May 16, 2019 | Story update: Since our last update Just Another Day was just nominated for a Regional Emmy Award with the National Capital chapter. Joe Kraemer will be attending the award event June 22, 2019.

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Story update: Just Another Day: How to Survive an Active Shooting on Campus was awarded a top prize (Best of Competition) in its category for the Broadcast Education Association’s Festival of Media Arts! Joe Kraemer will be traveling to the BEA Convention in April to accept the award and participate in their annual conference. The film is still in consideration for several more awards, so fingers crossed there’s more good news to come.

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Updates from Joe Kraemer, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic Media and Film:

Just Another Day has been having great success! Firstly, we’ve been awarded a Peer Award by TIVA-DC, which is an organization of film and media professionals in the Mid Atlantic region. Their awards ceremony honors the best in video productions as ranked by peers in the industry.

Secondly, the film was awarded a Platinum Award (top prize) by the MarCom Awards, recognizing excellence in the distillation of ideas, messages and media by marketing and communication professionals.

Finally, the video is currently at 290,000 views on YouTube and seeing some impressive growth in views over the past week!

Special Thank You:

Joe Kraemer, Assistant Professor, Director of Just Another Day

Marco Kathuria, Instructor, Producer of Just Another Day

Marc May, Assistant Professor, Screenwriter

Elsa Lankford, Associate Professor, Music Composer

Adam Schwartz, Lecturer, Sound Design

Jena Richardson, Instructor, Gaffer

The rest of crew was largely composed of Towson staff, EMF and Theatre students and alumni and a handful of industry professionals. It takes a village for something of this scale.