We had a big batch of finalists to choose from in December because of the high quality of submissions. You guys are really showing us some amazing demo reels! It always excites me to see the kind of talent out there in our network. Have you posted your Demo Reel to Poptent? C’mon, show off!
The judges have spoken and the winner of December’s $500 and Reel of the Month goes to:
Honorable Mentions
Hearty congratulations go out to all these amazing creators. Great work, everyone. You will go far.
Our judges panel this month is
Derek Hewitt
Senior Vice President of Marketing at TracFone, the fastest growing cell phone company in America
Lance Weiler
Founder, the Workbook Project. Writer and Director of “Head Trauma”. Recently named one of “The 18 People Who Changed Hollywood” by Business Week magazine.
David Schoneveld
Senior Digital FX Artist at Dreamworks Animation. Particle and Fluid Dynamics Instructor at The Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood.
Denise Zimmerman
President and Chief Strategy Officer of NetPlus Marketing, a digital agency based in greater Philadelphia. She has authored numerous articles and white papers on developments in the online world, and speaks at iMedia Summits and Shop.org conferences frequently.
John Shanley
Creative Director at NetPlus Marketing, a Top 50 Interactive Agency
Steve Rockman
Vice President of the StarGroup, a full service ad agency based in Philadelphia.

January 14th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
[...] were a lot of other good reels this time around (honorable mentions are posted on their blog). I’m not sure what made mine stand out, but … [...]
January 18th, 2009 at 4:30 am
Wow- the bar is rising. Great to see the new talent, and these amazing reels.