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Attention video journalists and independent filmmakers everywhere. EVEO wants you! What is EVEO? EVEO is YOUR destination for broadband video on the web. Its yours because we want video stories produced by you... and other video enthusiasts like you. Irreverent, personality-driven pieces from your own neighborhood... your own life. Explore a serious social issue youre concerned about. Show us your latest overseas excursion. From adventure travelers to extreme athletes to citizen reporters, we want to know about your passions because EVEO is all about stories from YOUR world from YOUR point of view.

EVEO is a VC-backed pre-launch web startup led by a management team with experience with ABC, Fox, HBO, CNN, Sundance and Britains Channel 4. Our advisory board includes Kevin Foxe, producer of the Blair Witch Project. Were so serious about these new short form videos, were giving away $10,000 cash and Apple IMac and Sony VAIO editing suites to the most compelling EVEO submissions. So, if you've got an untold story to tell then the world is ready to see it.

You can send your EVEO to: Eveo, Inc. 900 North Point Chocolate Building, Ste. 202 Ghiradelli Square San Francisco, CA 94109

For guidelines about how to produce or submit an EVEO video, visit www.eveo.com or e-mail davin@eveo.com. Competition deadline is February 29, 2000. Spread the word.

-- (davin@eveo.com), January 25, 2000

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I currently work for a video production company in Breckenridge Colorado where we produce ski films. I am 36 yrs old, originally from Scotland although have lived in Alaska for the last 12 yrs. I have shot video for the last 10 yrs, lots of mountaineering projects including shooting tape on MtEverest in 1995. For the duration of my time in Alaska I have been an avid competitor in Sled Dog Racing, includin Alaska`s 1000 mile Iditarod. In Febuary of 2000, I shall be traveling to Fairbanks Alaska to document on video a race known as the Yukon Quest. The Yukon Quest is a dog sled race that follows the old Gold Rush trails between Fairbanks and Whitehorse in the Yukon (see yukonquest.org ) I shall be shooting with a Sony DSR 300 & VX 1000., I am following all 1000 iles of this event by snowmobile. Please let me know if you would be interested in a submission. Dave

-- Dave King (polarquest@hotmail.com), January 27, 2000.

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