YouTube
has offered everyone with a story to tell an opportunity of a lifetime
in a free-to-enter competition.
You have 15 minutes to tell a story. Millions of people may watch it.
And you might win $500,000 to make a new one for the world to see.
Your Film Festival is described by YouTube as a global search for the
world's best storytellers.
Submit a short, story-driven video.
There's no entry fee to pay.
The video can be any format - short film, web-series episode, TV pilot
- and any genre.
In June 2012, audiences around the world will vote, sending 10 deserving
storytellers to open the 2012 Venice Film Festival where a Grand Prize
Winner will be rewarded with a $500,000 grant to create a new work, produced
by Ridley Scott and his world class team.