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"There's no denying you can squeeze a lot creativity into a six-second Vine, Twitter's new video-recording app. Now, the Tribeca Film Festival is challenging budding filmmakers to come up with their best short film within the confines of the Vine platform.\n\"When the Vine app launched in January, we got excited about it immediately,\" the company said in a statement. \"The mobile app that lets anyone make six-second looping films felt fresh and challenging, and we were thrilled when some of our favorite artists started using Vine in creative ways.\"\nThis inspired the Tribeca Film Festival \u2014 which kicks off its festival on April 17 in New York City \u2014 to launch a new competition called #6SECFILMS. \nApplicants can make as many Vines as they want in categories such as #Genre, #Auteur or #Animate. (Note: a Vine can only be submitted to one category). A team of panelists, including director Penny Marshall, will then select the winners, which are awarded $600 \u2014 $100 for each second.\nSEE ALSO: Is This the Greatest Vine of All Time?\n\nHere's how it works. First, make a Vine. \"Your short film must tell a story with a beginning, middle and end,\" the rules state. \"Creating unique characters, worlds, and plots for your Vine will give you an advantage. Embracing the Vinely qualities of looping, time manipulation, etc. will give you even more of one.\"\nSecond, all submissions must be tagged with #6SECFILMS to enter. If you're thinking of making a sci-film (or horror, western or comedy), go with #Genre. If you have a unique script with expression, tag it with #Auteur, the Festival says. The hashtag #Animate should be selected for creative stop-motion Vines and #Series should be picked for trilogies (just identify each episode \u2014 1/3, 2/3, 3/3).\nAnd finally, post the Vine to Twitter to create buzz and get it trending. For a full list of the rules, click here.\nSubmissions must be made by 11:59 p.m. EDT on April 7 and the winners will be announced on April 26. \n\"Although there are a lot of festivals testing the waters with experimental storytelling, we believe we're right up there with them,\" a spokesperson told Mashable.\nThere will also be the second annual Tribeca Film Institute Interactive Day on April 20, bringing together innovators from film, media, gaming and tech to talk about storytelling in the digital age. The #6SECFILM festival is also in collaboration with its existing online film festival, and also compliments its interactive \"transmedia\" projects (called Storyscapes), which encourages filmmakers to tell stories in unique ways at the festival, such as via a small, interactive robot on the street that interacts and engages with the audience.\nImage via iStockphoto, spanic"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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