Short Films

The World's Biggest Short Film

Authored by Rohit Bhargava on September 21, 2006 - 8:35am.

I2m_1secondfilm For anyone who ever wanted to be listed on the closing credits of a film, your chance has arrived online.  The 1 Second Film is a nonprofit collaborative film project that has stated a single simple aim ... to create "The World's Biggest Short Film."  To do it, the project is enlisting donations of $1 or more from anyone and everyone.  Each donor will be listed as a Producer in the 90 minute long credits of the film, in order based on amount of donation.  The actual 1 second film will consist of an animated sequence of images taken from 12 giant 5ft by 9ft paintings, each of which was individually directed and contributed to by hundreds of artists in March of 2001.

Yahoo Telemundo Launches Online Short Film Contest

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 2, 2006 - 1:26pm.
Miami - Yahoo Telemundo, a partnership between the Internet portal and Spanish-language broadcaster, on Wednesday announced the launch of an online short film festival. Sponsored by the Toyota Yaris, the Yahoo Telemundo Short Film Festival will seek film submissions from Hispanic filmmakers in both English and Spanish on Yahoo Telemundo Cine, the companies' online movie channel. Online voting will run through Oct. 20, with the most popular shorts to be aired on both Telemundo and mun2.