When at the 2012 Vimeo Festival+Awards...

Posted by Doug Klinger on July 13, 2012 in Event Coverage

Staff Post

FilmedInsert Vimeo

The 2012 Vimeo Festival+Awards was early last month. Wish you had been there? Well, guess what, I WAS! And if you give me about 4 or 5 minutes, I can fill you in on all the haps! 

First off, some background: the Vimeo Festival+Awards is a hybrid award show and festival that last went down in 2010. The event is representative of the entire Vimeo spectrum of content (narrative, animation, etc.), so as music videos have a strong presence on Vimeo, they also had a strong presence at the Festival+Awards, with a music video award category, director profiles, and workshops featureing some of our favorite music video pros and dudes.

Vimeo Fest

Hosted by Reggie Watts, the awards were super fancy and I was very underdressed. I saw Dave Green before the awards started, and had him take a picture of me. Dave’s short film Ham Sandwich was a finalist in the narrative category, and his Miles Fisher – “New Romance” music video was shortlisted in the music video category. You can get to know Dave a bit better by listening to this podcast

Later, I took some pictures of DANIELS winning their multiple awards. One for their Manchester Orchestra – “Simple Math” music video, and one honorary award for New Creator. It was exciting for everyone directly involved, but also exciting for me and everyone else there because award shows are exciting and DANIELS are super nice guys.

For more super cool music video fun from the awards, be sure to check out the videos that were shortlisted and the finalists in the music video category.

Daniels Vimeo

The next two days were the festival at the awesome IAC building, and there were somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion things to do there. Vimeo.com has a great community behind it, made up of creators from all different levels, and Vimeo staff is a big part of this community. While at the festival, I had the chance to sit down with Blake Whitman, the VP of Creative Development at Vimeo, to talk about the festival, the community, and how music videos fit into the mix. Check out that conversation here.

After my chat with Blake, the two of us high fived and then I went outside to the beer garden and drank a beer (several beers). Then it was on to DANIEL’s director profile, hosted by Blake. During this chat, both Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheiner were very open about the way they work, they way they write treatments, and even the places where they second guess themselves. At one point, they even pulled up a screen shot from their Foster the People - “Hudini” video and pointed out all the imperfections in the effects, it was awesome. After their profile, I forced them to sit down with me and answer some of my questions. That conversation can be found in this podcast.

Next was the director profile of Saman Keshavarz, the event that my friend Steve who came with me on the trip was most excited about. It seems he wasn’t the only one. Most of the audience crowded near the front of the room and really seemed interested in what Saman had to say and were very familiar with his work. This talk was also hosted by Blake, and they got into some really great stuff about Saman’s videos… As did FilmedInsert, a few weeks ago, in this podcast.

saman at vimeo

The next day featured the action packed DANIELS workshop, which was in front of a huge group of peeps and included a lot of jokes and slow-motion fighting. In this workshop, DANIELS gave the audience tons of tips on brainstorming, and also tons of candy. And throughout all of DANIELS jokes and running around, some really great concepts were conveyed.

The whole event ended with a sweet, sweet party that night. I drank heavily and gave lots more high fives. And through my drunkenness I realized, not only is the Vimeo community great for supporting artists in the video world, they also throw an awesome dance party!

To see more photos from the Vimeo Awards+Festival, check out this photo album.


blake whitman, daniels, saman keshavarz, vimeo awards, vimeo festival

Doug Klinger is the co-founder/content director of IMVDb and watches more music videos than anyone on earth. You can find him on twitter at @doug_klinger.



More Event Coverage:


UKMVAs Call For Entries

Posted by Doug Klinger on July 26, 2016 in Event Coverage

The world needs more people celebrating music videos as an art form. It needs more people championing music video directors, and the rest of their crew all the way down the line. Basically, it needs more people doing what the UK Music Video Awards do. Heading into their 9th year,… Read More

2015 LAMVF Recap

Posted by Caleb Jackson on November 10, 2015 in Event Coverage Contributor Post

Among the music video scene, few institutions stand out from the mainstream VMA world and foster growth at a community level more than the Los Angeles Music Video Festival, which has been a household name in the professional music video industry since 2011. Sami Kriegstein and Colleen Curlin started LAMVF… Read More

MUSIC VIDEO SUMMER CAMP: OMG! Everywhere 2015!

Posted by Caleb Jackson on September 3, 2015 in Event Coverage Contributor Post

If you care about music videos, you are probably still up in a tizzy about Joseph Kahn's Taylor Swift video taking video of the year at the VMA’s this weekend, but this is also the time of the year when another music video institution comes around the bend. That is,… Read More

Photo courtesy of WireImage and Film IndependentLast Friday night, I had the pleasure of seeing a showcase of most of OK GO’s elaborate and memorable music videos at LA Film Festival. If you’re at all familiar with their material, then you understand the the truly epic scale of their work,… Read More

IMVDb Blog




Site Sponsors

Add Your Company




RSS Icon Subscribe with RSS


Search the Blog


Recent Posts


Archive


Categories


Content on the IMVDb blog is ©2012-2024 IMVDb and FilmedInsert, LLC. All Rights Reserved.