Snapchat and the Tribeca Film Festival are teaming up to highlight the best Snapchat stories users can produce to screen during the festival, from April 13 to 24.
Snapchat King DJ Khaled will be one of several judges ranking contestants.
“Small screens. Big stories,” is the festival’s motto for their new program, TRIBECA SNAPCHAT SHORTS.
Interested in submitting a no-budget narrative to one of the top film festivals in North America? Well, now you can!
According to Snapchat and TFF, if you are over 18 and fall under the 18 percent of U.S. social media users that use snapchat, there are rather few rules for the contest.
Basically, record your story vertically,no copyrighting, keep your entry funny, keep the story under 200 seconds, and don’t cheat by editing or recording outside of the app. Oh, and keep it clean. Not too crazy, right?
If you follow all the rules and are successful with making Khaled and the rest of the jurors proud, you could potentially win a paid trip to NYC (pretty meh since most of us are already here, but that’s okay!) and tickets to the famed Tribeca Film Festival.
If you’re not one of the 10 winners that’ll have their story played at TFF, you may still have your clip featured on the TFF’s Snapchat Discovery page, or maybe have some free goodies sent your way.
Just remember, don’t let Khaled down. He appreciates you.
Check out TFF’s website for more in depth information.
You’ll have until March 8th to get your stories in to the TFF. Happy Snapping!
Aaron is one of the New School Free Press' two editors-in-chief. He is also a news writer with Time Inc's automotive website The Drive, previously covered cars and other moving things for Business Insider's website Tech Insider, and also was previously a contributing writer with Gawker Media's automotive website Jalopnik. He is currently a Journalism + Design student at The New School.
