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Awards
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1999 Awards
1999 Best of
the Northwest
Video Festival
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Award of Excellence Winner
Programs That Make A Difference category
working TV "Mac Pap"
series
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4 full length programs and several
program segments provided support for the "Monumental"
Campaign to erect a Monument
at the B.C. Legislature honouring the "Mac Paps", the veterans of
the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalian who volunteered to fight fascism
during the Spanish Civil War, between 1936 and 1939.
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1999 Hometown
Video Festival
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Judges Choice Award
Programs That Make A Difference category
working TV "Mac Pap"
series
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4 full length programs and several program segments
provided support for the "Monumental"
Campaign to erect a Monument
at the B.C. Legislature honouring the "Mac Paps", the veterans of
the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalian who volunteered to fight fascism
during the Spanish Civil War, between 1936 and 1939.
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1998 Awards
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1998 Hometown Video Festival
Award Winner
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Programs That Make A Difference category
Bill C-91: Digging the Grave of Medicare
working TV # 90 06/11/97
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Produced to mark National Medicare Week
in 1997, this program looked at Bill C-91, the Federal Drug Patent
legislation. It was passed by the Mulroney Conservatives in spite
of intense opposition from the Liberal opposition. Later, when
they formed government, the Liberals became strong C-91 supporters.
Health activists charge that C-91 is "driving health care costs
through the roof".
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According to one senior, it is "digging the grave
of medicare". In recent years Liberal and Tory governments have
cut hundreds of millions of dollars from health funding to fight
their so called "war on the deficit".But at the same time
they have given multi-national drug companies a license to print
money with Bill C-91. It extends monopoly protection on drugs for
20 years, and bars cheaper generic drugs from entering the market.
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1998 Hometown Video Festival
Award Winner
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Community Media Issues category
Labour On Television
working TV # 61 16/01/97
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Prompted by the closure of nearly half of Rogers
Community Television's lower mainland facilities, including "Van
East", working TV's home since we first went to air; this
program looks at the community access labour TV shows from Halifax
to Vancouver, labour's only voice on broadcast television . .
. a voice labour is about to lose . . .
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| Also 1997 Best of the Northwest
Video Festival Winner, Documentary category, see below. |
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1998 Best of
the Northwest
Video Festival
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Award of Excellence Winner
Programs That Make A Difference category
A Tribute to Bruce Eriksen
working TV # 67 03/04/97
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Celebrating the life and political struggles of
Bruce Eriksen, the longtime Vancouver anti-poverty activist and
city councillor for the labour backed civic party COPE (Committee
of Progressive Electors). He died of liver cancer in March 1997
at age 68. Bruce was the husband, friend and political partner
of Libby Davies, who is now the NDP member of Parliament for Vancouver
East.
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| Also 1997/8 Vision TV "Best
of Over the Fence" Award of Excellence Winner, see below. |
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1998 Best of
the Northwest
Video Festival
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Award of Excellence Winner
Political Programming category
The First Time Around
working TV # 88 29/10/97
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Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the 1972
Dave Barrett NDP Government
In 1972 the "Socialist Hordes" took power in BC for the first
time ever, led by Dave Barrett, a former social worker and BCGEU
(BC Government & Service Employees' Union) member. They began
a "whirlwind of legislation" which in just 3 short years transformed
BC's political landscape forever..
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1997 - 1998
Vision TV
Best of
Over the Fence
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Award of Excellence Winner
A Tribute to Bruce Eriksen
working TV # 67 03/04/97
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Celebrating the life and political struggles of
Bruce Eriksen, the longtime Vancouver anti-poverty activist and
city councillor for the labour backed civic party COPE (Committee
of Progressive Electors). He died of liver cancer in March 1997
at age 68. Bruce was the husband, friend and political partner
of Libby Davies, who is now the NDP member of Parliament for Vancouver
East.
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1997 Awards
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1997 Hometown
Video Festival
Award Winner
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Programs That Make A Difference category
Don't Vote!
working TV #56, 15/11/96
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"Voting?...Of course...of course I'll
be voting. We always vote, don't we darling?...Yes we do, we always
vote, it's very important...the election to us, isn't it? Yes
it is, yes it is...."
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1997 Best of the Northwest, Award of
Excellence, Documentary
Alliance for Community Media - Northwest Region
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Labour on Television
working TV #61, 01/16/97
A full length feature on the state of labour TV in Canada, prompted
by the closure of nearly 50% of Rogers cable community television
facilities in Vancouver, including Van East, working TV ’s
home base since we first went to air in 1993. Includes interviews
with cable producers across the country.
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1996 Best of the Northwest, Award of Excellence,
Political Programming
Alliance for Community Media - Northwest Region |
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Common Sense Revolution
Part 1 - Education
working TV #34, 01/18/96
"Where do I find the time? A lot of coffee, a lot of patience
and just stick to it basically....Some days I come home and I
close the door and I just cry...."
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1996 Excellence in Public Advocay Video (outside)
CALMAward (Candian
Association of Labour Media)
Common Sense Revolution
Part 1 - Education
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1995 Excellence in Public Advocay Video (outside)
CALMAward
Dr. Dean Dawson and the
Future of Medicine in Canada
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1995 Stroke of Genius Award
CALMAward
Awarded to working TV for the only national broadcast of a labour
television show on VISION TV.
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