Hosting Global Awards

We are delighted to have been chosen to host the 2025 Global Veterinary Awards.

This year the event will take place at a huge joint congress of the World Veterinary Association (WVA) and the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) in Washington DC between July 18-22. Thousands of veterinarians from the USA and the rest of the world will be attending and the Awards will be a centrepiece of the event.

This year, the awards ceremony will be a joint celebration by the WVA and the AVMA, which will celebrate its 2025 Excellence Awards. The nomination period is now open for the 2025 AVMA Excellence Awards. The awards program recognizes contributions by veterinarians and non-veterinarians to the veterinary profession and to animal health and welfare.

Washington DC will be the location for the 2025 Awards

The WVA Global Veterinary Awards comprises 6 awards of 5000 Euros each. These Awards recognise four veterinarians and one veterinary student for their work in providing animal owners, governments, health authorities, farmers, other veterinarians, and the public, with best practice across the four Strategic Objectives of the WVA – One Health, Medicines Stewardship, Animal Welfare, Veterinary Education – plus an awards for the “Veterinary student of the year” organised in conjuntion with the International Veterinary Student Association (IVSA)

One overall winner as “Veterinarian of the year” will be chosen out the winners of the 4 WVA Strategic Objective categories.

Nominations

The WVA has called out to its members to nominate individuals by the 26th of February 2025; only nominations from WVA Members are accepted and must be submitted throught the link sent to their official email contact.

As well as hosting the live event, Good Call Media will also travel in advance to film with the various winners and produce video records of their work , to be shown in the build up to the event and also at the ceremony itself.

See our trailer for the Awards here:

2024 – quite a year and here comes 2025

2024 was a big year for us and now we are looking forward to 2025. Let our showreel, summing up the year and looking forward to the 2025 speak for itself.

Thanks for your support in 2024 and have a great 2025.

Barcelona filming produces amazing interviews

We recorded an amazing collection of video interviews and testimonials for our clients, Volition RX,  at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine congress in Barcelona.

Our background in television and radio journalism means we are experts at gathering what is know in the trade as vox pops (Latin for voice of the people), which sum up key views from attendees at various events. These are a valuable source of views from practitioners who will often help to build the future for a company like Volition which can help to save millions of lives worldwide.

Sepsis kills an estimated 11 million people a year, which is more than cancer or coronary disease. In 2017, there were an estimated 49 million cases, with over half of all cases occurring among children and accounting for 2.9 million deaths in under-fives.

Approximately half of survivors are left with psychological and/or physical effects. They may struggle to remember everyday things, no longer be able to walk or be unable to dress or bathe themselves without help.

Early detection and treatment of sepsis has the potential to improve survival – and improve the quality of life of survivors.

See the video on this Linked In posting:

Launching Our New Drone

We have invested in the latest state of the art filming drone, the DJI Mavic  3 Pro.

And where better to shoot our first amazing pictures than in the Northern Territory of Australia, known as the ‘Top End’ which is home to some of the most beautiful vistas and national parks in the world. Nik Wood is visiting Australia looking at potential future projects for Good Call Media.

We were on a 3,000 kilometre road trip through NT, which involved crossing crocodile-infested rivers and travelling vast distances to film with Aboriginal cattle keepers and veterinarians as part of a project to produce a documentary with the Veterinarians for Climate Action organisation. The ambitious programme saw us fly to Darwin in the far north or the Territories and then make our way to the Seven Emu Station, which was the first cattle station in Australia to be owned by an indigenous family. Seven Emu is still in the hands of the Shadforth family and they will feature in our film.

The drone helped us to capture some incredible vistas as well as livestock that wander freely in the Aussie outback.

Watch out for the release of the documentary, which will be used to gather support for Vets for Climate Action as they lead a campaign to take their organisation global.

The film will be shown to various international organisations to highlight the work of the group, which is now attracting support from various areas of the world including the World Veterinary Association, which represent veterinarians in every continent. You can see a small sample of the footage that we recorded in the YouTube video from our Good Call Media Channel by clicking below:

Dynamic video for website landing page

We were delighted to be commissioned to produce a dynamic video to run on the welcome page for Aura Veterinary, based in Guildford, Surrey, UK

Using our range of cameras, drone and high definition gimbal moving cameras, we were able to capture some amazing content showing a whole day in the life of this world-leading veterinary clinic as the story unfolds on their website.

AURA Veterinary brings together extensive knowledge of animal diseases with clinical expertise and first-class facilities to deliver on their promise of providing the best outcome possible.

As well as specialising in animal cancers, their highly skilled team are also experts in soft-tissue surgery, internal medicine, anaesthesia, pain management and radiology. AURA is the leading centre in Europe for interventional procedures, offering innovative solutions for strictures, vascular anomalies and cancer.

 

Click on the image or here to see the video page:

 

Busy bees!

We absolutely loved taking part in the video project to highlight the work of bees on the family-owned farms operated by the UK’s leading berry producers, the Hall Hunter Partnership.

We had never seen bee keeping up close, so it was a real privilege to witness their ‘secret’ world and to work next to Oliver Linton who is the Bee Keeper for the Hall Hunter Partnership and also the owner of the Busy Bee Honey Farm.

Follow the Linked In posting to see the whole operation in action.

Beautiful British Blueberries

It may be Autumn in the UK but that does not mean we cannot still enjoy blueberries, British ones at that.

Our UK client, the Hall Hunter Partnership, commissioned Good Call Media to help them communicate their push towards growing much higher numbers of British blueberries, including some amazing innovations being used by the family-owned business on their farms.

Blueberries have become known as a ‘superfood’ in recent years but limited production here in the UK means that many consumers are faced with having to buy from countries abroad such as the USA and markets in South America.

We loved making this film, not only for the beautiful pictures and the great teams we work with but because we love the taste of Hall Hunter’s British blueberries and we went home with more than a few punnets!

Mobile Strongroom – a breakthrough in secure containers

We have formed a partnership with an ambitious new start-up, Mobile Strongroom,  which, we feel, has enormous potential on a global scale.

We were so impressed with their patented invention, that we travelled with them to Stockholm in Sweden, to record a highly successful open day where leaders of transport and logistics from across the Nordic countries, came to see the unique container on show and being demonstrated. See the video below for reactions to the Mobile Strongroom event.

Mobile Strongroom combines innovation and high levels of security in transportation and storage. They are a niche player with a significant and growing market, offering the world’s only break-in-proof container. Their product is designed to cater to the needs of diverse customer segments.

In 2019, in response to the escalating multi-billion-dollar problem of theft from containers, the team behind Mobile Strongroom launched an initiative to design and deliver certified, secure shipping containers. This marked the beginning of a journey to redefine safety and reliability in logistics.

As the sole global supplier of vault-class intermodal containers, they are setting new benchmarks, surpassing conventional standards for transporting high-value goods and hazardous materials. We are proud to be the preferred partner for those who prioritize security in asset transportation.

What sets thems apart is not just the products, but our commitment to partnering in our users’ pursuit of safe and efficient logistics. They are dedicated to safeguarding assets, providing peace of mind, and instilling confidence in every journey.

See the video of the open day here:

 

New Video Series – ‘Between Two Vets’

It was great to be asked to launch a new series of video conversations between respected vets in the field of canine cancer. The first interviews were recorded at the huge Western Veterinary Congress in Las Vegas, USA and underlines the breakthrough Nu.Q® Vet Cancer Test developed by our global client, Volition Veterinary. Here’s how it was displayed on their corporate Linked In page. More to come!