{"id":143,"date":"2010-11-16T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T11:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shortsnonstop.com\/p\/?p=143"},"modified":"2010-11-16T11:02:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T11:02:45","slug":"shortsnonstop-mobile-movie-festival-announces-first-ithentic-audience-choice-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shortsnonstop.com\/p\/shortsnonstop-mobile-movie-festival-announces-first-ithentic-audience-choice-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"SHORTSNONSTOP MOBILE MOVIE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FIRST ITHENTIC AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD WINNER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>New Shortsnonstop $1500 TELUS Prize Winner <\/em><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toronto, November 16, 2010 \u2014 CFC (Canadian Film Centre) and  SHORTSNONSTOP Mobile Movie Festival, presented by TELUS, announced today  the 15<sup>th<\/sup> SHORTSNONSTOP prize winner along with the winner of  the first Audience Award, sponsored by iThentic.\u00a0 Currently celebrating  its fourth anniversary, SHORTSNONSTOP is the year-round international  short film competition showcasing short films produced for mobile and  online platforms.\u00a0 The festival awards a cash prize of $1500, thanks to  TELUS, each quarter to the best short film selected by an international  jury of experts. The next prize date is January 15, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Chosen from 10 finalists, the $1500 prize winner for this first round is Miguel Otalora from Columbia for \u201c<a href=\"..\/..\/videos\/watch\/the-bet\/\">The Bet<\/a>\u201d, an absurd journey of blood and black humor that will end in the same place where it shouldn&#8217;t have started.<\/p>\n<p>Otalora will be awarded $1500 and his film will be made available to  TELUS\u2019 wireless, ADSL and TELUS TV Video-On-Demand clients and at the  CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival awards pre-show in June 2011.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the first winner of the new Audience Award, sponsored by iThentic, is Jonathan Aube for his film <a href=\"..\/..\/videos\/watch\/pocket-dial\/\">Pocket Dial <\/a>which  garnered 354 votes during this prize period.\u00a0 Pocket Dial, is an  action-packed, 60 second short which pokes fun at cell phone pocket  dialing and the ensuing confusion that can occur. \u00a0The Audience Award  prize is an iPad and the contest will begin again with the upcoming  prize period ending January 15<sup>th<\/sup>, 2011. Voting for the Audience Awards will continue one month past the deadline with the polls closing on February 15<sup>th.<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Presented by TELUS, the SHORTSNONSTOP Mobile Movie Festival is a  year-round film festival that viewers can experience anytime or  anyplace.\u00a0 An initiative of the Canadian Film Centre\u2019s Worldwide Short  Film Festival, SHORTSNONSTOP accepts entries on an ongoing basis  directly at its website &#8211; <a href=\"..\/..\/\">www.shortsnonstop.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The nine other finalists who will also benefit from TELUS\u2019 promotion and distribution are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mark Boggis, John Rae of the UK for the film <a href=\"..\/..\/videos\/watch\/best-before\/\">Best Before<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Greg Doble of CANADA for the film <a href=\"..\/..\/videos\/watch\/coffee-stop-\/\">Coffee Stop<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Joshua Funk of the USA for the film <a href=\"..\/..\/videos\/watch\/sassy-gay-friend-eve-\/\">Sassy Gay Friend: Eve<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Matt Harbert of the USA for the film <a href=\"..\/..\/videos\/watch\/the-interrupting-riff-\/\">The Interrupting Riff<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Zach Hyer of the USA for the film <a href=\"..\/..\/videos\/watch\/correspondence\/\">Correspondence<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Balgum Song of the USA for the film <a href=\"..\/..\/videos\/watch\/surviving-hunger-\/\">Surviving Hunger<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kaloian Tcherkezov of CANADA for the film <a href=\"..\/..\/videos\/watch\/scarecrow\/\">Scarecrow<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Boban Valdovitch of CANADA for the film <a href=\"..\/..\/videos\/watch\/nex-venatus\/\">Nex Venatus<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Andrew David Watson of the USA for the film <a href=\"..\/..\/videos\/watch\/gone-bill-madden\/\">Gone [Bill Madden]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All submissions can be viewed on <a href=\"..\/..\/\">SHORTSNONSTOP.com<\/a> as well as a select few that will be streamed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ithentic.com\/\">iThentic.com<\/a> and distributed through its network of partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Shortsnonstop $1500 TELUS Prize Winner Toronto, November 16, 2010 \u2014 CFC (Canadian Film Centre) and SHORTSNONSTOP Mobile Movie Festival, presented by TELUS, announced today the 15th SHORTSNONSTOP prize winner along with the winner of the first Audience Award, sponsored by iThentic.\u00a0 Currently celebrating its fourth anniversary, SHORTSNONSTOP is the year-round international short film competition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shortsnonstop.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shortsnonstop.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shortsnonstop.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shortsnonstop.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shortsnonstop.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shortsnonstop.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"http:\/\/www.shortsnonstop.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shortsnonstop.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shortsnonstop.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shortsnonstop.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}