12th Annual Hollywood Black Film Festival – Closing Night

12th Annual Hollywood Black Film Festival – Closing Night, a set on Flickr.

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Mingle Media TV and Red Carpet Report host, Stephanie Garrett, were invited to come out and cover the 12th Annual Hollywood Black Film Festival closing night at the Montalban Theater, in Hollywood. The Hollywood Black Film Festival ends on October 28th 2012. For more information on the 2012 Hollywood Black Film Festival please visit www.hbff.org.

"24 Hour Love" (Closing Night Film)
The greatest feeling in the world is when you learn to love! This feature showcases seven stories of everyday people experiencing love, laughter, life and relationships of the heart. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly….It’s all here. 24-Hour Love…what a difference a day makes! Writer, Don B. Welch , Director, Fred Thomas, Producer(s), Eric Tomosunas, Don B. Welch, Cast: Malinda Williams, Tatyana Ali, Keith Robinson, Eva Marcille, Flex Alexander, Chico Benymon with Lynn Whitfield and Darius McCrary

About the HBFF

Founded in 1999, The Hollywood Black Film Festival aims to enhance the careers of emerging and established North American filmmakers through a public exhibition, competition program and industry panels. Known amongst the entertainment industry’s powerbrokers as, “The Black Sundance,” the festival brings independent works of accomplished and aspiring black filmmakers to an environment encompassing the mainstream Hollywood community and Southern California film-going audiences. The festival’s goal is to play an integral role in discovering and launching independent films and filmmakers by bringing them to the attention of the industry, press and public.

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12th Annual Hollywood Black Film Festival

12th Annual Hollywood Black Film Festival , a set on Flickr.

Mingle Media TV and Red Carpet Report host, Stephanie Garrett, were invited to come out and cover the 2th Annual Hollywood Black Film Festival opening night at the Montalban Theater, in Hollywood. The Hollywood Black Film Festival ends on October 28th 2012. For more information on the 2012 Hollywood Black Film Festival, and see a full line up of events, visit www.hbff.org.

Opening Night Red Carpet: “Note To Self” centers around a handsome and popular student-athlete who embarks on a journey of self-realization while navigating the choppy waters of a love triangle. The film stars Christian Keyes, LeToya Luckett, Richard T. Jones, Brian McKnight, Eva Marcille, Clifton Powell, Valarie Pettiford, Jason Weaver, Brely Evans, Sebastian Siegal, Willie Taylor, Mishon Ratliff, Brian McKnight, Jr. and more. Trey Haley directs from a script by Christian Keyes. Following the screening there was a Q&A with the director, writer and cast, and a college-themed after-party afterwards.

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About the HBFF
Founded in 1999, The Hollywood Black Film Festival aims to enhance the careers of emerging and established North American filmmakers through a public exhibition, competition program and industry panels. Known amongst the entertainment industry’s powerbrokers as, “The Black Sundance,” the festival brings independent works of accomplished and aspiring black filmmakers to an environment encompassing the mainstream Hollywood community and Southern California film-going audiences. The festival’s goal is to play an integral role in discovering and launching independent films and filmmakers by bringing them to the attention of the industry, press and public.

For more of Mingle Media TV’s Red Carpet Report coverage please visit our website and follow us on Twitter and Facebook here:

www.minglemediatv.com
www.redcarpetreporttv.com
www.facebook.com/minglemediatvnetwork
www.facebook.com/RedCarpetReportTV
www.youtube.com/MingleMediaTVNetwork
www.flickr.com/MingleMediaTVNetwork
www.twitter.com/minglemediatv

Follow Stephanie at www.twitter.com/StephanieG3360

Thanks to Edna Sims, ESP Public Relations for the invitation.

Finalists in the #AudienceChoice Category: New Media Film Festival Announcement

Okay everyone… as promised, here are the finalists in the 2011 New Media Film Festival‘s Audience Choice Awards category, sponsored by Mingle Media TV Network.

One thing we want to share as you review the finalists is the date they entered the competition for votes – it didn’t matter if it was 2 days before voting ended or six months, they got their fan-base to support them. We did end up with 21 finalists as there was a tie for 20th place.

Congrats to all finalists and to everyone who entered the competition – please be sure to grab your laurels for your site to promote your involvement in this festival.

Click here to VOTE for the 21 Finalists in the #AudienceChoice Awards

Webseries Entry	Votes	Voting Started
Travel Companions	4289	08-Feb-2011
The Unemployment of Danny London	629	24-Sep-2010
Crossing Blood Lines	396	29-Jan-2011
Lien on Me	343	24-Sep-2010
Masculathon	298	27-Mar-2011
Oblivion	239	24-Sep-2010
Illegal	228	24-Sep-2010
Looking at You	224	20-Feb-2011
Secret Millionaires	189	24-Sep-2010
CYPHERS	177	24-Sep-2010
The R.I.P. Files	172	12-Feb-2011
Shes Just Not That Into You	168	12-Mar-2011
Inappropriate Fairy Tales	141	24-Sep-2010
World of Holly Woodlands	136	28-Apr-2011
Miss Behave	133	08-Feb-2011
Asylum Web Series	132	28-Jan-2011
Sweet Tarts Take Away	129	09-Apr-2011
Naomi: The Show	115	28-Jan-2011
McCracken LIVE!	115	04-Jan-2011
The Puzzle Makers Son	113	24-Sep-2010
Cupid and Eros	113	28-Apr-2011

Tips for Final Voting Success:

There are many things that helped the finalists get their fans to vote for them… the following list are a few things that everyone who creates content for the web should be doing – not just for competitions but for views / audience and community building:

Twitter:

• Follow people back (you don’t have to follow MLM, #TeamFollowBack or other “self-proclaimed Social Media Experts but definitely industry people)
• Thank people for following you, introduce yourself, start a convo
• ReTWEET people who promote you (there’s nothing worse than having someone tweet your promo to vote for you and you don’t thank them or RETWEET the message in honor of them)
• Support your fellow creator – RETWEET their series announcements
• Links matter – tweet YOUR series link in your tweets – use a shortener to get it all in 140 characters

Facebook:

• Post your episodes, community activities (other creators) and info related to the industry on your page – it’s not all about you, sharing is caring
• Link to your content on other sites
• Embed videos so people can watch while on Facebook
• LIKE other creator’s pages – help them get the word out and they will respond in kind

Blog Posts:

• Start a blog and write a post a week telling your fan base what you’re doing
• Embed an episode and tell the back story about the episode or interesting fact
• Ask your fans what they liked or didn’t like about it

YouTube

• Use META TAGS, keywords to keep your content together on the page
• YouTube will bring up other similar content from other people if you don’t
• Keep your titles uniform and add a description with links back to your site, twitter, facebook so people can find you
• Use annotations and create hotspots with links as a call to action

If you are creating for the Interwebs and are NOT building fans or community, ask yourself why not…. are you doing the above? If you are and still not getting anywhere… it’s time to ask a professional how to change things up for you.