Streamy Awards unveil Web TV nominees
‘Bannen Way,’ ‘Guild’ top online television noms
By CHRISTOPHER MORRIS

Con men and a hapless bunch of online gaming addicts got top nods from the International Academy of Web Television Monday morning as the list of Streamy Award nominees was unveiled.

Action-drama serial “The Bannen Way” and “The Guild,” a comedy about online gamers, led the noms with seven each. “Easy to Assemble,” another comedy about previously successful actors who now work at IKEA, earned six nods.

Winners will be announced April 11 at an event in Hollywood. The ceremony will, appropriately, be broadcast live online.

Crackle.com Garners Most Streamy Award Nominations for a Video Network or Production Company

‘The Bannen Way’ Surpasses 13 Million Views and Collects Most Nominations For Any Series

CULVER CITY, Calif., March 1 /PRNewswire/ — Crackle.com, Sony Picture Entertainment’s online video network, today received 13 nominations, the most nominations for any network or production company for the 2nd Annual Streamy Awards, honoring excellence in original web television programming.

Crackle’s THE BANNEN WAY, ANGEL OF DEATH, WOKE UP DEAD and MOMMY XXX received a combined total of 13 nominations. THE BANNEN WAY, which has surpassed 13 million views on Crackle.com, received a total of seven nominations, including Best New Web Series and Best New Drama Series, the most for any show. The winners will be announced by the International Academy of Web Television on April 7th and April 11th at two separate ceremonies in Hollywood, CA.

The Bannen Way Earns Seven Streamy Award Nominations…
March 1, 2010

The 2nd Annual Streamy Award Events Will be Held on April 11, 2010
The Bannen Way, a crime drama series, earned seven Streamy nominations, including Best Drama Web Series, Best New Web Series, Best Male Actor in a Drama Web Series (Mark Gantt), and Best Directing for a Drama Web Series (Jesse Warren, Mark Gantt)…

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Fix It In Post Edits The Bannen Way

Los Angeles-based editorial boutique Fix It In Post recently edited The Bannen Way, a series of 16, 5-7 minute-long webisodes created by filmmakers Mark Gantt and Jess Warren airing on Sony Digital’s Crackle.com. Editor Zack Arnold, owner of Fix It In Post, responded to a Craig’s List ad looking for an editor that would work next to nothing on a spec show. The result is a series that has had over eight million hits online.

Arnold was able to take a chance, work on a micro budget, and share the vision of the creators, offering something that the larger editorial houses could not do. Not only did Fix It In Post create the trailer, which helped sell the show, but the company also edited a 95-minute feature film in seven weeks, breaking it into 16 webisodes. And to complete the package, they provided their partner company, Sammy Sound Inc. who mixed the show in 5.1. Once final picture was delivered by Tunnel Post, Fix it In Post created the marketing promos, completed the deliverables for TV and foreign markets, and re-edited the feature into an 86-minute broadcast TV format.

TB: “I had a blast interviewing Mark!  He’s down-to-earth, and deserves the success coming to him.  He’s an inspiration as well…most actors give up on their careers at a certain point, but Mark found a way to make it happen with “The Bannen Way”.  Forget about my dream of being a Bond Girl…I want to be a Bannen Girl!

Here’s what I found: Many websites that buy original video clips often pay so little that “The Bannen Way,’’ a flashy crime thriller debuting online, looked destined to be made poorly, if it could be made at all.

Crackle’s new web series ‘The Bannen Way’ has all the ingredients for an online action hit. Gansters, guns, and gambling? Check. Cocky main character in a sweet sports car? Bring it on.

Great production value, a cinematic style and leggy brunettes in short skirts go a long way in the online video world, and Sony/Crackle’s The Bannen Way has been taking those elements to the limit over the last six weeks.

From its early debut on Dec. 29 to its official Jan. 6 premiere to today, the web series has racked up over 8.4 million streams, surpassing Angel of Death’s already impressive 4.7 million views and making it the site’s fastest-growing web series to date.