With less than two weeks left to submit to the Vimeo Awards, we are extremely pleased to announce four new judges.
Neville Brody - Internationally-renowned designer, typographer, art director and brand strategist, Brody’s more than 30 years of experience spans titles for Heat, The Insider, and Public Enemies to art direction at popular magazine The Face, plus redesign of The Times newspaper and the BBC website. He will be applying his expertise to judge submissions within the Experimental category
Ricky Van Veen - Head of production company Notional, co-founder of CollegeHumor, Van Veen will be leveraging his expertise in developing and producing online content viewed by millions to judge the Original Series category.
Shane Walter - Co-founder and creative director of onedotzero, a global-reaching contemporary digital art, film and design organization, Walter has commissioned and produced several award winning short films. Named in the 2010Wired 100 list of individuals shaping the digital world, he has consulted and produced multi-disciplinary projects with well-known brands from Nike and MTV to U2. He will be lending his production expertise to the Motion Graphics category.
Ze Frank - Pushing the envelope of online entertainment since his viral video “How to Dance Properly” hit in 2001, and his recent daily video blog called “The Show,” Ze Frank will be lending his creative flair to help judge Original Series submissions.
Just a quick update to all you filmmakers, artists and video creators: you only have a little over two weeks to submit your work! That’s not a lot of time, so if you’re on the fence, you might as well submit for a chance to win big promotion on Vimeo and have your work judged by our esteemed judges. Remember, best overall video wins a $25,000 grant to produce new work; just think of what you could create with all that mullah!
Also, we need your help! Since there are so many great creators sharing their work online, it’s hard to get the word out to everyone about the Awards. If you have friends or know of people that you think deserve a Vimeo Award, nominate their work, or contact them to submit. We would greatly appreciate it, and they might too!
The Vimeo Festival and Awards celebrates and honors the best of creative online video. With the unprecedented level of creativity, skill and innovation coming from online video today, it’s high time to give back to the independent creators who choose the Internet to distribute and to share their work through sites like Vimeo.
This being the first year of the the Festival and Awards, we are going all out. We have secured awesomejudges to evaluate your work in a variety of categories and a jam-packed two day festival of events and education to let everyone join in on the fun. An Awards show will culminate the Festival in an entertaining evening of celebration, honoring the individual category winners. Award winners will be heavily promoted on Vimeo and the winner of the Best Video award across all categories will win a $25,000 grant to produce new work as well. That’s a lot of moolah, because we’re committed to supporting the creative community, and want to do our part to enable exciting new artists.
Submissions are now open worldwide for the Vimeo Awards. These awards are open to ALL videos online, not just videos on Vimeo. So even if you uploaded your work to another site, or have yet to upload that new piece you have been slaving over, we want to see it! You can submit as many videos as you want in a variety of different categories. You can learn more and read the Official Rules at Vimeoawards.com
To submit your work, visit vimeoawards.com/submit. We can’t wait to see what you’ve got!
We asked a select group of Vimeo Community members to harness their awesome skill to create video promos for our the Vimeo Festival and Awards. Check em’ out!
We have some pretty exciting news around these parts! Today, right now, we are announcing the very first Vimeo Festival and Awards (applause!).
Yep, we’re doing it, and it’s going to be awesome. The Vimeo Festival and Awards will be a celebration of the best original and creative video that has premiered online. Our goal is to reward the individual creators behind online video and acknowledge the internet as a quality medium of expression and distribution. And of course, we’re going to do it in style.
The awards will be open to anyone who has premiered their work on any online platform. This isn’t just a Vimeo thing, it’s a video thing, and we’re opening it up to everyone. The festival will then highlight the best of online video in an exciting offline environment for all to attend. We’re cooking up some pretty cool stuff for these events, folks, and we can’t wait to tell you more about our plans.
But first, take a deep breath, maybe sit down if you need to — we know, we can’t wait either! We’ll be announcing plenty more details in the coming weeks, but you can stay in the loop by signing up for updates on the Vimeo Awards site.
