New Indie Film Site The Auteurs To Make A Splash At Cannes

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Indie Implosion, Several Kinds of Awful: BlogNosh 05/12/08
Published 5/12/2008 by Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog
... , is hosting a short film competition at Cannes. TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington has a prediction: “These movies are going to be awful.” ...

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Published 5/13/2008 by Scott Macaulay (noreply@blogger.com) at Filmmaker Magazine
... Michael Arrington at TechCrunch reports on a way you can make money while in Cannes. (Actually, there are a bunch of ways you can make money in Cannes, but this one is legal.) The arthouse download site The Auteurs is sponsoring a contest in which you arrive at the festival, pick up one of 250 Flip cameras, make a film while there, and compete for a $10,000 prize. More details at the link. Previously we wrote about the Obama Campaign's "Obama in 30 Seconds Competition" user-generated political ad competition. You can see the winner and the runners-up ...