2 days ago, TVWriter™ posted videos for the major short film award contenders at Sundance. Today we’re happy to bring you the festival’s announcement of the winners. Here ya go:
The Short Film Grand Jury Prize
Looks Like Congress has Created a New Safe Harbor for Web “Piracy”
…And guess what? It’s – you did guess it – Congress itself:
New report shows Congress’ favorite BitTorrent downloads by Joe Mullin (ArsTechnica.Com)
As Hurricane Sandy bore down on DC, Congressional staffers downloaded Dexter.
Peer Production: CHILLTOWN TV
Chilltowntv.com is the official home of the hip-hop oriented, animated web comedy, Chilltown. Based on the hit underground comic book and created, written and animated by Leesa Dean, it revolves around the lives and mis-adventures of three underground hip-hop heads (G, Marv and Plad) straight outta Chilltown, NJ.
More important than the premise, though, is the execution. CHILLTOWN is hip, funny, and authentic. In other words, TVWriter™ really likes it and thinks you will too.
WGAw Moves into Web Series
…No, not all web series. And not just any web series either. We’re talking about ONE LIFE TO LIVE and ALL MY CHILDREN, two former ABC daytime serials that are coming back from the dead (as in ABC stupidly canceled them) on the web.
Here’s the announcement Guild members received in an e-mail late yesterday afternoon:
LB: A Whole New Kind of Animation, Just Waiting for You
Any time you think you’ve seen it all, or that everything’s been done, look at this video and know – all the way down to your soul – that there is always “something new under the sun.” All you havea to do is find it: