BUMPER CROP: And The Winner Is…  

It’s one thing to be recognized by highly respected film festivals. It’s an entirely different feeling of “Wow” for the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP) to bestow a BEST DOCUMENTARY trophy on Gaining Ground: The Fight for Black Land.  AMCP honors excellence in marketing and communication while recognizing the creativity, hard work, and generosity of industry professionals through the MarCom Awards. Since its inception in 2004, MarCom has evolved into one of the largest, most-respected creative competitions in the world. Each year about 6,500 print and digital entries are submitted from dozens of countries, so the fact that Gaining Ground grabbed this accolade is rather impressive and a tribute to John Deere for backing this essential social impact documentary. 

But that’s only one tenth of the story. Gaining Ground just keeps on winning awards! Our mantle is decorated with TEN trophies (listed below). In addition to the MarCom Award, Gaining Ground has been recognized by numerous and prestigious film festivals, and even won for…wait for it….BEST TRAILER!  (Thank you Carolina Film Festival! That award is a tribute to our outstanding film/trailer editor and all around good guy, Chris Etheredge). 

We are grateful to the festivals that featured Gaining Ground and to the audiences that made our journey so remarkable. Congratulations to our friends at John Deere who believed in this project from day one and to executive producer Al Roker and producer/director Eternal Polk on an amazing award-winning festival run!