Congratulations to all the teams who completed CTW5 and uploaded their pilots this morning! The past week has just flown by, and we were all excited to watch the production updates posted on twitter. Just like the 'Raising The Bar' Pilot festival in March, all the pilots will be embedded on this voting page and you can vote for your favorite ONCE every 24 hours. Voting will CLOSE next Tuesday, November 15th at 10:00AM. The winners will be announced the following night (November 16th) at The ACME Theater. Details on the screening event to follow shortly! **On a side note: As many o

Congratulations to all CTW teams who uploaded their pilots this morning! All of us at Celebrate the Web knew what an undertaking our 'Raising the Bar' Web Festival was going to be. Conceiving of an entire series and completing a full pilot in under 7 days is an epic challenge. We knew many of the submitted teams wouldn't be able to complete the festival but we are thrilled that 13 teams met this challenge head on! This is a HUGE ACHIEVEMENT. Because of this, we have adjusted this portion of the Web Festival. We are excited to report that ALL 13 PILOTS will be shown at the final screening

We are so thrilled for the Raising The Bar Web Festival to begin! In case you missed our Livecast where we revealed the creative guidelines and a few rules and regulations, we've included them below. We are all incredibly excited to see what each team is able to create over the next 7 days and hope these pilots can be springboards to some terrific webseries. If you are still looking for cast and crew, don't forget to tweet your requests to @celebratetheweb and we will do our best to circulate the information. We would love for all the teams to liveblog as much as possible during th

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