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The First-ever PBS Online Film Festival

Arts Mar 2, 2012 3:08 PM EDT

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Earlier this week, PBS kicked off its first-ever Online Film Festival, which will showcase 20 short films from independent filmmakers. Every Monday for five weeks, a new category of films will be available to watch via the PBS website and the PBS YouTube channel. At then end of the festival, a People’s Choice winner will announced.

On Thursday, I talked to the festival’s hosts, Patrick Epino and Stepehn Dypiangco of the National Film Society, about the project:

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