Canon’s ‘The Story Beyond The Still’ project on Vimeo won the 2010 Cannes Gold for Branded Content, Silver in Promotions and Bronze in Titanium/Integrated. The stitched together film of all of the 8 Chapters was recently screened at Sundance Film Festival.

The Story Behind The Still contest page has all of the hundreds of submitted videos, finished film and filmmaker forums. Click here to view the page.

Working with the Pulitzer Prize winner photographer Vincent Laforet and Vimeo.com, we created the first ever user-generated HD film contest where photographers become directors and they look beyond the still. The contest, an 8 month program, was started by giving Vincent Laforet a single still photo which he interpreted in an HD video titled ‘Cabbie’. Shooting with the Canon 5D, his film ends with another still, which is then passes onto the next film-maker to re-interpret, taking the story in a new direction. It’s a social experiment in the world of film-making. An HD video chain letter with still photographs as the link.

This is the Cannes Film Festival video that takes us through the idea and how it has grown with the help of the Vimeo.com community.

The Vimeo crew put this very well produced Behind The Scenes film together with Vincent Laforet giving a full explaination of what the project is all about.

The digital film contest was featured on Creativity Online.

The Story Beyond The Still featured on www.trendhunter.com

The Story Beyond The Still featured on www.wonderhowto.com

The Story Beyond The Still featured on www.cinema5D.com.