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For those of you who haven’t had the chance to battle the crowds and check out a real, live film festival, check out the Babelgum Online Film Festival, judged by both professionals like director Spike Lee and visitors like you.

Here’s what the official press release has to say:

Babelgum, the new interactive web TV portal, has released all entries to the Babelgum Online Film Festival onto its platform for public voting. The festival introduces a huge variety of professionally produced short films. Over a thousand entries from 86 countries are available to anyone with broadband, reaching a potential global audience of 360 million. The Babelgum Online Film Festival is the first of its kind, and provides a unique distribution opportunity for the newest filmmaking talent. A number of entries have been created specifically for the festival, proving that it is also generating new and original content.

Spike Lee confirms that viewers should be impressed with what they find. “With the Babelgum Online Film Festival, filmmaking officially enters the Web 2.0 era. The standard of the entries we’ve received thus far has been outstanding. It just goes to show there is a wealth of talent out there that wouldn’t usually get recognition or exposure if it wasn’t for festivals such as this. It really does represent a new era in film-making and puts the filmmaker in more control of getting their productions seen.”

Valerio Zingarelli, CEO of Babelgum, is pleased to see the festival is contributing to an industry shift which sees the small screen as important a vehicle as the big screen. “Films are now being made primarily for consumption online or on other smaller screen devices with 60% of entries received having been produced specifically for the small screen. This supports the realization that to be successful, filmmakers need to go where their potential audience is and Babelgum provides the perfect platform to do so.”

Check it out for yourself at Babelgum.com!