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AMAZING AWARDS

"Everybody Can Save a Life" is very special video contest. Participating videomakers have an amazing opportunity to contribute their skills to helping patients in need find willing organ donors.

To recognize winning videomakers for supporting this righteous cause, MatchingDonors.com is also offering some very impressive awards.

The First Place winner will not only receive a $5,000 cash award, but will also be given two tickets to and invited to attend and socialize with Hollywood’s biggest stars at the Hollywood Awards® Gala ceremony on October 24, 2011 in Hollywood, California (airfare and lodging not included). The Hollywood Awards® Gala launches the awards season and recognizes excellence in the established Hollywood community by bestowing awards to both those in front of and those behind the camera. The Gala is "the first mandatory stop in the awards season," says The New York Times. But that's not all, the First Place winner will also be awarded a choice of assistant producing and/or work & credits on a television show, movie or music video with one of our judges (see the list of judges below; subject to availability).

For Example:

• Assistant Digital Artist work & credits on a Disney Movie, Pixar Movie, or Lollipop Shaders production with Brad Falk.
• Assistant production work or internship on a 20th Century Fox or Fox television production through Tom Cavanaugh.
• Assistant producing work & credits on a television show, ESPN Special, History Channel Special, or Cross Cut Production with Brad Hebert.
• Assistant producing work & credits on a Bowery Boys Productions, Inc. movie with Endrick Lekay.
• Assistant producing work on a "Dog the Bounty Hunter" episode, "Parking Wars" episode or another television show with Hybrid Films and Daniel Elias.
• Assistant producing work & credits on a National Lampoon Movie with Alan Donnes.
• Assistant producing work & credits on an iPhone social game with Damon Danieli.
• Assistant production work on a Schramm Marketing Group production with Rafael Eli.

The Second Place winner will receive a $2,000 award and the choice of one of the remaining of assistant producing and/or work & credits on a television show, movie or music video with one of our judges.

The Third Place winner will receive $1,000 and the choice of one of the remaining assistant producing and/or work & credits on a television show, movie or music video with one of our judges.

ABOUT THIS CONTEST

Everybody Can Save A Life! is a video contest to raise awareness about being a living organ donor on MatchingDonors.com. Nineteen people die every day in the United States waiting for a kidney transplant. The team at MatchingDonors.com is working hard to make sure that doesn’t happen. MatchingDonors.com is a 501c3 non-profit and the world’s largest online living organ donor non-profit organization. Learn more about MatchingDonors.com here.

YOUR MISSION

Make a 30-second video that promotes, celebrates, or teaches about being a living organ donor on MatchingDonors.com. The creative approach you take on this assignment is at your discretion. A serious approach could be taken to highlight the noble heroism and compassion of persons who willingly and altruistically donate a piece of themselves to save lives. On the other hand, a funny approach could also be taken to highlight the lighter side of living organ donation. For instance, what humorous things could happen to a person who’s trying to donate an organ? How does missing an organ change a person’s attitude in a humorous way? While the creative direction you choose is up to you, be mindful that MatchingDonors.com wants these videos to serve effectively as Public Service Announcements (PSAs), so they should represent the process of organ donation in a positive manner.

Once uploaded to Zooppa, approved videos will immediately be uploaded to TubeMogul, an online video advertising network, and distributed throughout the web to begin spreading the word about MatchingDonors.com's cause. This is a great opportunity for videomakers of all skill levels to help raise awareness about a remarkable non-profit organization and cause.

requirements

All video submissions must reference MatchingDonors.com and include the phrase "Everyone Can Save a Life by being a living organ donor on MatchingDonors.com" in their videos.

SELECTION OF WINNERS

This video contest features a unique winners selection process. A list of finalists will be generated through a combination of voting and judges’ recommendations before the three winners are selected. The top ten most-voted videos at end of the contest entry period will be placed on this list of finalists for consideration. Additionally, an illustrious panel of high-profile entertainment industry judges has been assembled to help select winning submissions for this contest (see the list of judges below). The panel will recommend up to three of the videos that were directly addressed for them for individual review (*UPDATE: judges will give special attention to videos addressed to them but will consider all submissions when recommending videos to the finalist list*). Contest entrants should request (although not required) a specific judge to view each of their video submissions by indicating which judge they would like to personally review their video in the description field of their submission during upload. Including the top ten most voted videos and depending on how many videos each judge ultimately recommends, the list of finalists can range from 10 to over 45 video submissions.

Once the list of finalists has been generated, each judge will then have three votes to distribute among the video submissions that they feel are the best. After this round of voting, the three video submissions with the most votes will be awarded First, Second and Third Place Awards.

To ensure that your video submission has the best chance to win, be sure to encourage others to create a Zooppa account and vote for your video as well as to indicate which judge you would like to individually review your submission in the description field your video during upload.

The Entry Period and Voting Period end October 1st, 2011.

JUDGING CRITERIA

Content: How original, practical, and or/inspirational is the message?

Creativity: How engaging, amusing, or effective is the presentation?

Clarity: How clear and understandable is the instruction or message?

JUDGES

Judging will be conducted by the following illustrious and extremely talented people who are great supporters of MatchingDonors.com:


Jim Rosenthal

Jim most recently served as President of New Line Television and New Line Media. (Jim has been a personal friend of Paul Dooley for the past 7 years)

In that role, he managed all aspects of the company’s television production as well as distribution of New Line feature films and television series; oversaw the studio’s licensing programs for consumer products based on its movies; and created and ran the company's e-commerce and new media initiatives. Rosenthal was with New Line Cinema for 16 years. He also built and managed New Line’s business development and strategic planning department.

Prior to joining New Line, Rosenthal was a Senior Associate for Media and Communications with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, working out of their New York offices as well as Singapore and Sydney, Australia.

Jim is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Kaplan Ventures, and past Board member of the International Radio & Television Society Foundation.

Click here to learn more about Jim.


Alan Donnes

Alan is a National Lampoon movie producer and he owns and produces National Lampoon Radio Hour. (Alan received a kidney transplant through MatchingDonors.com)

Alan has produced among other things "Dead Serious', "Snatched", "Patron Saints", "The Legend of Awesomest Maximus.. aka National Lampoon's the Legend of Awesomest Maximus", "Dirty Movie... aka National Lampoon's Dirty Movie". Alan covered the New Orleans Saints on radio for 4 years and later developed the largest independent radio network in the NFL. He is also the author of the bestselling book, Patron Saints: How the Saints Gave New Orleans a Reason To Believe. Alan is also the former manager of Heavyweight Champion Larry Holmes, camp manager of Champ Riddick Bowe.

Click here to learn more about Alan.


Tom Cavanaugh

Tom is the Senior Vice President of Music at 20th Century Fox. (Tom donated a kidney to a patient he found on MatchingDonors.com)

Tom is also the Senior Vice President of Business & Legal at Fox Music, Inc. Tom works on all Fox mega-hits like Glee, American Idol and Avatar.

Click here to learn more about Thomas.


Jody Simon

Jody Simon is a world renowned Entertainment Attorney and the managing partner of Peter, Rubin & Simon, LLP. (Jody has been MatchingDonors.com’s attorney for the past 7 years)

With more than twenty years of private practice and in-house experience, Mr. Simon has worked on virtually every kind of deal in the entertainment industry in such areas as feature films, television, publishing, music and live stage. Jody Simon represents television networks, production companies and executive producers in all aspects of development, production, distribution and the negotiation and drafting of agreements and counseling in copyright, trademark and clearance issues. He works extensively on licensing, branding and merchandising deals for clients including marquee performers, video game publishers, visual artists, auto manufacturers, and universities. Jody works in both live-action and animated programming, in the world of comic books, and has unique strength in reality television and in Canadian and other international co-productions.

Jody is a former member of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Entertainment Industry Advisory Council. He served five terms as Governor of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and two terms on the ATAS Executive Committee. As chair of that organization’s Runaway Production Committee, he was profiled in a special issue of Emmy Magazine. Mr. Simon also has served as chair of the ATAS Bylaws and Industry Credits Committees. His article "Facing Reality" (co-authored with Arnold Peter) appeared in the annual Entertainment Law issue of the magazine Los Angeles Lawyer.

Click here to learn more about Jody.


Jon Kroll

Jon is an Emmy Award Winning Producer and has been a friend of MatchingDonors.com for the past six years. (Jon has been a personal friend of Paul Dooley for the past 7 years)

Over the past two decades, Jon Kroll has directed three feature films and produced dozens of television programs, including "The Amazing Race," for which he was honored with a 2004 Primetime Emmy Award. For four years, he was Executive Vice President, Original Programming, for New Line Television where he served as Executive Producer on both scripted and unscripted shows. He left to join Lost Marbles Productions, as President, Alternative Programming, where he oversaw an overall deal with Lionsgate Television. In addition to his ongoing producing activities, he is an Adjunct Professor for USC's School of Cinematic Arts.

Kroll's recent projects include "Flipping Vegas" for A&E, "Pit Bulls & Parolees" for Animal Planet, "Hookers: Saved on the Strip" for Investigation Discovery; "International Federation of Hip-Hop" for BET; "High School Confidential" for WE; "Family Foreman" for TV Land; and "Blade: The Series," which was Spike TV's first original dramatic series. He previously created and Executive Produced the controversial UPN series, "Amish in the City," which critics hailed as "compelling," "charming" and "One of the best new reality series of 2004."

Kroll has produced television programs for nearly every broadcast and cable network. He was commissioned by Lucasfilm and Fox to write, direct and executive produce "From StarWars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic.” His other television credits include "Big Brother" for CBS, "Masters of Illusion" for NBC, "Confrontation" for A&E, "Combat Missions" for USA, "Movie Magic" for Discovery, "The Clone Age." and "How’d They Do That?" for TLC, "The Rosie O’Donnell Show," "Hypernauts" for ABC, "Masters of Fantasy" for SciFi, "Battle of the Wedding Singers" for GSN, "Exploring the Unknown" for ABC Family and "Live! The World's Greatest Stunts" for Fox among many other shows.

Kroll’s feature directing work includes the virtual reality thriller, Menno’s Mind, starring Bill Campbell, Stephanie Romanov, Corbin Bernsen, Michael Dorn, Robert Picardo, Robert Vaughn and Bruce Campbell. He also wrote and directed Amanda & the Alien, which was based on a story by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Robert Silverberg, and became Showtime's highest rated original film of 1995.

In addition to film and television, Kroll’s other projects include more than two dozen live stage productions, audio programs for National Public Radio, and theme parks. In 1990, he spent eight months in southern Japan as Supervising Show Director for Sanrio Harmonyland. He also directed the Ron Howard hosted Universal Studio Tour. Recently, he has entered the publishing arena by penning a comic book, "Tales of a Hippy Kid."

Originally from Northern California, Kroll was raised on a Mendocino County commune without television or electricity. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Film Production and graduated Summa Cum Laude from San Francisco State University. Kroll later completed his M.F.A. at the U.S.C. School of Cinema-Television’s Peter Stark Motion Picture Producing Program. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Karen.

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Endrick Lekay

Endrick is an award winning movie producer and vice president of Bowery Boys Productions, Inc. (Endrick donated a kidney to a patient he found on MatchingDonors.com, and will also be donating a portion of a liver to a patient he found on MatchingDonors.com).

Endrick produced the recent John Bon Jovi video for the song “Superman Tonight” in which Jon Bon Jovi showcased our organ donor. Endrick also produced "The Woods Have Eyes" and was an assistant producer of "El Vacilón: The Movie", "Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous", "Stuck on You", "Vanilla Sky", and "Miss Congeniality". He is currently in development for three feature films and an original movie for Lifetime, which he is producing through his company, Bowery Boys Productions, Inc.

Click here to learn more about Endrick.


Daniel Elias

Dan is an Executive Producer, Director & Founding Partner Hybrid Films (Dan and Hybrid Films are longtime friends of MatchingDonors.com)

In 1995 Daniel co-founded Hybrid Films with his business partner David Houts to pursue their passion for storytelling, larger than life characters and in-the-moment real-life drama. Since then they have produced over 400 episodes of powerful, dramatic and humorous television. They have created everything from groundbreaking series that pioneered character-driven docu-soap, like Brooklyn North Homicide, Family Plots and King of Cars, to long running hits like Dog the Bounty Hunter and Parking Wars. Hybrid Films has built a stand-out reputation for innovation and excellence in documentary and character-driven reality television. Their hit series have aired all over the world. The New York Times calls their work “brilliantly slick and compelling” and The New York Post hails it as a “new standard in documentaries.”.

Prior to launching Hybrid, Daniel worked as an independent producer for PBS’ MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour while still studying film at New York University, and was nominated for a Peabody. He produced and directed award-winning documentaries on issues ranging from the arms industry to the environment, and human rights abuses.

Click here to learn more about Daniel.


Rafael Eli

Rafael is a Partner at the Schramm Marketing Group. (Rafael received a kidney transplant through MatchingDonors.com)

Schramm Marketing Group is an 18 year old New York City-based company that specializes in attracting fans or audiences or members for those who want to reach them. Schramm targets specific audience segments for entertainment and sports - - essentially anything involving TV, tickets or turnstiles. The company is best known as the cable TV industry leader for attracting Hispanic subscribers; for its expertise in determining the best distribution models for soccer on TV; and as a leader in generating sold-out international soccer events in the US.

As a result, Schramm "masterminded" the cross-platform distribution of the South American World Cup Qualifiers and has put more “butts in seats” at international soccer matches in the U.S. than anyone else.

The company initiated the Hispanic Television summit which has become a signature annual event presented by leading TV industry publications, Multichannel News and Broadcasting & Cable (B&C). Schramm also produces the Video On Demand Summit, the On Screen Summit and the Multicultural Breakfast at the NCTA Cable Show for Multichannel News and B&C. And for the first time this year, Schramm produced the Eleventh Annual Multicultural Media Forum for Horowitz & Associates, a leading research firm with particular expertise in research among Hispanic, multicultural, and global audiences.

Click here to learn more about Rafael.


Brad Hebert

Brad is an award winning television producer and owner of Cross Cut Productions Inc. (Brad is a longtime friend of MatchingDonors.com)

Brad spent ten years at the Longform Documentary Unit at ABC, producing multi-part series and specials for broadcast and cable. Brad’s credits include Supervising Producer, Director, Series Producer, Broadcast Producer, Shooter and Editor. Brad produced ABC’s "Hopkins", "Table for 12", "NYPD 24/7", "In The Jury Room" and many other shows.

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Brad Falk

Brad is an award winning lead technical director and visual artist for some of the most famous animated films for Disney/Pixar, Lucas Film and other film studios. Brad is also the owner of LollipopShaders.com. (Brad is receiving a kidney transplant through MatchingDonors.com)

His projects include Mars Needs Moms (2011) (digital artist) Toy Story 3 (2010) (digital artist) The Golden Compass (2007) (lead technical director: Framestore CFC) Meet the Robinsons (2007) (technical director)... aka "Beetle" ¬Philippines (English title) (review title) Charlotte's Web (2006) (lighting artist: Rising Sun Pictures) Star Wars: Episode III ¬Revenge of the Sith (2005) (digital artist) Van Helsing (2004) (digital artist) Timeline (2003) (digital artist: ILM) Tears of the Sun (2003) (digital artist) Men in Black II (2002) (computer graphics artist: ILM) Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) (pre-visualization) (uncredited)

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Tom Martinez

Tom Martinez is a world famous NFL quarterback coach. The NFL has named Tom "The Quarterback Whisperer". (Tom is receiving a kidney transplant through MatchingDonors.com)

Tom Martinez has mentored NFL quarterbacks for more than 40 years and coached at the College of San Mateo for 32 years. In addition to working with several NFL quarterbacks, including Tom Brady and JaMarcus Russell, Tom has mentored hundreds of collegiate and high school quarterbacks throughout the nation. Tom earned a combined 1,400 career victories in football and other sports at the College of San Mateo, making him the "winningest" community college coach in the history of California. He currently conducts private coaching sessions with quarterbacks of all ages from around the country, including many NFL quarterbacks.

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Click here to see Tom in action.


Damon Danieli

Damon is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Z2Live, Inc., one of the iPhones top social gaming companies and was one of the core designers of the Technical Emmy Award winning Xbox Live. (Damon received a kidney transplant through MatchingDonors.com)

Prior to founding Z2Live, his current company, Damon spent 14 years at Microsoft in a variety of development and innovation management roles. During his Microsoft career, Damon served as Technical Lead of the Xbox Entertainment Network inside Microsoft Games Studios and as a Lead Program Manager for Xbox Live where he designed many of the marquee features of the Xbox Live service including Voice Chat, Voice Commands, Friends, Invitations, Presence and Notifications. Also as part of the Xbox team, Damon served as program manager for Security, Authentication, Authorization, NAT Traversal, Matchmaking and Networking. Damon was granted over 20 patents while at Microsoft.

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Click here to learn more about Z2live.

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