Yahoo offers Sundance shorts

Yahoo is busting into Sundance inside a proceed to take advantage of our prime-profile fest, offering use of nine short films on Sundance.yahoo.com and permitting audiences to election for his or her favorite. The organization, that has been seeking strongly to boost its profile in original content, stated Thursday that beginning today through Jan. 27, Yahoo Screen will host an array of shorts premiering at Sundance and selected in close collaboration using the festival. Yahoo will show the winning filmmaker from the inaugural Yahoo Audience Award with $5,000. The winning film will also be provided prominent positioning on Yahoo, and all sorts of will stay accessible on Yahoo Screen for six additional days. Yahoo stated its Yahoo Movies is really a top destination online for movie fans, using more than 26 million customers monthly. Its omg! is amongst the-visited celebrity news sites. "Yahoo may be the home for major entertainment occasions online, which year we are getting film buffs around to among the world's most critical film festivals," stated Mickie Rosen, senior Vice president of Yahoo Media Network."The best filmmakers began their careers developing short films, and today our audience has the opportunity to pick what is the following large title within the film industry," she stated. The flicks include "'92 Skybox Alonzo Mourning Rookie Card," "Aquadettes," "The Arm," "Debutante Predators," "Dol," "Henley," "Lengthy Distance Information," "Odysseus' Gambit" and "Una Hora por Favora." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com