Menokin Visitors Center Video Honored with a Telly Award
“Francis Lightfoot Lee’s Menokin,” the Menokin Foundation’s 18-minute visitors’ center film produced in 2008 by MediaMax Video of Heathsville, Virginia, has received a 2009 Telly Award.
Founded in 1978, the Telly Awards is the premier award honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, the finest video and film productions, and online film and video. The Telly Awards annually showcases the best work of the most respected advertising agencies, production companies, television stations, cable operators, interactive agencies, and corporate video departments in the world.
The Telly Awards receives over 13,000 entries annually from all 50 states and countries around the world. “It’s always gratifying when your work is validated, and I’m delighted that the Menokin project received this honor,” said Mark Huffman, President of MediaMax Video and producer of the film.
The production covers the history of Menokin, Lee’s home during the time he served in the Continental Congress and until his death in 1797; the preservation methods being used at the site; the natural surroundings; and the various ways the site is used as an educational resource today. The video’s on-camera narrator is the Hon. Tayloe Murphy Jr., former Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources and former 99th District Delegate.
“We’re thrilled that our visitors’ center film has won national recognition, and urge everyone to visit Menokin to see it,” said Sarah Dillard Pope, Executive Director of the Menokin Foundation.
Production of the video was made possible through a Preserve America grant from the U.S. Fish & Wlidlife Service.
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Menokin Assistant Director, Beth Reavis, and Director Sarah Pope proudly display Max Media's and the Menokin Foundation's Telly awards.