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Aurora Award

   The Aurora Awards recognize individuals in the film and video industries who have achieved that same ability to captivate their audiences with the displays produced from their own creative forces.  Competitors come from private and corporate production groups, advertising agencies, and television stations throughout the country.

    For years filmmakers have known the value of film and video competitions.  Winning an Aurora Award is, in effect, receiving an endorsement from your peers that celebrates the quality of your work.

    Our Daily Bread received a 2001 Aurora Award for the show, which featured St. Mary of Sorrow's Parish in Buffalo, New York

Communicator Award

   The Communicator Awards is a national awards program that recognizes outstanding work in the communications field.  Entries are judged by industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work is a benchmark for the industry.

    Our Daily Bread won a 2004 Communicator Award for the show featuring the "Mill Hill Sisters."  Fr. Paul Seil cooked with Sr. Ann Helene Koenig, OSF.

    Our Daily Bread has won a 2003 Honorable Mention from the Communicator Awards. This show featured Fr. Paul Seil cooking with and learning more about the Williamsville Franciscan Sisters. 

     Our Daily Bread has also received a 2000 Crystal Award, which featured St. Mary’s Parish in Cattaraugus, New York.

Gabriel Award

     The Gabriel Awards are designed to honor works of excellence in broadcast programs, feature stories, and stations which serve viewers and listeners through the positive, creative treatment of concern to humankind.  They are sponsored by Unda – USA a professional membership organization of Catholic communicators working in radio and television.

    Our Daily Bread was a recipient of a 1999 Gabriel Awards, along with ABC News: 20/20, Dateline NBC, the CBC and WGBH of Boston.

The winning episode featured Fr. Joseph Bayne, OFM Conv., the executive director of  the Franciscan Center in Buffalo, New York.  The purpose of the Center is to provide a safe, homelike structured environment for runaway homeless boys.

Proclaim Award

   The Catholic Communication Campaign (CCC) is an activity of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) that develops media programming, projects, and resources that promote Gospel values. Each year a diocese is invited to enter their communication ministry best efforts in the CCC's annual Proclaim Awards competition.

   The work of the CCC is made possible the generous donations of Catholic parishioners from all across the country to the CCC’s annual appeal. Proceeds from this collection are divided equally between each diocese and the CCC’s national office in Washington, DC.

    Dioceses use their 50% share of the CCC Collection to support local communications efforts such as televised Masses and diocesan newspapers. And, on the national level, CCC funds support the development and production of a wide range of media programming.

   For more than 25 years, the CCC has been serving dioceses and parishioners by spreading faith-filled messages locally and nationally on radio, television, in print and on the Internet.

   Our Daily Bread received a 2006 Certificate of Merit for the show which featured Fr. Paul's trip to Rome and cooking with third seminarian, Mark Noonan.  To date Our Daily Bread has won 3 Proclaim Awards.

Telly Award

   The Telly Award was founded in 1980 to showcase and give recognition to outstanding non-network, cable-TV  commercials, films and video productions.  The Telly Awards have become a well known, highly respected national competition for people who create commercials, films and videos. 

   Our Daily Bread received this award in 2006 for a show featuring Fr. Paul Seil's trip to Rome and cooking with third year seminarian, Mark Noonan.

Videographer Award

   The Videographer Award is an international awards program created by communications professionals to honor talented individuals and companies in the video production field.  The Videographer Awards is designed to identify communications professional who are raising the standards of the industry and to give winners and their clients the recognition that the work they are producing is outstanding and highly regarded by their peers.

   Our Daily Bread has won a 2002 Videographer Award which pays tribute to the men and women of 9/11. 

   Host Fr. Paul Seil traveled to Big Tree Fire Hall, in Hamburg, New York to cook chili for the men and women who were members of the Emergency Medical Team asked to NYC as part of the disaster recovery efforts. 

    Hostess Sr. Barbara Ciarico, RSM then spoke with Fr. Joseph Bayne, OFM Chaplin for Erie County Department of Medical Services, about his time at ground zero.  In this section Fr. Joe speaks about the "Kid to Kid" card program, which was initiated by Daybreak TV Production.  The invitation to send well wishes was extended to all children in the Buffalo Diocese.  Over 6400 cards and letters were received and then forwarded to children in the Archdiocese of NYC, Washington D.C. and Arlington Va.  Closing the show is Bishop Henry Mansell, who reminds us to cherish the gift of life and family.