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Six months into a deal with Tubemogul, TellyTopia’s i2TV channel helps over 3000 Internet content producers upload videos to TV – Make me a TV star!

The Social TV Forum event in London on the 28th and 29th Sept 2009, has just announced its preliminary conference speaker line up. The event has already attracted a range of broadcasters, content providers, social networks, brands and advertisers.

Infibeam.com has newly launched its Movie store, adding considerable excitement to the online movie market. Simply order your favourite Bollywood Dhamakas, Hollywood Blockbusters, as well as your favourite movies and expect them to hit your doorstep in no time with free shipping only from Infibeam.com. Choose from a wide range of categories like action, animation, comedy, romantic, family and others. Opt from regional movies in languages like Bhojpuri, Malayalam, Tamil, and others. Sit back, watch, and enjoy!

Internationally recognized entertainer, philanthropist and entrepreneur Marie Osmond has invited Where Women Create into her home studio for the Summer ’09 issue, which is available on newsstands beginning on May 1st. Each issue of this quarterly magazine, published by Stampington & Company in partnership with author Jo Packham, lets readers explore the studios of top artists, giving them a behind-the-scenes look at what drives them to create.

Executive Producer Jonathan D. Krane (Producer of "Swordfish", Executive Producer of "Face/Off" and "Michael"), writer Daniel P. Coughlin, (writer of "Farmhouse" and "Lake Dead"), and Producers Megan Waters and Sal Vasquez.

LoPresti Aviation will host another in their series of "First Saturday" events in the LoPresti/Vero Beach Avionics hangar on the north ramp of the Vero Beach airport on June 6th starting at 9 am.

Downtown Community Television Center is honored to announce that Bullets in the Hood: a Bed-Stuy Story has won a New York Emmy Award for Excellence in Teen Programming. Directed by Terence Fischer and Daniel Howard, former students of DCTV’s PRO-TV youth program, Bullets is a documentary about the shooting of one of the filmmakers’ best friend by a NYPD officer in 2004, and was the only nominee of the five finalists in the “teen programming” category directed by youth filmmakers. This NY Emmy Award is a groundbreaking achievement and DCTV is grateful for this recognition of the dedication and triumph of the young artists behind the film.

Downtown Community Television Center is honored to announce the nomination of Bullets in the Hood: a Bed-Stuy Story for a New York Emmy Award. Bullets, a documentary about the shooting of one of the filmmakers’ best friend by a NYPD officer in 2004, is contending in the “Teen Programming,” category, but is the only nominee produced by teenagers themselves. This is a groundbreaking achievement, and DCTV is grateful for the recognition of the dedication and triumph of the young artists behind the film.

Aurience Ltd, an international media consulting group, and the Apogee Foundation, a global arts philanthropy, are expanding their creative alliance by integrating Aurience's media and technology enhancements throughout Apogee's programs to discover, develop and celebrate artistic excellence worldwide.

Continuing its commitment to outreach and education, Downtown Community Television Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Stephanie Skaff, artistic activist and organizer, to begin community outreach and planning of a national anti-gun violence media campaign made possible with generous support from the Ford Foundation. Following the success of its past media tours, DCTV’s renowned Cybercar, a 40-foot-long bus converted into a mobile TV studio, is preparing for a Fall 2009 20-city tour to promote community-driven initiatives to end gun violence.

To celebrate the launch of its new route non-stop between Dubai and the home of movies and cinema, Los Angeles, Emirates Airline is giving aspiring actors and actresses the opportunity to star in an L.A. movie.

The Academy of Cinema and Television's child actor Rachel Dolan won and played the role as Carlotta in the film "Four Single Fathers," a comedy/drama directed by Paolo Monico.

Academy of Cinema and Television Acting Student Rachel Dolan has completed the filming of "Four Single Fathers," a comedy/drama directed by Paolo Monico.

As an accredited business member of the Phoenix BBB, the Academy of Cinema and Television announces the update of their accreditation with the Better Business Bureau.

ACT students are continuously being exposed to important entertainment and performing arts agents, casting directors and talent scouts. Student Lou Wegner is the most recent to be signed by a talent agent.

The Academy of Cinema and Television working on a collaboration with Malese Jow to create a specialized online educational series for kids and teens interested in the Entertainment Industry.

What happens to people when they die with no next of kin to claim their bodies? RootsTelevision.com, an online channel dedicated to all aspects of genealogy and family history, has launched a new show, Unclaimed Persons, to bring attention to this largely unknown epidemic. Coroners’ offices across the country are struggling to cope with thousands of unclaimed people whose identities are known, but for whom no family can be found.

Forty years before Harrison Ford starred in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Leslie Howard played a plain-named archeologist who fought the Nazis in 1941's Pimpernel Smith, now available on DVD.

The Director of the Academy of Cinema and Television was recently interviewed by News 5, Phoenix, AZ, in order to obtain an overview of the school's operation.

The Academy of Cinema and Television, announces collaboration with actor Adrian R'Mante to produce a an online educational Q&A session that will inform and empower parents of children interested in the performing arts. The private academy is dedicated to helping students earn and maintain an edge in the highly competitive entertainment industry.

Academy of Cinema and Television (ACT) students — four to be exact — were recently cast in two horror films for a major Hollywood studio. Casting Director impressed with student’s acting skills.

RootsTelevision.com, an online channel dedicated to all aspects of genealogy and family history, has been recognized in the 29th Annual Telly Awards for four of its original productions. Selected from more than 14,000 shows were "DNA Stories: A Tale of Two Fathers" (documentary), "Heir Jordan: Extreme Genealogy" (entertainment), "Roots Books: Psychic Roots" (talk show), and "Flat Stanley’s Family Tree" (children’s audience).

Chicago’s fastest growing wedding resource, The Daily Bride, launched its new website (www.thedailybride.com), ushering in the next phase of online wedding planning with the use of video segments to both attract and educate newly engaged couples. In an age when time is the most valuable commodity, The Daily Bride provides couples with the most convenient shopping experience. By visually exploring the wedding industry one vendor at a time, The Daily Bride offers the newly engaged a unique opportunity to enhance their planning experience, to put a face with the name, to hear someone ask the questions that they themselves would ask of a vendor, and to see their own wedding day’s potential.

Up and coming teen actor William Erickson has announced a new project to follow his recent success in commercials, films and hit PBS KIDS GO! TV series FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman. William has partnered up with McKevin Company's film branch, Random Nature Productions, as the lead star in the short film series, “Lost and Found.” The series, coined as a “quadrilogy,” is the company’s second foray in providing quality, episodic entertainment for the internet. The inspiring tale of a boy's survival in the wilderness was specifically designed for the YouTube audience. William Erickson plays the film’s lead “Jason Canfield” with a performance so vivid and compelling- it is being called a true portrait by those who have lived the story.