2013 Sundance Shorts Received 2 Million Views in YouTube's Screening Room

YouTube hosted an online screening room of a select group of 12 of the 65 short films showing this year at the Sundance Film Festival Short Film Awards. The films on YouTube were seen more than 2 million times.

YouTube hosted an online screening room of a select group of 12 of the 65 short films showing this year at the Sundance Film Festival Short Film Awards. The films on YouTube were seen more than 2 million times.

At last night’s award’s ceremony, Trevor Groth, director of programming for the Short Film program at Sundance, said they selected the 65 shorts from a record of more than 8,000 films submitted for consideration at the festival.

Among last night’s winners, presented by YouTube, was “The Whistler,” from Poland, which was given the coveted Grand Jury Prize.

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