Further proof that YouTube is taking over TV: Ridley Scott’s running a $500,000 contest on site.
The celebrated Alien and Blade Runner director—knighted in his native England—has spent the better part of 2012 sifting through entries for his YouTube-hosted Your Film Festival, which bills itself as “a global competition to find the world’s best storytellers.”
The competition called for fifteen-minute submissions of “story-driven video[s] of any format, style or genre,” with a grand prize in the form of a $500,000 grant to create a new film produced by Ridley Scott and actor/cohort Michael Fassbender.
Scott’s worked his way down to 50 entries since the March 31 submission deadline, and now he’s opening voting up to the general YouTube public. You can check the lineup of semi-finalists here.
Voting runs for the next month until July 13. The top 10 vote getters will earn an invitation to open for another film at the 2012 Venice Film Festival in August.
Who knows? After it’s all said and done, YouTube may help find the next Ridley Scott.
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