Awards

Join Taylor's Media Communication program, and you're likely to have award-winning work on your resume by graduation. Since 2006, Taylor media students have won more than 100 awards -- regionally, nationally and internationally. Taylor's media communication program competes in both student and professional competitions, putting student work up against the best in the business.

Taylor recognitions include:

  • Student, Regional Emmy Award
  • Heartland Film Festival's Jimmy Stewart Memorial Crystal Heart Award
  • CINE Golden Eagle Award
  • Telly Award
  • National Film Festival for Talented Youth
  • American Scholastic Association Newspaper Review
  • Aegis Award
  • Gold Aurora Award
  • Summit Creative Award
  • Indiana Collegiate Press Association Awards
  • Videographer Award
  • MarCom Award
  • Communicator Audio awards
  • 1st place Broadcast Education Association's screenwriting competition
  • Broadcast Education Association Audio competition
  • Broadcast Education Association Faculty competition - Best in Show
  • Association of Christian Collegiate Media Awards
  • Baptist Press Excellence in Journalism Award
  • Audience Choice Award, Harvest Moon Film Festival
  • Film screening at the Indianapolis International Film Festival
  • Film screening at the Feel Good Film Festival, Hollywood

See MoreTaylor student films have been accepted for screening at multiple festivals in the past three years, including:

  • National Film Festival for Talented Youth - winner Best Documentary
  • Windrider Forum (Colorado)
  • Lake Michigan Film Competition
  • Feel Good Film Festival in Hollywood
  • Harvest Moon Film Festival - Audience Choice and Best Short
  • Bahamas International Film Festival
  • Indianapolis International Film Festival
  • Heartland Film Festival
  • DIY Film Festival 
  • Windsong Film Festival

Taylor alumni have screened or won in multiple film festivals. A few recent ones include:

  • Sundance Film Festival - 2009 winner, Best Short Film
  • The Doorpost Film Project - Grand Prize 2009
  • The 168 Hour Film Festival - 2012 winner
  • Heartland Film Festival - Audience Choice short film 2009