NEW YORK :
YouTube's inaugural film festival has selected 10  short films that it will send to the Venice  Film Festival.

The Google video site announced Wednesday the finalists  of its Your Film Festival.The contest was overseen by 

director Ridley Scott, whose production company helped win now the 15,00 submissions down to 10.

All 10 films will be screened at the Venice Film Festival on 2 nd September. A winner will then be chosen by a jury 

including Scott and Michael Fassbender and awarded a grant of $500,000.

The finalists hail from around the globe, with entries from the U.S., Australia, Brazil,Bolivia,Spain , the U.K., Lebanon 

and Egypt.