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For Immediate Release


Blog4Reel.com Announces Their First Judge

San Antonio, Texas (September 12, 2008) – Blog4Reel.com, the world’s first blog-to-film competition, is proud to announce its first judge, Joseph Harmes, who will help determine the competition winner.

A native of San Antonio, Texas, Joseph Harmes is a writer who, over the years (for Time, Newsweek, People and other publications), interviewed Mexican presidents and covered the country’s economic collapses, the World Cup and the 1985 earth-quake in Mexico City. When tour guides at the museum in Dolores Hidalgo brag that then-Vice President George H.W. Bush visited on September 15, 1981, Harmes likes to say, “I know, I was with him.” Reporting assignments took him to the civil wars in Central America and the Balkans and to the home of Elian González in Cuba. After Gabriel García Márquez won the Nobel Prize, Harmes was the only American journalist invited to his private fiesta. The author appeared as himself in the books “Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Law-men and the War America Can’t Win,” “Salvador” and “The Border.” Prior to moving to San Miguel de Allende in 2002, Harmes served as Miami Bureau Chief for People magazine. “Joseph is one of those people who always sees outside the box. Joseph’s immense experience as a writer and working for national publications makes his professional perspective highly valuable on our panel. He is an integral component to making this competition a fun outlet for similarly creative minds,” says Co-Creator Catherine Nored.

Blog4Reel is based in San Antonio and owned by people who have a shared love of film, words, art and innovation. Nored and Suta, who debuted their first film, The Theory of Everything, in 2007 at the San Antonio Underground Film Festival, created Blog4Reel with the hope and intention of participating in the rapidly changing internet and modern cinema. One of their goals is to prove you don’t have to live in Hollywood; the thing that energizes a grass roots competition like Blog4Reel is that it’s universal and it doesn’t matter where you live.