The YouTube Screening Room

YouTube have launched The YouTube Screening Room, a new program that will connect short 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.

While some of the selected films have played at film festivals around the world (like Rob Pearlstein’s “Our Time Is Up,” an Oscar-nominated short which played the Gen Art Film Festival in 2005), others will be showing to a wide audience for the first time in the The YouTube Screening Room. Translation: You’ll be able to to school your friends on the next big thing before it’s even a twinkle in most movie critics’ eyes. There will also be under the radar pieces from established indie icons that you know and love, like Miranda July.