A press release is an important public relations tool that will help bring notice to your winning production. This template is for your use so that you can fill out independently and send to the media outlets of your choice in your local area and beyond.  Just add the information about your production to the draft press release below, select the media outlets you want to send it to – then send it to them directly.

This is simply a template – feel free to modify it to suit your needs.  Please do NOT return to us – this is for your personal use.

Simply copy and paste from this page into your word processing document.  Please note the formatting of a standard press release.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
(Your Name)
(Email)
(Website)
(Telephone)

(Company or Individual) Wins Global Film Awards’ Humanitarian Award

(City, State, Date) – (Winner’s name), of (company or organization), has won a prestigious (Grand Prize, Outstanding Achievement, Award of Recognition) Humanitarian Award from The Global Film Awards. The award was given for (winner’s name) exciting (type of production), (title of production), which (purpose of production). (Title of production) features exceptional (story line, names of actors, location, visuals, sound, etc.).

“(Quotes from producer, director, editor, and talent regarding their pleasure at receiving the award and what they were trying to achieve with the production.”)

The goal of the Humanitarian Award is to honor filmmakers who are bringing awareness to issues of Ecological, Political, Social Justice, Health and Wellness, Animals, Wildlife, Conservation and Spiritual importance.

The nominees are hand picked by the judges and staff from hundreds of entries throughout the year across three international competitions – The Accolade Global Film Competition, The IndieFEST Film Awards and the Best Shorts Competition – the films are brought together under the Global Film Awards umbrella and the winners are chosen from this wide pool of entries.

Information about the Global Film Awards and a list of recent winners can be found at www.GlobalFilmAwards.com

In winning a Humanitarian award from Global Film Awards, (company or organization) joins the ranks of other high-profile winners of this important award such as Oscar nominee Liam Neesom for narration of Love Thy Nature, multiple Emmy winner Alfre Woodard for Soft Vengence, Oscar winner (student) Emily Kassie for the powerful I Married My Family’s Killer and many more.

Rick Prickett, who chairs the competitions under the Global Film Awards umbrella, had this to say about the Humanitarian winners, “It takes great talent to tackle the world’s most pressing issues with film and do a great job.  It takes an even greater heart. Global Film Awards helps set the standard for Humanitarian filmmaking worldwide.  The goal of Global Film Awards is to help winners achieve the recognition they deserve for the incredible job that they do.”

For more information call (name and phone number) or visit (company or organization)’s website at (website address).