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Alonge Hawes Bestowed Prestigious “Don’t Wait, Create!” Honor at 2024 New Jersey Webfest​

Filmmaker Alonge Hawes was awarded the ‘Michael Ajakwe Jr ‘Don’t Wait, Create!’ trophy on Sunday evening at the 7th New Jersey Webfest, one of two specialty themed awards given annually at the festivals awards gala.
Hawes entered the night as a nominee for Best Director in a Thriller and Outstanding Script for his series ‘Silver & Gold’, a heist series centered around four high-class thieves in Atlanta who band together to pull off ever escalating capers. A successful screening of the series ninth episode, titled “The Children of Geb’ on Saturday evening seemingly hadn’t prepared Hawes for the honor, as a look of surprise engulfed his face when board member Ned Donovan called his name as the recipient. While thanking his late mother Pantheah Hawes and daughter Amina, Hawes spoke on the importance both provided in his life as inspirations and creative muses.

“I want to take this moment to thank two people who continually inspired me since this journey began. My mother Pantheah Hawes, and my daughter Amina. Amina, daddy loves you and I hope I keep making you proud.”
The ‘Don’t Wait, Create!’ award is named in honor of Michael Ajakwe Jr. A prominent writer and producer who wrote for hit television shows such as Martin, Sister, Sister, Moesha, and Unsung. In 1995, Ajakwe won an Emmy award for his work producing E’s Talk Soup, and in 2008 he received the city of Inglewood Beacon of Light award. In 2010, he created the world’s first film festival dedicated to web and digital series, the LAWEBFEST, which continues to run and operate. Ajakwe Jr passed away in 2018 after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer.
New Jersey Webfest director and CEO Neem Basha describes the ‘Michael Ajakwe Jr ‘Don’t Wait, Create!’ award as “An award in recognition of excellence in filmmaking. It is not designed to honor an artist’s submitted or nominated project but rather their entire body of work and it’s impact on the web series community.” Past recipients of the award include critically acclaimed multi-hyphenates Joshua Pangborn, Jessica Alexandra Green, and Herman Wang.
Alonge Hawes first burst onto the scene in 2017 with the critically acclaimed web series Blue Collar Hustle, which launched on YouTube and went on to be broadcast on several streaming platforms including Seeka.TV, GoIndietv, and Kweli TV. Hawes created, wrote, directed and starred in the series two seasons, which collected over 50 awards at numerous film festivals in the United States and abroad. He followed that success with the series Black On Both Sides, which he again created, wrote, directed and starred in. Black On Both Sides ran for two successful seasons on Seeka.TV, meeting with acclaim and numerous awards. His recent endeavor, Silver & Gold, in which he created, wrote and directed, concluded its first 10-episode season in July on Jaro Media.

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‘Silver & Gold’ Picks Up Additional Nominations At 7th Annual Minnesota Webfest​

Silver & Gold, the critically acclaimed Jaro Media-presented heist series continues to garner favor throughout awards season, with the announcement on Monday, September 30th that the series has garnered four further nominations at the upcoming Minnesota Webfest.
As previously announced back in August, Silver & Gold was already up for Best Mystery/Thriller Series and Best Series Script. Now it can add the categories for Best Dramatic Ensemble, Best Dramatic Performance, and Best Representation of Communities of Color to the nominations list. In the Dramatic Ensemble category, the cast of Silver & Gold are nominated against the casts of Itaewon by Night, Dark Arcadia, The Fades of Papineau and The Meteorites. In the Best Representation of Communities of Color category Silver & Gold is pitted against the Canadian web-series Hogtown, the hunting themed reality series Modern Carnivore, and the dramedy series The Meteorites. Finally for Best Dramatic Performance, Joshua Quinn, who portrays affable art forager Aasim Flyntwood, is up against Raul Alejandro Valencia Lemus (The Fades of Papineau) Nils Benedikt Hoddinghaus (The Folks) Naomi Cranston Haag ( (mis)placed) and Laura Dowling-Shea (Rosemary Street)
Silver & Gold is no stranger to victory at the Minnesota Webfest, having won Best Series Script at the 2022 festival for series creator/executive producer Alonge Hawes. He will look to repeat in the category with the series third episode script, ‘The Brilliance Meijin Affair’, which sees the protagonists engaged in a battle of intellect and wit against a shrewd, astute, and unseen foe for a priceless artifact.
Silver & Gold stars Quentin Williams as charismatic gentleman thief Charles Goldar, Brittaney Traylor as the enthrallingly enticing Bahiya Payne, Shani Hawes as brilliant computer hacker Ciera Valentine, and Roberto Cruz as the indomitable conman Sosa Gerena. Julian Robinson, Joshua Dennard, Angela Van Tassel, Joshua Quinn, Eduardo Bryant, and Alonge Hawes himself round out the supporting cast. Richard DeVaughn, Eduardo Bryant, and Mary Bouche serve as executive producers. Cordarol Sanders, Joshua Dennard, Jamal Mcclendon, Rodderick Fedd, Shani Hawes and Quentin Williams serve as producers.
Founded in 2017, the Minnesota WebFest is the first film festival dedicated to the web series format in the Upper Midwest. Their stated mission is to bring the best web entertainment in the world to Minnesota, and to show off Minnesota creative talent to the world. Minnesota WebFest is a member festival of the Web Series World Cup and part of the North Star Story Summit. This year’s screenings and festivities will take place in Duluth, Minnesota from October 3-7th.

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Alonge Hawes Repeats as Writing Awards Champion at The 2024 Minnesota Webfest​

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Alonge Hawes, the multi-hyphenate behind Jaro Media’s hit heist series ‘Silver & Gold’ was announced as the winner of the Best Series Script category at Saturday night’s Minnesota Webfest awards ceremony. Marking the second consecutive victory for both him and the series in that category.
Held at Duluth Minnesota’s Blacklist Brewing Co. The awards ceremony featured a who’s who of the web/digital series and Audio Podcast industry’s A-list talent. Veronica Maccari (Best Comedic Performance in a Series) Richard P. Doyle (Best Thriller/Horror Podcast) and Blake Pfeil (Best Drama Podcast/Best Podcast Editing) were all on hand to accept their awards. Host Lori Hoovers and Minnesota Webfest founder/CEO George Reese kept the roughly 35 category awards ceremony brisk and entertaining throughout the night. Past winners Dipu Bhattacharya, Melissa Malone, and Diann Filiatrault were also on hand providing support and encouragement throughout the night’s festivities. Hawes and Silver & Gold entered the night as 5-category nominees, having picked up additional nods in Best Mystery/Thriller Series, Best Dramatic Ensemble in a Series, Best Dramatic Performance, and Best Representation of Communities of Color.
When Hawes was announced as the winner for Best Series Script, he thanked his late mother Pantheah Hawes for being “The first character in his life who believed in him” as well as series co-executive producer Eduardo Bryant and every creative in attendance, remarking “I am you and you are me,” before ending his speech with a quote from James Baldwin. The entire acceptance speech can be viewed at the link below.
Hawes’s winning script was for the first season’s third episode, “The Brilliance Meijin Affair”. In which the series protagonists must solve an increasingly complex array of riddles and in search of a stolen diamond necklace. The adventure takes them across various landmarks in Atlanta that serve as clues to a larger puzzle. The episode was acclaimed upon its release, with critic Corey Ware stating that it was “lively and engaging.” Hawes’s previous win in the category was in 2022 for the series pilot episode “The Birth of The Cool.” The award was not presented during the 2023 Minnesota Webfest, making this year’s win Hawes’s consecutive victory.

‘Silver & Gold’ is created, written, and directed by Hawes. It stars Quentin Williams as gentlemanly thief Charles Goldar. Brittaney Traylor as his seductively charming paramour Bahiya Payne. Shani Hawes as brilliant computer hacker Cierra Valentine. And Roberto Cruz Jr as stoic conman Sosa Gerena. Julian Robinson, Joshua Quinn, Eduardo Bryant, Roxzane T. Mims, Pantheah Hawes, Angela Van Tassel and Hawes himself round out the supporting cast. The series is executive produced by Hawes, Bryant, Mary Bouche, and Richard DeVaughn. Joshua Dennard, Jamal Mcclendon, Shani Hawes, Cordarol Sanders, Rodderick Fedd and Quentin Williams serve as producers.
The ten-episode first season is available to stream via Jaro Media.

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