MySpace has teamed with the Producers Guild of America to give amateur video makers a chance to make it big in Hollywood.

The Story Teller Challenge, like many of the current video contests going around, professes to be a way to shortcut the red-tape of Hollywood and get an audience with top studio executives – and an opportunity to make it big!

The competition is perhaps another sign that News Corp – which owns MySpace – is committed to investing in online talent. Another report suggests the company is producing a TV series exclusively for its social networking site.

Crackle.com, the old Grouper recently re-launched by Sony as a streaming entertainment network, are currently running three contests for budding video producers who want to have a crack (excuse the pun) at the big time.

Winners of the contests are offered “career-making opportunities…that money can’t buy”, according to the triangle of fame (my name for it, not Crackle’s) which you’ll find on Crackle’s site. “Get in the game, get featured, get famous” are the steps – sounds easy!

The three contests cover different genres: Stand-up comedy, short film, and animation. Each contest also has different prizes that are more relevant and rewarding for the particular genre.

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Keeping itself in line as a distribution platform for independent video producers, DivX is running a film festival for members of the Stage6 community. The festival is devoted to storytelling, creation and improving digital media.

The winner of the $50,000 Network2 video contest which I posted about the other week was announced last week (yeah I know its a bit late but I’ve been busy).

Entries had to make a post about how to watch internet TV, and since Network2 were running the competition they liked a mention too.

The winner is: (an advert for Network2)

I’ve got two Joost invites left and Joost has emailed me today saying I need to get rid of them in 2 days or I’ll lose them as the company will now be moving to a new invite system.

I’ve already given out twenty two to WebTVWire readers in the past so if you haven’t had one yet here is your chance. Just leave a comment on this post. Preference will be given to anyone else who runs a blog\news site (especially if it’s web TV related).

Update: The two invites have been given out to the first 2 people who commented – please check more recent posts to see if I’m giving out any more

BrioBox is running a competition where you can win $50,000 by submitting your original YouTube videos to the site. The competition launched at the beginning of this month and will run to the end of the year and the winner, as well as recieving $50,000, should also have their video shown on national TV. I say should because BrioBox does not seem to have signed any TV broadcasting deals yet.

Network2 TV, a web video start-up that was founded by Jeff Pulver, has received all its entries for its $25,000 video contest. The competition has accepted a variety of videos that will show people “How to Watch Internet TV” to help raise awareness of the internet TV phenomenon.

The prizes are as follows:

• Grand prize: $25,000.00 US
• Second prize: $10,000.00 US
• Third prize: $5,000.00 US

There were over 60 videos submitted to the competition including submissions from a number of popular web TV shows including Viral (see entry below ) and Galacticast (see entry here ).

The winners of this contest will be announced on March 20th at Spring 2007 Video on the Net.

To give you a taste here is the submission from the web TV show Viral:

You can see the rest of the videos submitted to the competition here.

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