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The Guild’s April Convention Appearances

We’re so excited that it’s getting to be that time of year — Con Season! We love being able to meet the fans and put faces to the user names we see all the time on our forums and on Twitter. Here are the first of a slew of convention and personal appearances we’ll be making in 2009:

STARFURY in Birmingham, England April 24-26

Felicia Day (Codex) will be there all 3 days of the Con, hobb nobbing with the likes of Adam Baldwin and Summer Glau!

http://seanharry.com/

DELTA H CON in Houston, TX, April 24-26

The cast of The Guild (minus Felicia — see above) will be on hand signing autographs, judging contests and mixing and mingling:

Friday: April 24
Autographs 1-2 pm (main room)
Karoke Judging 4-6 pm
The Guild Season One Screening with Cast Q &A session 8-9:30pm

Saturday: April 25
Autographs 11-1pm (main room)
Panel: The Making of a Web Phenomena (Cast and Guild producer Kim Evey discuss what goes into making The Guild.) 3-4pm
The Guild Season Two Screening with Cast Q &A session 6:30-8pm

Sunday: April 26
Anime Music Video Judging 9-10:30am

http://deltahcon.com/

Broadband Moguls: Producing & Distributing Your Own Webseries Online

Also in Houston, Guild Producer Kim Evey will teach a workshop for the Southwest Alternate Media Project.
Date: Sunday, April 26, 2009
Time: 10am-2pm
Location: Rice University Media Center
Cost: $40 — General Public; $25 — SWAMP Members and Students with Valid I.D.
For more information and to register go to

http://www.swamp.org/workshops.html

And yes, the entire cast will be appearing at Comic-Con! We’ll post the schedule as it comes our way.

Vulcan Fan Fiction Exhibition

from Vulcan Tourism & Trek Station:

Greetings from Vulcan!

The 2nd Annual Star Trek Intergalactic Fan Fiction exhibition (best known as the S.T.I.F.F.e.) will be held in Vulcan during our annual Spock Days/Galaxyfest weekend on Saturday June 13th. If you are interested in displaying your fan fiction items please fill out the attached registration form and return it to me.

We look forward to seeing you all in Vulcan soon! For more information feel free to visit our website at vulcantourism.com.

Peace and long life,
Erin

Erin Melcher
Vulcan Tourism & Trek Station
115 Centre St. E, Box 1161
Vulcan, AB, Canada, T0L 2B0
T: 403-485-2994 F: 403-485-2878
E: erin@vulcantourism.com W: http://vulcantourism.com/

VulCON16: Spock Days/Galaxyfest 2009 registrations are available now! Visit vulcantourism.com for more information.

Live Long and Prosper…

The Guild Wins at the Streamy Awards

from The Guild:

We are extremely excited to announce that we had such an awards-filled night (and possibly mojitos). The Guild won three wonderful awards. You can view all the winners here.

Best Comedy Web Series
Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series
Best Female Actor in a Comedy Web Series — Felicia Day

We could not have done this without your support. We would like to again thank our Season 1 donors, for showing faith in our project enough to donate and keep us going, also to our very dedicated crew and volunteers. Without them, Felicia would be stuck doing EVERYTHING, not that she couldn’t, also a special thank you goes out to Kim Evey because she is as much a part of these wins for all the work she’s put in (and was very much missed at the awards). Thank you Streamys for putting on a show and making it a great night, thank you to the academy for voting for us, and everyone nominated in the categories, thank you for making these wins mean something for you are all held in high esteem. Lastly, we would like to thank all our viewers for showing us time and time again that our entertainment is being enjoyed by one and all throughout the world.

As the week rolls by, you will see more videos and pictures from the awards. Here are a few videos and pictures we’ve gathered.

Pictures
The Official Streamy Awards Pictures
worldofhiglet at Flickr
wmmarc at Flickr

Videos
How to Make a Streamy Nominated Web Series
Streamy Awards 09 — Felicia Day
Best Female Actor in a Comedy Web Series on 12seconds.tv
Best Comedy Web Series on 12seconds.tv
Best Ensemble Cast on 12seconds.tv
This Girl Does It All — The Fabulous Felicia Day from Mary Rambin on Vimeo.

How to Make a Streamy Nominated Web Series

The Fine Brothers

We wrote & directed this video which played live at the first annual Streamy Awards on March 28, 2009 at the Wadsworth theater.

Created by Benny & Rafi Fine

The Streamy Awards is co-hosted by a consortium of leading new media companies — Tilzy.TV, Tubefilter.tv, and NewTeeVee.com — to recognize outstanding achievement for shows produced originally for broadband distribution.

Big thanks to all the wonderful talent who are in the video, subscribe to them all!

They are, in the order they appear: Michael Buckley, Taryn Southern, Sandeep Parikh & Tony Janning, Kim Evey, Amber Lee Ettinger AKA Obama Girl, Ask a Ninja, Jessica Rose, Felicia Day, and the one and only Dennis Haskins.

Special thanks to Will Hyler for making the “This is Sparta” effect.

Go to Streamys.org for more information, and see you next year!

Winners of the 2009 Streamy Awards

from The Streamy Awards:

We proudly present the official winners of the 1st Annual Streamy Awards, honoring the best in web television in 2008, announced live at the Wadsworth Theatre on March 28, 2009. Over 125 shows and individuals were nominated in twenty-five award categories. On behalf of the International Academy of Web Television, congratulations to all of the winners!

Overall Series

Best Comedy Web Series
The Guild

Best Dramatic Web Series
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy

Best Hosted Web Series
EPIC FU

Best Reality or Documentary Web Series
The Shatner Project

Best News or Politics Web Series
Alive in Baghdad

Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Directing

Best Directing for a Comedy Web Series
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Joss Whedon)

Best Directing for a Dramatic Web Series
Pink (Blake Calhoun)

Writing

Best Writing for a Comedy Web Series
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon)

Best Writing for a Dramatic Web Series
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (Jane Espenson, Seamus Kevin Fahey, Ronald D. Moore)

Acting

Best Male Actor in a Comedy Web Series
Neil Patrick Harris (Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog)

Best Female Actor in a Comedy Web Series
Felicia Day (The Guild)

Best Male Actor in a Dramatic Web Series
Alessandro Juliani (Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy)

Best Female Actor in a Dramatic Web Series
Rosario Dawson (Gemini Division)

Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series
The Guild

Best Guest Star in a Web Series
Paul Rudd (Wainy Days)

Best Web Series Host
Alex Albrecht (Project Lore)

Craft Awards

Best Editing
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Lisa Lassek)

Best Cinematography
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Ryan Green)

Best Art Direction
Tiki Bar TV (Kim Bailey)

Best Visual Effects
Backyard FX (Erik Beck)

Best Animation in a Web Series
The Meth Minute (Dan Meth)

Best Original Music
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Jed Whedon)

Best Ad Integration in a Web Series
Back on Topps (Skype)

Best Artistic Concept in a Web Series
You Suck at Photoshop

Streaming Live on the Streamys

from The Legend of Neil:

A special thank you to all our fans who voted for us for the Audience Choice awards. The voting is now closed. You can see the results of the award and the others we’re nominated for live streaming on the interweb at 7:30pm PST at the official streamy website. Don’t miss it!

The Legend of Neil and The Guild are nominated up and down this thing and we want to share our victories and defeats with you, our fans who’ve made these honors possible. I mean, I (as in Sandeep) am nominated along side Rob Corddry, Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, and Joss Whedon. WTF indeed. I don’t know what kind of alternate reality I’ve dropped into, but I know it’s due to all of YOU that have supported web television like Neil and The Guild. So thank you thank you thank you! Also I’m presenting an award with Felicia Day and there’s a good chance I’ll be so nervous that I’ll vomit on her lovely dress, and then I’ll play it off as improv vomit, so you won’t want to miss that…

ETA at 11:33: Whoops, I was mis-informed (by my competition no less!) apparently you can still vote one last time for the Audience Choice awards. Get out there and hit it Neil fans! http://vote.streamys.org/

Streamy Awards Live Cast Tonight

from The Guild:

Thank you for all your votes in the Streamy Awards, we appreciate all the time you’ve taken out to support our independent show! Audience Award voting is now over!

The Awards ceremony is tonight, and the great thing is that you can attend it with us online! They are streaming starting at 7:30 pacific time on the official Streamys Website, so please come by and enjoy this evening with us to celebrate web video.
If we win anything it will only have been because of you, our audience. 🙂

After Judgment: Three Days until the Streamy Awards

from After Judgment:

Greetings fantastic fans of After Judgment,

It is because of all of you that the world has taken notice of our little (but awesome!) sci fi webseries!

We want to sincerely thank all of you for spreading the word and for your support!

Please take a second to VOTE for us today, tomorrow and Saturday as a Finalist for the Audience Choice Award.

http://vote.streamys.org/

And please take a minute to spread the news to your Facebook friends — just share the link or even send a message!

VOTE VOTE VOTE! We’re up against heavyweights like Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, The Guild, The William Shatner Project and Tikibar TV!!

We’d like to say that we’re just honored to be recognized amongst such an illustrious group but we’d really like to win — wouldn’t you???

Spread the word and VOTE… to prevent the end

After Judgment

The Legend of Neil: Vote Baby Vote!

from The Legend of Neil:

Only one week left people. Get out there and vote everyday for Neil for the Streamys Audience Choice Award. We would trade all the other nominations in for this win. These other shows have the numbers so we’ve got to have the craZy and vote everday from now until the 28th! But I’m sure you’re asking yourself “How will I remember to vote?”

Here are some devices that might help you trigger the memory to vote everyday:

1) Make http://vote.streamys.org/ your homepage for your next week.

2) Everytime you brush think about how in Zelda Link never once brushes his teeth and how gnarly his mouth must be by the time he meets up with the princess. Then go vote for Neil.

3) Correct anyone that refers to their father as their “Old Man” by saying you mean “Oooold Man” and then go vote for Neil.

4) Tattoo “Vote for Neil” on your belly. Use your belly button to replace the “o” in “for.” If it’s an outie, then just hang a picture of Tony Janning on it.

5) Allow your spouse to yell out “Neil” during intercourse for the following week. If you’re single yell out Neil while masturbating.

6) Make your dying wish that Neil wins the Audience Choice Award and then end your life (not recommended).

7) Everytime you see another human being think about how there’s a skeleton inside of him/her. Now think about that skeleton having a German accent and being gay for deals, then go vote for Neil.

Star Trek Screening for the Town of Vulcan

from Paramount Pictures:

“Paramount and Vulcan Tourism are thrilled to bring an exclusive pre-release screening of Star Trek to Vulcan residents. Knowing how special the series has been to the town of Vulcan, Paramount and Vulcan Tourism have been collaborating for months to plan just the right event. The private screening will be held for 300 lottery-winning Vulcan residents at a state-of-the-art movie theater in Calgary. The special event includes transportation, refreshments and Star Trek memorabilia. Everyone who worked on Star Trek is excited about bringing the highly anticipated film to fans everywhere and especially to the residents of Vulcan.”

Leonard Nimoy says, “I have been informed of the logical plan that Paramount Pictures and the town of Vulcan have been working on to host an advanced screening of Star Trek. The people of Vulcan have been heard and, although it is atypical for Vulcans, they are, in fact, excited. To all, live long and prosper.”

The Legend of Neil is nominated for 4 awards!

from The Legend of Neil:

We’re happy to announce that The Legend of Neil is up for 4 Streamy Awards including an Audience Choice Award. If you could take the time out to vote for Neil, please do so! You can vote 1x per day (if you try to do more then your vote won’t count).

http://vote.streamys.org/

We were also nominated for Best Director (Sandeep Parikh), Best Guest Star (Felicia Day) and Best Cinematography (Richard E. Stark). All of these nominations are a testament to the talent and hardwork of everyone on the cast and crew, and to our incredible audience who helped spread the word! Thanks so much! Now vote damn you, vote!

“The Guild” up for Audience Award, Please Vote!

from The Guild:

Hi All!

So we’re very lucky to be in the top 10 web series up for the Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series in the Streamy Awards.

You can see all the nominees here:
http://vote.streamys.org/

We’re up against STIFF competition, so please vote for the show you love.

You can vote 1 x PER DAY until March 28th, so please consider voting more than once so we can accept an award from you, our fans, which would mean more to us than any of the awards.

Thanks so much for your support!

The Guild Management