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Hip Hop Colony Wins two awards at the H2O [Hip-Hop Odyssey International Film Festival in New York.
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New York , NY – Emerge Media Films - Hip Hop Colony scooped two major Odyssey Awards at the closing ceremony for the 4 th annual H2O International Film Festival in New York , which is the largest Hip-Hop film festival in the world. The first Award presented was to Hip Hop Colony for Best Feature Documentary and both the writer Russell Kenya and director Michael Wanguhu were present to receive the Award. The nights climax was the prestigious Heineken Emerging Filmmaker Award that came with a cash prize of $2,500 presented to director Michael Wanguhu at the close of the ceremony.

Other Honorees included Kid-n-Play; The Last Poets; as well as brothers, and filmmaking duo Reginald and Warrington Hudlin who are best known for the House Party film franchise. Awards were presented in over 9 categories, including: Documentary Shorts; Best Documentary Feature; Freestyle Award; Freshest Youth Award; Under the Influence Award; Best Narrative Feature; Legend Award; Memorial Award; and the Trailblazer Award.

The Awards ceremony was held at the historic Langston Hughes Auditorium at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and was hosted by muMs & Toni Blackman.

About H2O [ Hip-Hop Odyssey ]
Promoting social awareness and youth empowerment through media, the H2O media program works with aspiring and experienced filmmakers, encouraging them to develop and create new work that showcases positive images of Hip-Hop culture. Through our annual H2O International Film Festival we increase awareness of the filmmakers and understanding of the Hip-Hop community. http://www.h2oiff.org/festival.php

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