JOSH TO JUDGE "PERSONAL JOURNEYS WITH AFI FEST FILMMAKERS'

During the three-week adventure, teams will depart from Los Angeles and likely visit San Francisco, Austin, Miami, Boston, and Washington, D.C. before reaching their final destination of New York. While traveling the teams will each create a 15-minute short film detailing their personal experiences with the versatile Audi A3 and documenting their vision of what's hot ... be it people, places or things. Complementing the both stylish and technologically advanced A3, an assortment of cutting-edge products from Apple, Sony, and Bose will be provided to each filmmaker.

Behind-the-scenes crews travel with each filmmaker to document their journeys. These crews will also keep an online community actively involved with the filmmaking process through regular updates of footage that can be viewed on http://www.audiusa.com/A3 . During their trip, the filmmakers will keep blogs to record their personal experiences, which will be posted to the site as well. Once their cross-country journeys are complete, the filmmakers will have three weeks to edit their films and submit them to a panel of judges that includes actors Joshua Jackson ("A Life in the Theatre," "Aurora Borealis") and Emily Mortimer ("The Pink Panther," "Lovely & Amazing"), as well as representatives from Audi and AFI FEST. In July, the films will be posted online so the public can vote for its choice. The competition, "Step Ahead with Audi A3: Personal Journeys with AFI FEST Filmmakers," concludes when the winning film is announced in August at a fete in Los Angeles. The winner will receive $10,000 and a 2006 Audi A3. All three filmmakers will get to keep the equipment they use during editing.

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