JUDGES

• Amber Lee Ettinger, a.k.a. Obama Girl, and Ben Relles, the co-creator of Obama Girl, have been making us laugh and wince with their timely odes to presidential candidates and American troops. They’ll be co-judging, bringing with them an eye for tenderness in a video love story.
• Jakob Lodwick, founder of personal video-sharing site Vimeo and a prolific video creator himself, is next up. You can learn absolutely everything there is to know about him by following his frequent online dispatches at Obeastiality.com. We’re considering him our expert judge on authenticity.
• And last but not least, we have Kathleen Grace, creator, producer, and director of The Burg, “a serial sitcom about the life of the beautiful people in Brooklyn’s recently gentrified hotspot,” as Jackson described it in March. In addition to working on the production of feature films and television shows, she also started the NYC-based comedic street theater company the Suitcase Players. The Burg was also a finalist at the July Pier Screening. We hope she’ll chip in comments about the humor quotient of our entrants.
  

SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO!

We’ll be judging the videos this month based on number of views, votes cast, and stars received on the NewTeeVee Pier Screenings site. So how do you submit? Upload your original video to the Pier Screenings site (directions here). The top six videos will be shown at the live event on September 24 on a large screens at The XCHANGE. The live audience at the event will choose the top three winners for the night.

The submission process is rolling, so submit early to increase the possibility of people seeing, liking, and starring your video.

PRIZES

Metacafe Prize for Best Audience-Voted Video

Metacafe rewards creators of entertaining video with its industry-leading Producer Rewards program. Metacafe will promote the top three audience winners from the live event on its front page. This will help content creators get exposure as well as some dough – you can expect big page views from getting featured, and the company pays $5 for every 1,000 views.

NewTeeVee has set up a Pier Screenings website to determine the six videos that will be in the running for the Metacafe prize. The live audience at the event will choose the top three winners for the night. The first-place winner will receive 7 days of in the promotional rotation on the Metacafe front page, the second-place winner will receive 4 days, and the third-place winner one day.

VOTE!

The six videos shown at the event are chosen from those submitted to Pier Screenings website. Visit the Current Screening section and assign each video you watch however many stars you think it deserves. The videos with the highest substantial number of ratings will be shown.

Gold:

Silver:

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Additional Sponsors

If you are interested in sponsoring the Pier Screenings, please contact Joanne Wan at joey@gigaom.com

If you have questions please contact screenings@newteevee.com.

The XCHANGE
640 West 28th Street, Floor 9
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New York, NY 10002

Monday, September 24, 2007 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (ET)

NewTeeVee

The opportunity to watch, make, mash up and share online video is changing the nature of both entertainment and the Internet itself. NewTeeVee reports on the business of online video, monitoring the spread of broadband as it tears down traditional hierarchies that obstruct content creators from reaching their audiences. We cover everything from content delivery networks to next-generation media players, stupid cat videos to independent filmmakers, and venture-backed content startups to old guard media companies testing the online waters.