Using its Vuze video distribution platform, will act as the online submission portal for HD-DVD and TV pilot category entries, and allow users to vote on submissions.
Azureus and the Independent Television Festival have announced today that that they will partner up to expand the competition to a global audience.
Aspiring TV show creators will be able to use Azureus’s Vuze video aggregation and distribution platform to submit their entries for judging in the competition, thereby allowing the ITVF to take entries from virtually anyone, anywhere, unlike years past when entries had to apparently be submitted on physical media.
In a in interesting development for Azureus users like myself, who use the BitTorrent client regularly, the Vuze community of users will be part of the judging process for all Webseries as well as the TV pilot category. A panel of industry experts will make up the other half of the judging g process but, nonetheless never has a BitTorrent client allowed for such an interesting participatory event such as this, unless you count the shared “star rating” and “comments” section recently built into Azureus.
Winners will not only receive cash prizes, but this partnership with Vuze will give these independent creators exposure to the “makers and breakers” of the television industry, with the bonus of a built-in global audience of millions to support their production through release. All Webseries entries and television pilot winner and finalists will continue to be showcased on Vuze after the completion of the competition.
“We are proud to join ITVF in recognizing the vast creative talent in the television industry and believe Vuze is the perfect platform to share that talent with the rest of the world,” said Gilles BianRosa, CEO of Azureus. “Through Vuze, festival entrants will have the opportunity to present their submissions in the way that they want them to be seen – long-form and high definition – and share their work with an established user-base of millions.”
“As more and more entertainment moves towards the online medium, it has been our goal to ensure our pilot-makers are involved with and aware of all of the opportunities therein presented,” said AJ Tesler, executive director of ITVF. “Our new relationship with Azureus is very exciting in that regard. We are thrilled that the most popular P2P provider joined us in our goal to bring the world and entertainment industry undiscovered creative talent and content.”
I’m rather curious to see the quality of the work submitted because it sounds like it just may actually be stuff worth watching. Either way, like I said before, it’ll just be cool to have a global BitTorrent-related event to take part in. You Usenet guys out there are always welcome as well.
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