Video Production, courtesy of the Veronica & Scott wedding. I love doing date films, they’re one of my most favorite things to film. To just see a couple relaxing and having fun, and being able to capture that is great. So, enjoy!

This is an award I was really excited to get.  I put a lot of effort into making my new wedding demo each year, and it can be really hard because I have such great clients to show off.  So here’s the demo from last year, that recently earned an award in our UPVA Creative Excellence Competition.  (Don’t forget to see our NEW demo from this year here)

We had a great time last night at the 8th annual UPVA Creative Excellence Awards.  With such great talent in this state, we feel honored to have won 6 awards.  We’ll be posting one award winning video each day, so be sure to check back to see all of them.  Here’s the 2nd place winner in the Bride and Groom Production, starring the amazing Whitney and Steve Olsen!

Last night we held our 7th annual UPVA Creative Excellence Awards at the Megaplex 20 in South Jordan.  It was a really fun night, and I’m proud to bring home 4 awards.  Here’s the winners:

1st Place Bridal Spotlight Production – Kylee Bird

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1st Place Date Production – Cami & Braden

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2nd Place Wedding Reception Production – Kylea & Eric

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2nd Place Love Story Production – Rachel & Skyler

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I couldn’t have done it without such awesome clients. Thanks everyone!

Here is a short commericial we put together for the upcoming UPVA Awards. We used clips from some of last years winners. It will be a really exciting night, with the very best in Utah Wedding Videography. If you would like to attend, there is some more info at www.upva.org

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I was just nominated and elected as the UPVA President-Elect, which is similar to a Vice President role, but also implies that next year I will be President.  UPVA, or Utah Professional Videographers Association, is a great organization for videographers of all kinds.  Many members do mainly wedding videography, but most also offer other services to individual and corporate clients.  It’s a great group to be a part of and we learn a lot from each other.  I was on the board last year as webmaster, and am excited to stay on the board and serve my fellow colleagues. The other new board members are listed on the UPVA website.

Last night was the 5th annual UPVA (Utah Professional Videographers Association ) Creative Excellence Awards Banquet. Me and my fellow videographers have been looking forward to this night for a long time. We tried something really cool and new this year for the judging. We had professional videographers from around the country, judge our videos online, It was alot of work creating the website, but it worked out really smooth.

It was held at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, and the food was awesome. Giant Brothers was happy to recieve 2 more UPVA Creative Excellence Awards, (One for our Wedding Demo, and one for an awesome reception we did last year)  as well as some special recognition for our help on the Board of Directors. It was great to have my beautiful wife DeAnn there, and it was a fun night for all.

The 6th Annual UPVA 2007 awards are coming up soon as well, and we are excited to work with the awesome UPVA Board again, to put together another great competition and awards night.

We are proud to announce our first WEVA International * Creative Excellence Award For Wedding Video. It was for Sarah & Jason Morrow’s beautiful Salt Lake Temple Wedding Film created last April. We received the top Gold Award for Post-Ceremony Production.

We would like to thank Sarah & Jason for letting us capture this important moment in their lives, and also thank our local video association UPVA for their support and inspiration.

Sarah & Jason – Salt Lake Temple from Spencer Hale on Vimeo.

*WEVA International is the largest and longest running trade organization for Wedding and Event Videography