MIAMI, August 2: The joint Yahoo! and Telemundo web portal has launched a Short Film Festival with the winning title to be featured on the Telemundo and mun2 networks.

The Yahoo! Telemundo Short Film Festival, sponsored by Toyota Yaris, invites Hispanic filmmakers to submit 2- to 10-minute titles to Yahoo! Telemundo Cine, the recently re-launched online movie channel. Films can be submitted in English or Spanish, or both, in comedy, horror, action/drama and animation.

"The Yahoo! Telemundo Short Film Festival was created for filmmakers in need of an outlet for their boundless creativity, talent and imagination," said Jose Rivera Font, the general manager of Yahoo! North Latin America.

"We are committed to the next generation of creatives whose stories need to be heard, with no limitation of language or media, by giving them access to a media world only Yahoo! Telemundo can offer. This is a groundbreaking competition where we may find the next Alfonso Cuarón or Alejandro González Iñárritu," added Antoinette Zel, the senior executive VP of network strategy at Telemundo.

Voting begins September 11 and runs through October 20.  Each week users will vote for their favorite film in each of the four genres. During the final week, the films with the greatest number of votes in each genre will compete to become the overall users' choice. The winning entry will air on Telemundo in its weekend prime time movie block and on mun2 in the upcoming movie-driven show, Have you Cine?