Yes, it's time to get out the back of the envelop again, jot down your best pitch for a film and sit back to become famous.

If you get the idea right, the hard work will be done for you by someone else, otherwise known as the innovative Movie Mogul Fund, which uses a combination of membership fees and industry sponsorship fund micro budget films.

For the Cardiff-based MMF has just launched a new and curious competition called the Micro Movie Lab.

First step: check in online and submit a "micro pitch", just 25 words or less, to go into a quaintly named Cherry Bowl.

MMF members will then vote on the pitches I the Bowl and the top ten will go on to be judged by panel of industry professionals, with the outright winner to be developed into a film.

That word "developed" is key here as subsequent rounds of this competition will be used to find, first, a writer to turn the idea into a script and then a producer for the film and a director.

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