The first annual Vimeo Festival + Awards is getting so close now that you can hear the party bumping just over the horizon. If you’ve been sitting by your computer, waiting for the moment that tickets go on sale, your waiting days are over!
Festival passes are available starting today, and to reward you for your vigilance, we’re offering them at a special “early bird” price. We’re offering this price because the full schedule has not yet been released, so act now! Head over to the official site to pick yours up. No hidden service fees or seating charts; just pure, unadulterated ticket purchasin’ like they did in the old days.
Don’t wait too long, the early bird offer ends September 7th. We really hope we see you there. We’ve got so many amazing workshops, talks, screenings, installations, and parties planned for you. It’s gonna blow you away!
The first annual Vimeo Festival + Awards is right around the corner! We’re putting in a TON of work to make it the greatest experience in the history of mankind (or at least close to that), and we want to make sure that the Vimeo community is represented fully. That’s why we need your help.
The Vimeo Festival will showcase the greatest minds and the most innovative work that we see on the web. In that vein, we are creating a special gallery space to showcase the coolest work that the Vimeo community has to offer. If you make mind-blowing installations, video art, futuristic video technology pieces, or anything else that is fun and interactive that you think would shine in the Vimeo Gallery, we want to showcase it at the Vimeo Festival. This is a phenomenal opportunity to come to the festival and have your work shown to thousands of people in the heart of New York City’s gallery area in Chelsea, not to mention displaying your stuff to the Vimeo community in real life!
We are also looking to tap into all you insane graphic designers and creative types to make cool posters for the event. These posters can be anything from illustrations to photos to infographics – anything that embodies the creative spirit of Vimeo and the celebration of the Festival + Awards. Just make sure there is a Festival + Awards logo somewhere on the poster, that’s the only criteria! We will use the ones we like the best to help promote the Festival + Awards on our own site, during the festival, and possibly in print. Of course we will give you tons of credit and give the artists we choose free passes to the event!
To submit your work for either the Vimeo Gallery or for posters, please email us at awards@vimeo.com with a detailed description or video of your work or the poster itself.
The Vimeo atmosphere of unbounded creativity and technological innovation creates such a rich artistic environment on the site, and we hope you will help us to properly represent this segment of the community at the Festival. We can’t wait to see your stuff!
Ladies and Gents, submissions are now closed for the Vimeo Awards. We received an insane amount of entries across all categories and we couldn’t be more proud by the response to our little contest. Thank each and every one of you for submitting your work and good luck to all!
We wanted to remind you that there are only two days left to get your entry in for your chance at fame and fortune. That’s a Vimeo Award and a shot at $25,000 towards your next film. If you have premiered a video online between June 3, 2008 and July 30, 2010, you should be filling out your submission form right now. Don’t forget that Plus users get a discounted entry fee. For the price of a cup of coffee, you could give a young video a chance at success.
Maybe you looked at the list of judges before and thought to yourself, “Yeah, those judges are amazing, but world renowned recording artist M.I.A. is not among them.” Well now you are wrong, my friend! We’ve now got M.I.A. on board to judge the Music Video category, along with
-Lawrence Lessig judging the Remix category (this guy is THE expert on the subject) -Paola Antonelli, who is Senior Curator at The Museum of Modern Art, which you’ve probably heard of -Rian Johnson, Sundance prize winner and writer / director of some amazing films like Brick and The Brothers Bloom -Ted Hope, Producer on over sixty films such as 21 Grams, American Splendor, Happiness, the list goes on
We are not playing around when it comes to these judges. We’ve lined up one heck of a panel, so now do your part and submit your work before it’s too late. You can find all of the details and the submission form over at vimeoawards.com
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!
