This was an unusual but very cool video contest. G4′s Attack of the Show host Olivia Munn has been looking for video pitches for Star Wars fan films. She agreed to appear in the final version of her favorite concept and Atom Films would put up a production budget of $5,000. Today Olivia announced her choice; it’s an idea called “Galaxy News.” You can see Olivia announce the winner and the selected video pitch below.

I like the concept. I think it’s a good choice. Yeah it’s not a traditional fan film concept but it’s just right for this type of thing. $5,000 isn’t really a ton of money top make a high quality short film. So with the news show idea they can shoot most of it in front of a green screen in only a day or two. If it’s written and paced well it’ll be joke, joke, joke, joke, joke end. It’ll be able to hit hard and fast and won’t take too much effort or money. So, way to go nerds!* Good thinkin’!

More details and pitches here: http://community.atom.com/groups/olivia_munn

*I use the tern “nerds” with the utmost affection for I too am a Star Wars nerd.