NYC Web Fest

Who will win big at this year’s NYC Web Fest? This is your Monday Motivation reminder to submit your Web Series, Pilot Episode & Short Film today at nycwebfest.com, link in bio ✨♥️🗽

creator Cylla Senii returns to NYC Web Fest as a jury member in 2024!! 🥳💜 make sure to submit your web series and shorts for consideration!! 🔥

Meredith’s first professional acting role as Tessie in Annie came while still in elementary school when she was living on the Great Island of New Castle off the coast of New Hampshire. She continued to act in summer stock productions in the northeast throughout her youth, but soon headed west to Los Angeles, securing a role in her first big-budget feature film, Pleasantville as a teenager. She hasn’t stopped working in film and television since.

She is second only to Vivica A. Fox in the number of Lifetime Television Movies. With chops for both comedy and drama, you’ll find her easily transitioning between thrillers like Lifetime’s The Wrong Blind Date, The Wrong Boy Next Door” and the new Christmas classics “A Christmas in Vermont” with Chevy Chase, plus “A Christmas in Royal Fashion. The latter was ION Television’s highest-rated movie in prime-time and ranked #2 that season among all the networks airing holiday movies with an average of 1.2 million views.

Meredith is also an award-winning director and producer who has made inclusion her passion. In 2018 she created a charity event called FYC Independents. It gave a platform to underrepresented talent including people of color, performers with disabilities, LGBTQ talent, seniors and women. In 2023, Spirit Quest with Jack Maxwell, a TV pilot she directed, was nominated for Best Pilot at the Tenth Annual NYC Web Fest.

Cylla Senii is a versatile and daring artist who shines both on and off screen as an actress, producer, director, and writer. Her series SITUATIONSHIPS, which she created, wrote, directed, produced, and starred in, made its first debut on BET and is now available on Tubi & Amazon. SITUATIONSHIPS is currently in development for television with Monami Productions. Cylla is a member of the Producers Guild of America.

Senii is thrilled by the release of her new series BOUGIE & ABROAD on Blavity TV highlighting her passion for travel as a millennial. Upcoming, she is starring, producing, and writing a new unscripted series on TV ONE. In addition to developing her slate of film and TV projects under her production company, Featherstone Entertainment, Senii has several years of production and development experience working at the likes of Swirl Films, A&E, theGrioTV, Nickelodeon, Complex, HOT 97, Disney, Sony Music, and more.

Cylla is a graduate from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Arts and Journalism in Advertising with an emphasis in Film Studies and Music Business. In New York City, she sharpened her acting and improv skills by studying at Terry Schreiber Studios and the UCB Training Center. Currently, Cylla received the Cornell University Women’s Entrepreneurship certificate. In her spare time, she loves to travel, dance, read, and spend time with her loved ones. She reps her Liberian-Chinese-Trini background proudly, and holds down Queens, New York where she was born and has a love for the deep southern city of Warner Robins GA, where she spent her youth.

Jen Su is a television host and international entertainment correspondent for the Sunday Times. She covers film festivals and global red carpet events around the world from Oscars to Cannes — and works with diverse communities to educate through film, as a Board Director for the Philadelphia Film Society. Jen is also a commentator on film and fashion for Fox 29 in Philadelphia, as well as SABC3 Expresso in South Africa, where she lived for a decade and was host of 5 FM’s Hollywood Report with Gareth Cliff, as well as news anchor for Sky News’ “The African Business Report”.

RICK YOUNGER is an actor, comedian, and singer who you’ve undoubtedly seen in numerous national television commercials. Film credits include Ordinary World, Morning Glory and Love Reconsidered. He’s appeared on TV in the Woody Allen Amazon Series, Crisis in Six Scenes, HBO’s Girls, Blue Bloods, Law & Order: SVU, The Last O.G., and The Other Two on HBOMAX. Rick has been on Broadway where he originated the role of Mr. Duvall in Mean Girls the Musical. Rick is also the star and co-creator of Rick Younger presents The Rick Younger Show starring Rick Younger as Rick Younger which won Best Pilot at NYC Web Fest in 2023.

Jack Maxwell hosted Booze Traveler, Booze Traveler: Best Bars, and The Trip (Travel Channel, 4 yrs/76 eps, domestic and int’l distribution). He has made guest star TV appearances on Lost, 24, House, Without a Trace, Beverly Hills 90210, General Hospital, All My Children, and others. He has shared the stage with Al Pacino, Jessica Chastain, and Dianne Wiest in Salome, and has appeared in several other theatrical productions. Jack hails from South Boston, MA, and resides in Los Angeles. In 2023 Jack won Best Host/Solo performer for his nominated TV Pilot Spirit Quest with Jack Maxwell at the Tenth Annual NYC Web Fest. He is a Lifetime Member of the Actors Studio and can be found on Instagram and Twitter at .

Emmy and 8-time NAACP winner P. Frank Williams is the Director and Executive Producer of the highly rated Hulu documentary Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told. Williams was also the showrunner and Executive Producer of the new Tubi true crime series Killing Hip Hop, hosted by Angela Yee. He served as the Executive Producer and Showrunner of the 50 Cent and Mona Scott-Young produced series Hip Hop Homicides on WeTV and ALLBlk in 2022. The series, hosted by Van Lathan, investigated the murders of rappers like Pop Smoke, Soulja Slim, # # , Magnolia Shorty and more. He also was the EP/Showrunner of the Tina Knowles produced Discovery Plus & OWN four-part series Profiled: The Black Man and the Tv One music collaboration series Collab, hosted by legendary rapper Doug E. Fresh.

He was a Co-Executive Producer for the BET show Copwatch America, a documentary series about police brutality. Williams worked as an Executive Producer at TMZ and was a Supervising Producer for FOX’s Who Shot Biggie and Tupac. The Oakland native was a producer and co-host of the A&E Biography investigative series Who Killed Tupac? about the murder of Tupac Shakur. Williams was a director and senior producer for TV One’s acclaimed Unsung and Unsung Hollywood documentary series. The show won multiple NAACP Image Awards.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, Williams was Executive Editor of The Source Magazine where he interviewed Dr Dre, Suge Knight, Lauryn Hill and more. He started his career as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, and is a graduate of San Diego State University and The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the founder and president of For The Culture By The Culture Media Inc, an urban content creation company based in Los Angeles with satellite offices in Atlanta and the Bay Area. www.pfrankwilliams.com

More 5th Anniversary Memories! NYCWF founder with Award Winner & panelist and moderator & former jury member
Fun Fact: all 3 are from Toronto! 🇨🇦
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From NYC Web Fest alum to 2024 Jury Member! Shout out to seen here speaking on a panel during our 5th Anniversary in 2018 ✨♥️🗽

There’s James Bond, and then there’s the one and only . Flashback to the 2018 NYC Web Fest Awards Gala and its very dapper cohost. ✨♥️🗽

ICYMI! had the exclusive on the 2024 NYC Web Fest jury! Join my in welcoming along with and ! You can read all about it at the link in our bio!
You have until August 31st to submit your Web Series, Pilot Episode & Short Film at nycwebfest.com ✨♥️🗽

That’s right! To celebrate our 2024 jury news, we’ve extended our submission deadline till August 31st!
Submit your , and today at nycwebfest.com - link in bio ✨♥️🗽

NYC Web Fest Returns to The Producers Club for its 11th Edition and Announces Full Jury Line-Up

https://goodstarvibes.com/nyc-web-fest-2024-the-producers-club-jurors/

Get ready! Next week we announce the rest of the 2024 NYC Web Fest jury! Much love to and ✨♥️🗽

Too stunning not to share.
This is not AI 🗽 The full Buck Moon rising behind the Statue of Liberty 📸 by on Sunday evening.

We dare.
We dream.
We create.
Last month to submit! ✨♥️🗽

Who will join & on the 2024 NYC Web Fest jury? We have BIG NEWS coming up in the next few days!

If you haven’t already, be sure to submit your Web Series, Short Film & Pilot Episode today at nycwebfest.com
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Love to make ‘em laugh? Submit your Comedy Web Series, Short Film & Pilot Episode today at nycwebfest.com - all genres welcome! ✨♥️🗽🤭

Mood all day. ✨♥️🗽

to the 2nd Annual NYC Web Fest in 2015, the year we became a “fully formed” festival. Filmmakers flew in on Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Australia, France and more. We hosted the World Premiere of The Mentors starring and who won for Special Guest Star. We also welcomed the festival premiere of ’s Cop Show ft Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock. In 2016 we expanded to Pilot Episodes (thanks !) and Short Films. Can’t believe we’re turning 11 this year! ✨♥️🗽

We’re so lucky to have these stars on the jury this year! Who else will be joining & on the 2024 NYC Web Fest jury? Keep watching this space and don’t forget to submit your work! Send in your Web Series, Short Film, and Pilot Episode today at nycwebfest.com - LINK IN BIO
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Name a better duo 🥰 to our Fifth Anniversary red carpet hosts & at the 2018 NYC Web Fest, for
So many wonderful memories of the past decade. We can’t wait to gather again this fall! ✨♥️🗽

More Fifth Anniversary memories! This time with 2018 I Love NY winners Bethany Watson, Anya Marina, and Jon Sosis from “Anya Marina: Indie-pendent Woman”
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- taking it back to our Fifth Anniversary in 2018, with the Best Web Series winners Sean Meehan, Jen Browne, Amanda Dieli and Steven Conroy for their series 18 Grand: A Personal Space Odyssey.
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But wait, there’s more! We couldn’t let this Monday go by without wishing the hostess with the mostess a VERY happy birthday! While we’re at it, happy belated to our friends & as well! 🥂🎂♥️🗽

ICYMI: Presenting the first 3 members of our 2024 Jury Panel! The supremely talented , and !
Our friends had the exclusive news on these awesome jurors, check it out at the LINK IN BIO
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Thank you !
Much love to our first 3 jurors and !
Check out the article here: https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Jurors-Announced-For-NYC-WEB-FEST-2024-20240522
Submissions for the 11th Annual NYC Web Fest are open now! Send in your Web Series, Short Film & Pilot Episode today at nycwebfest.com
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