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Mingle Media TV’s Red Carpet Report host Brogyn Gage were invited to come out to cover Crackle’s original series “CHOSEN” season 2 premiere at Pacific Theatres in The Grove.

Chosen Season 2 Premieres 12/12 on Crackle
Continuing the story of Ian Mitchell (Milo Ventimiglia) and his family, the second season of "Chosen" goes deeper into the deadly game the Mitchells were swept into and follows the lives of others who also received mysterious boxes forcing them to kill — or else — including new character Jacob Orr (Chad Michael Murray). The second season of six half-hour episodes, with two debuting on Crackle each week beginning December 12, 2013, ensures to pack more thrills, suspense and jaw-dropping moments. The first season of "Chosen" premiered January 2013 and exceeded expectations as one of Crackle’s most-watched original series. View the first season now at www.crackle.com/c/Chosen
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IAWTV Announce Nominees for Inaugural Awards Show in Las Vegas

It’s the start of award season and to have the web where more video is produced, published and consumed to finally have an awards show that acknowledges them is very welcomed and why we’re excited to share the nominations with you.

The Inaugural IAWTV Awards show will be held at CES in Las Vegas (where Mingle Media TV will be attending and covering) so you get all the latest news.  The winners will be honored Thursday, January 12, 2012 at a live ceremony at the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas during the prestigious International CES.

Without further ado – here’s the list of nominees for this year’s event:

Nominees

Best Comedy Web Series
•Gigi: Almost American
•Pretty
•The Guild
•The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
•Video Game Reunion

Best Drama Web Series
•AIDAN 5
•Anyone But Me
•CELL: The Web Series
•Pioneer One
•RCVR/Web Series

Best Hosted Taped Web Series
•A Comicbook Orange
•ETC – Entertainment, Technology, Culture
•Immersion
•NextMovie Daily
•The Web.Files

Best Hosted Live Web Series
•Geek Beat LIVE
•Indie Intertube
•Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show
•Stupid For Movies
•What’s Trending with Shira Lazar

Best Animated Web Series
•CliffsNotes Films
•Dick Figures
•Red vs. Blue
•Sketch 22
•The World of Bruce McCall

Best Documentary Web Series
•Beyond the Gallery
•Deja View
•Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
•The Founders
•White Collar Brawler

Best Variety Web Series
•Fanboy Funhouse
•Kids React
•Mark Malkoff
•Stripped Down Live
•Team Unicorn

Best News Web Series
•Breakout
•Daily Ticker
•Tech News Today
•The Philip Defranco Show
•The Woodward Report

Best Educational Web Series
•DadLabs
•Engineer Your Space
•Financially Fit
•The Great Camera Shootout 2011
•What You Can Do

Best Writing (Comedy)
•Felicia Day, The Guild
•Jeff Lewis, The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
•Marilyn Anne Michaels and Dominic Conti, The Best Friend
•Jessica Mills, Awkward Embraces
•Steve Silverman, Pretty

Best Writing (Drama)
•Vidas Barzdukas, AIDAN 5
•Mark Gardner, CELL: The Web Series
•Susan Miller and Tina Cesa Ward, Anyone But Me
•David Nett, Rick Robinson & Andrew R. Deutsch, Night of the Zombie King
•David Van Eyssen and Brian Horiuchi, RCVR/Web Series

Best Writing (Non-Fiction)
•Benny Fine and Rafi Fine, Kids React
•Grace Helbig, Daily Grace
•Rudy Jahchan, A Comicbook Orange
•Scott Lynch, The Great Camera Shootout 2011
•Nar Williams, NextMovie Daily

Best Directing (Comedy)
•Sean Becker, The Guild
•Sean Becker, The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
•Sandeep Parikh, Legend of Neil
•Steve Silverman, Pretty
•Frederick Snyder, SOLO: The Series

Best Directing (Drama)
•Ben Bays, AIDAN 5
•Tina Cesa Ward, Anyone But Me
•David Nett, Night of the Zombie King
•Chris Preksta, The Mercury Men
•David Van Eyssen, RCVR/Web Series

Best Directing (Non-Fiction)
•Danny Cameron, DadLabs
•Benny Fine and Rafi Fine, Kids React
•Sandra J. Payne, The Web.Files
•Brett Register, What’s Trending with Shira Lazar
•Mike Rotman, Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show

Best Female Performance (Comedy)
•Alexis Boozer (Brynn Arbor), Leap Year
•Emma Caulfield (Emma Caulfield), Bandwagon The Series
•Felicia Day (Codex), The Guild
•Julie Ann Emery (Emily), Then we got HELP!
•Hillary B. Smith (Ellie), Fumbling thru the Pieces

Best Female Performance (Drama)
•Jourdan Gibson (The Woman/Sarah), CELL: The Web Series
• Rachael Hip-Flores (Vivian McMillan), Anyone But Me
•Jeri Ryan (Sonya Blade), Mortal Kombat: Legacy
• Maya Sayre (Det. Morgan Riley), AIDAN 5
• Taryn Southern (Jamie Phillips), BlackBoxTV: The Series

Best Male Performance (Comedy)
• Yuri Baranovsky (Aaron Morrison), Leap Year
• Jeff Lewis (Vork), The Guild
• Jeff Lewis (Stan), The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
•Jonathan Nail (Scott Drizhal), SOLO: The Series
• Sandeep Parikh (Zaboo), The Guild

Best Male Performance (Drama)
• Dingani Beza (Patrick Aubert), Asylum
• Bryan Michael Block (Det. James Aidan), AIDAN 5
• Daniel Bonjour (Luke Weber), RCVR/Web Series
•Maxwell Glick (Hicks), Night of the Zombie King
• Kevin McCarthy (The Man), CELL: The Web Series

Best Host (Taped)
• Khail Anonymous, ETC – Entertainment, Technology, Culture
• Burnie Burns, Immersion
• Kristyn Burtt, The Web.Files
• Casey McKinnon, A Comicbook Orange
• Brad Powell, DadLabs

Best Host (Live)
• April Grant and Amanda Shockley, Indie Intertube
• Mark Keizer and Wade Major, Stupid For Movies
• Shira Lazar, What’s Trending with Shira Lazar
• Kevin Pollak, Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show
• Curt Smith, Stripped Down Live

Best Cinematography
• Andrew R. Deutsch, Night of the Zombie King
• Christopher Charles Kempinski, Riese: Kingdom Falling
•C. Kim Miles, Mortal Kombat: Legacy
•Iskra Valtcheva and Michael Morlan, CELL: The Web Series
•Joost Van Starrenburg, RCVR/Web Series

Best Design
•Greg Aronowitz, Dragon Age: Redemption
•Ben Brown and Jason Mowry, AIDAN 5
•Jonathan Nail and Michael Levine, SOLO: The Series
•Kelly Wasserman, RCVR/Web Series
•Eric Whitney, Continuum

Best Costume Design
•Katie Broad, Fallout: Nuka Break
•Jenny Green, Dan Crawley and Thais Yuki, Video Game Reunion
•Kristin Ingram, The Guild
•Megan Leson, Riese: Kingdom Falling
•Shawna Trpcic, Dragon Age: Redemption

Best Makeup/Special Effects
•Greg Aronowitz and Kimberly Graczyk, Dragon Age: Redemption
•Michael Del Rossa, RCVR/Web Series
•Kimberly Graczyk, The Guild
•Ralis Kahn, Bianca Appice and Shintaro Kakioka, Fallout: Nuka Break
•Jamie Register, A Good Knight’s Quest

Best Visual Effects
•Chad Briggs, Continuum
•Lawson Demming, Rocket Studios and Tunnel Post, RCVR/Web Series
•Keegen Douglas, Mortal Kombat: Legacy
•Shawn Likley, AIDAN 5
•Chris Preksta, The Mercury Men

Best Editing
•Fawaz Al-Matrouk, Goldilocks
•Jeff Cowan, RCVR/Web Series
•Matthew Lyons and Kirby Jinnah, Riese: Kingdom Falling
•Chris Preksta and Tyson VanSkiver, The Mercury Men
•Tony E. Valenzuela, BlackBoxTV: The Series
Best Original Music
•Rob Gokee, Night of the Zombie King
•Rob Gokee, SOLO: The Series
•Mike Jackson, AIDAN 5
•Peace Nistades, Dragon Age: Redemption
•Brian Satterwhite, CELL: The Web Series

Best Supplemental Content
•Kids React
•RCVR/Web Series
•The Further Adventures of Cupid and Eros
•The Mercury Men
•Vampire Zombie Werewolf

Best Interactive/Social Media Experience
•CliffsNotes Films
•Kids React
•RCVR/Web Series
•Stupid For Movies
•What’s Trending with Shira Lazar

Best Web Site Design
•AIDAN 5 
•Engineer Your Space
•RCVR/Web Series
•Ruby Skye P.I.
•The Guild

Best Distribution Platform
•Blip.tv
•Crackle
•Dailymotion
•Hulu
•Joost

Nominees for the Inaugural IAWTV Awards were chosen by majority vote of the active voting membership of the IAWTV from over 350 officially submitted web series. Only episodes of a web series as defined by the IAWTV that were released during the period of January 1, 2010 through October 31, 2011 were considered for nomination in the Inaugural IAWTV Awards and only so long as at least two or more episodes of the web series were released within the eligibility period.

About the IAWTV Awards
The IAWTV Awards is an official web television industry awards show established for content creators, by content creators. The event serves as a platform for members of the IAWTV to honor the best of their profession, while networking among industry luminaries and supporting the IAWTV. Proceeds raised from the show are used for the betterment of the community by providing more member resources as well as professional development and education for professionals working in web television. For more information, please visit http://iawtv.org/awards/ or follow us on twitter at @iawtvawards.

About The International Academy of Web Television
The International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV) is a nonprofit organization comprised of leaders in the field of Web television, Web video and the digital entertainment industries. Founded in 2009, the IAWTV is helping to shape the rapidly evolving Web television industry while providing a venue for the acknowledgement of artistic and technological achievement in original entertainment distributed on the open Internet. IAWTV members include actors, agents, composers, content developers, directors, editors, producers, technology innovators, writers, and other industry professionals all of whom joined the organization based on their passion and dedication to advance the craft of Web television. For more information, please visit www.iawtv.org or follow us on twitter @iawtv. 

Saw a Tweet Today Wondering About Creating a Web Series… Or NOT?? Ask Mark Gantt About Being FEARLESS!

Okay, so I’m not going to get on a soapbox and preach but I think it’s pretty amazing that web series creators are making their “Passion Projects” as my friends from the WebTV Workshop say… and that in itself says a lot about where the entertainment industry is going, everyone now has access, PLUS you have unlimited opportunity to reach everyone who has a smart phone or Internet access, so what are you waiting for?

Okay – so you hear people say “Be Fearless” and maybe you think it’s a cliche’ but when you look at the example of how web series creator/actor Mark Gantt took what was in HIS HEAD and made it into a webseries that now has international distribution by Sony…. you want to know more about how it was done, right?? How it can help you be FEARLESS!

Well… let’s start with what happens when you don’t let the word “NO” or the phrase “you can’t do it” rule your world…and you follow your dreams…

It’s been lots of fun to actually have seen Mark’s passion project and of course purchase “The Bannen Way” … can’t be a true fan if you don’t support the cause!! We did talk to him on the Red Carpet before winning a Streamy Award for best actor (this should get you pumped – yes I know, this is backwards storytelling, but it’s my story!):

Now that you see you be a True Hollywood Story and can achieve your dreams… don’t you want to meet the man, the myth, the legend? Here’s Mark sharing a tip after a recent Web TV Workshop Pro-Panel: WebTV Workshop tip.

Wait a minute… you’re not getting all pumped up and ready to be “Rocky” running up those steps in Philadelphia yet?? Well watch this clip and you’ll be that and cocky….Here’s the trailer for The Bannen Way:

Well, I hope I didn’t scare you off… Mark started off with a dream and didn’t settle. Now here’s the awesome part… Mark is holding a ONE day, open the kimono and share all in Los Angeles this Saturday. This is your opportunity to sit down with other web series creators – dreamers – and talk straight to Mark Gantt about how YOU can do it too. Here’s all the info about the workshop http://createyourowncareer.eventbrite.com/.

This special Saturday workshop covers finding YOUR voice to how the Bannen Way became the success it is — and he didn’t have a huge budget to start with. I can tell you we met Mark via Twitter and he has built a fan-base on Facebook and his pitch-site was amazing… but don’t let me be the spoiler… you should check the workshop out today… and if you have questions… and you should have a Twitter account anyways, ask him your questions about the workshop… You can find him here http://www.twitter.com/Mark_Gantt (tell him Stephanie sent you… oh, if you’re a casting director and want to have a successful project… cast Mark Gantt!)

This message was not paid for by Mark Gantt… but I did drink the Koolaid…. and soon you will drink it too!

More about Mark Gantt: Mark’s latest project that he co-wrote, produced and starred in called The Bannen Way (http://thebannenway.com) has been an incredible success. Financed by Sony’s Crackle distribution arm, this unique Web Series/Feature Film, has broken records with over 14 million views, won 4 Streamy Awards including Best Actor (Mark), Best Drama, Best Director and was nominated for 2 Webby Awards. Due to its vast success, Sony Pictures Television is currently developing the project into a TV series.

Be sure to check out the workshop information here…

Mingle Media TV Network to Air New Web TV Talk Show Series: In Bed With…Jeff and Melissa Debuts with Mark Gantt!

MMTVN is excited to be executive producing and broadcasting a New Web TV Series from New Media Correspondents Jeff Rago and Melissa Jun Rowley – taking an intimate look at the most interesting people making headlines today with their show “In Bed With…”

The “In Bed With…” web series is the brainchild of hosts Jeff Rago (entertainment reporter and producer) and Melissa Jun Rowley (TV and online journalist). Jeff and Melissa are the shows under-the-cover agents getting the latest scoop from some of the most interesting and influential celebrities, entrepreneurs, and activists making headlines today in both traditional and social media. The show is intelligent, fun and disarming, its pillow talk, as you’ve never seen before. The audience will be surprised what they uncover, as you never really know what’s going to come up in bed.

In the debut webisode of “In Bed With…” Jeff and Melissa interview actor, producer, writer, Mark Gantt, winner of the 2010 Best Actor Streamy Award in his starring role in the Sony Pictures Television hit series, The Bannen Way. Gantt has also written, directed, produced and edited over a dozen short films (including the award-winning Martine), as well as acted opposite Brad Pitt in Ocean’s Eleven, Burt Reynolds in The Hollywood Sign, as well as in many other films and TV shows.

About the show hosts:

Jeff Rago is a freelance entertainment reporter and producer who has contributed to both national (Extra) and international (CNN International) l news programs as well as entertainment websites (ComingSoon.net). From red carpets to one-on-one rooms to intimate sit-downs, Jeff has gotten up close and personal with some of the biggest names in Hollywood including Johnny Depp, Zach Braff, and Beyonce. Prior to his entertainment news life, Jeff spent 13 years working in the meetings and events industry sleeping in some of the most comfortable beds both nationally and internationally. Learn more about Jeff at www.jeffrago.com

Melissa Jun Rowley is a television and online journalist who has covered business news from the New York Stock Exchange for CNN Business News, red carpet glamour from the Oscars for CNN Entertainment and social action movements for Causecast. She has also produced and reported for Associated Press Television News, AMC, TV Guide Channel, E! , Entertainment and TechTV. She blogs about behind-the-scenes happenings at Hollywood events, activism, social entrepreneurship, family, love, and self-evolution. Melissa writes for the social media guide Mashable and for the LA Weekly. Melissa rarely sleeps, and she has moved around the country so much throughout her career that she has yet to invest in the kind of decadent bed she’s always dreamed of having. Perhaps, the time has come. Learn more about Melissa at www.melissajunrowley.com.