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YouTube Screening Room opens with The Danish Poet

by NFB.CA - News

New initiative focuses on promoting professional filmmakers

This week, the online video-sharing site, YouTube, is launching their new Screening Room (www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom) with a series of professional-quality short films - including Torill Kove’s Oscar-winning short, The Danish Poet.

The Screening Room is a place for filmmakers to distribute their work and share profits. YouTube will add four new films every two weeks.

Other current films include:

Love and War
Our Time is Up
Are You the Favourite Person of Anybody

Upcoming films include Josh Raskin’s Academy Award-nominated animated short, I Met The Walrus.

Soon, filmmakers will be able to submit their own work to the Screening Room through an online submission process and users will be able to share opinions and buy DVDs and digital downloads of through the site.