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If you haven't submitted your film to Metafest yet, what the heck are you waiting for?!?!? Get off your butt, stop watching videos and start making them! Metafest is Metacafe's first juried online and offline short film festival. We're looking for creative submissions of 10 minutes or less in almost any genre, so everyone has a chance to win. For more information and a chance to win, visit http://www.metacafe.com/metafest/about/.

By EdDruckman

This summer, the biggest super heroes are on the small screen! You may not find these guys in The Dark Knight, but you should find them hilarious. And if not...heck, at least you didn't have to pay $10 to watch them in action. Check out the video in all its full page glory here.

The next hit reality TV show isn't on TV...and it isn't reality either! Endurance Challenge: Mordred's Isle takes your favorite magical creatures and pits them against each other for your enjoyment. Pair that with slick animation and witty one-liners and you've got a show that could be the next Drawn Together. If only they had made more! Check out the video in all its full page glory here.

As an amateur filmmaker, you probably don't have the money to get yourself a professional camera dolly, let alone the knowhow to operate it correctly. But thanks to Indy Mogul, now you can create your own simple version for $40. No more shaky footage for you! Check out the full page video here.

Come see what the most popular video producers on the web are up to. This week, tag along with Kevin Nalty as he visits Metacafe's top dog, Kipkay! Kip's silky smooth voice and gadget knowhow have made him a MacGyver for the Internet generation, earning him over $107,000 through Producer Rewards in the process. Check out the episode in all its full page glory here.

If you thought life outside was tough, try living inside all the time. From Katr Pictures comes a new web sitcom about Mason Evan Harris, a formerly great songwriter now toeing the poverty line from the safety of his home. Agoraphobia has never been so funny! Check out the video in all its full page glory here.

If you're a young, up-and-coming action director without a lot of Do-Re-Me in your pockets, you'll definitely appreciate a cheap way to realistically jab a knife into someone's head (without killing him!). Well, the folks at Indy Mogul have you covered with this episode of Backyard FX.

Watch and witness the birth of a rock god, in the prologue to one of the best music mockumentaries since This is Spinal Tap, "The Leif Garrison Project." In this episode, the first of the series, Leif discovers his reason for being. Catch more episodes on leifgarrison's channel, and check out Bill Pullman as Leif's guitar teacher!

If your job is at all like the one in the video above, then yes, it truly does suck. But there's an easy to remedy that fact...let Italian streetwear brand 55DSL adopt you as their Junior Lucky Bastard, and you'll be flown around the world for free to the coolest parties and events for two months! All you have to do is send your video application to 55DSL and creatively tell them how you live your life "55 seconds per day." See the full page video's description for more details.

Probably the hardest thing to do when creating a video is writing naturalistic dialog. Either the lines come out stilted, or artifically slangy, or just plain bad. But you don't have to be Stephen King to write how people really talk. Here are some excellent tips from the folks at Indy Mogul for making your characters sound like everyday people. Check out the full page version here.