YouTube Embraces Indie Film

By Geoff Duncan
June 20, 2008

As YouTube inches closers to consumers' living rooms, the site has launched Screening Room, a showcase for high-quality, independent short films.

As video sharing site YouTube gets closer and closer to consumers' living room television, it's no surprise the service is trying to come up with ways to offer higher quality content than, say, teenagers doing karaoke via a Web cam or eight years-olds staging sock puppet plays. To that end, YouTube has announced Screening Room, a dedicated area of the YouTube site featuring high-quality shorts from independent filmmakers.

"The YouTube Screening Room will connect films and audiences in the world's largest theater, not only providing filmmakers with a much-needed showcase, but also helping you find new high-quality content every two weeks," the company wrote in its blog. "While some of these films have played at film festivals around the world, others will be showing to a wide audience ...

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