We realized to be taken seriously we had to show that we are serious and therefore shortly after our inception seventeen years ago we hosted an annual gala event in which we presented the best film with Award Of Excellence. We had various classifications across all niche films and our overall film of the year, received the award. Two years after we handed over our first awards, we changed the award to the RIO Award of Excellence and films in their categories were rewarded.
We have special events, gala evenings and in particular, we say thank you to our sponsors for making each of our events spectacular each year. Our last event, which was sponsored by bahistanbul, was one of our largest with close to a thousand people attending. They hosted both our reviewers’ event as well as our Award of Excellence and without the aid of our generous sponsors, we would not be able to have continued as long as we have.
It is of immense importance to our organisation to continue in our quest to give people an authentic review in a professional manner and by giving out our Award; we honor everybody in the industry. This award is unique, the film industry take us serious as a group of reviewers with the best interest of both the moviegoers, and the film crews as our mission.
Our authenticity and professionalism in presenting an award to the best film, is a mission that each one of our reviewers take pride in. each film receive internal nomination from all reviewers on board and then it is voted upon. We always present the award through unanimous decision and there has never been a dispute over which film is the best in all the years of our existence. Although the reward has been renamed, the first two years’ award still stands for those films who won during that period.