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 High School (tie)

We are extremely proud of all 17 teams that participated in our second Web Pilot Festival. The support and creativity you brought to our industry is inspiring and we hope you’ll all join us for CTW6 and beyond!

Photos courtesy of Angelique Toschi. See more of her amazing photos of the event on the Celebrate the Web Facebook Page.

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, with Minors in Film and Drama from Duke University. She worked as an agent trainee at the William Morris Agency and as a junior manager at Alliance Atlantis Communications before pursuing a full time career as an actress. She has appeared on ‘Navy N.C.I.S.’, ‘The Inside’ and ‘Lie to Me’, various indie films, and works steady in commercials, including national campaigns directed by The Coen Brothers, Januz Kaminski, Michael Bay and Barry Levinson. She became deeply involved in the new media community in 2008, producing and starring in the multiple 2009 Streamy Award nominated post apocalyptic scifi webseries ‘After Judgment’ (for which she received both Best Actress and Best Dramatic Webseries nominations), and produced it’s follow-up, the scifi comedy ‘Hurtling Through Space at an Alarming Rate!’ financed and distributed by Babelgum.com. She has acted in numerous web productions, including the recent fan film trailer for revered comic ‘Elfquest’ (with an official panel at Comic Con 2011), atom.com’s Video Game Reunion, Black Box TV, and in the critically acclaimed webseries ‘Compulsions’, for which she won Best Supporting Actress at the 2010 Indie Soap Awards. She will next be seen in YouTube star, Mystery Guitar Man’s first scripted webseries. She added writing to her repertoire after starting a blog in 2009, and in 2010, her first comedy script, “The Very True Adventures of the Madoff Girls,” was chosen as a Finalist in the NYTVFest FOX Comedy Pilot Contest. Her first passion, however, is science fiction. She has written an episode of Black Box TV and has a number of ambitious scifi projects at different stages of development. In her free time, she blogs about digital media and her journey to become a martial arts badass, and is co-producer of Celebrate The Web.

My Damn Channel is the brainchild of its Founder/CEO, Rob Barnett. My Damn Channel is an entertainment studio and distributor of premium original programming by established and emerging talent from film, TV, and the Internet. Since 2007, Rob and his team have built My Damn Channel into a successful brand and business where top talent, loyal fans, and major advertisers come together to create the TV network of the future.

Rob has produced radio, television, film, and new media with hundreds of diverse communicators including President Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, The Rolling Stones, Bono, Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Carolla, Johnny Rotten and more. He was the President of Programming for CBS Radio from 2004-2006, where he oversaw content development for more than 179 stations, and launched new formats in 30 markets. He was a production and a programming executive at MTV and VH1 for more than 11 years, where he produced news, specials, and series for both outlets and oversaw all network programming. At VH1, he was VP of Program Planning during the network’s surge in the late 90s with iconic hit shows including “Behind the Music.” Rob worked as an independent producer for projects including “Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues,” a multi-part, PBS film series; “Staffers,” a reality TV series on politics; and “Inside the Bubble,” a documentary feature film on the 2004 presidential campaign. In the earlier part of his career, Rob worked at rock radio stations in Boston, Dallas, and Los Angeles. He was on-air talent in all three markets, and the Program Director in Boston and Dallas. In 1981, Rob convinced Mick Jagger & The Rolling Stones to play a secret, club gig as an exclusive promotion for his radio station, WAAF. Rob is passionately dedicated to giving My Damn Channel artists the respect, freedom and financing to do their best work – which in turn gives My Damn Channel viewers consistently original programming that doesn’t suck.

Molly Templeton is signing, managing, developing and discovering individual video creators as well as building audience engagement across the My Damn Channel network. She manages all of our My Damn Channel programming on YouTube and works closely with all of our top talent to help their videos break through. Prior to joining the company in 2011, Molly was the host of long-running daily web show, Rocketboom, where she also wrote, produced and programmed content.

A video blogger herself under the username, ‘mememolly’, she has worked in web video since 2006, gaining over 50 million views and a nomination for Best Commentary in the 2007 YouTube Awards. Molly grew up in England, before moving to Ottawa, Vancouver and finally New York City, where she has found herself at home with people equally fascinated with internet culture and community. In her spare time, she likes to bake, play the ukulele and drink fancy beer. Follow her on Twitter.

Stephanie Thorpe is an actor, producer and content creator. Born and raised in Vancouver, she studied at Oxford and received a Master’s Degree from the University of Toronto. She’s been a driving force as a producer and actor in numerous web projects including the critically acclaimed After Judgment (6 Streamy nominations), Asylum (just picked up by BET), Babelgum’s Hurtling Through Space, Tyler Mane’s The Mane Show and the newly launched the comedy series Shelf Life. Most notably, Stephanie produced & directed the fan fiction trailer ElfQuest (based on the 34yr old comic series) which was featured in the New York Times, io9 & Attack of the Show among other publications, and had a Gala hosted by SAG New Media. She was honored to speak on a panel at this year’s San Diego Comic Con about her production to a packed room. Stephanie has been proud to host the last five Celebrate the Web Events: two of them at Comic Con over the last two years. She is one of the founding members of The League of Extraordinary Ladies—a group focused on fostering geek connections IRL. Stephanie continues to work in TV/film and garnered Best Actress in a Drama at the NYFilmFest. Her web acting credits include guest appearances in the long-running Elevator and The Temp Life. She most recently starred in the Parsec Award-winning GOLD spin-off Night of the Zombie King, for which she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress by Indie Intertube in 2011. You can follow her on Twitter.

Marc Hustvedt is an Internet entrepreneur, writer and new media producer. He has guest lectured at the UCLA Anderson School of Business and has been a panelist at numerous conferences, including Digital Hollywood, New York Television Festival (NYTVF), Streaming Media West, Independent Television Festival and SXSW. Marc is a co-founder of the Streamy Awards, the first awards show celebrating excellence in Web television, and the International Academy of Web Television, a professional organization of online entertainment content creators, producers and talent dedicated to the growth of the online entertainment industry. Marc is regularly quoted by press including the Associated Press, The Washington Post, Wired, and the LA Times.

Bernie Su is a Writer and Producer of scripted original online series. He received the 2010 Streamy Award for the acclaimed digital series Compulsions as well as winning the Best Original Web Drama award by Clicker.com He has also written several episodes for the anthology thriller series BlackBoxTV and co-created the locked camera sitcom Game Room for Machinima. Bernie currently runs the monthly IAWTV Writers’ Group Workshop, a writers’ group build to nurture short form digital content in its scripted form.

Olga Kay started her journey to internet stardom as a Russian girl who ran away to the circus at 14, and came to America (on her own) at 16. She started her first YouTube channel to showcase her juggling skills and has since built a Moosh Army of over 400,000 loyal YouTube subscribers.

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 to join us. The livestream will be hosted on the ACME Theatre website. We will also embed the livestream here at www.celebratetheweb.com.

There will be a mixer directly following the event at Almalfi’s next door. The mixer is open to everyone so if the event sells out, people can still party with us after!

We hope you’ll all help us spread the word and if you are press and are interested in covering the event, please e-mail us.

–Unlawful Behavior by Amazeballz
–The Dark Horse by Whiskey Riot
–Maja and Ike by RedHoffa
–The Family Curse by Team 818
–Just Fresh High School by Just Fresh
–Turning a Prophet by KATR Pictures
–Frendz by Formosa Cinema Club
–Hero Treatment by Bryan Cranston Overdrive
–Douchebags by Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
–The Epic Hunt by Infamous McKinley
–Nerdom by Nerd Enterprises
–Shopping for Genes by The SugarCoop
–Purgatory by Team First World Problems
–Rent-Your-Friends by The Roommates
–Entwined by MovieFilm Productions
–Tiny Prophecies by Believerville

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 of you may have noticed, we extended the submission deadline this morning by 15 minutes as we were contacted by a number of teams with technical issues delaying their upload. We are usually REALLY strict about our deadlines, but we made the exception just this once. We know how hard everyone has worked on their pilots. But Next festival will have NO EXCEPTIONS!**

Support your fantastic web community: WATCH and VOTE!

Here’s a smattering of pictures from each of the teams who have been posting via Twitter (if you want to follow everyone involved with CTW5 that has a Twitter account, our wonderful “Brand Sponsor” Weblets has created a Twitter List…if you aren’t on there, just let Weblets know and they will add you!):

Amazeballs @SeanBeecroft

For @celebratetheweb, they asked to see photos – this is a potential shooting locations we’re considering

Team 818 MissMichaels

Still doing rewrites 25 hours before the shoot with no cast in place yet

Andrew waiting for the director to get her act together

So mad this is the only photo we got of the amazing Megan

The Infamous McKinley Pharaba and KetchyFilms

weblets baby

There’s our DP for #ctw5

it never rains in Cali, take a look at our actor’s trailer

The sun setting on day two of our #CTW5 shoot. #thatsawrap! #editinghereIcome

KATR Pictures RobbPadgett

If @MissMichaels is willing to do it, so am I (but I haven’t actually finished the first draft yet. shhh… )

My intimidating #CTW5 picture of the day. Eat it, competition! Feeling intimidated yet?!

Formosa Cinema Club FormosaCineClub and kelseylink

our fearless leader: @dubblebee


gettin @dubblebee all f’ed up.

Bryan Cranston Overdrive BCOverdrive and MissBehaveTV

Sneak peak at a very important prop, and somehow a couple cast members got leaked

And that’s a wrap folks on the @BCOverdrive #CTW5 pilot. Time to @CelebrateTheWeb even more!

Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time CarterMason and DouchebagsTV
Watch Carver Mason go from Regular Joe to Douchebag!

Before…

After!

Whiskey Riot AndrewSeely

cast members @brendnanabradley @maxwellglick @thekatiewilson on the Team Whiskey Riot set

Whiskey Riot also did a livestream from their set, courtesy of Sam Proof. Check out one of the interviews below and catch more over at Sam’s blog.

And last but not least, a mysterious Tweet from alohn:

I’m working on a #CTW5 project. I’m not at liberty to divulge any additional details

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 do our best to circulate the information.

We would love for all the teams to liveblog as much as possible during this upcoming week, just use the #CTW5 hashtag on your tweets and posts. We also would love for each team to utilize the CTW Forums.

Any questions please email celebratetheweb@gmail.com and in urgent cases, your contact will be Jenni Powell at (858) 335-4426.

Good Luck! (and PLEASE make sure to read all the rules and guidelines)

CREATIVE GUIDELINES AND RULES:

GOAL: FOR EACH TEAM TO CREATE AND UPLOAD A WEBSERIES PILOT IN UNDER 7 DAYS.

The pilot must springboard from the following quote:
“You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.” (Steve Jobs)
The team must utilize the product design for fictional brand WEBLETS! in their pilot. Three versions are available for download:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1274465/ctw/Weblets.zip
The team must use the number 11:11 in their pilot.

How the teams chose to use these creative elements is at their discretion but each of the 3 elements must be utilized prominently.

The pilot must be no longer than 5 minutes, including credits.
The total running time starts from the opening credits, which should contain the words: “Made for Celebrate the Web 5: Makin’ It Happen Web Festival” and the title of the film.
Opening and End Credits must be no longer than 30 seconds in total.

All creativity must take place during from November 2nd at 10am PST to November 9th at 10am PST. Any creativity work in advance of the competition weekend is prohibited.

Creative work includes, but is not limited to:
Writing the script
Rehearsing
Costume/Set Design
Shooting
Editing
Sound Design
Rendering
Uploading.

All footage must be shot within the 7 day period. No stock footage or footage shot or created at another time may be used.

Any type of video camera may be used, and there is no limit as to how many you may use during the shoot.

There is no limit to the amount of crew and cast you may use and the multiple roles they play on a team but no cast or crew member may be on more than one team.

Team retains full rights to content. CTW just requests that that teams allow their pilots to remain on the blip.tv channel non-exclusively for a period of one year.

PILOT DELIVERY:

**Each team is responsible for creating their individual blip.tv channel. Information can be found in attached document and at www.blip.tv/users/create**

All Deliverables must be received by 10am PST on November 9th.
This includes:
1. The Pilot fully uploaded to team’s individual blip.tv channel.
2. The video embed code for pilot emailed to Celebratetheweb@gmail.com
3. ALONG with a basic one sheet outlining the webseries that the pilot is for.

OTHER RULES AND REGULATIONS:

ALL costs for production and submission must be born by the Team.

We at CTW are indemnified from any illegal actions (including breach of copyright) on the part of the participating teams.

The Pilot may not invade privacy or other rights of any person, company or entity; may not in any other way violate applicable laws and regulations; and may not contain any copyrighted elements (other than as owned by the Team).

Entries must be the original work of the Team and must not infringe third-party’s rights.
Each team must secure releases for talent, crew, music and locations (and any other applicable releases).

The team must have the rights to any music used in its film and must provide releases for all music used. As with music, pre-recorded sound effects are allowed, but you must have rights to use them.

Still photographs are permitted, provided that the team has the rights to them.

CTW reserves the right to disqualify any pilot at our discretion.

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 the screening, consider this a sneak peak!).

So I am very excited to announce that joining me will be…

Marc Hustvedt
SVP & Editor-in-Chief of Tubefilter News

Marc is an Internet entrepreneur, writer and new media producer. He has guest lectured at the UCLA Anderson School of Business and has been a panelist at numerous conferences, including Digital Hollywood, New York Television Festival (NYTVF), Streaming Media West, Independent Television Festival and SXSW. Marc is a co-founder of the Streamy Awards, the first awards show celebrating excellence in Web television, and the International Academy of Web Television, a professional organization of online entertainment content creators, producers and talent dedicated to the growth of the online entertainment industry. Marc is regularly quoted by press including the Associated Press, The Washington Post, Wired, and the LA Times.

Olga Kay
YouTube Influencer Extroidinaire

Olga Kay started her journey to internet stardom as a Russian girl who ran away to the circus at 14, and came to America (on her own) at 16. She started her first YouTube channel to showcase her juggling skills and has since built a Moosh Army of over 400,000 loyal YouTube subscribers.