Press release from NIXCO
Your Trailer + Your Friends = Your Chance To Win $50,000
MOVIE EXTRA is set to launch an exciting new competition for passionate and aspiring filmmakers on 30th July, 2010 †MOVIE EXTRA WEBFEST.
MOVIE EXTRA WEBFEST is an opportunity for filmmakers to win a $50,000 production budget to produce a seven part web series for MOVIE EXTRA. The winning series will premiere online at www.mnc.tv and broadcast on MOVIE EXTRA itself in 2011.
One of the first competitions of its kind to be hosted entirely within Facebook, MOVIE EXTRA WEBFEST leverages the power of social media by creating an interactive forum where entrants are encouraged to get their social networks working for them and entry is simple. Filmmakers pitch their original web series via a treatment and a 60sec trailer uploaded to the MOVIE EXTRA WEBFEST competition site and the amount of friends who ‘like’ and comment on their work, will play a role in the judging process.
Entrants are encouraged to engage with as many forms of social media in as many different ways to promote their entry online and increase their chances of winning.
“Movie Network Channels is committed to fostering new storytelling talent, wherever it may reside, and we believe this competition will provide the catalyst for a new breed of emerging filmmakers to break into the exciting transmedia landscape.” says Emma Moroney, Supervising Producer at MOVIE NETWORK CHANNELS.
Official competition registration opens TODAY at www.facebook.com/movieextrawebfest and entries can be submitted from 30th July 2010.