Update on Speakers and Judges
Panelists are Sue Kwon, technology and business reporter for CBS 5 Eyewitness News; Josh Wolf, the independent journalist and video blogger most famous for being jailed for refusing to turn over his source material of a 2005 protest and Andrew Fitzgerald, manager of citizen journalism at Current TV and producer of Current’s award-winning Hurricane Katrina coverage.
The judges of the event are Kara Swisher, columnist at the The Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD and an up-and-coming videoblogger; citizen media guru JD Lasica; and documentary maker Michael Ferris Gibson, who made 24 Hours on Craigslist.
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We’re closing out our summer San Francisco Pier Screenings series, and are bringing the event back to the pier. For the month of August, we're soliciting your contributions in the category of "citizen news." What does that mean? Any non-fiction, short-form video you've created that tells a story about something out there in the universe.
Could be a documentary, could be a news spot, could be an interview, could be a cellphone-cam clip of an important event. Please keep it under five minutes and make sure you own the rights. We're looking for compelling videos that showcase a unique perspective or analysis.
We’ll be judging the videos this month based on number of views, votes cast, and stars received on the
NewTeeVee Pier Screenings site. So how do you submit? Upload your original video to the
Pier Screenings site (
directions here). The top six videos will be shown at the live event on August 29 on a large 16-foot outdoor screen at a pier in San Francisco. The live audience at the event will choose the top three winners for the night.
Metacafe will promote the top three audience winners from the live event on its front page, and Fabrik will be giving away high capacity hard drives (think 1 terabyte).
The submission process is rolling, so submit early to increase the possibility of people seeing, liking, and starring your video. To sweeten the deal, our platinum sponsor,
Friction.tv, will mail out promo packs for first 30 videos submitted. The packs include a webcam for you to create more citizen news videos and two Friction.tv t-shirts.
Don’t forget to RSVP for the event on
Eventbrite. And if you’d like to join Metacafe, Friction.tv, Fabrik, and vod:pod in sponsoring the event, please contact Joanne Wan (joey at gigaom dot com).
