YouTube announces its users the first online film festival

The popular video site, announces call to all filmmakers in the world, the finalists will participate in the Venice Film Festival and the winner will receive $ 500,000. Your Film Festival is the first film festival in the web and can become one of the largest in the world. The production company Scott Free Productions, will make a first selection and rated videos by the users come to Venice.

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Your film festival, translated as your film festival, short films will receive up to 15 minutes. The material will begin receiving the February 2 and end on March 31. A total of 50 semifinalists short form a channel on YouTube, where users can view and vote for their favorites.

The ten most voted stories will be presented at the Venice Film Festival. Ridley Scott will head a jury that will choose the winner, who will receive a prize of $500,000 by YouTube to produce a play with Scott Free.

“Making short films is exactly how I started my career 50 years ago, why help new filmmakers to find an entry point as this industry is fantastic,” said Scott. Virtually the only restraints as well as the duration are: be over 18 years of age and that the presented work has not been distributed by January 1, 2010.

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