Jo Bozarth WINS "Best Actress in a Comedy" at the 2nd Annual Indie Intertube Awards

I'm thrilled to announce that Jo Bozarth took home the Indie Intertube Award for "Best Actress In a Comedy" at this past Sunday's 2nd Annual Indie Intertube Awards.

As noted in the prvious entry, "The Further Adventures of Cupid and Eros" was nominated for 5 awards (including another nomination for Jo in the "Smexiest Actress" category) which was great in and of itself.  But Jo's win is especially great because Eros, as she exists in C&E, simply would not be if it wasn't for her.

You see, when I initially conceived of the idea of C&E, Eros was male--as the god technically is.  Eros was the Vince Vaughn to Cupid's John Favreau.  That was still the plan when I initially pitched the concept to my producer Andy Wells. 

As detailed in this post on the Cupid and Eros Blog, I'm pretty sure it was Andy who suggested that I re-write the role for Jo (Already one the core Highway 9 collaborators) instead.  And as soon as that seed was planted, Eros became infinitely more interesting to me, as did the show itself.  Eros went from being a supporting player to a full on co-star and the heart of the show became the friendship between her and Cupid instead of simply being about Cupid's love life or lack thereof. The role was written for Jo, and she made it better with every episode.

You can see the full list of nominees here, as well as the complete list of winners here.

CUPID AND EROS NOMINATED FOR 5 INDIE INTERTUBE AWARDS

On February 24th,  Indie Intertube, a podcast and webcast devoted to covering Web Series, New Media, and the places they intersect with traditional entertianment, announced the nominees in their 2nd annual Indie Intertube Awards.

I'm honored that "Cupid and Eros" was nominated in five categories.

• Best Actor, Comedy - Josh Heine (Cupid)
• Best Acress, Comedy - Jo Bozarth (Eros)
• Best Additional Content
• Smexiest (Smart +Sexy = Smexy) Actress - Jo Bozarth

And perhaps most exciting of all

• Best Dramedy

The Dramedy category is new this year and I'm thankful for it.  I definately consider C&E a comedy overall, but "comedy" in web series often means much broader humor than the show aims for. 

It's nice that the ladies of Indie Intertube chose to create a category for shows like ours and fellow nominees "Downsized" "Fumbling Through The Pieces" "Vampire Mob" "Leap Year" "Awakward Embraces" and "In The Rough" that straddle that line between humor and drama.

I'm also proud to say that C&E Editor, and my co-creator on "The Silver Lake Badminton and Adventurers Club," Matthew Smith is nominated for "Best Editing" for his work on "The Guild"  And Taryn O'Neill, who appears in episodes 7-9 of C&E, is nominated alongside Jo Bozarth in the "Smexiest Actress" category for her work in "Once Upon".

The awards will be streamed live, Sunday March 11th at 4 PM PST on MingleMediaTV

*An additional bit of fun in all of this is that Indie Intertube asked us to be one of the presenters when nominees were anounced last month.  Cupid and Eros took time from their work schedule to announce the nominees in 7 categories.  You can watch the announcement video (which also features creators from other great Web Series) here.