{"id":2380,"date":"2011-08-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jboitnott.com\/crowdsourced-competition-puts-independent-filmmakers-on-top\/"},"modified":"2019-07-30T17:09:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T17:09:20","slug":"crowdsourced-competition-puts-independent-filmmakers-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jboitnott.com\/zh\/crowdsourced-competition-puts-independent-filmmakers-on-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourced Competition Puts Independent Filmmakers on Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think some feature films may be crowdsourced someday? I got to thinking it may be possible after checking out a contest that crowdsourced the best commercials made by independent filmmakers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mofilm.com\/competitions\/cannes2011\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MOFILM<\/a> runs a series of competitions connected to festivals around the world, from Cannes to Rio. Nascent filmmakers choose one of the sponsors (at Cannes, they included including Coca Cola Zero and AT&amp;T) and create a commercial for it according to the requirements laid out by the company. The winner of each category gets to go to the festival to collect their prize.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Keeper&#8221; is one of the Cannes winners this year, and is the sponsored video below. Chris Bailey and Jake Naish made it for Santander, which issued a debit card statement and asked for the back story of three to five of the transactions on it in the short film, telling the customer&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.unrulymedia.com\/wildfire_42386684.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This video, from Jamal Dedeaux, won the grand prize for Microsoft, which wanted a short film showing how a Windows 7 PC &#8220;is at the core of a student&#8217;s life.&#8221; I empathized with the guy&#8217;s poor roommate.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iVUq1PY4rTE\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And this one, made for Coke Zero, tugs a bit more at the heartstrings. Made by Pete Williams, &#8220;Dance Tommy Dance&#8221; tells the true story of how a young man made his dream come true. These entries could be up to 3 minutes but had to tell the story of a person or a group &#8220;changed what is possible to something real.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4arzsbWqWr0\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>All the grand prize winners got $8,000 and a trip to the Cannes Lions Festival, where they got to meet Jesse Eisenberg (star of &#8220;The Social Network.&#8221;)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think some feature films may be crowdsourced someday? I got to thinking it may be possible after checking out a contest that crowdsourced the best commercials made by independent filmmakers. MOFILM runs a series of competitions connected to festivals around the world, from Cannes to Rio. 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