2008 CAMIE AWARDS Announced, Recognizing Inspirational Films

Hollywood, California - May 3, 2008

Uplifting motion pictures and made-for-TV movies exhibiting character and morality were honored at the 2008 CAMIE AWARDS held at the beautiful Wilshire Theatre Beverly Hills on May 3, 2008. The solid-bronze CAMIE statues are awarded to films that provide positive role models for living a life of integrity.

This year's winners in the theatrical releases category are: Amazing Grace, Bridge to Terabithia, Miss Potter, Nancy Drew and The Ultimate Gift.

Ioan Gruffudd admires his 2008 CAMIE award for his starring role in Roadside Attractions and Bristol Bay Productions "Amazing Grace."

The honorees for the made-for-TV movie category are: Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness (Hallmark Hall of Fame), Love's Unending Legacy (Hallmark Channel), The Note (Hallmark Channel), Pictures of Hollis Woods (Hallmark Hall of Fame) and Saving Sarah Cain (Believe Pictures).

Celebrities in attendance included Jon Voight, Georg Stanford Brown, Edward Asner, Olivia Hussey, and Ioan Gruffudd. Entertainment Tonight's Mark Steines and television personality Leanza Cornett returned to host the 2008 show, which also included musical performances from Jim Brickman and Anne Cochran, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., and Clint Holmes.

CAMIES are beautiful solid bronze castings of an original sculpture representing CHARACTER AND MORALITY IN ENTERTAINMENT.

CAMIES are awarded for entertaining and uplifting motion pictures that provide positive role models for building character, overcoming adversity, correcting unwise choices, strengthening families, living moral lives, and solving life’s problems with integrity and perseverance—realizing some lessons of life come with pain and sorrow.

Motion pictures considered for CAMIES are presented with sensitivity and without gratuitous violence, sex scenes (even if brief or simulated), or implications that non-married sex is acceptable. Respectable language and modesty are strongly encouraged.

Individual CAMIES are presented to those principally responsible for creating each CAMIE film, which may include producers, directors, writers, and leading actors.

You may be wondering, "Are there any new movies out there that are entertaining and decent?" The answer is yes. Among all the violence and filth, a few outstanding films are being produced that are both entertaining and decent. If you've had trouble finding them, now you have a great resource, those that have won CAMIES, which are the best of the best. You can also find tips and comments about other uplifting motion pictures in theaters, coming on television, and on video and DVD on www.moviepicks.org.