Today on The Collin and Samir Show, we're talking about the Camp Film Festival that took place in April in Austin, Texas.

This is a film festival that's basically like Sundance, but if it was built by YouTubers.

1,200 people piled into the historic Paramount Theater in Austin.

They showed 10 films and funded all of them, nine of which the creators got $10,000.

One creator specifically got $100,000 to make a

feature. Our friends from Yes Theory spoke at the event. It was sponsored by Patreon. And overall, it just

seemed like a huge success and there's a lot of momentum. I mean, the image of 1,200 people outside of

the Paramount Theater was incredible. And even this premise that one digital creator got

$100,000 to make a film, a 90-minute film. It's pretty crazy. And even the other nine creators,

these are creators who a lot of them have never worked with actors before. They've never actually

done traditional film sets. They are emerging digital creators that got an opportunity to make these

films in a three-month window

and then premiere them on a big screen.

So this event was put together by Creator Camp.

And these guys are kind of this emerging young crop of filmmakers that's connected to what's

called the YouTube New Wave.

Essentially, like, very cool cinematic content that is not necessarily built for the algorithm.

It's borderline anti-alorithm. It's anti-algorth, but a lot of it finds good viewership.

Yeah. But it's very much so, like the indie filmmakers of YouTube. This group of

creators, I think, has been historically trying to find a new path away from just like

algorithmic success, brand deals, add sense.

Like they want to make films, but they want an economic model that makes sense for them.

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