SAG New Media Mini-Summit:
Actors, Social Media and Celebrity - Communications and Commerce
Moderator: Kristyn Burtt, Host, New Media Producer, Pop Culture Writer
Jessica Mills, Creator/Co-Star, "Awkward Embraces" http://www.awkwardembraces.com/
Matthew Arevalo, Founder, Partner, Master Works http://www.choosemw.com/
Stephanie Thorpe, Actor/Producer/Multi-Hyphenate Creator, "Gold: Night of the Zombie King", "ElfQuest: A Fan Imagining" http://www.elfquestfantrailer.com/
Paula Rhodes, Actor/Producer, "A God Knight's Quest", "ElfQuest: A Fan Imagining" http://www.elfquestfantrailer.com/ http://agoodknightsquest.com/
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Moderator: Kristyn Burtt, Host, New Media Producer, Pop Culture Writer
For the last four years, she has co-hosted a live show for Toyota around the U.S. and she has interviewed the hottest celebrities on the red carpet for Focus Hollywood and Dance Channel TV. In July of 2009, she created the first online entertainment show focusing in on web series, “web celebs”, and new media called The Web Files. The show was named the Best Original Web Non-Fiction show for 2009 by Clicker.com and Kristyn was nominated for a 2010 Streamy Award for Best Web Series Host. Recently, Newstex syndicated her pop culture blog, Red Carpet Closet.
Kristyn is an honors graduate from NYU’s Tisch School of the Art and she is a member of The International Academy of Web Television.
Jessica Mills, Creator/Co-Star, "Awkward Embrace" (web series) http://www.awkwardembraces.com/
Jessica Mills is the creator and co-star of the web series Awkward Embraces, chosen out of 100 web series to be reviewed by Mike Hale in the New York Times. In less than a year, Awkward Embraces has over 170,000 total views and an every expanding fan base. Jessica has been chosen as one of 52 "Elite Geeks" to be featured in the "Geek a Week" Trading Card set being offered on Think Geek and has been invited to do signings and/ or panels at Wonder Con, Geek Girl Con, and Comikaze Expo. Awkward Embraces has been positively reviewed on over 20 websites, and Jessica has been interviewed on over 15 various websites and podcasts. She is currently in development on several new web series.
Matthew Arevalo, Founder, Partner, Master Works http://www.choosemw.com/
Matthew is passionate about helping the next generation of storytellers. His firm, Master Works, partners with creatives to help build community, find funding, and develop business strategy. A member of the International Academy of Web Television, he is also the Director of Research & Analytics for Singley + Mackie, a social media consultancy that works with Fortune 500 brands. His goal is to continue to find new ways to infuse projects with the management, social media and production assistance needed to break
away from the pack. His latest project, Asylum has won multiple awards including the LA Web Series Festival, Best of Clicker and the New Media Film Festival.
Paula Rhodes, Actor/Producer, "A God Knight's Quest", "ElfQuest: A Fan Imagining" http://www.elfquestfantrailer.com/ http://agoodknightsquest.com/
Paula dove into the web world in 2009 when she teamed up with Brett Register and Rick Rey to bring a BBC pilot presentation to life. Their next project was the ITVFest official selection A Good Knight's Quest, and 24 episodes later they continue to collaborate on upcoming projects. She's a series regular on the popular series Hollywood Wasteland, and has appeared in episodes of BlackBox TV, Elevator, Ask A Ninja, and was nominated for Best Guest Star for her appearance in the season finale of Bumps in the Night (along with Best Actress in a Comedy for A Good Knight's Quest) for the Indie Intertube Awards. Most recently, she's teamed up with Stephanie Thorpe to bring ElfQuest, a beloved comic from their childhood, to life in a fan fiction trailer. Paula continues to work in film/TV/commercials, but has loved the creative freedom and opportunity to wear the many hats one can only find in the online world. Follow her on Twitter @paula_rhodes
Stephanie Thorpe, Actor/Producer/Multi-Hyphenate Creator, "Gold: Night of the Zombie King", "ElfQuest: A Fan Imagining" http://www.elfquestfantrailer.com/ 
Stephanie is an actor, producer and content creator. Born and raised in Vancouver, she studied at Oxford and received a Master’s Degree from the University of Toronto. She’s been a driving force as a producer and actor in numerous web projects including the critically acclaimed After Judgment (6 Streamy nominations), NYTVF official selection & LA Web Fest winner, Asylum, Babelgum’s Hurtling Through Space, and Tyler Mane’s The Mane Show. Most notably, Stephanie just wrapped the fan fiction trailer ElfQuest (based on the 34yr old comic series) which was recently featured in the New York Times, io9 & Attack of the Show among other publications (www.elfquestfantrailer.com). This crowd-sourced production launched at WonderCon and was followed by a gala in LA hosted by The Screen Actors Guild. Over 27, 000 viewers watched the livestream and the site has had over 100,000 hits since April 5th 2011. Stephanie was thrilled to host the second Celebrate the Web event during ComicCon 2010 (an interactive forum for genre web creators & fans) and just completed hosting a global web festival for that non-profit organization. Stephanie continues to work in TV/film and garnered Best Actress in a Drama at the NYFilmFest. Her web acting credits also include guest appearances in the long-running Elevator and The Temp Life. She most recently starred in the Parsec Award-winning GOLD spin-off Night of the Zombie King, for which she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress by Indie Intertube in 2011. Follow her on Twitter @thestephthorpe
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