LOS ANGELES, CA, June 2, 2008 — The “2008 MTV Movie Awards” may be over, but there’s one guy for whom the party is just starting — Norm Spantz, the Buzznet.com member who was honored with the MTV Movie Award for the best UGC movie spoof for his movie satire entitled Juno: Teen Pregnancy Redux http://www.buzznet.com/groups/mtvmovieawards. The award was given out during the live pre-show last night at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, CA.
Norm, along with his co-producer and cameraman, Armen Aghaeian, jumped at the challenge to create an original movie short parody for the “2008 MTV Movie Spoof Contest” through Buzznet, the web’s leading social music community, http://www.Buzznet.com . The Buzznet community voted Norm’s entry, a Juno parody, as the best by a landslide. His video moved on to the final round on www.movieawards.mtv.com where fans voted for his Juno parody the winner from seven finalists, one from each of the participating sites, including Buzznet, Photobucket, MySpace, Daily Motion, Break, Heavy and FunnyorDie.
Said Norm of winning MTV’s Golden Popcorn Award, “Thanks to MTV and Buzznet for this amazing opportunity both for myself and the other talented contestants. It was very hard to spoof a movie written by a stripper from Minnesota about a girl who has sex with a member of the high school cross country team, but we were fortunate to pull it off.”
Buzznet CEO Tyler Goldman commented, “The moment I saw this video on our site, I knew it would be hard to beat. I foresee an even larger MTV Movie Award in Norm’s future. We’re thrilled to have partnered with MTV to bring Buzznet’s millions of users the opportunity to showcase their natural talent, even if it means sporting fluorescent yellow shorts and singing about Adderall.”
Norm is a 30-something writer and producer, holding the odd distinction as one of only three known individuals in the Western world to have seven fingers on his right hand. Norm turned his obstacle into a benefit, winning numerous typing and speed stacking contests as a young man. He cites his astounding 130 words-typed-per-minute as his greatest writing skill.
Armen is an up and coming Director of Photography, with an ever-growing list of commercial and film industry clients. Armen’s work is on the leading edge of the next generation of digital filmmaking equipment and technology.
Juno: Teen Pregnancy Redux credits:
Created by: Norm Spantz
Film/Sound: Armen Aghaeian, Herbert Barraza
Editor: Armen Aghaeian
Actors: Zach Begle
Samantha Dougless
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