Vimeo Announces Four New Judges for Vimeo Festival + Awards; Two Weeks Left to Enter to Win $25,000 Grant

Vimeo Announces Four New Judges for Vimeo Festival + Awards; Two Weeks Left to Enter to Win $25,000 Grant

Neville Brody, Ricky Van Veen, Shane Walter, and Ze Frank Join the List of High-Profile Judges for the Vimeo Festival + Awards

NEW YORK, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- With only two weeks remaining to enter, The Vimeo Festival + Awards, www.vimeoawards.com, adds four new names to its already impressive roster of judges, including:

-- Neville Brody -Internationally-renowned designer, typographer, art
director and brand strategist, Brody's more than 30 years of
experience spans titles for Heat, The Insider, and Public Enemies to
art direction at popular magazine The Face, plus redesign of The
Times newspaper and the BBC website. He will be applying his
expertise to judge submissions within the Experimental Category.
-- Ricky Van Veen - Head of production company Notional, co-founder of
CollegeHumor, Van Veen will be leveraging his expertise in developing
and producing online content viewed by millions to judge the Original
Series category.
-- Shane Walter - Co-founder and creative director of onedotzero, a
global-reaching contemporary digital art, film and design
organization, Walter has commissioned and produced several award
winning short films. Named in the 2010 Wired 100 list of individuals
shaping the digital world, he has consulted and produced
multi-disciplinary projects with well-known brands from Nike and MTV
to U2. He will be lending his production expertise to the motion
graphics category.
-- Ze Frank - Pushing the envelope of online entertainment since his
viral video "How to Dance Properly" hit in 2001, and his recent daily
video blog called "The Show," Ze Frank will be lending his creative
flair to help judge Original Series submissions.

As the July 31 submission deadline looms, the panel of high-profile experts and luminaries are gearing up to judge, honor and award the best creative and original online videos and the masterminds behind them. Entrants can submit any original work as long as it has premiered online between June 3, 2008 and July 30, 2010 or has never been premiered anywhere in one of the following categories: Narrative; Documentary; Animation; Experimental; Music Video; Motion Graphics; Remix; Captured; Original Series; and the best overall from all categories, the Vimeo Award. The winner of the Vimeo Award receives a $25,000 grant to produce new work.

The submission fee is $20 U.S. ($5 for Vimeo Plus members). A full list of judges, submission criteria and entry forms are available at www.vimeoawards.com.

About Vimeo, LLC

Leading high quality video sharing site Vimeo® is a vibrant, respectful community of people who love to take video. The site features beautifully produced video from its many talented video creators. 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 was listed as a Time Magazine Top 50 Website in 2009. Vimeo, LLC is a subsidiary of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI).

Source: Vimeo, LLC

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

Web Site: http://www.vimeoawards.com/

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