It's time for the Makin' It Happen 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. Thanks again to theStream.tv for hosting our Livecast and for Olga Kay and Marc Hustvedt for helping announce the elements. 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 web series. If you are still looking for cast and crew, don’t forget to tweet your requests to @celebratetheweb and we will

Things are really ramping up as the Elements Announcement for Celebrate the Web 5 is right around the corner! We hope you'll join us and the Teams on Wednesday, November 2nd at 10 AM PST as we announce the elements LIVE at theStream.tv. Sadly for us (but great for her!) my lovely co-producer Taryn O'Neill will not be able to join me for the announcement because she booked an awesome acting gig. I didn't want to co-host all by my lonesome so I decided to ask 2 of our wonderful panel of Guest Judges for the CTW Judge's Prize to join me (we'll be announcing the entire panel of judges before

Our Celebrate the Web 5 Participants are all locked and loaded and ready to make some web pilots of ultimate glory! For those who are fans of counting, you have probably noticed that there are 17 teams. The way registration worked was that the first 15 teams to submit their application and registration fee where in (we wanted to do first-come/first-serve as we felt it was the fairest way of accepting participants). Well, we literally had 3 entry fees clear at almost the same time for the last spot! So we decided to let them all in. We hope no one minds! And now, the participants of CTW5

With the success of our first Web Pilot Festival, it was only a matter of time before we would want to embark on another one. In fact, our good friends at the Raindance Film Festival in the United Kingdom created a web series pilot festival based off our format. It’s truly been an honor to see how many people have embraced something we wanted to do for our community. It’s now time to continue to build upon this event. This time, we wanted to create something out of the festival that would continue on even after the pilots are all uploaded and the drinks at the screening are done. So