As you know, blip.tv is once again sponsoring this month's Celebrate the Web. They are making it possible for us host the Raising the Bar Web pilot festival as well as present the final screenings at the ACME theatre on March 29th. But as blip.tv often does, they've gone one step further to support the web community! blip.tv has generously sponsored a $500 award to the winning pilot AND blip.tv professional accounts (for one year) to all 11 finalists! ALSO, the winning team will have the amazing opportunity to have lunch (or a conference call) with Mike Hudack (blip.tv CEO), Dina Kaplan

As we approach the start of Celebrate The Web's 'Raising the Bar' Web Pilot Festival (beginning on March 3rd!), a lot of you have been asking us about the possibility of using SAG Actors in your Pilots. It is important to all of us that you be able to involve the most talented folks possible in your creative endeavors, so we got to work to try to make that happen. Well we have excellent news. We are thrilled that SAG New Media has worked with us to expedite and simplify the process of becoming a Signatory of SAG New Media. Producers looking to hire Screen Actors Guild members in their Cel

Today we sent out some information regarding the March 3rd theme announcement. We wanted to repost here since submissions are still open to anyone and those not participating are still welcome to watch the announcement thanks to Mike Rotman over at Streamin' Garage! We are very grateful to have him a part of the team. Below is what was sent out, in it's entirety: Dear Inaugural Celebrate the Web Film Festival Participants! Thank you so much for submitting to be a part of our very first web pilot festival. At this point, we hope you will be forming your teams and prepping for the M

We are thrilled and honored by the amount and quality of submissions coming in for the upcoming Celebrate the Web web pilot festival. Taking into account all this enthusiasm and support, we realize that we need to restructure the festival so we can include everyone who wants to participate. We have decided there will be no limit to how many teams can compete. Instead of having the screening / party on March 10th, we will be posting all the pilots on the Celebrate the Web blip.tv channel that day. We will then allow the public to vote to determine the top 10 pilots. On Tuesday, March 29

What: A 'Web Pilot Festival' where a team has one week to write, shoot, edit and deliver a pilot episode for a web series. The theme and guidelines for the web series pilot will be revealed at the beginning of the festival via livestream. Who: The 1st 12 qualified teams to submit on the Celebrate the Web site on our new submission page. When: Submissions period for teams is from February 2nd to 19th. Festival begins March 3rd at TBD with final pilot delivered at 9 AM March 9th. The screening of the pilots and the voting for the winner will take place the evening of March 10th at ACME