2011 RightOutTV Music Video Awards

RightOutTV will present awards in 13 categories including Best Live Performance, Best Video, Most Moving Video, Best Comic Twist, Best Pop/Rock Video, Best Dance/Electronic Video, Best Folk/Roots/Jazz Video, Best Hip Hop/Urban/R&B Video and Fan Fave Video. "We have also created two levels of performance within each category - Pro and Do It Yourself (DIY)," says Walchuk "Music videos created at the Pro level will, for example, perhaps include a director and a high budget." Music videos created on a smaller budget and without the help of other professionals will be entered in the DIY category. "Many of our RightOutTV artists and other Out musicians and bands who will be competing for these awards have produced some incredibly creative video performances using little more than a camera held by their best friends," Walchuk said. Walchuk and Callender of the music duo Sugarbeach launched RightOutTV In November 2010 after realizing there were few places to release their own queer -messaged music videos. The women - married to each other - also saw a need for more unity in the LGBTI music community. RightOutTV was created as a vehicle to serve both these purposes and to provide a fully-developed promotional website for LGBTI artists. In less than a year, Walchuk and Callender have significantly boosted the profiles of more than 100 Out artists, at no cost to the artists themselves. RightOutTV also provides cross-promotional social networking on Facebook and Twitter. "RightOutTV has become what we had envisioned - a viable resource for queer and questioning youth, LGBTI people in politically challenging countries and an easily accessible outlet for Pride festivals and event coordinators to discover and recruit new talent," says Callender. "We also saw a vital need for a place artists could share professional information such as media interview opportunities, terrestrial and online radio stations scouting for queer music and performance venues and events, such as Gay Pride, that will pay artists for their performances." "It is our goal to encourage Out artists to create a more significant visual presence on the internet, being true to who they really are and telling their own stories through their music," says Callender. Media Contact: Marlee Walchuk Phone Number: 1-778-279-4554 (Vancouver, Canada) E-mail: RightOutTV@shaw.ca Website: www.RightOutTVawards.com