Netflix & Film Independent Announce $350,000 Find Your Voice Contest
Netflix and Film Independent announced a $350,000 Find Your Voice contest. Actor and director Josh Brolin will service as chair and panel judge, and the winning movie will be available to Netflix's 8+ million subscribers. Here's a quick rundown of how this contest will work:
- From today
until February 9th, the competition will accept applications from aspiring
filmmakers at www.netflix.com/findyourvoice. [Note: Only the first 2,000 submissions will be accepted.]
- Film
Independent will review and evaluate all submissions to select 10 semi-finalists,
who will be asked to submit a two-to-three-minute video short related to the
proposed program. The 10 semi-finalist
video shorts will be uploaded to the competition Web site on June 5, 2009 and
the videos will then be open to voting by the general
public through July 5, 2009.
- Five finalists will be determined by the video shorts receiving the most online votes. The winner of “Netflix FIND Your Voice Competition” will be selected from among the five finalists by a panel of judges consisting of independent film professionals, chaired by Mr. Brolin.
Thanks to Chris and Davis for sending this in.
Interest stuff, I just wish I had an 80 Pg. script to submit.
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Posted by: MCW | January 14, 2009 at 02:17 PM
*Interesting stuff...
Posted by: MCW | January 14, 2009 at 05:59 PM