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Snapchat and Tribeca Film Festival announce new Tribeca Snapchat Shorts program

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Category: Entertainment News
Published on Friday, 19 February 2016 12:00
Written by Tribeca Film Festival

Brought together by a shared love of storytelling, Tribeca Film Festival and Snapchat present TRIBECA SNAPCHAT SHORTS  the first ever program of its kind — spotlighting the best Snapchat Stories from across the US.

TRIBECA SNAPCHAT SHORTS,  https://tribecafilm.com/snapchatshorts, encourages creativity, humor, and imagination through Snapchat with the goal of spotlighting the next generation of mobile storytellers.

Small screens. Big stories.

How:

  • Tribeca Film Festival and Snapchat invite Snapchatters to create a Story exclusively using Snapchat (200 seconds max), which they can download and submit to a panel of celebrity jurors including talented storytellers and avid Snapchatters, including DJ Khaled.
  • The theme: comedy : )
  • The 10 winning shorts will be announced timed to the 15th annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York City in April 2016.
  • They will be highlighted at the Festival and may be featured on a special Snapchat Discover channel.
  • Submissions open on February 27th and close March 8th.
  • You must be a legal US resident in the 50 United States and District of Columbia and 18+ to submit.

Why:

  • The Tribeca Film Festival is a pioneering platform for showcasing innovative storytelling through new technology.
  • Snapchat is a storytelling tool used by over 100 million people every day to tell their own Stories and consume others’ content. You can shoot and edit your mobile video on one platform.
  • This new program gives creative Snapchatters the opportunity to combine the skills essential to filmmaking - storyboarding, scripting, casting - with the accessibility and mobile editing tools innate to the Snapchat platform.

Additional Details:

  • Submission guidelines and contest rules  - available on the website

The 15th annual Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T, will take place April 13th through April 24th in New York City.

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