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iWebSeries - International Web Series Festival
February 04, 2011 to February 06, 2011

CALL FOR ENTRIES.  CLICK HERE TO LEARN ABOUT HOW TO SUBMIT!

1st Annual iWebSeries International Web Series Festival will be held at the Folino Theater located in Marion Knott Studios at Chapman University in the City of Orange (California).  The Marion Knott Studios is a 76,000-square-foot replicated working production studio facility.

MISSION & OBJECTIVE

Our mission is to get your project exposure with distributors, audiences and peers.  

EXPOSURE is what you want!  Getting accepted to the first ever international web series film festival will give your project the attention it needs.  Not to mention, winning an award will boost your exposure even more!  Submit for a chance to get your project in front of distributors and go home an Award Winner!

AWARDS & RULES

For awards and prizes, SUBMISSIONS, will be broken up into 7 categories.
Best Comedy Web Series
Best Drama Web Series
Best Documentary Web Series
Best Lifestyle Web Series
Best VLog Web Series
Best New Web Series
Best Script Web Series

In addition, SELECTED SUBMISSIONS will also be competing for awards and prizes in 11 categories:
Best Series Director
Best Series Creator
Best Series Writer
Best Actor for Web Series
Best Actress for Web Series
Best Host/Hostess for Web Series
Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series
Best Music/Composer for Web Series
Best Cinematography for Web Series
Best Special Effects for Web Series
Best Editing for Web Series

This competition is open to any filmmaker 18 or older. Entering this competition constitutes your permission to use names and likenesses for publicity and promotions with no additional compensation. We reserve the right to publicize and promote any and all progress, development and success of the entered project. Additionally, entering the competition constitutes permission for iWebSeries to post your submission online in association with the competition.  WE DO NOT OWN YOUR WORK.

TICKETS & EVENTS

+ Festival events will be posted on the festival website Monday 1/17/11.  
+ Festival tickets will also go on sale Monday 1/17/11 through TicketDerby.com.
+ Official Selections will be announced on the festival website Monday  1/24/11.

A portion of the festival proceeds will be donated to support the emerging web series community by helping fund web series in need.  Please visit (www.iWebSeries.com) for more details.  A portion of the festival proceeds will also be donated to the Chapman University Dodge College of Film and Media Arts to help support the filmmakers of the future.

Thank you for your support of the emerging web series community!            
~iWebSeries Festival Team            
info@iwebseries.com

We attended the inaugural New Media Market & Expo at the Anaheim International Film Festival last Sunday October 17th, 2010.  A large turnout of creators and producers, each in tow with one or more web series.  Natural light poured in from the floor-to-ceiling two story windows which just added to the positive glow these filmmakers were already exuding.  We talked with every team exhibiting their show and were surprised by the diversity of the teams and the shows.

A rundown of the web series, from the self-made geeks to the girls:

One of the busiest teams there showed off their director, Scott Brown, who was working on three different shows on display.  We chatted with him as he walked us down the line.  First, “Asylum” a show with amazing production quality, taking a darker twist on the popular doctor shows on network television: The doctors treat the criminally insane.  His next show was “Apocalypse WOW” (unrelated to World of Warcraft) about three kids who must save the world to exist in a ‘California wasteland.’  And of course, what trio would be complete without a foray into the porn world?  He lastly gave us a look at “Blue Movies”, a comedy taking place behind-the-scenes of a porn studio.  We met the men who created “Man-Teen”, a story about what every woman fears is the reality for all men: a man-teen.  In other words, a grown up man living a boy’s lifestyle.  In the age of the Internet, online dating is the newest reality for finding a woman to love.  We met with the creator of “The Romantic Foibles of Esteban”, wearing a t-shirt proclaiming: “I Dated Esteban.”  We also met a bunch of the industry’s powerful women, working on web series.  We met April Wade and America Young of “Damsels & Dragons” which the show is perfect for all of the gaming girls out there who are into LARPing.  The team came in full costume with hair pieces and all.  I must say, after watching their show and seeing them in person, I am seriously entertaining the idea of participating in a LARP group.  I already play an Undead Warlock and recently acquired a bad-ass glowing staff at Target in the Haunted Section… so…  We also met the producers of “Hard to Swallow”, a show created by two women and is mix of “The Office” meets “Scrubs” in a small town’s pharmacy.  The producers arrived in lab coats and passed out script bags filled with goodies to promote the series.  Another girl group was there to promote “Groupidity”, a show about a garage therapy session.  In this day and age, therapy really is all the rage.  Erin Brown, dressed in red from head to toe, brought her literal “red carpet” and conducted interviews around the room to promote her web series “Hot on the Red Carpet”.  Erin grabbed me for an impromptu interview which she says will be available in a few weeks.  Well,you’ve heard of that 90s sitcom “Two Guys, A Girl, and a Pizza Place?”  Well this web series was: Two girls, a guy, and a stalking habit.  Truly involving new media, “Stalker Chronicles” is about two gals who stalk a boy they found on YouTube.  Next we chatted with Karina Colon and  Emily Callaway who star in a girly web series “The Maybelline Girls”.  The pair takes up a job as masseuses and end up accidentally killing their first client.  The head underground boss in town thinks they are hit-women and assign them another hit. Oops!  This next one isn’t made by women, but is about a female serial killer.  Now that’s new! Usually it’s the men that end up the serial killers, but the creators of “Kill Floor” must have had one bad breakup!  This dark drama is a creative take on a genre that sells: Murder.  “Make it Happen” will hit close to home for those of you who are in the film industry.  It’s about two guys who make attempts to get inside Hollywood.  Another series deals with the struggles of making it in the big and lonely stomping ground for the movie biz.  “Workshop” is a comedy about the mishaps of trying to “make it.”  A third show running in the same vein is called “Lemons The Show”, about two girls trying to use their father’s name to become Hollywood winners.  Of course, riding on coattails of someone else rarely works out, as politicians well know.  Will the girls reach success, or will they be just a couple of lemons?  The most inventive table display award goes to “The Adventures of the League of STEAM”, who showed up in full costume, complete with their weapons used in the series and even fired off a few rounds for the crowd.  They are performing artists who had the brilliant idea of filming their live fantastical chronicles.  Another show in the world of fantasy is “I Am Not Infected”, a web series about a zombie apocalypse.  And of course, there were a few that fall under the geek category.  What web series market would be complete without a few on comic books?  One, called “Comics on Comics” is doing very well, as they’ve produced tons of episodes that throw comedians and comic book creators in the same room.  “First Edition” was a series about the inside world of the comic book industry.  Last but not least, this is a podcast/website that combines reviews on movies, games and comics into the ultimate geeksite, or “Geekscape”, as it were.  

Festival creators announced at the Market that new media has to work in conjunction with all other media, and we agree!  Indie Media Entertainment is proud to support new media endeavors and we’re always looking for interesting web series or other new media projects to distribute.   You can shoot us an email at acquisitions [at] watchime [dot] com.  ~ Abra Chouinard

If you don’t live in Boise, Idaho for tonight’s screening. 

You can still watch 3 of our LGBT films online.  They include:

“A Song of Fishes”  - follows a teen who’s lesbian mom turns crazy obsessing over a fish in a backyard lake.
http://asongoffishes.watchime.com/

“Even in My Dreams” - an elderly man has a sexual awakening because of a hot manly doll he sees in a store window.
http://eveninmydreams.watchime.com/

“Rainbow Rabbit Reliant” is a political drama that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final words are spoken.
http://rainbowrabbitreliant.watchime.com/