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Canada’s National Film Board in deal with Youtube for Oscar shorts

Indiantelevision.com Team

(23 June 2008 1:30 pm)

MUMBAI: The National Film Board of Canada and video sharing site Youtube have struck a deal for Oscar shorts.

Seven National Film Board of Canada shorts will feature on YouTube's new channel The Screening Room, which offers viewers a selection of the best international animated shorts.

The first NFB gem to screen on the world's number one video sharing Web site will be the 2007 Oscar winner The Danish Poet by Torill Kove, who attended the launch in Los Angeles.

The selected NFB animated shorts will screen on www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom, each for six consecutive weeks. Torill Kove's Oscar winner kicks off the program, followed on 18 July by Chris Landreth's Ryan (2004), also an Oscar winner.