The Portable Film Festival, an online festival with a number of categories from short films to music videos to art films, has just wrapped up and announced this year’s winners. Previous SOTW’s, Apricot and Sign Language (which also took the Virgin Media Shorts competition) earned praise this year, but the top prize went to the Spanish music video, Hamor. Watch the winning films here »

2010 Grand Prize Winner:

Hamor by Alberto Blanco, Spain

Category Winners:

Untitled 2009 by Brenda Hyde, Australia (Animation)

Making Future Magic: iPad Light Painting by Berg, Dentsu London, UK (Art)

Skateistan: to Live and Skate Kabul by Orlando von Einsiedel, Afghanistan (Documentary)

Pursuit by Suzie Q & Leo Siboni, France (Fashion)

Hamor by Alberto Blanco for R De Rumba (feat. MC Xhelazz), Spain (Music Video)

Sign Language by Oscar Sharp, UK (Short Film)
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Review of the Crowdsourced Short "Live Music"

Live Music is a short animation that has been buzzed about in creative and traditional media circles for several months now based primarily on its unique production history. Mass Animation, a company specializing in "crowdsourcing"—the process of enlisting the time and expertise of a volunteer force, managed to put together a large creative community to work on the film via a custom Facebook app.