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Death to Film School: 2007 Youtube award winners

Published on March 25, 2008

For the time being, I think ad execs are more interested in pool of talents that cometh from the content creators that post video items on the web, but I predict in less than a decade from now, a premiere filmmaker with a name that ends in Spielberg,
Fincher or Scorsese will have gone the Youtube route to director fame
and fortune.

There is no red carpet yet for the event, but today’s inaugural Youtube awards might one day grab the kind of attention that the Oscars have done since it was first televised. Click here to see the dozen category winners (a varied bunch of “filmed
events” from the DIY artists) and preeming here below on IONCINEMA.com is the winner for Best Short Film.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).