October 2023
We are excited to announce that Ed Kessel has won the prestigious Best Soundtrack award for Cici's Sonata at the New York International Film Awards! Ed was genuinely surprised and immensely grateful for this incredible honor.
Cici's Sonata has captivated audiences and critics alike, and this recognition is just one of many the film received at the festival. The movie also took home multiple awards, showcasing the extraordinary talent and dedication of everyone involved.
We're thrilled to announce that our movie score for Cici's Sonata just won 1st place for Best Soundtrack from the Oniros International Film Awards! Cici's Sonata is also premiered at the NY Shorts Film Festival in NYC on October 17th.
Congratulations to our composer, Edward Kessel, on his score. Shout out to David Amlen for winning 1st place for Sound Design from Oniros for Cici's Sonata. And to director Brandon Bailey for the many nominations that Cici's Sonata received and for his wonderful insight on the score and sound design.
September 2023
This year the the 55th Annual NJ AdClub Jersey Awards we are humbled and honored to have won 3 awards! 1st place for Best Jingle for the national brand, TN Dickinson’s Witch Hazel (Since 1866) featuring the Sharpe Family Singers and 2 awards for our original song for the movie Anemone and the movie score for Cici’s Sonata!
May 2023
Excited to announce that we’ve won 3 Telly’s this year! Music Video: “48th Street” for Pat Petrillo’s Big Rhythm Band ft. Nile Rogers and Automotive Commercials: “The Watcher” for Acura and “Order Up” for Planet Honda. We would like to thank…
“48th Street: Pat Petrillo and his Big Rhythm Band, Nile Rogers, Ed Kessel (Producer/Director), Reidge Johannes (DP/Editor), and CJ Palanca.
“Pot Luck”: Ed Kessel (Producer/Director), Reidge Johannes (DP/Editor), Dana Kessel (Art Direction), Shanna Martinez (Production Manager), Suzy Wall, J. Max Baker, and Coral Weber. .
“Order Up”: Ed Kessel (Producer/Director), Reidge Johannes (DP/Editor), and Dana Kessel.
March 2023
Congratulations to our Composer / Producer Ed Kessel for winning in the Movie Music Category at the 21st Annual Garden State International Film Festival for his music score for “Cici's Sonata”.
This is Ed's 3rd award from the Garden State Film Festival! Congratulations to everyone else who won and participated this year.
Spacial thanks to all of the musicians who worked on this film and shoutout to the vocalists: Brandon Bailey, Allison Brewster Franzetti, Alisa Wyrick, Katherine Cherbas, Chloe Castro-Santos, and Cynthia Leigh Helm.
March 2023
The Sound Imagination | Imagination Video Team at the Garden State Film Festival: Meet the Filmmakers Event! (From L to R: Reidge Johannes, Shanna Martinez, Nicolette Kelly, Dana Kessel, Ed Kessel)
June 2019
We won 1st, 2nd and 3rd place awards for our work in the "Best Jingle" and "Best Original Music" categories at the 2019 NJ Ad Club Jersey Awards! We also won Telly Awards for our gospel jingle for Honda Universe & Galaxy Toyota, and the holiday video we produced with Coyne PR!
June 2018
Thrilled and honored to have won 3 new Jersey Awards for Best Animated TV Commercial and Best Jingles.
Our Animated TV spot also won a Telly Award!
March 2018
We had an amazing time at the Garden State Film Festival. I was humbled and honored to win 2 music awards - Best Contemporary Pop Song & Best Internationally Inspired Song. Shout out to the legendary Sandy Linzer (co-writer on Dancing Girl) & my talented long-time writing buddy Marc Hoffman (co-writer on Some Fish Can Fly).
Beyond thrilled to hang out with ED ASNER - a wonderful and funny guy (just look at the expression on Dana's face! : )) Along with Xander Berkeley & Armand Assante (also great guys!). Didn't originally know that the submissions to the music awards were international. Extra thankful for the awards. : )
