Barcelona - The Sundance Institute announced on Thursday that five made-for-mobile short films commissioned by the Sundance Film Festival Global Short Film Project have been made available for streaming or download by the public. The free films can be accessed by texting the word 'FILM' to +44-7624807811. Once downloaded, the films can be also shared using Bluetooth or memory card transfer.

Barcelona - The Sundance Institute on Monday introduced the five original made-for-mobile short films it commissioned as part of the Sundance Film Festival Global Short Film Project at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. The short films will initially be available only at the mobile industry conference, with wide distribution to mobile audiences to begin on Feb. 15. "We hope that the Global Short Film project inspires filmmakers and artists to think outside of the realm of traditional venues for cinema, and experiment with mobile as an intimate new avenue -- with global potential -- for their work," said John Cooper, director of programming for the Sundance Film Festival and creative director for Sundance Institute.

Dulles, Va. - AOL vice chairman Ted Leonsis this week premiered a new documentary film that he served as a producer on at the Sundance Film Festival. In a blog entry, Leonsis wrote on Friday that his team is "still working feverishly on a domestic (distribution) deal but it looks like we may have to wait until after the festival to close on one." "Nanking" chronicles the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II, and the heroic effort of a small group of Westerners to save as many civilians as possible.

New York - Sundance Channel on Thursday announced that it has partnered with Google's YouTube to make excerpts of its content available on the video-sharing site in 2007. Content will include "Festival Dailies," produced at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, and clips from the cable network's original series, films and documentaries. Also available exclusively on YouTube will be a video blog hosted by Crumley and Buice, independent filmmakers who recently screened their latest film within the virtual world "Second Life."

Park City, Utah - The Sundance Institute announced on Friday that it will offer a selection of the short films in competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival for purchase and download from Apple's iTunes Store.

New York - Zoom In Online, a community for creative professionals, announced on Tuesday that it will produce the first publicly accessible podcasts of panels offered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the panel podcasts, which will be distributed on iTunes, Zoom In Online's site will feature daily video blog posts with filmmaker interviews and reviews of films screened at the festival.