Entertainment Society of Goa(ESG) began its bull run for showcasing acclaimed international short films through its initiative -the Short Film Centre (SFC) by announcing the line-up of films and documentaries to be screened during the 41st International Film Festival of India (IFFI Goa). The 3rd edition of the Short Film Center will be organised from November 22nd to December 2nd 2010.

A New Online Business to Discover New Talent and Develop Motion Pictures.

Amazon Studios will award filmmakers and screenwriters $2.7 million with the purpose of developing movies under a first–look deal with Warner Bros. Pictures.

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today launched Amazon Studios (www.amazonstudios.com), a new online business that invites filmmakers and screenwriters around the world to submit full–length movies and scripts to make money, get discovered and get their movie made. Through the monthly and annual Amazon Studios Awards, Amazon Studios will offer a total of $2.7 million to the top submissions received by Dec. 31, 2011, and will seek to develop the top Amazon Studio projects as commercial feature films under its first–look deal with Warner Bros. Pictures.

Writers are invited to add scripts to Amazon Studios. Filmmakers are invited to add full–length test movies to Amazon Studios. Test movies may be made from your own original script or from any script submitted to Amazon Studios. Test movies must be full length (more than 70 minutes), but they don’t have to be full budget While test movies must include imaginative stories with great acting and sound they don’t need to have theatrical–quality production value. Film fans can review Amazon Studios scripts and test movies, or even upload alternate, revised versions.