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North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port Escape Cam­paign Video Wins Gold for Best Travel/​Tourism Cat­e­go­ry in the 39^th Annu­al Tel­ly Awards

PANA­MA CITY, FL — (August 21, 2018) – North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (ECP) announced today its Escape cam­paign video has been named a Gold­en Tel­ly Award win­ner in the Travel/​Tourism cat­e­go­ry in the 39^th Annu­al Tel­ly Awards. The Tel­ly Awards hon­ors excel­lence in video and tele­vi­sion across all screens and it is judged by lead­ers from video plat­forms, tele­vi­sion and stream­ing net­works, agen­cies, and pro­duc­tion com­pa­nies includ­ing Vice, Vimeo, Hearst Dig­i­tal Media, and BuzzFeed.

The Escape cam­paign video is designed to pro­mote the non-stop, direct and con­nect­ing flights ser­viced by ECP’s lega­cy air­line part­ners – Amer­i­can Air­lines, Delta Air Lines, South­west Air­lines and Unit­ed Airlines.

“ECP is push­ing the bound­aries for video and tele­vi­sion inno­va­tion and cre­ativ­i­ty at a time when the

indus­try is rapid­ly chang­ing” said Sab­ri­na Drid­je, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of the Tel­ly Awards. ​“This award is a trib­ute to the tal­ent and vision of its creators.”

“The staff at ECP along with our mar­ket­ing part­ners at The Moore Agency and video pro­duc­tion part­ners at Frame are hon­ored to receive a Gold­en Tel­ly Award for the ECP Escape cam­paign video,” said Del Lee,

Chair­man of the Board of Direc­tors. ​“The Escape cam­paign has been an inte­gral part of the ECP mar­ket­ing efforts over the past year, con­tribut­ing to 2017’s record break­ing total pas­sen­ger count of more than 939K.”

Today’s winner’s announce­ment caps a year-long ini­tia­tive by the Tel­ly Awards to rebuild the hon­ors for the mul­ti-screen era. Through­out 2017 – 2018 the Tellys refash­ioned their cat­e­gories to hon­or the type of work being made by lead­ing pro­duc­ers, includ­ing brand­ed con­tent, social video and ani­ma­tion, as well as work­ing with indus­try experts to iden­ti­fy impor­tant indus­try cat­e­gories where tech­nol­o­gy was play­ing an impact­ful role in the ways sto­ries are now being told: Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty, Inter­ac­tive and 360 Video. To judge all this new and inno­v­a­tive work, the Tellys recruit­ed over 200 new judges, from com­pa­nies such as Vimeo, Duplass Pro­duc­tions’ Donut, ust­wo, Dis­cov­ery Net­works, Vayn­er­Me­dia and Framestore.

The full list of the 39^th Annu­al Tel­ly Awards win­ners can be found at www​.tellyawards​.com/​w​i​nners.

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About North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Airport

North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (ECP) offers some of the region’s low­est aver­age air­fares and is locat­ed less than 30 min­utes from Pana­ma City Beach, Pana­ma City and the beach­es of South Wal­ton. Today, with ser­vice from Amer­i­can Air­lines, Delta, South­west, and Unit­ed, ECP pro­vides dai­ly flights to world­wide des­ti­na­tions, includ­ing non­stop flights to Atlanta, Austin, Bal­ti­more, Char­lotte, Chica­go, Dal­las, Hous­ton, Nashville, St. Louis. The first inter­na­tion­al air­port to be built in more than a decade, ECP pro­vides North­west Flori­da com­mu­ni­ties with first-class facil­i­ties and was strate­gi­cal­ly devel­oped for major eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties. ECP is THE gate­way to vis­i­tors seek­ing North­west Florida’s famous beaches.

About The Tel­ly Awards

The Tel­ly Awards is the pre­mier award hon­or­ing video and tele­vi­sion across all screens. Estab­lished in 1979, The Tel­ly Awards receives over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 con­ti­nents. Entrants are judged by The Tel­ly Awards Judg­ing Coun­cil — an indus­try body of over 200 lead­ing experts includ­ing adver­tis­ing agen­cies, pro­duc­tion com­pa­nies, and major tele­vi­sion net­works, reflec­tive of the mul­ti­screen indus­try The Tel­ly Awards cel­e­brates. Part­ners of The Tel­ly Awards include NAB, Stu­dio­Dai­ly, Stash Mag­a­zine, and Digiday.