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I was wondering if there can be a film festival, an actually in person film festival that is also online. Start a group where people can submit there hard worked on films. Then the top (whatever numbers) will be selected by you guys based on guidelines you set.

After that, the online festival can be a dedicated web site that uses Viddler's authentication. With that, users on Viddler can vote for their favorite movies. In the PA or any city chosen by the Viddler staff, the actually film festival will show the films from the top movies.

At a certain time and date set, the tally is totaled up. The last day, there can be a ballroom dinner which will be like an awards ceremony. "The winner for best actress, best movie, best this, and best that...".

At that point the web site will archive the winners with the embedded files to something like...

http://2009festival.viddler.com/ or http://2009.viddlerfilmfestival.com/

Every year, you guys can choose different locations through the US and the world probably where the film festival can be hosted. It can also turn into a Viddler conference as well.

What do you guys think?

Labanex,
I think its a great idea! As we are living in a fast world, and we are restricted to 500 MB, the movies should be limited to say 10 or 15 minutes. Different categories as, fun, vacation, automotive etc. I would surely participate. But how to organize, find time for it. Maybe finding a sponsor so somebody can take time for the judging an organization. (Example the PV award phillips/viddler...) maybe to be continued.... Greetzz from Hollland, Alex

yeah definitely, I think this would really help spread the word about viddler.com