Snapchatters, start your apps! The Tribeca Film Festival will select 10 short films shot entirely with Snapchat to be shown on screen at this year's festival in April.
The contest opens on Feb. 27, and submissions will be accepted through March 8. In order to qualify, your potential Snapchat classic must be less than 200 seconds long and submitted via the official web page. Since this is Snapchat, you have to act quickly in order to save your masterpiece before it disappears; hit "Save story" to download it as an .mp4.
Oh, and the contest organizers want your film to be funny. The theme is comedy, and the rather vague rules simply ask you to submit something humorous, "whatever your sense of humor may be."
Entries will be judged by a panel of celebrity jurors (and avid Snapchatters), including DJ Khaled, according to a news release. Winners will get a free trip to the festival, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year and runs from April 13-24.
The contest comes at a pivotal time for Snapchat, as it is experimenting with how to market its Discover platform to partners and advertisers. The company is reportedly considering a subscription feature that would allow users to follow companies like MTV, BuzzFeed, Mashable, IGN, and The Daily Mail.
Some Tribeca contest submissions will also be featured in Discover via a one-day-only Tribeca Film Festival channel. Given how heavily Snapchat is promoting the contest—it's currently prominently featured on the otherwise bare snapchat.com homepage—it's clear that the company sees a future in Discover partnerships.
As for Tribeca, the festival is no stranger to experimenting with other forms of media besides traditional film. Previous years have featured interactive "storyscapes" and 3D scanned documentaries.
Source: pcmag.com
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