We help great ideas win awards.
How we do it.
Strategic Entry
Led by Ileana Montalvo, Award Queen strategically enters your work to ensure a higher likelihood of success.
We work with your creative partners to ensure that the work is properly vetted and placed to the best advantage.
Advising & Evaluation
We’re on standby to counsel and help with all your production, administration, process, and entry questions.
We use personalized discovery sessions to determine the best way to treat your work. You’ll collaborate directly with our most senior ad vet, Ileana Montalvo.
WE're the Team to help you win.
After organizing 18 AICP Show Curatorial Committee meetings and witnessing thousands of entries being judged by creative directors, producers, and artists from top agencies, Ileana Montalvo noticed that best ideas don't always win the awards. So she founded Award Queen.
She and her team have more than 20 years of experience producing the top ad shows, such as: The AICP Show, The Art & Technique of the American Commercial, and the AICP Next Awards.
"We're passionate about helping creative people push their ideas and get the recognition they deserve."
Testimonials
““Award Queen is incredibly attentive, quick and thorough in submitting our work and following up.””
““Award Queen is smart and strategic. After working together on awards submissions for our clients we found the insights to be invaluable.””
““Award Queen has been an invaluable resource, saving me time, stress and offering a much needed sounding board in general about our output of work for the year.” ”
“We feel fortunate to have Award Queen in our corner - she’s thorough, strategic, persistent, and always available to offer insight or advice. She’s been a crucial help in navigating the award show landscape, making smart submissions, and scoring wins.”
““Award Queen was always quick to respond and it was nice to know she was the main contact with each award show ensuring nothing slipped through the cracks.” ”
““Award Queen was integral to our awards submission process. We were guided to the appropriate shows and categories and provided with a competitive point of view.” ”
““Award Queen was incredibly knowledgeable on the process and had invaluable insight into the categories we should enter for the world of visual effects. They helped me decide which award shows to enter and would be best suited to us based on the work.” ”
“Award Queen has been a huge asset to our business. We have relied on them for years to make sure we’re strategizing to enter the right categories across all the different shows. She keeps an eye out for our work and our wallet. She is a joy to work with and can easily jump into the hustle with our team to get things done. We are incredibly grateful for this partnership.”
“AQ is simply the best when submitting to awards shows. Her years of experience, wide breadth of award show knowledge, flawless organization, and kind demeanor make her a wonderful collaborator when it comes to award show submissions. ”
“Award Queen has been a great resource for us in keeping track of award submission schedules and helping to streamline and evaluate our best pieces and key categories.
Her help with entries, submissions, and true guidance in the awards circuit has been invaluable.”
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