Independent and Freelance Filmmakers: Grow Your Portfolio

Today, XLNTads has launched Poptent.net, the first social platform for the video creator community.

Poptent offers an unprecedented array of tools for video project management and collaboration. In addition, Poptent enables independent and freelance videographers to showcase their work both to their peers in the video community and to brand advertisers. They can develop working relationships with brands that need quality, affordable media solutions and earn money for their creative work.

Poptent will host rotating brand assignments and also its own ongoing Reel of the Month assignment. With Reel of the Month, creators will have a unique opportunity to gain recognition and visibility. A judging panel comprised of ad executives and Hollywood luminaries will select one creator to highlight each month based on their demo reels. The recipient of this honor will also earn $500 from Poptent.

The judging panel for Reel of the Month includes thought leaders such as Lance Weiler, founder of the Workbook Project, the leading resource for content creators on the Web. Mr. Weiler was recently named one of BusinessWeek Magazine's "18 People Who Changed Hollywood." Another judge is Dreamworks Senior Animator David Schoneveld who has worked on such films as "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Kung Fu Panda."

To join Poptent sign up for a free membership at http://www.poptent.net/. Members can upload their work, build their profiles and begin working on special assignments from Anheuser-Busch around a designated drivers campaign and from Brand Affinity Technologies for three top professional athletes (including star quarterback Carson Palmer, baseball great Brooks Robinson, and basketball star Robert Horry).