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"The second\u00A0Vimeo Festival + Awards\u00A0is fast approaching,\u00A0celebrating the most creative and original films that have premiered\u00A0exclusively online.\u00A0Now, Vimeo has announced the\u00A02012\u00A0finalists in all categories, including\u00A0Animation, Action Sports, Documentary, Music Videos, Advertising, Fashion, Experimental and more.\r\n\r\nThe event, which will take place on June 7-9, 2012 in New York City, gathers together the likes of\u00A0Mike Figgis, Ted Hope and Lucy Walker to watch the winning films from\u00A0this year\u2019s submissions. Also featured at ceremony will be\u00A0the premiere of\u00A0Limbo, a new film by\u00A0last year\u2019s grand prize winner,\u00A0Eliot Rausch. Rausch created the film\u00A0using grant money from his award.\r\n\r\nCheck out a handful of this year's finalists below:\r\n\r\nhttp://vimeo.com/26278283\r\n\r\nhttp://vimeo.com/21195976\r\n\r\nhttp://vimeo.com/31464974\r\n\r\nhttp://vimeo.com/22564317\r\n\r\nhttp://vimeo.com/22894261\r\n\r\nFrom Jeremy Boxer, Director of the Vimeo Festival + Awards:\r\nThere has never been a better time to be creator. The Internet has created a leveled playing field, so that now everyone now can fundraise, shoot, edit, and distribute their projects. What\u2019s next for online video? Well, that\u2019s what we will be exploring at this year\u2019s festival with the help of our awesome speakers.\u00A0We have designed the festival to have something for everyone from any level of experience.\u00A0Now that the barrier to entry has come crashing down perhaps we can find new creators with ideas yet to be seen and encourage so many others to start using their imagination so they too can start to create.\r\nTo get a better idea of what 2012 will be like, you can check out the recap from Vimeo\u2019s first festival below:\r\nhttp://vimeo.com/33562462\r\n\r\n\u27A4\u00A0The Vimeo Festival + Awards\u00A0in NYC"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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