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    Do you have a story to tell? Join Youtube’s Your Film Festival.

    ArchivesDo you have a story to tell? Join Youtube's Your Film Festival.

    YouTube and Emirates, in partnership with La Biennale di Venezia (the Venice Film Festival) and Scott Free, announced Your Film Festival – a global competition to find the world’s best storytellers, connect them with a global audience, and provide one deserving entrant with a career-changing opportunity.

    Content creators around the world are invited to submit a 15-minute, story-driven video of any format, style and genre, to Youtube.com/yourfilmfestival.  After submissions are whittled down to 50 semi-finalists, audiences from around the world will cast their votes, choosing ten finalists. The ten finalists will travel to Italy, where their work will screen at the 69th Venice International Film Festival in August.  A grand prize winner will then be named by a special jury and awarded a $500,000 YouTube original production grant to work with Scott Free, ultimately creating a brand new work for the world to see.

    Submissions, which open February 2, 2012 and close on March 31, 2012, will be reviewed by Scott Free and narrowed down to 50 semi-finalists from around the world in the summer of 2012.  The YouTube community will then vote for ten finalists who will be flown to unveil their films in a special program at the 2012 Venice Film Festival.  In Venice, a jury will vote among the ten films to select one Grand Prize Winner.  The winner will receive a development deal with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions.

    Emirates, one of the world’s fastest growing airlines, is the sponsor of this year’s YouTube Your Film Festival. “The foundation of the Emirates brand is connecting people. As an airline, we link people from one destination to another and we also act as a cultural bridge for people’s thoughts, ideas and dreams,” said Boutros Boutros, Divisional Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, Emirates.  “Through our sponsorship of Your Film Festival we are supporting the journey of emerging filmmakers through YouTube’s innovative entertainment platform.”

    Your Film Festival is one of several efforts by YouTube to push the boundaries of music, art, and film.

    For more information, please visit youtube.com/yourfilmfestival and submit your film between February 2 and March 31, 2012.

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