Vimeo Announces Finalists in 2010 Vimeo Awards for the Best in Creative Online Video

Vimeo Announces Finalists in 2010 Vimeo Awards for the Best in Creative Online Video

45 Videos Representing 9 Categories and 12 Countries Vie for the Honor of Best-in-Category and One $25,000 Grant for Best Overall Video

NEW YORK, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Online video sharing site Vimeo®, an operating business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), today announced the top five finalists in each of nine categories in its first Vimeo Awards competition.

The finalists, representing 12 countries from around the world, were selected from more than 6,500 entries by an international panel of distinguished judges including M.I.A., David Lynch, Roman Coppola, Ted Hope, Lucy Walker, and Morgan Spurlock, to name a few. Screenings of the finalist videos will take place at the Vimeo Festival in New York on October 8-9.

Tickets for the two-day Vimeo Festival, which features an amazing schedule of events including video screenings, workshops, seminars, and panel discussions from some of the most successful and respected members of the film and video community, can be found at Vimeoawards.com. The Vimeo Awards winners will be announced at a separate limited availability presentation on October 9th.

The list of 45 finalists represents the incredible caliber of the international online video community at large with Great Britain, France, Canada and the United States as a few of the countries represented in the finalist selections.

"I was extremely impressed by the breadth and range of the experimental films, from the momentous made morbid to the domestic made dance," said Charlie White, judge for the Experimental category.

"It was a true pleasure to serve on this jury and feel refreshed and inspired by the creative energy of the work submitted," said Lucy Walker, judge for the Documentary category. "Short form documentary work is evolving and this feels like exactly where it's happening and where it's at. Let's keep it coming!"

LIST OF FINALISTS PER CATEGORY:

To view each of these films, please visit www.vimeoawards.com/finalists.

CATEGORY FINALISTS JUDGES
Narrative -- Ben Briand -Moonwalk Films,
Apricot -- Vincent Laforet,
-- Daniele Napolitano, Notte
Sento -- Rian Johnson,
-- Arev Manoukian -Spy Films,
Nuit Blanche -- Ted Hope
-- Gabriel Bisset-Smith; Thrush
-- Ricardo de Montreuil; The Raven

Music Video -- Andy Bruntel; Liars "Scissor" -- Roman Coppola,
-- Keith Schofield, Alan
Capriles; Justice /Lenny
Kravitz "Let Love Rule" -- Nabil Elderkin,
-- Jul French, Matt French;
Metronomy "On The Motorway" -- M.I.A.
-- Julia Grigorian, Kirby
McClure -Spy Films; Yeasayer
"Ambling Alp"
-- Nyle; Nyle "Let The Beat Build"

Documentary -- Henrik Hansen; Shinya Kimura
@ Chabott Engineering -- Doug Pray,
-- Eliot Rausch, Lukas Korver -
Phos Pictures; Pennies HEART -- Lucy Walker,
-- Temujin Doran - Studiocanoe;
Facts About Projection -- Morgan Spurlock
-- The Light Surgeons;
Schlimazeltov!
-- Eliot Rausch, Lukas Korver -
Phos Pictures; Last Minutes
with ODEN

Experimental -- Nomint; The Holy Chicken of
Life & Music -- David Lynch,
-- Zeitguised; Peripetics -- Neville Brody,
-- Chris Beckman; Oops -- Charlie White
-- Klara Elenius; Insyn
-- Mat Mowat; ''Take It Easy''

Remix -- Adam Cosco; The Most Basic
Form of Mind Control is -- DJ Spooky (Paul
Repetition Miller),
-- Kasumi; BREAKDOWN the video -- Adam Quirk of
(remix) Wreck & Salvage,
-- Eclectic Method; The -- Lawrence Lessig
Tarantino Mixtape
-- SLACKCiRCUS; Fabulous Secret
Powers
-- Peter Eramian; Fantasia

Original -- Katy Lock, Daniel May -KADA
Series Films; The Specials -- Fred Seibert,
-- Cool Hunting; Cool Hunting -- Ricky Van Veen,
-- Carl Crum; One Square Mile - -- Ze Frank
a documentary series
-- Ted Tremper; Break-ups The
Series
-- Christophe Abric, Vincent
Moon: Le Blogotheque -Take
Away Shows

Animation -- Kristen Lepore; Bottle
-- Max Porter & Ru -- Nicolas
Kuwahata; Something Left, Schmerkin,
Something Taken -- Ree Treweek,
-- Eran Hilleli; Between
Bears -- Carlos Lascano
-- Patrick Jean; Pixels
-- Simon Robson -Knife
Party; Coalition of the Willing

Motion
Graphics -- Onur Senturk; TRIANGLE -- Justin Cone,
-- Denis van Waerebeke; How to
feed the world? -- Nick Campbell,
-- Masaki Yokochi; Locus -- Shane Walter
-- Nico Uthe; Bad News -A Media
Fiction (Diplom)
-- Mike Winkelmann - beeple;
Instrumental video nine

Captured -- Rob Seward; Four Letter Words -- Paola Antonelli,
-- Chris Cairns; Neurosonics -- Jose Luis de
Live Vicente,
-- Charlie Bucket; Fluid
Sculpture -- Evan Roth
-- James Theophane Jnr;
Experience Mobile Mobile
-- Xavier Vilar de Paz;
Multitouch Barcelona

To view each of these films, please visit www.vimeoawards.com/finalists. In addition, registered Vimeo users can vote for their favorite video to determine the Community Choice awards in each category. Community Voting is separate from the judged Vimeo Awards. Complete Vimeo Festival schedule and ticket information is available at vimeoawards.com. Festival tickets are available now!

About Vimeo, LLC

Leading video sharing site Vimeo® provides the easiest way for people to host and share their videos in high quality. The site provides great privacy features and inspiring videos from a vibrant, respectful community of creative users who care about how and where they show their work. Launched in 2004 and headquartered in New York, NY, Vimeo offers users a video sharing experience that is both entertaining and easy to use. Vimeo is a 2010 & 2009 Time Magazine Top 50 Website. Vimeo, LLC is a subsidiary of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI).

SOURCE Vimeo, LLC

Vimeo, LLC

CONTACT: Deborah Szajngarten, +1-212-524-8776, press@vimeo.com

Web Site: http://www.vimeo.com/awards/festival

-------
Profile: intent