by Drew Baldwin on March 31st, 2009
Sandeep Parikh and Felicia Day introduced the opening montage “2008 Year in Web Television” at Saturday night’s 1st Annual Streamy Awards, streamed live from a packed house at the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles. Outlining the explosive evolution of web television over the past years, Felicia noted, “this isn’t just television on your computer, these are shows that shine brightest in this new era of entertainment. We communicate pathos, joy, and sorrow, often in under five minutes. Before we start the awards, we’re going to take a look back at what happened in web television in 2008.”
by Pat Miller on March 31st, 2009
EQAL, the social entertainment company behind hit web series like lonelygirl15 and KateModern, announced recently that they had partnered with Nagoya-based TV and radio advertising company Shinto Tsushin to bring dubbed versions of lonelygirl15 and KateModern to Japan and to produce an original LG15 series set in Japan.
The show – and its side stories KateModern (starring the Streamy-nominated Tara Rushton), LG15: The Resistance, and Polish-speaking n1ckola – are all centered around a group of young women with rare physical properties that make them the target of a mysterious organization. It was the LG15 shows that established EQAL’s reputation for mixing TV production with social networking websites – the whole series feels kind of like an alternate reality game.
by Lindsay Stidham on March 31st, 2009
Broads, The Series can definitely be defined as series embracing girl power based on the recently released trailer. Director Tiffany Loria has no doubts about the purpose of the project: to empower women. The series stems, Loria says, from “my personal search to define who I am.”
The show will highlight a wide variety of high achieving women over a twelve episode series, each woman getting her own episode as a chance to tell her story. Someof the show’s “broads” include singer/ actress Dana Fuchs (Across the Universe), “peacemaker” Karen Doubilet who founded the valiant nonprofit PeacePlayers in an effort to get divided ethnic groups to unite through sports, and philanthropist Sylvia Allen godmother to over 800 children at an Ugandan primary school.
by Jamison Tilsner on March 30th, 2009
The feeling in the air on Saturday night at the Wadsworth Theater in Los Angeles was summed up by Felicia Day’s acceptance speech.
The now Streamy Award-winning writer-producer-actor who maintains creative control over her Microsoft-funded hit series, The Guild, thanked her first-season fans who supported the series with donations of usually less than ten dollars. She [...]
by Marc Hustvedt on March 29th, 2009
Last night was special. When we wrote months ago about web television growing up this year we were serious. This isn’t just a novelty or sideshow to real entertainment. Web television is entertainment.
Last night was its coming out party.
In front of a sold-out crowd of over 1300 guests at the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles, the first ever Streamy Awards show honored 2008’s best web series and the talented people behind them. Winners were selected by the International Academy of Web Television after a public submission process that saw tens of thousands of entries.
The stars of web television turned out strong including Neil Patrick Harris, Joss Whedon, Felicia Day, Taryn Southern, David Faustino, Zoe Bell, Alex Albrecht, Zadi Diaz, Jessica Rose, Illeana Douglas, Rosairo Dawson, iJustine, Amber Lee Ettinger, Shira Lazar, Leah D’Emilio, The Sklar Brothers, Jeff MacPherson, Lisa Kudrow and many more. (For some photos of the event check out Kodak’s Flickr stream, Wire Image, and official Academy photography from the Bui Brothers.)
by John Manalang on March 28th, 2009
Ladies and gentlemen, the time has finally come to give a proper salute to the best of web television of the past year. The first annual Streamy Awards launches tonight at 7:30PM PST at the Wadsworth Theater in Los Angeles, CA and you better prepare yourself for one hell-of-a show.
Featuring dozens of your favorite web series, actors and actresses nominated in 24 award categories reviewed by The International Academy of Web Television, The Streamy Awards honors all the hard work, sweat and tears by web entertainment producers in giving us the best damn entertainment we can find on our browsers. The show will be streaming LIVE via www.streamys.org.
by Jamison Tilsner on March 28th, 2009
I can’t believe the day has actually arrived! Months of intense planning and preparation will culminate in tonight’s Streamy Awards Show at The Wadsworth Theater in Los Angeles, which will be live streamed straight to a computer screen near you from the soon-to-be-unveiled, new and improved Streamys.org
Thanks to all who made this awesome event possible, [...]
by Marc Hustvedt on March 26th, 2009
Sure, one (very big) election is over and 2008’s campaign heartthrob Amber Lee Ettinger, aka Obama Girl, officially won us over with her crooning for the soon-to-be President. The star of NextNewNetworks’ Barely Political is now gearing up with a tech offshoot Barely Digital, but she hasn’t ditched her political vote-rallying ways.
Now she’s getting out the vote for the one of the toughest races on the interwebs—the Streamy Awards Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series! Yes, it’s a brutal battle of campaign slogans, robocallers and vicious attacks on all sides. That never really scared off Obama Girl before, so why should this slugfest?
