Three ways to join our Freedom Advances Campaign!
#1 Confirm your voting plan
#3 Join our Rise Up Song Challenge
#2 Share our "Rise Up..." video
#2 Share our "Rise Up..." video
#3 Join our Rise Up Song Challenge
#2 Share our "Rise Up..." video
Copy and paste our YouTube video link on your social media platforms using the hashtags: #RiseUpandFlight
#FreedomAdvances #Vote2024
#3 Join our Rise Up Song Challenge
#3 Join our Rise Up Song Challenge
#3 Join our Rise Up Song Challenge
With our Rise Up Song Challenge, we are incentivizing young creatives to use our musical assets to create voter participation messaging that reaches their peers.
Our Campaign!
CONFIRM your voter registration
JOIN our Rise Up Music Challenge
CONFIRM your voter registration
SHARE our "Rise Up..." video
JOIN our Rise Up Music Challenge
CONFIRM your voter registration
Copy and paste our YouTube video link on your social media platforms using the hashtags: #RiseUpandFlight
#FreedomAdvances #Vote2024
JOIN our Rise Up Music Challenge
JOIN our Rise Up Music Challenge
JOIN our Rise Up Music Challenge
With our Rise Up Challenge, we are incentivizing young creatives to use our musical assets to create voter participation messaging that reaches their peers
21 film & music prizes, 16 honors, and more
Film & Music Prizes
· Award of Excellence – Music Video, 2024 Best Shorts Competition (International)
· Award of Excellence – Animation, 2024 Best Shorts Competition (International)
· Award of Excellence – African American Theme, 2024 Best Shorts Competition (International)
· Award of Excellence – Music Video, 2024 IndieFEST Film Awards (International)
· Award of Excellence – Animation, 2024 IndieFEST Film Awards (International)
· Award of Excellence – Original Song, 2024 IndieFEST Film Awards (International)
· Award of Excellence – African American Theme, 2024 IndieFEST Film Awards (International)
· Award of Excellence – Liberation/Social Justice/Protest, 2024 IndieFEST Film Awards (International)
· "Best Lyrics Video" – 2024 International Music Video Competition
· "Best Animation" – 2024 Chicago Indie Film Awards
· "Best Animation Short" – 2024 Indie Short Fest (Los Angeles International Short Film Festival)
· "Best Animation Short" – 2024 Independent Shorts Awards
· "Best Animation Music Video" – 2024 Los Angeles Movie & Music Video Awards
· "Best Animation Music Video" – 2024 Europe Music Video Awards
· "Best Director - Music Video" – 2024 New York Film & Female Actress Awards
· "Best Music Video" – 2024 London Global Film Awards
· "Best Music Video" – 2024 Los Angeles Film Awards
· "Best Music Video" – 2024 Paris International Short Festival
· Bronze Medal: Listener Impact: Content/Message Delivery – 2024 Global Music Awards
· "Outstanding Achievement Award for Music Video" – 2024 Indie Short Fest (Los Angeles International Short Film Festival) New York Film & Female Actress Awards
· "Special Achievement Award for Social Justice & Hope" – 2024 California Music Video & Film Awards
Film & Music Honors
· Finalist, "Best Producer" – 2024 Indie Short Fest (Los Angeles International Short Film Festival)
· Finalist, "Best Original Song" – 2024 Indie Short Fest (Los Angeles International Short Film Festival)
· Finalist, "Best Audience Impact" – 2024 Music Video Awards
· Nominee, "Best Song" – Cannes World Film Festival 2024
· Nominee, "Best Social Justice Short" – Cannes World Film Festival 2024
· Nominee, "Best Animation" – 2024 Tokyo International Cinema Awards
· Nominee, "Best Human Rights" – 2024 Tokyo International Cinema Awards
· Semifinalist – 2024 Arthouse Festival of Beverly Hills
· Semifinalist – 2024 Dubai Independent Film Festival
· Semifinalist – 2024 Sunday Shorts Film Festival (UK)
· Semifinalist – 2024 Seattle Filmmaker Awards
· Semifinalist – 2024 Chicago Filmmaker Awards
· Semifinalist – 2024 Robinson Film Awards (International Film Festival)
· Honorable Mention – "Best Music Video," 2024 Apex Film Awards
· Honorable Mention – "Best Animated Short Film," 2024 Apex Film Awards
· Special Mention – 2025 UK Animation & Music Video Festival
Film Fest Selections
· Official Selection, 2024 New York Film & Actor Awards
· Official Selection, 2024 AfroComicCon International Film Festival
· Official Selection, 2024 CAFF The Cultural Animation Film Festival
· Official Selection, 2024 Animation Marathon
· Official Selection, 2024 Tokyo International Short Film Festival
· Official Selection, 2024 Syracuse International Film Festival Honoring Outstanding Black Filmmakers
· Official Selection, 2024 Los Angeles Film & Documentary Awards
· Official Selection, 2024 Hollywood Best Indie Film Awards
· Official Selection, 2025 Magnolia Independent Film Festival
Leading up to the 2024 national election, we launched FREEDOM ADVANCES, a nonpartisan civic campaign aimed to encourage full voter participation. Click below to view campaign highlights. And scroll down to view Nolan Williams, Jr's award-winning civic anthem, "Rise Up & Fight!"
Kudos to our NEWorks Voices of Inspiration
...for their recent Kennedy Center Opera House performance with the American Composers Orchestra [ACO] as part of The Gathering: A Collective Sonic Ring Shout, a program co-produced by the National Black Theatre, The Apollo, ACO, and Kennedy Center.
DC Full Democracy Champions Luncheon
For a 2nd year, NEWorks produced DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's Full Democracy Champions Luncheon in commemoration of DC Emancipation Day. The event, held on Monday, April 15, 2024, was hosted by Symone Sanders-Townsend, MSNBC Co-host of "The Weekend," and featured The Honorable Max Frost as keynote speaker.
NEWorks + Andrea Bocelli + Baltimore Symphony Orchestra!
Congratulations to our NEWorks Voices of America for their recent concert performance with celebrated tenor Andrea Bocelli and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. (PHOTO: Courtesy of NEWorks Productions)
6th & Jazz @ the Dr. Phillips Center
For a second year, NEWorks has collaborated with the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, Florida to present 6th & Jazz, an educational performance series that annually introduces over 16,000 sixth graders in Orange and Osceola Counties to the jazz genre!
‘Let Freedom Ring’ at The Kennedy Center
Monday, January 15, 2024 at 6 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall
Featuring Jordin Sparks, Nolan Williams Jr., Cécile McLorin Salvant, and more
NEWorks is honored to co-produce this free, ticketed musical tribute to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., jointly presented by Georgetown University and the Center.