2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards: One Week Left to Submit!

We know. First we tell you to get your cinematic brain in check for the Northside DIY Film Fest. And then along comes the Greenpoint Film Festival. What can we say? People like to watch. So why not add one more submission to your filmic laundry list and enter the 2012 Vimeo Festival?

Here's the catch:

You have exactly one week until the February 20th deadline to submit your short film, advertisement, animation or any kind of video experiment. But what is the 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards ceremony? It's a web video competition doling out $5,000 prizes--and one $25,000 grand prize(!)--in thirteen glorious categories: Documentary, Narrative, Music Video, Captured, Experimental, Remix, Series, Motion Graphics, Animation, Lyrical, Action Sports, Fashion and Advertising. The panel of stellar judges for each category was just announced. Here are some of the names we're jazzed about:

Narrative: James Franco

Series: Aziz Ansari (Parks and Recreation) and Edgar Wright (director of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)

Documentary: Lucy Walker (nominated for an Oscar this year for the documentary short The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom.)

Music Video: Colin Greenwood (of Radiohead)

Action Sports: Stacey Peralta (Skateboarder) and Travis Rice (snowboarder)

Fashion: Nick Knight, Thierry Mugler and Nicola Formichetti (UNIQLO creative director)

Animation: Geoff McFetridge (Where the Wild Things Are) and Shelley Page (Dreamworks)

Captured: Barbara London (MoMA)

Lyrical: Maria Popova, Blake Whitman, Philip Bloom

The entry fee is only $5 for Vimeo Plus or PRO users (which is just $5/month when you sign up for the year). The two-day festival will take place in New York, from June 7-9, 2012. You can watch the entire 2010 awards show here to get a sense of what the competition is like.

Get thee submitting!

-- Perrin Drumm