Nokia Asks Us To Make A Film With Their Cel Phone

I recently received a surprisingly enthusiastic e-mail from Chris at WOMWorld/Nokia, which is apparently a "Nokia-sponsored platform that provides opportunities for all kinds of different communities and gets Nokia devices in the hands of creative types and tech enthusiasts." Chris is in charge of the "Nokia N8: Direct and Project," which:

...gives filmmakers a few weeks with a Nokia N8 (a device famed for its film capturing capability) to make a minute long movie. Then on January 19th, [they're] putting on a big party with loads of food and drink at the Vancouver Art Gallery, where each of the submissions will be screened, projected with a Nokia N8, in front of a live audience.

If our video submission is chosen by the panel of judges as one of the best three entries, we will get to keep the Nokia N8 and have their short film uploaded onto the Nokia Canada YouTube page. The top film selected will also receive a "huge screen TV" and two free cinema passes for the year. The finished clips must be submitted by January 13th, 2011.

The phone hasn't made it to Vancouver yet, making the promised "few weeks" timeline into "few days" but our tracking number informs us that the phone is currently in Cincinnati meaning it'll probably be intercepted...