Last night, 15 web series pilots created in a week using 3 elements were screened to a sold-out crowd at the ACME Comedy Theater in LA, followed by an Awards presentation. We wanted to share the results here for anyone who might have missed it: Judges' Choice: The Dark Horse 1st Runner-Up: Purgatory 2nd Runner-Up: Turning a Prophet Audience Choice:The Epic Hunt 1st Runner-Up: Unlawful Behavior 2nd Runner-Up: The Dark Horse Best Use of Numerical Element: Entwined and Tiny Prophecies (tie) Best Use of Quote: Turning a Prophet Best Use of Graphic Element: The Epic Hunt and Just Fresh

As the teams are hard at work getting the word out about their shows for the Audience Choice Award, which is open for voting until Tuesday the 15th at 10 AM and the Celebrate the web crew is hard at work putting together the screening on the 16th at 8 PM, I thought I'd take a moment to introduce the esteemed panel of Judges, who will be joining myself in awarding the Judges' Prize for CTW5. Taryn O’Neill is an actor, writer and web series producer originally from Vancouver, Canada. A former competitive figure skater and national medalist in Ice Dancing, Taryn has a degree in Economics, wi

Thanks to the ACME Comedy Theatre, tickets are now available for the Celebrate the Web 5: Makin' It Happen Pilot Festival. If you are in the LA area, please join us as we celebrate the hard work and inspiration of the 16 teams that completed the challenge of competing a web series pilot in one week. Here are the details: Wednesday, November 16th at 8:00 PM Acme Comedy Theatre 135 N la Brea Ave Los Angeles, CA 90036 Tickets $5 online, $10 at the door Link to purchase tickets: http://bit.ly/ctw5screening The screening will be livestreamed for those who are not local but still want t

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

We're just past the halfway point of Celebrate the Web 5 and lots of teams are taking advantage of our #CTW5 hashtag. The energy is infectious! Whether teams are in pre-production, the shooting process, or even in post (wow, you guys are fast!), all the teams seem to be enjoying the process. Well, everyone except for maybe Robb Padgett of KATR Pictures... For @celebratetheweb, they asked to see photos - this is a potential shooting locations we're considering Team 818 MissMichaels Andrew waiting for the director to get her act together weblets baby it never rains in Ca