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Highlight: Haydenfilms.com

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 9/12/2006 05:38:00 PM

Haydenfilms.com is an online community that allows filmmakers (like yourselves) to participate in their Online Film Festival. Below you'll find some of Haydenfilms' top picks!

Connect with Haydenfilms for Season Two of their Online Film Festival. Fifty short films from around the world are competing for a $10,000 grand prize, with the online community selecting the winning film! Go to www.haydenfilms.com to vote for this year's winner and for more information.

Today's Highlighted Videos

Click here to watch "SmartCard"
Runner-up film from Season One of the Haydenfilms Online Film Festival

Smartcard is a story about a man who realizes that his perfect automated life is not in his control, but the corporation that created the system. After the discovery, does he have the will left to escape?
15 min 39 sec


Click here to watch "The Bear Hunt"
A fan-favorite!

An old man searches in the grainy darkness for one last conquest – one last test of worth – before the light fades forever from his eyes. Alone, frail and confused, he wanders the harsh lonely wilderness, haunted by memories and hallucinations.
6 min 14 sec


Click here to watch "Success is Mine"
An experimental animated short

An inspirational speaker, JESSE THOMAS, while selling his tapes door to door, unwittingly inspires a potential serial killer to act on her desire TO KILL. Properly motivated she chooses him as her first victim. Trapped in the house he scrambles to escapes with his life.
9 min 5 sec


New videos appearing on the Google Video Movers & Shakers list for September 12, 2006:

2 (US). Click here to watch "2006 Pole Vault Explosion - Pole breaks during warm up - Slow Motion Video"
A pole vaulter breaks a pole during warm up at the 2006 Pole Vault Explosion in Saint Louis, Missouri.
17 sec


21 (US). Click here to watch "Carvin 2005 Indoor Modelairplane contest"
Carvin 2005 Indoor Model airplane contest. Great video of the winnner of 2005 indoor fly.
2 min 55 sec


46 (US). Click here to watch "First Snow - car crash - fun"
funny moves with some iced street + cars
33 sec


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