Kryten kicks off Red Dwarf short film competition on the BBC Worldwide channel on YouTube
2007/10/31
Robert Llewellyn, in partnership with BBC Worldwide and Grant Naylor Productions, today launches a competition encouraging Red Dwarf fans to submit their best creative short films on YouTube. The actor, who played neurotic humanoid Kryten in Red Dwarf, will be challenging fans to post the most ingenious films of themselves reviewing their favourite episode, series, Dwarf DVD or DVD extra on the BBC Worldwide YouTube channel.
Entrants are encouraged to be as creative as possible in their submissions, so points could be awarded for tin foil space suits, improvised holograms featuring your mum and pets dressed as GELFs. Home editing abilities are encouraged as are the use of different locations and special effects. But a well-written or blisteringly funny entry could just as easily sway the vote.
The entries will be voted on by the YouTube community, with the shortlist being judged by Robert Llewellyn himself. The winner gets to take home a pile of exclusive Red Dwarf goodies, including a-one-of-a-kind headset designed for Director Ed Bye himself.
Robert Llewellyn said, “This is the chance every Red Dwarf fan has been waiting for. Now there is a legitimate reason to get dressed up like a man with a chewed pencil for a head or to stick on false cat teeth and a leopard-skin coat.
“I will be judging the filmed reviews on creativity – the fans are a really inventive and surprising bunch. You never know what you’re going to get. I hope to laugh myself stupid, or be provoked into thought. Stuff that, actually YouTube can be really good at.”
The competition – taking place in tandem with www.reddwarf.co.uk – is part of a week-long celebration of Red Dwarf on the BBC Worldwide YouTube channel which can be found at www.youtube.com/BBCWorldwide.
