Tribeca Film Festival this year challenged people to use Twitter's Vine app to create six-second films -- with a "beginning, middle and end" -- for a chance to win money and notoriety.
More than 400 Vines were submitted, and on Thursday after a panel judged the entries, the Tribeca Film Festival announced the 40 finalists.
The #6SecFilms contest was broken down into four film categories: auteur, genre, series and animate. Here's a look at some of the finalists.
Finalists in Auteur
Category description: "These Vines told a story or script that was truly unique. A tiny, concentrated expression of the filmmaker's vision."
To see all of the Auteur finalists, click here.
Finalists in Animate
Category description: "This category was for filmmakers who saw Vine as the perfect medium for some creative animation and don't want to deal with the live-action riffraff."
To see all of the Animate finalists, click here.
Finalists in Genre
Category description: "This is the category for all the sci-fi Vines, western Vines, LOLcat Vines, and comedy Vines. These shortlisters showed us how a genre film can thrive in six seconds."
To see all of the Genre finalists, click here.
Finalists in Series
Category description: "For those that had a story too big for just one Vine, we let them make it a trilogy."
To see all of the Series finalists, click here.
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