Your Film Festival invites you to vote on the 50 semi-finalists

Voting is now open for Your Film Festival , the global competition that unites the Venice Film Festival , Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Producti...

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A global search for the world's best storytellers

One of the best parts of working at YouTube is helping connect creative voices from around the globe with the audiences they deserve. So, we...

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Life in a Day: request a screening, create a trailer and more

Today, we’ve got some exciting updates from editor Joe Walker and Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald about Life in a Day , the documenta...

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Shorts From the Cannes Film Festival

Every spring, the Short Film Corner at Cannes features hundreds of the world's best shorts. Now, for the third year running on YouTube, ...

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Screening Room now showing short films from the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival

Are you a film festival fanatic? Do you love keeping up with the latest indie hits? Are you at least somewhat interested in hearing David ...

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Life in a Day - coming to theaters this summer

On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded videos of their day to YouTube to take part in Life in a Day , a historic ci...

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Hollywood comes to YouTube with "Girl Walks Into A Bar"

Combine some tinseltown stardust with a forward-thinking director and what do you get? Hollywood's first feature-length film created sp...

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Apply to the YouTube Creator Institute’s inaugural class

People who create content for YouTube today come from all walks of life: aspiring filmmakers, moms with cooking shows, teenage gossip vlogge...

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Join Life in a Day tonight for its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival

On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded videos of their lives to YouTube to take part in “ Life in a Day ,” a histor...

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The Onion’s A.V. Club “Inventory” lists become YouTube videos

The folks at the A.V. Club (the pop culture wing of The Onion) have a new series debuting on YouTube this week called “Inventory,” based on ...

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Screening Room now showing short films from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival

Can’t make it to Park City, Utah to mingle with independent film’s glitterati at the Sundance Film Festival this year? We’ll bring the magi...

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A sneak peek at “Life in a Day”

In December, we announced that “ Life in a Day ,” a documentary film directed by Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald, produced by Ridley Scott, and...

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Wong Fu film premieres on YouTube

In May 2010, Wong Fu Productions (Wesley Chan, Ted Fu, Philip Wang) and Ryan Higa started talking about doing a special project: a high-qu...

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How producing for the web can fit into a filmmaking career

Heather Menicucci, Director, Howcast Filmmakers Program , is writing weekly guest posts for the YouTube blog on filmmaking in the digital a...

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Great videos on a budget: how to fake a zombie attack

Heather Menicucci, Director, Howcast Filmmakers Program , is writing weekly guest posts for the YouTube blog on filmmaking in the digital ag...

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The Mexican Revolution on YouTube

November 20 will mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the Mexican Revolution and we’re looking forward to observing that anniversary ...

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Video the natural world for National Geographic

Footage of natural wonders can be awe-inspiring, but many of our planet's most striking environments are at risk. Our new Planet Inspire...

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Should quality matter in web video?

Heather Menicucci, Director, Howcast Filmmakers Program , is writing weekly guest posts for the YouTube blog on filmmaking in the digital ag...

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Future Shorts - Future Creative People

Futureshorts is one of the largest short film aggregators in the world. In this guest blog post, founder and creative director Fabien Rigga...

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AFI Fest 2010

The American Film Institute's AFI Fest, featuring a world class selection of short and feature films, is only a week away. In this gues...

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