Can't make it to Park City, Utah to mingle with independent film's glitterati at the Sundance Film Festival this year? We'll bring the magic to you. To celebrate the kickoff of one of the world's most acclaimed independent film festivals, YouTube and the Sundance Film Institute are teaming up to present a collection of past and present short films in the YouTube Screening Room . Over the next few weeks,

November 20 will mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the Mexican Revolution and we're looking forward to observing that anniversary on YouTube by celebrating a new revolution that's taking place in Mexico today: a cultural revolution that has pushed Mexican filmmakers onto a global stage. A number of the nation's most talented filmmakers, including Gael Garcia Bernal )who starred in Amores Perros, The Motorcycle Diaries and Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education(,

The American Film Institute's AFI Fest, featuring a world class selection of short and feature films, is only a week away. In this guest blog post, AFI's Bob Jennings and Lane Kneedler discuss the festival and the treasure trove of short films they find online. Any festival can tell you programming short films is very hard. At AFI Fest, we only have space for about 30 shorts and over 3,000 submissions to choose from. However,