New International Academy of Web Television Announces Digital Entertainment Industry Leaders for Academy Membership
Founded to Promote and Recognize Artistic Excellence and Technological Innovation In the Web Television Industry, the Academy Will Select Winners of the Annual Streamy Awards™
Los Angeles, CA – March 4, 2009 — The International Academy of Web Television™, a new independent organization founded to promote and recognize excellence in original episodic Web television programming, has announced its inaugural membership. Influential digital entertainment leaders were invited to join the Academy by a founding consortium of new media companies, Tubefilter, Tilzy.TV, and NewTeeVee. The Academy members represent a wide cross-section of the Web television community and have achieved notable success in their respective fields. They include actors, agents, composers, content developers, directors, journalists, producers, technology innovators and writers, who actively participate in and support the Web television and digital entertainment industries.
Members of the International Academy of Web Television will vote to select nominees and winners of the annual Streamy Awards, which will be presented for the first time on Saturday, March 28, 2009 at the Writers Guild of America Theater in Beverly Hills at the 1st Annual Streamy Awards Ceremony & Gala. The nominations will be announced during the second week of March.
The Academy is pleased to announce its inaugural members:
| Alex Albrecht, Creator and Host, Team Awesome and Project Lore, Host, Diggnation
Chris Albrecht, Co-Editor, NewTeeVee Todd Amorde, National Director of Organizing, Screen Actors Guild Drew Baldwin, Co-Founder, Tubefilter Yuri Baranovsky, Creator and Producer, Break A Leg Ryan Barlow, Director, Distribution & Marketing, The Tornante Company Rob Barnett, CEO, MyDamnChannel Andrew Baron, Creator, Rocketboom Justine Bateman, Partner, FM78.tv Erik Beck, Creator, Host, Producer, Indy Mogul Sean Becker, Producer and Director, Awkward Pictures, Comedy Gumbo Miles Beckett, CEO, EQAL, lonelygirl15, LG15: The Resistance, KateModern, Harper’s Globe Max Benator, Head of Digital Media, RDF USA Veronica Belmont, Tekzilla Payman Benz, Writer and Director, Awkward Pictures, Comedy Gumbo Damon Berger, Director of Branded Entertainment, Moderati Hayden Black, CEO, Evil Global Corporation, Abigail’s Teen Diary, Goodnight Burbank Brady Brim-DeForest, Co-Founder, Tubefilter Bill Cammack, Freelance Video Editor and New Media Consultant Ned Canty, Festival Director, New York Television Festival Aimee Carlson, Creative Director, US, Dailymotion Joshua Cohen, Co-Founder, Tilzy.TV Felicia Day, Creator, The Guild; Actor Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Legend of Neil Mark Day, Comedy Manager, YouTube Zadi Diaz, Co-Founder, Smashface Productions, Epic Fu Matt Enlow, Content Strategist, Strike.TV Kim Evey, Owner, Gorgeous Tiny Productions; The Guild, Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show Mary Feuer, Series Creator, With the Angels Elisabeth Flack, New Media Representative, Writers Guild of America, West Nick Fortunato, VP, Programming and Production, HEAVY.com Brent Friedman, Co-Founder, Electric Farm Entertainment; Afterworld, Gemini Division Liz Gannes, Founder and Co-Editor, NewTeeVee Barrett Garese, Founding Agent, Online Department, United Talent Agency Steve Garfield, Producer, SteveGarfield.com Justin Gayner, Co-Founder, ChannelFlip Media Greg Goodfried, President, COO, EQAL, lonelygirl15, LG15:The Resistance, KateModern, Harper’s Globe Kathleen Grace, Director and Producer, Dinosaur Diorama Productions, The Burg, The All-For-Nots Virginia Heffernan, TV Critic, The New York Times Mike Hudack, CEO, blip.tv Brian Seth Hurst, Second Vice Chair, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, National Board, Producer’s Guild of America Marc Hustvedt, Co-Founder, Tubefilter Justin Johnson, Creative Services Lead, Next New Networks Dina Kaplan, Co-Founder, blip.tv |
Geoff Katz, Governor, Interactive Media Peer Group, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Joshua Kinberg, Director, Online Video Product Management, PBS Matthew Kirsch, Creator, Duder Paul Kontonis, CEO, For Your Imagination Bob Kushell, Creator and Executive Producer, Anytime with Bob Kushell Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3 Jeff Macpherson, Creator, Tiki Bar TV Tyler Malin, Partner, Madon Malin, P.C.; Secret Fun Time Brandon Martinez, New Media Agent, Abrams Artists Agency Matt Mazzeo, Agent, CAA Chris McCaleb, Co-Founder, Big Fantastic, Director, Sorority Forever, Foreign Body, Cockpit, Sam Has 7 Friends, Foreign Body Alec McNayr, Executive Producer, Space Shank Media, Flipper Nation Tom Merritt, Executive Editor, CBS Interactive Liz Shannon Miller, Reviews Editor, NewTeeVee Eric Mortensen, Director of Content Development, blip.tv Kent Nichols, Co-Creator, Ask A Ninja Sandeep Parikh, CEO, Effinfunny.com, The Legend of Neil, The Guild Chris Pfaff, New Media Council, Producers Guild of America, East Brent Poer, General Manager, TheWB.com Adam Quirk, Producer, Wreck & Salvage Sam Reich, President of Original Content, CollegeHumor.com Scott Roesch, VP & GM, Atom.com / Comedy Central Jessica Rose, Actress, lonelygirl15, Hooking Up, Sorority Forever, Casanovas George Ruiz, Head of New Media, International Creative Management Douglas Sarine, Writer, Beatbox Giant Productions, Ask A Ninja David Sarno, Internet Columnist, The Los Angeles Times Tim Shey, Co-Founder, Next New Networks Irina Slutsky, Co-Founder, Geek Entertainment Television Jay Smooth, Creator, Ill Doctrine Taryn Southern, Writer and Producer, Private High Musical; Actor, Sorority Forever Tim Street, CEO, APE Digital, French Maid TV Sarah Szalavitz, Founder and CEO, 7 Robot, ZapRoot Jamison Tilsner, Founder, Tilzy.TV Woody Tondorf, Producer, Runaway Box, HBO Lab Gary Vaynerchuk, Host and Founder, Wine Library TV Andrew Wallenstein, The Hollywood Reporter Michael Wayne, Co-Founder & CEO, DECA Brent Weinstein, CEO, 60Frames Entertainment Daisy Whitney, Reporter, TV Week and New Media Minute Thom Woodley, Partner, Dinosaur Diorama, The Burg, The All-For-Nots Steve Woolf, Co-founder, Smashface Productions, Epic Fu Scott Zakarin, Founder, Ironsink Productions, Roommates, The Spot Jonathan Zalben, Composer, House Poor |
About the International Academy of Web Television
The International Academy of Web Television, an independent organization of digital entertainment leaders, was founded in 2009 to promote and recognize artistic excellence and technological innovation in the Web television and digital entertainment industries. Members of the Academy are invited to join based on achievement in their respective fields, and include actors, agents, composers, content developers, directors, journalists, producers, technology innovators, and writers who actively participate in and support the Web television and digital entertainment industries. The Academy oversees the annual Streamy Awards, which honor and recognize excellence in original episodic Web television programming. Founding members of the Academy include representatives from a consortium of new media companies led by TilzyTV, Tubefilter, and NewTeeVee. For more information, please visit www.iawtv.org.
