The Armenian EyeCare Project (AECP) and Art Simon Productions inform that the “The Armenian EyeCare Project” documentary has won the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award, which has been widely recognized as a symbol of excellence in professional and independent filmmaking for over 50 years. The AECP Documentary was Produced and Directed by Art Simon of Art Simon Productions and was awarded the CINE Golden Eagle for the Spring, 2010 competition, one of two competitions conducted by CINE each year. “The Armenian EyeCare Project” documentary has been recognized by CINE as the best under the category of Motivational films, aiming at inspiring people to take action. The documentary joined the archive of CINE winners. “The Armenian EyeCare Project” documentary tells about the overall operations of the Armenian EyeCare Project (AECP), including stories about AECP medical missions arriving in Armenia and the work of the AECP and its counterparts in the way of providing quality eye care to Armenian people. More importantly, the film presents thrilling patient stories with people, treated by the AECP, telling the audiences about the changes they experience after the sight-saving surgeries and treatment. Founded in 1992, in the United States by an American-Armenian ophthalmologist Roger Ohanesian, M.D., the Armenian EyeCare Project (AECP) is a California based nonprofit corporation dedicated to the elimination of preventable blindness in Armenia. More than 265,000 people have been screened and over 11,000 sight-saving surgeries and laser treatments have been performed in the Mobile Eye Hospital. “When it came time to edit this film, I had over 60 hours of footage, which I had to cut down to about ten minutes.  Editing this film was one of the most difficult editing jobs that I’ve done. Not in a technical sense, but because of my emotional connection to the subjects and their stories,” said Art Simon, the producer of the film. Since 1996, through the use of Cinematic Storytelling, Art Simon Productions has helped hundreds of clients sell, raise funds, inspire, lead and turn adversaries into believers.  Some of the epic results include, helping spur One-Billion dollars for building new K-12 Schools, raising over one million dollars for children in poverty, and getting acceptance and recognition for new cancer treatments that will save hundreds of lives. Winners of the CINE competitions are chosen through a rigorous, tiered jury system, based on criteria reflecting storytelling, production value, artistry, purpose and overall excellence. The award ceremony took place on June 3 in Washington D.C. Since its foundation in 1957, among great talents whose first films were awarded CINE Golden Eagles are Steven Spielberg, Ken Burns and Ron Howard, and filmmakers such as Robert Zemeckis, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorcese, Mira Nair, Charles Guggenheim, Stanley Nelson, Albert Maysles, Frederick Wiseman, etc.