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YouTube is no doubt the most popular video sharing site today (any objection?). It has become the world’s largest TV. Everyday new user-generated video content, pirated TV shows, movie trailers, concert snippets, video ads are uploaded in YouTube. Some of them get the views they deserve, some do not. Among these video contents that get into YouTube are independent short films, which often times just get lost in the YouTube database. But now, YouTube is giving these short movies a special screening room of their own.

It’s not really a big feature but the YouTube Screening Room is just a simple platform whereby films from around the world get the audiences they deserve. The YouTube Screening Room aims to connect films and audiences.

The Screening Room aims to serve both the film makers and the audiences, us. For filmmakers, the YouTube Screening Room will provide them with the much needed showcase – for free. For us audiences, the YouTube Screening Room will help us find new, high-quality content every two weeks – for free.

Some of these films may have already been played at film festivals, while some will get their much deserve preview only for the first time.

For starters, the YouTube Screening Room is featuring; an Academy Award nominee from the United States, an Academy Award winner from Norway, the world’s first animated opera from Sweden, and a poignant short from indie favorites Miguel Arteta and Miranda July, also from the United States.

What are you waiting for folks? This post is finished – head on to the YouTube Screening Room now. Don’t forget to bring your own popcorn and soda.

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